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argoylet
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http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/634/feature/7089/Hope-Fear-All-at-Once.html#post
If we look at Star Trek Online, another game developed by Cryptic and now published by PWE, we can get a good idea of what monetization will look like in Neverwinter.
First there will be subscriptions, so-called Gold Memberships that come in at a typical old-school subscription price of $14.99 per month. There is also the Lifetime “Founder” status for $199. Score one for budget pricing. No really. Two hundred dollars, even if the game only lasted two years, is a helluva price.
I'm under the impression that an optional sub has never been mentioned, nor a lifetime option. So someone official may want to correct them.
If we look at Star Trek Online, another game developed by Cryptic and now published by PWE, we can get a good idea of what monetization will look like in Neverwinter.
First there will be subscriptions, so-called Gold Memberships that come in at a typical old-school subscription price of $14.99 per month. There is also the Lifetime “Founder” status for $199. Score one for budget pricing. No really. Two hundred dollars, even if the game only lasted two years, is a helluva price.
I'm under the impression that an optional sub has never been mentioned, nor a lifetime option. So someone official may want to correct them.
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Neverwinter will be completely free-to-play at launch without any subscription fees or lifetime fees. We're working with MMORPG.com to clarify.
That's great no Astral Diamonds needed to get more Foundry slots!
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Can you elaborate on this at all? How many Foundry slots do players get? How do they get more? Do you have to achieve a certain lvl of rating to gain more slots?
There will be a content slot limit.
There will be ways to earn more slots.
There will be a DM level system.
There will be ways to buy more slots.
In all honesty we don't know anything more than that.
Point is that article discussed STO and CO'S marketing system which absolutely is not Neverwinter's marketing system.
It's not even worth putting them side by side and honestly they shouldn't be.
Not really when compared to other lifetime offers in the past. Lifetime offers in the past tend to provide the player with a monthly stipend of whatever currency is used for cash shop purchases. Although 750k Astral Diamonds sounds like a lot I'm willing to bet it doesn't equal $5 a month of in-game purchases for the rest of your life.
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Edit that out before someone says you are violating an NDA.
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Three years and still no Captain Klaa hair...
Let's not be spreadin' rumors now.
I don't know how comparable AD will be to Dilithium in STO, but in STO, 750K Dilithium is between $50-$79 of Zen (going by the current and historical exchange rates), and around 93 character/days of grinding (assuming the extra 1k for lifetime subs is left out, which makes it 83 character/days).
There is a video from GDC where they touch on monitizing the foundry. They say they wont.
Originally article stated-
If we look at Star Trek Online, another game developed by Cryptic and now published by PWE, we can get a good idea of what monetization will look like in Neverwinter.
First there will be subscriptions, so-called Gold Memberships that come in at a typical old-school subscription price of $14.99 per month. There is also the Lifetime “Founder” status for $199. Score one for budget pricing. No really. Two hundred dollars, even if the game only lasted two years, is a helluva price.
Now it says-
If we look at Star Trek Online, another game developed by Cryptic and now published by PWE, we can get a good idea of what monetization will look like in Neverwinter. In STO there are subscriptions, so-called Gold Memberships that come in at a typical old-school subscription price of $14.99 per month. There is also the Lifetime “Founder” status for $199. Score one for budget pricing. No really. Two hundred dollars, even if the game only lasted two years, is a helluva price.
Really not an adequate change, because it still sort of implies, especially with the erroneous Lifetime reference, that NWO has a sub. Also the correction should be public, not a quiet ninja edit.
Hate that site with as much impunity as I can muster.
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I have every faith that NWO will be a tru Triple-A title and will not nickle and dime the customers like some of the posters on that site try to think will happen.
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I don't think anyone here was ever in doubt. The problem is that others who aren't as keyed in, are getting bad information from mmorpg.com
They're not saying you have to pay a sub to play, what they're saying is there is a sub option for perks. DDO is a bad example since there are content restrictions, but take The Secret World. The game is B2P with all content available (execpt one story arc) but membership gives you some perks with the store and forget what else but no way does it restrict the player besides that one story arc.
"If we look at Star Trek Online, another game developed by Cryptic and now published by PWE, we can get a good idea of what monetization will look like in Neverwinter. In STO there are subscriptions, so-called Gold Memberships that come in at a typical old-school subscription price of $14.99 per month. There is also the Lifetime “Founder” status for $199. Score one for budget pricing. No really. Two hundred dollars, even if the game only lasted two years, is a helluva price.
But the real money will be made with the Neverwinter Store, that place where all things cosmetic or account-enhancing will live. Again, with STO, players can purchase ships, crew members and other personnel to enhance their gameplay experience. In addition, players can purchase chest keys, shared stash space and more. The point here is that the things sold in the store do not give a clear advantage to other players. This is actually what players want. To be able to choose exactly how much to spend and where to spend is the ultimate freedom of choice.
Still, Cryptic and PWE are going to have to tread very carefully around the whole idea of the Neverwinter Store. Hopefully, they will do their research into the more successful RMT stores in other games like Guild Wars 2 or The Secret World."
What Pin said is there is NO SUBSCRIPTION OPTION.
You can not pay a subscription in Neverwinter. It will be entirely micro-transaction based.