The weekend is here, and that means events aplenty. Is your game hosting an event this weekend? Marvel Heroes: 2nd Anniversary Continues Marvel Heroes is in the third week of its second anniversary celebrations. Log in this weekend to receive a free baby Groot pet, defeat enemies to pick up birthday cake slices, and take part … Continue reading “Weekend Events: Find The Loot Edition”
On May 4th, Perfect World Entertainment will merge all forums into a single location. The changeover affects all games in Perfect World’s library except for those that are already on the new system (APB, Swordsman, etc). If you only play one of our games, this migration will positively affect you as well. Beforehand, we were … Continue reading “Perfect World Consolidating Forums”
Neverwinter has a new lead designer, one Scott Shicoff, previously content lead on Star Trek Online and creator of the Sword Coast Adventures. As part of his new duties, Shicoff is looking at Neverwinter’s latest update, Module 6, to see what hasn’t quite worked out. In the coming weeks and months, our team will use this … Continue reading “PWE Acknowledges Elemental Evil Faults, Vows To Fix Them”
Perfect World Entertainment is undergoing another round of layoffs, this time from the European division. According to an insider source over at Massively OP, the layoffs included five or six of the Russian staff, as well two community managers and an assistant product manager. Earlier this year, Perfect World laid off 18 employees from Cryptic … Continue reading “Perfect World Suffers More Layoffs”
Recent rumors about layoffs at Perfect World Entertainment have gathered stride as an anonymous employee contacted Massively Overpowered with more details. According to the employee, the layoffs include eighteen members of Cryptic Studios, or around 14% of the studio, with the Redwood Shores office hit the hardest. More information is sure to become public as Perfect World … Continue reading “Perfect World Layoffs Include 18 From Cryptic Studios”
Perfect World Entertainment has issued a news update reminding players that the Perfect World Wallet system will shut down on Tuesday March 17th. Anyone with Zen still in their wallet will have it automatically transfer over to the new Arc wallet. The migration will take a couple of days and won’t affect your ability to … Continue reading “Perfect World Wallet Shutdown Imminent”
Let’s look at the year with rose tinted glasses, or perhaps a glass of hard liquor. As with any year, we had a lot of bad and a lot of good, so let’s take a minute to focus on the good stuff. 1. Goodbye Mythic Entertainment This one is a bit cruel, but perhaps the … Continue reading “2014 In Review: Best Moments Of The Year”
Let’s look at the year with rose tinted glasses, or perhaps a rose-tinted glass of hard liquor. As with any year, we had a lot of bad and a lot of good, but whether good or bad some of these just had to happen for the good of us all. 1. Goodbye Mythic Entertainment This … Continue reading “2014 In Review: “Needed To Happen” Moments”
Perfect World International has released their third quarter finances for 2014, and the results are bound to be interesting. For the quarter, the developer/publisher reported a 5% increase in revenue to $158.7 million USD, although gross profit decreased slightly from the same time last quarter, and the company posted an operating loss of $3.8 million. … Continue reading “Perfect World Q3 2014 Finances”
October was a month of expansions, layoffs, and delays. We saw a developer get their game pulled off of Steam after one of the staffers tweeted expletives and a death threat at Valve’s Gabe Newell. Arenanet caused a furor in the community by updating the gem trading tool to be less user friendly, and then responded … Continue reading “Month in Review: October Edition”
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