{"id":14508,"date":"2011-10-06T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"cryptic-studio-s-neverwinter-to-become-a-free-to-play-mmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14508-cryptic-studio-s-neverwinter-to-become-a-free-to-play-mmo","title":{"rendered":"Cryptic Studio\u2019s Neverwinter to become a free-to-play MMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptic Studios has announced that its 4th Edition Dungeons &amp; Dragons co-op RPG Neverwinter has been delayed to the end of 2012, pending its dramatic reinvention as a free-to-play MMOG.<\/p>\n<p>*Cryptic casts Shocking Burst!*<\/p>\n<p>Actually, considering the developer&rsquo;s recent acquisition by Chinese free-to-play MMOG publisher Perfect World Entertainment, this news isn&rsquo;t exactly a big surprise although fans who had been looking forward to a more traditional Dungeons &amp; Dragons RPG may roll a critical failure on this one.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report over on IGN, the game will be built using a modified version of the engine currently powering Cryptic&rsquo;s Champions Online and Star Trek Online MMOGs, and feature twitchy, reflex-based play.<\/p>\n<p>The article also confirms that all &ldquo;content packs&rdquo; will be free, with revenue generated via in-game microtransactions for &ldquo;consumables, vanity pets, and cosmetic items&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not clear for the moment how the change will affect the game&rsquo;s character classes, skills, and whatnot, but expect to hear more about it in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18600-Cryptic-Studio&rsquo;s-Neverwinter-delayed-to-become-a-free-to-play-MMO\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Cryptic Studio&rsquo;s Neverwinter to become a free-to-play MMO\"><strong>Cryptic Studio&rsquo;s Neverwinter to become a free-to-play MMO<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some bad news, some good news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}