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Perfect World Sunsets Neverwinter/Star Trek Foundry Systems
The Foundry has always been an interesting part of Neverwinter and Star Trek Online, the feature allowed players in both games to create custom missions and add their own spin on to the stories. Over the years, the Foundry has been subject to balancing by Perfect World to prevent players from abusing the system to hand out massive rewards with minimal effort.
Sadly the system is now dead. As announced back in March, the Foundry has shut down as of this week. According to Perfect World, the company was unable to keep the feature properly maintained. It appears that employees with knowledge of the Foundry’s programming are no longer with the company.
Source: Neverwinter ; Star Trek Online
Star Trek Online: Season 12 Hits Consoles
Perfect World Entertainment has released Season 12 of Star Trek Online: Reckoning for Xbox One and Playstation 4. The update introduces players to a dangerous new race, the Tzenkethi.
Season 12 – Reckoning continues the mission from the last major expansion to release on consoles, Agents of Yesterday. Captains have discovered an abandoned space station from Star Trek: The Original Series next to a remote planet in the Alpha Quadrant. Upon further investigation they learn the planet’s entire life force has been wiped out by a protomatter bomb. All signs point to the Tzenkethi as the culprit, a powerful and highly intelligent warp-capable species. Captains must now team up with the Lukari and a Klingon contingent led by General Rodek (voiced by actor Tony Todd) to stop the Tzenkethi forces from carrying out another cataclysmic attack.
Reckoning introduces a brand new feature episode, Of Signs and Portents, as well as a new crafting school, space queues, and reputation with the Lukari Restoration Initiative. With this update, console players will be back up to date with PC players.
(Source: Perfect World Entertainment press release)
Perfect World Announces Driftwood Tavern Livestreams
Perfect World Entertainment has announced a new fireside chat for Neverwinter called the Driftwood Tavern. Set to stream every two weeks on Friday, the first stream will be live on Twitch on April 14th to discuss updates, hand out prizes, and more. The developers over at Perfect World Entertainment regularly publish developer blogs on various subjects, and this latest announcement appears to be pushing communication with the community even further.
- Providing news for the next two weeks
- Updating everyone on any developer activity on the Preview forums you may have missed
- Gathering feedback from the community
- Spotlighting the community (fan art, videos, etc.)
- Having a place for the community to get together
- …and of course, winning prizes, like the Roccat Kone EMP mouse below!
(Source: Neverwinter)
Get Free Zen By Using The Arc Client
Arc is Perfect World Entertainment’s answer to Steam, given that it houses their library in an easy to use package and also acts as a conduit through which money flows and goods are redeemed. With Arc 3.0, the next major update to the client, PWE is looking to change the way you log in and perhaps get their players to try some games that they might otherwise look the other way on.
MMO gamers will be no strangers to the concept of daily quests, an idea that is being thrust into the client in its next update. Daily quests will require the player to do things like log into a game, log in for a number of consecutive days, or play a certain game on two separate days. Completing quests gives experience which in turn gains levels, and in turn can be redeemed for free cash shop currency for PWE’s titles.
Completing quests will give you experience points to level up your Arc Quests level. Each level requires 600 XP and will reward you with 500 Arc Points that can be transitioned into ZEN or other in-game currencies available for games on the Arc platform. There is no level cap to your Arc profile, so you will continue to receive rewards as you complete your quests. These points will be redeemable via the Charge tab on the Arc website and client.
It’s an interesting concept, for sure. Cryptic Studios used to give away stuff for free on the Raptr client, so this may just be an extension of that campaign.
(Source: Arc)
Neverwinter: The Maze Engine Hits March 15th
Mark your calendars and prepare to call in sick, because March 15th marks the official launch date of Neverwinter’s next module, The Maze Engine. The update brings a plethora of new content and changes to existing features, including the return of dungeons and major tweaks to the mount system. Players who are interested in checking out the update before it goes live can sign on to the public test realm and copy their characters over.
The Maze Engine brings back numerous familiar faces from Drizzt, Minsc, Makos, and more.
Following the events of Neverwinter: Underdark, a new threat has waltzed its way into Neverwinter in the form of Baphomet, the Prince of Beasts. Baphomet seeks the ancient Maze Engine artifact in a quest to alter reality in his favor and bring about the destruction of Neverwinter. Thankfully, familiar faces such as Drizzt, Minsc, Linu, Makos and many more return to aid adventurers in their plight to take down the demon lord.
The Maze Engine also marks the return of Castle Never, where players will need to take on its new inhabitants.
(Source: Neverwinter)
Mac Gamers Are Seeing More Titles Cancelled
Perfect World Entertainment has joined a list of companies that are pulling out of the Mac gaming scene, with the announcement that Star Trek Online’s Mac client is being discontinued. The client has had numerous issues in the past, and while many of those problems have been fixed, the ongoing support requirements have ultimately lead to the decision to pull support altogether.
Following these issues, we looked at our Mac support overall and determined that we cannot promise to deliver an experience on Mac that meets our expectations of quality. After heavy consideration, we have decided to end support for the Mac version of Star Trek Online on February 5th. No other version of Star Trek Online is impacted.
In order to reimburse players, any purchases made from October 1st onward (including lifetime subscriptions) will be refunded. Perfect World Entertainment isn’t the only company to drop support on Mac. Recently Warner Bros. announced that the Mac and Linux version of Batman: Arkham Knight would be cancelled entirely. Last November, Blizzard announced that it would break trend and not publish Overwatch on Mac. Last June, Square Enix released Final Fantasy XIV’s Mac client and quickly pulled it from sale due to major technical problems.
(Source: Star Trek Online)
Neverwinter Getting Four Expansions on Xbox Next Month
When Neverwinter launched on the Xbox One, it did so with the promise that while most expansion content would not be available at launch, that it would be pretty soon after. In a press release sent out today, Perfect World Entertainment has announced the impending release of the four missing expansions: Curse of Icewind Dale, Elemental Evil, Fury of the Feywild, and Shadowmantle.
The expansions will bring extra content including an increased level cap (60 to 70), the four end-game campaigns, new dungeons, zones, and more.
Rob Overmeyer, executive producer, said “as our community continues to grow on consoles, we have continued our support with content including six expansions worth of dungeons and heroic encounters with dragons within six months. Our team is ecstatic with the continued support and can’t wait to give our Xbox One players control of their own strongholds with our next content update coming later this year.”
All four expansions come out in September.
(Source: Perfect World Press Release)
Perfect World Entertainment Is Going Private
Perfect World Entertainment has announced that it is going private. In an announcement posted to investors earlier this week, Perfect World will merge with parent company Perfect Peony Holding Company Limited, a limited liability corporation located in the Cayman Islands and owned by Mr. Michael Yufeng Chi. The acquisition will take place to the tune of $900 million bankrolled by China Merchants Bank and Wing Lung Bank.
Shareholders will be bought out at the tune of $4.04 for ordinary shares, $20.20 for American Depository Shares, and no payment for shares held by the parent company or any of its subsidiaries. The price marks a 28% increase over PWE’s closing price at the date that privatization was originally announced (December 31, 2014).
All of this, of course, is still subject to a majority vote at the next shareholder meeting.
(Source: Pwrd.com)
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)
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