Neverwinter is actually a free-to-play MMORPG that does a lot right. The item shop is not too intrusive and you can have a lot of fun even if you don’t spend money. However, the developers have messed up and are now apologizing for it.
Module 6 Elemental Evil is the latest major content update for Neverwinter. It introduces a new threat that players will have to face together with Heroes Minsc and his space hamster Boo (known from the Baldur’s Gate RPG series). The previous modules have always brought exciting content and many hours of fun. The community was usually forgiving of the fact that not everything was perfect. But Module 6 has received harsh criticism.
The main issue here is that players have to grind through all the old content and areas again to experience the new endgame content. Additionally, the difficulty level is too high and the rewards are too low, along with a number of other things that just don’t bring joy to playing. Especially the fact that many old contents have to be replayed and many of the previous areas have to be revisited leads fans to think that the developers took the easy way out with Module 6 Elemental Evil. Instead of designing cool new areas, they are just reusing the old ones.
Neverwinter’s lead designer Scott Shicoff has therefore spoken out on the official website arcgames.com and explained that they are aware that a lot went wrong in Module 6.
Here are some of the aspects of the game that we will take a closer look at:
- General difficulty level
- Experience rewards in the new adventure and campaign zones
- Invocation
- Hourly quests
- Zone repetitions
- Removed dungeons
- Campaign zone levels
- Items with missing enchantment slots or attributes
- And much more …
Currently, they would be collecting and evaluating feedback from the community in order to take initial steps to correct some issues. Scott Shicoff did not want to go into detail about it. However, he apologized on behalf of the team and promised that they would do better with the next module of the MMORPG Neverwinter.
Anyone interested in trying out the game can sign up for free here and play. Recently, Neverwinter is also playable on Xbox One.
