Neverwinter Online now in open beta

[Starbuck_Jones]

http://nw.perfectworld.com/

Neverwinter Nights online is in open beta. I watched a live demo of the game a month or so ago on Twitch.tv and got an early key. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get past Perfect World's registration system to ever log into Neverwinter. The livestream was impressive enough.

Here are some live streams and recordings to check out.
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Neverwinter

[Multibocks]

Very fun. Playing it with my brother. I can see it's kind of shallow in terms of content, but they said they would make regular releases. Haven't even had a hankering to play WoW.

[JohnGabriel]

Do you know what their financial model will be? All I can find is that it is free and there are no subscription charges.

[propagandalf]

Do you know what their financial model will be? All I can find is that it is free and there are no subscription charges.

Here is a good video to explain their financial model and the game's economy:

http://youtu.be/xFtwmn-brvY

In this video I give you guys an in depth guide to Neverwinter Online's payment model and microtransaction system. Although the game is 100% free to play there are a lot of things you can pay for and some of them can give you a big advantage (in PvP mainly). The aim of this video is to give you guys a clear description of what can actually be paid for and how big of a deal this is.

[Multibocks]

Basically free with people who will pay for Zen. Zen is exchanged for items or you can buy AD thru an exchange. AD is obtainable via quests and used for many things in NW. Hard to explain, but people who want everything now can pay to get that, but its going to cost them. Its not Pay2win, more like Pay2getahead since everyone can get it eventually

[propagandalf]

The main ingame currency is Astral Diamonds (AD). Zen is the cash shop currency and can be bought with real word money (obviously) and can be exchanged for Astral Diamonds, based on a the economy's exchange rate. With Zen you can purchase XP boosters, extra storage space and bags, life scrolls, mounts, companions, etc. The real carrot, though, are the keys that open the purple chests you find, that can only be purchased with Zen.

[Starbuck_Jones]

There is the potential for endless content. The Foundry looks like player made dungeons and quests. I ran one last night at level six. It took about twenty minutes to read all the dialogue and it was pretty decent. The secret of Blackstone or something like that. It was much harder than equal level content and I walked out with more loot than I had seen all together up to that point.

[Lax]

Game mechanics strategy discussion for multiboxing Neverwinter has begun over on the ISBoxer.com forums. I haven't had a good chance to play the game yet since I fixed bugs in Inner Space just this morning while the Neverwinter servers were down.

Anyway, apparently /follow, /target and /assist exist in this game, so it just might be plausible.
http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16777#p16777

[JohnGabriel]

About 5 hours and only at 24% downloaded.

I'll probably never play that game, don't have the patience for this and will give up soon.

[Lyonheart]

Wow.. trying to make an account seems like an ordeal lol..no matter what names i come up with..random letters and numbers.. and typing teh exact email in both fields.. i get knocked back out with "that username already exists" and "email fields do not match"

Luckily i had an account from when they first opened beta apps

Is this a known bug/issue ( the account creation thing )?