And another trivia contest for a chance to win a Guardian of Neverwinter Founder’s Pack! The same as their other contests, all you need to do is answer the following question before 7PM PDT tonight:
What is the name of the current proprietress of the Moonstone Mask?
Wantto win a dire wolf pet, armored horse mount, 600,00 Astral Diamonds and other goodies? Simply go to the official forums and post your answer for your chance to win!
What’s more fun than playing an MMO? Playing it with friends! If you’ve been enjoying The Secret World, there’s never been a better time than this weekend to put on those recruiting shoes. Gain bonus time for every recruit who purchases the game, or bonus points if you’re a grandmaster like me. And to welcome all the potential new players, this weekend is a double AP weekend! Even if you’re not up for recruiting, it’s the perfect time to log a few hours to finish filling out your skill wheel, or work on an alt.
Hit the jump for the skinny. Anyone want to be recruited? :)
Nuts and Bolts is a new article series focused primarily on Neverwinter. As the title implies, this will be an assorted collection of things that catch my fancy, framed around a helping of Dungeons and Dragons: Neverwinter goodness. It will be anything from evaluations of game systems, to dev interviews, tutorials and reviews of official missions or Foundry content. And that was far more formally put than is my usual wont, so it’s time for a completely unnecessary exclamation point!
As I discovered during my Closed Beta Previews, I have quite a lot to say about Neverwinter, so stay tuned! Continue Reading
Ever play a game and wonder what’s the most popular race? Class? What about the deadliest monster or the richest player? Race and class especially, those are near the top of the list of questions I see in every game I’ve played. And to celebrate the first anniversary of TERA, En Masse Entertainment has fulfilled these burning questions with a special infographic displaying a few of these statistics! Plus, there are a host of special events and celebrations happening throughout the month of May. Who doesn’t love a birthday celebration, especially one that has gifts for everyone?
Hit the jump for the details, as well as some delicious tidbits about upcoming content!
And the Neverwinter server instability woes continue to be fixed at a remarkable pace. I continue to be just astonished at the rate of communication and effort the devs are putting forth to deal with the various connectivity issues players are experiencing. The servers have just been brought down again, for an expected 2 hour maintenance, with still more stability fixes. If you’ve had a difficult time getting into dungeons, skirmishes or PvP – rejoice! They continue to focus on these issues, and today’s patch brings us more fixes. Hopefully this frenzy continues! I have to say that each patch is definitely and noticeably improving my game experience – I actually managed to join not one, but 5 skirmishes yesterday during a skirmish event.
I am playing on the Dragon shard, and I was impressed when there was a response to the problem within minutes. The server went down, I went to the Neverwinter Facebook page, hit refresh, and there was an update letting me know that they were aware of the issue and looking into it. I very much laud the communication coming from Cryptic/PWE in this regard, and hope to see it continued.
Hit the jump for the patch notes. Continue Reading
That’s right – there’s a Neverwinter Hero of the North Founder’s Pack up for grabs! I’m keeping this quick as it’s only open until 7pm PDT tonight, and I want to make sure as many people see this as possible!
All you have to do for a chance to win a cool armored spider mount, priority jumping in the login queue and a host of other goodies is name 5 members of House Xorlarrin in the official thread!
It’s always a bummer when the servers have to go down for lengthy periods of time, but it seems especially torturous when the game still has that shiny new game smell. I can feel myself getting the shakes already! :)
But in this case, I have to give Cryptic/Perfect World credit for being quick to respond to server issues. Once the servers opened yesterday there were lots of server issues as they were slammed – heck there’s still a queue long enough that I had a wait on my Hero account with priority login status this morning. But honestly – what game doesn’t have a frustrating “launch”? Quotes because this is still open beta – while it can be considered to be a soft launch as there are no further character wipes, it is still a beta. I expect these sorts of issues at an actual real launch. But they are on top of things – I was impressed last night with how quickly they were responding to login issues.
And today there’s a maintenance to deal with many of the problems that cropped up. I am particularly pleased to see the stability and login fixes. Hit the jump for the patch details.
What an exciting day!
At long last, Cryptic Studios’ Dungeons & Dragons action/adventure MMORPG Neverwinter is open for everyone to enjoy! Joined with that new, I have also managed to find a workaround that allows me to access the internet again; so I can be here to share in the fun!
As excited as I am, I’m sure the developers behind the game are even more excited (and probably exhausted!):
“After four successful Beta Weekends and many months of internal Alpha tests, we are thrilled to be in Open Beta,” said Cryptic Studios Executive Producer and COO, Craig Zinkievich. “On behalf of the entire team at Perfect World and Cryptic Studios, I’d like to thank the Founders, Beta Weekend participants, Alpha testers, fans, and press for their feedback and continued support in making Neverwinter the best game we’ve ever launched.”
Hit the jump for more info on the launch; including a small unofficial FAQ I’ve put together to answer some of the more common questions I keep seeing on the general chats.
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Eve Online Score: 8.75
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| Rank | Game Title | Score |
| 2 | Runes of Magic | 8.38 |
| 3 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | 8.25 |
| 4 | TERA | 7.94 |
| 5 | RIFT | 7.94 |
| 6 | World of Warcraft | 7.88 |
| 7 | SMITE | 7.88 |
| 8 | Guild Wars | 7.81 |
| 9 | Star Trek Online | 7.75 |
| 10 | Global Agenda | 7.75 |
