{"id":7622,"date":"2013-09-24T23:35:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2013-10-13T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T19:19:32","slug":"goodbye-neverwinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/goodbye-neverwinter\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Neverwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Screenshot character screen Neverwinter MMORPG\" src=\"\/sep13\/di130924.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>At least this game does not force you to wear a skimpy outfit.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One game I&#8217;m not going to play &#8220;into the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For some months I&#8217;ve logged in 2-3 times a day to the Neverwinter MMORPG by Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment. I stayed online just a few minutes at a time, letting my characters pray and resolve consignment jobs. One of these days, one of my characters reached level 60, the highest in the game for now. And I realized that I had spent about half of those levels by the campfire, and that I had no intention of actually playing the game (as in fighting and doing quests).<\/p>\n<p>Well, I appreciate that they had this alternative playing style, otherwise I would have quit long before. The early game is reasonably easy, but by mid-game you better make sure to spend your points wisely, and later on you better make sure to spend real money on various power-ups. They are small and affordable each, but you need to have a bunch of these or else be an expert on the game mechanics. You don&#8217;t literally have to &#8220;pay to win&#8221;, but it helps.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, given that I don&#8217;t really want to play the game, I&#8217;m bowing out. It is a technically impressive game, but I am just not the kind of person this game is meant for. Or perhaps we should say, I am not that kind of person anymore. Daily doses of desperate destruction isn&#8217;t really something that resonates with my soul anymore. Well, most of the time at least, for which I am grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No further action required. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/goodbye-neverwinter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-neverwinter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}