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Perfect World Announces the Torchlight MMO, Finally

The folks at Runic Games have been talking about a Torchlight MMO since day one, meaning today’s announcement has been more than a decade in the making. Perfect World Entertainment and their new studio Echtra Games today announced that Torchlight Frontiers is in development, an MMOaRPG from the minds that brought us the two Torchlight games that many gamers still hold in high regard.

“Evolving the Torchlight universe into a shared world has always been a goal for the franchise, and I’m excited that we’re finally able to make it a reality,” said Max Schaefer, CEO of Echtra Games. “Torchlight Frontiers will be a living, breathing universe that will still feel uniquely Torchlight, while we add our own creative spin to the game. The team is building something truly special, and we can’t wait for fans to play it for the first time at Gamescom and PAX West.”

Perfect World has described Frontiers as a shared, persistent, dynamically generated world, meaning we may be seeing more of an instanced, hub-like MMO as opposed to one that is 100% open world, ala World of Warcraft. More information can be found on the official website. Frontiers will release on PC, Xbox, and Playstation

(Source: Perfect World Press Release)

Star Trek Online Wholly Ditches The Subscription

Star Trek Online is about to go free-er to play, with the announcement that subscriptions are going away and being replaced with a starter pack. While existing subscribers will be able to continue as usual, new players will not be able to sign up for a monthly subscription and will instead be directed to park their wallets in the Elite Starter Pack. The pack contains:

One new Character Slot
20 Shared Bank Slots
5 Captain Retrain Tokens
An Increase on your Energy Credit Cap to 2 billion Energy Credits

The starter pack essentially includes what a subscription would have normally unlocked, at the cost of one month’s subscription, leading some to speculate that Perfect World is just canonizing what many players have already been doing but in a more convenient package.

(Source: Star Trek Online)

Gigantic To Shut Down Following Motiga Layoffs

Following their statement in November that Perfect World Entertainment had laid off a number of staff at Motiga, we have learned this week that MOBA title Gigantic will shut down. As of today, purchasing of rubies and hero packs have been disabled, and all heroes will be free until the servers shut down at the end of July.

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the January Update is the final content update for Gigantic, and the game servers will be discontinued on July 31, 2018. The journey over these last few years was met with outstanding support from our players and we are all very proud of the incredible experience Gigantic is today.

Motiga and Perfect World had been seeking ways to keep the game sustainable, unfortunately Gigantic did not resonate with a base large enough to keep the game going. Gigantic follows in the steps of Paragon which recently announced its own sunsetting for just the same reason.

(Source: Gigantic)

Lost City of Omu Update Hits Neverwinter In February

Perfect World Entertainment has announced that the next Neverwinter expansion will drop on February 27 on PC. Lost City of Omu continues the story where Tomb of Annihilation left off, pitting adventurers against the evil lich Acererak (are there any other kind of liches?)

The expansion introduces new adventure zones, an endgame trial, expands the Tomb of Annihilation campaign, and even features a giant undead T-Rex. Players of all stripes will be happy to hear that the leveling curve from 60 to 70 has been smoothed out for a more fluid progression, with more information on additional tweaks coming in the next few weeks.

Lost City of Omu hits PC on February 27 with Xbox and Playstation coming at a later date.

(Source: Perfect World Press Release)

Winter Celebrations Begin Around Perfect World’s Library

Winter is here, and that means seasonal events returning to your favorite MMOs. Perfect World Entertainment has officially announced its schedule for December, starting with most of its library this week with Neverwinter’s Winter Festival next week.

The list of festivities includes:

Neverwinter Winter Festival of Simril: December 14-24, complete events to win event-exclusive mounts, companions, and costumes.
Star Trek Online Q’s Winter Wonderland: December 7 – 18, help Q defeat the Kramp’lhri, compete in ice races, and more to earn exclusive cosmetics including a winter sweater worn by Wesley Crusher.
Champions Online Attack of the Misfit Toys: December 7 – January 4, defeat the deadly toys unleashed on the city for new winter themed costumes.
Perfect World International: (Varying) A slew of winter updates await, including login rewards, special NPCs, and more.
Forsaken World: (Varying) In-game events, login rewards, and photo contests abound guarantee that players will receive their share of presents this month.
Swordsman: December 21-26, earn charge points for logging in and exchange them for rewards.

You can learn more about any game’s upcoming events by heading over to the official Arc Games website.

Perfect World Entertainment Has Laid Off Gigantic Developer Motiga

Motiga founder and CEO Chris Chung has stated to Destructoid that all of the staff minus a maintenance team has been let go at Motiga, developer of Gigantic. This wouldn’t be the first mass-layoff at Motiga, the developer has undergone such a restructuring more than once thanks to the troubled development and rather low reception of their MOBA-esque title Gigantic. When Microsoft pulled out its support of the developer, Perfect World Entertainment stepped in as publisher.

In his statement to Destructoid, Chung states that the layoffs were a cost cutting move as Gigantic just wasn’t making enough revenue, and that the game will be put in the hands of a skeleton crew.

Gigantic will be left at the hands of a maintenance team composed of few dedicated folks at Motiga. They are [an] awesome group of people that will be working on the game until some time in the future when it doesn’t make sense anymore.

At this point it looks like Gigantic’s days are numbered, the question is just how long.

(Source: Destructoid)

Perfect World/Cryptic Announce Magic: The Gathering MMORPG

Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios have announced that an MMORPG based on Magic: The Gathering is coming to PC and consoles. The announcement comes directly from Cryptic Studios, and while there isn’t much in the way of details (those are coming later), the developer did announce that the game is being built from the ground up for both PC and console systems. Going by Perfect World’s other titles, it makes sense that the game should come to both Xbox and Playstation 4.

The world’s most popular strategy card game, Magic: The Gathering transforms players into Planeswalkers, powerful mages who can travel between planes, cast spells and summon mythical creatures. The beloved trading card game has over 20 million fans across more than 70 countries, and is available in 11 languages. Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios’ new RPG will allow fans of the game to fully immerse themselves in the Multiverse, the rich fantasy world in which Magic: The Gathering takes place.

More information on Magic: The Gathering to come.

(Source: Perfect World Press Release)

Perfect World Consolidating Forums

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 using vBulletin to host our forums, but now, we’ll be hosted by Vanilla – anything that shares the same name with ice cream is good, right? The main features of the Vanilla forums are the customization options and the ease of access.

The new forums go up May 4th.

(Source: Perfect World)

Neverwinter Disables Free Gift Promotion Temporarily

Perfect World Entertainment has temporarily halted an email promotion after players began using it in an unexpected manner. As part of the event, Neverwinter distributed a single code that granted one code with a chance to win random goods including elemental companions.

Players soon realized that the items were not account bound, allowing them to set up new accounts and repeatedly use the code to get more items from the list.

In addition to re-selling the item, we saw several instances where players created additional Arc accounts to continuously redeem the code. With the entire situation in mind, our team decided to disable the codes.

PWE is looking at options to replace/revive the program.

(Source: Neverwinter)

Neverwinter Details Xbox One Launch

Neverwinter is on the cusp of its Xbox One debut, and Perfect World Entertainment wants you to know exactly what the launch will entail. As noted in the preview posted today, Neverwinter will launch with its original PC content as well as Tyranny of the Dragons.

The Sharandar, Dread Ring, Icewind Dale, and PvP campaigns as well as the Gauntylgrym zone (along with the dungeons and skirmishes associated with them) will be released on Xbox One in later expansions.

Character rosters will be separate between PC and Xbox players, however the Sword Coast will allow people to join together from international servers to fight alongside one another. Additionally, the premium races will be available to purchase as premium content.

Neverwinter hits Xbox One in early 2015.

(Source: Neverwinter)

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