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GameZone's article, "Neverwinter might be the best free-to-play MMORPG yet"
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Check out GameZone's article to learn why "Neverwinter might be the best free-to-play MMORPG yet"! http://www.gamezone.com/originals/2013/05/01/neverwinter-might-be-the-best-free-to-play-mmorpg-yet
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But the article is a bit one-sided.
There is no negative feedback at all.
Lets strip the article down.....
- Voice chat : nothing new, been in many games a long time, just good to see NW has it tho.
- Professions - send forth your hirelings and manage your tasks : nothing new, seen it before "Alganon" has one feature for their game, just not as fast as NW's, glad one game got that right!
Web features.
- Your character : Seen before
- Tarmalune Auction House - Buy and sell items on the auction house : Seen before
- Guild news, calendar and roster : Seen before
- Mail - send and receive in-game email : Not sure If I've seen this one.
To throw in some negative feed back...
- Many players with zen payment issues and AH issues.
- End game = Sit in town and que dungeons for gear and play AH to get diamonds. (PVE)
Unless you do foundry and do other peoples quests.
- Item shop... A punch in the stomach on a few items.
- Que'ing for dungeons can put you in a party with 5 dps.....
among other things that can be read in the bug section.
Over all this is a great game, nice graphics and cool areas and mobs to fight and the combat is easy to get into and makes you not fall asleep i feel.
But end game as PVE is slight low on content i feel for me since im not into the AH at all, if this was an open world without portals, I would enjoyed the game probably 30% more, at least its not like in GW1 where you got alienated if you didn't have a friend in a party with you.
But sitting in town and just queing dungeons for seals to to buy armor for or get drops are kinda annoying, but still better then wow where you only could do the best content dungeons once a week and amazingly hard to find a party some times, so the que system for epic dungeons are awesome addition.
And foundry is really cool feature!
A bit more content for end gamers and maybe special dungeons only guild party's can enter for special rewards, like chance to get a special mount/runes/diamonds or something would be nice to see, well something more then "yeay a group of 5 random dps" + would boost guild activity. =p
Maybe im to negative, but meh, just trying to make it less onesided, good you had an awesome review tho on this game, its noticable some hard work went down making it, now its just need those few last touches to realy shine even more.
Outside of the ZEN issue, this is one of the better MMO experiences I've had even out of subscription based services. I look forward to seeing what other content will be included later on. Cheapen the ZEN cost and people would flock to this game and the others significantly. Until then this is one potential consumer that will invest no more time or $ into your market.
hmmm 2 of aeria games have it and so does pwe Jade Dynasty. What bugs me about this one is that auction items go through mail. I have had bugs with this (and I know others have as well.)
Otherwise great list.
Yet, this is the best MMO I have played in a long while.
110% agree with this, yes free to play, yes looks so far as a great game but yes everything that you may need to make the game enjoyable is Zen, Zen, zen. I just hope with in a few month the greed to make every Zen related hit them back and they have to adjust it. I would have rather paid $60 for the game and ~$10/mth then every little transaction.
I'm not trying to sound cheap and I did pay the $60 for the founders pack but all these little transactions will add up and I haven't spent a dime on it yet....
Ah, isn't that the truth though? I never thought that the innovators would become the imitators. Don't take this as anti-Blizzard by any means because there are still aspects of their games that I like, but yeah.. the last couple expansions have been them foregoing what people requested and instead, planting their own version of what was working elsewhere.
It was certainly original when it came out in City of Heroes, but that was nearly five nears ago. And as far as I can tell, it hasn't been copied anywhere else yet, so I'm not sure why it would be now.
i am enjoying the game & having fun... i haven't spent any money yet......
but if i do spend i am thinking of buying a better companion.......
its early days yet, just wait before everyone starts screaming.......
this foundry or what ever u call it, isn't new because i remember when bio-ware brought out neverwinter in 3d they had
samething like the foundry with the game....cant remember the year it was after the baldurs gate & icewind dale ( 2d) games.
yes i am that old & the wizard / mage class had a spell book & had 2learn their spells & once used they were gone your hero had 2 rest/sleep.......anywhy thats not the point i want 2make....give them 12months before we start 2 point out all the mistakes.....
It's 'open beta' in only it's name. The reason I see that they call it open beta, is so they have that defense that you guys are so righteously trying to shove down our throats. If we wait 12 months to point out mistakes, the game will have failed by then. I had extremely high hopes for this game, and I still attempt to play from time to time, but I just don't see the point. A friend and I were talking about it yesterday, and we were both agreeing that unless this game goes through some pretty big overhauls, it's going to flop.
Like I said, I still try to play, but until more classes are released, balance issues are resolved, and they fix a lot of the massive amounts of minor bugs, there's just no reason for me to play this game over Smite, Planetside 2, or even Wildstar once it's opened up. I loved the concepts of the game, but it's 'open beta' release has been completely subpar.
3/10 and you're sticking around the forums, talking about a game you clearly don't like and don't want to play.
Idiocy, there's no cure for it.
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if it take them that long to get it right there will no one left to worry about buying anything let alone zen
Wait. Full stop.
Without factoring in an MMOs ability to hold the player's attention for the long haul, an MMO cannot be properly evaluated. This means leveling at least one character to max level in order to experience both leveling as well as end-game content. Any reviewer who doesn't understand that isn't worth listening to.
-Travail.
It does have a new feature though, being able to send the mail to an account rather than just a character. can do @fattynicks to send yourself mail. I think it works for others accounts as well.
When it's up. Oh, and when your account wasn't hijacked by an email reset vulnerability. And when support actually responds to your tickets.
Same deal with that grassy, when it first came out there were tons of exploits and no one did anything but coh/cov story creator, I remember people having really hard time finding parties when it cam out cause players exploited it so much, but it has improved ALOT. People always look for a short cut then cry when it's taken from them, just don't exploit. Why play a game if your going to just exploit, seems pointless unless ur only playing because u want to be the best in the game and don't really care about the game itself.
You really have no grasp of scale, or perspective do you? This game is nowhere as low as three.
I'm sick to death of this false impression. Blizzard innovated nothing, all features and idea's were a rehash of earlier MMOs or games. You being to young to know those games or never having played those games in no excuse to give them credit like that. Blizz made those features work well together, they didn't not invent them.
The Foundry isn't even a new idea, it's just the first time it's being used on a mainstream MMO. The take away from what Blizz did was how the features worked right and how to improve on them and to avoid mistakes they made.
Don't let the naysayers get you down!
Never trust a review from any website that also advertises that same said product...unless you like informercials and QVC.