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is Neverwinter more important to cryptic now then sto
r24681012
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the reason i ask this question is i am hearing more about neverwinter now then sto i hear they are spending more time creating stuff for neverwinter then they are on sto and with it going to x-box neverwinter may be there main priority now is this true is sto playing second fiddle to never winter
what do you guys think
what do you guys think
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i would not say nw recent updates have been that big. you can play the content through quite quickly, they just tend to randomize it and gate it off through grinding unlocks. we have our second expansion due in october. we are getting actually trek talent voice overs on a fairly regular basis, so it's hardly like sto is being ignored at all or playing second fiddle.
as for nw going to x-box, that game looks like it was designed with a console in mind with how the fighting works. i think that was just inevitable. im not sure how easy it would be to convert sto but that might be the next thing they do if nw conversion works well.
That's why their old logo was a FACTORY. Because all they do is quickly churn out one MMO after the other in a production line.
at the moment STO and NW are equally favored, but if it came down to it and they had to choose one or the other, Cryptic would choose STO every time, if for nothing but the IP.
btw where did they say NW was headed to the Xbox? I'm curious as to what that's gonna be like.
Same thing happened to GM. Too many brands under 1 roof. Which is why many of the older brands was dropped.
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Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
That's how i heard about it this morning, as i get the weekly email shot.
Ah, last I heard Neverwinter was. It's doing great. It makes them money. It's performance this past year has been sterling.
Neverwinter isn't an MMO, so it'll be fine.
I think you do not play neverwinter?
I went back to my characters last month for a bit and... my gear, untouched through 2 updates, is still on par with the best in the game, and I bought it out of the auction house almost a year ago! The new content was just a rep grind exactly like STO rep grinds.
NW lacks content, far worse off than sto in that regard. Once you do your daily rep grind, there is absolutely nothing at all to DO in the game except grind for artifact xp. It is a fun ride up to max level but once you hit that 15 min a day and you are done until the next day. You could group up to do a "stf" (dungeon crawl) but the loot is of poor quality and the boss fights are all the same (imagine the planet killer in the undine assault, except imagine it summoned a wave of trash every 30 seconds but that you could one shot the trash with "tractor repulsors"). They have slowly fixed a little of the exploiting but I kid you not the primary strategy of most of the heroes in that game is to toss the bad guys off the nearest cliff -- its just easier and faster than fighting them.
The Xbox market has relatively little MMO competition.
DC Universe Online pays on the PC and PS[3,4]. Approximately 3/4 of their players are on the playstation side. If Neverwinter's profitable with just a PC player base, then they have the potential to double their profite by adding XBox support.
As for STO being "disregarded", all I can do is sit over in CO and give a sad little smile...
Steam isn't an indicator of success or failure. It's like saying that if it isn't selling at Wallmart, your product is bad.