Worst MMO Ever? - Neverwinter

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If you claim to love something, you need to be willing to critique it honestly.

I love Neverwinter.

So I must critique it.

Neverwinter Online is an action combat MMO made by Cryptic Studios, it was my main MMO for years, I love the game, but, I cannot recommend it in its current state.

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[FrankTheTank]

How to enjoy Neverwinter:
Step 1: Make a character you think looks & sounds cool
Step 2: Level to Max
Step 3: Stop playing. You've enjoyed everything that is enjoyable and you will forever continue chasing the same high.

[Leahi]

That was just sad. Josh sounded like he was legitimately hurting over breaking all this down and remembering what was.

[BamadeusTTV]

In my experience, every case of "it's good if you have friend to play with" actually translates to english as "It's not good, but I like hanging out with my friends.".

I once broke a rib whilst drunkenly falling down a hill with friends. I look back and laugh because it was a fun evening populated with people I liked and filled with banter about said hill. That doesn't mean falling down a hill was fun, it just means I had good friends!

[codyzipper]

"New players aren't playing through our memories" is genuinely the most painful sentence I've hard to digest in a long time. Having spent years playing games that eventually turned into cashgrabs, it hurts realising nostalgia is the only reason you still remember a game

[deafcommplays]

"New players aren't playing through your memories." Man I felt that.

[MrPuglover]

This man definitely deserves all the praise he gets. He took an mmo that he loved, one of his all time favorites and was able to show that it isn’t perfect and has flaws like every game he’s done before. 3 cheers for this absolute beast of a man

[legion]

As a former BIS endgame player what keeps me from this game is it's astral diamond hard cap. Making money in this game is one of the most terrible and difficult experiences I've had in any MMO. However, what made me quit the game is when they put my hard earned BIS artifact in the Zen store for real life money...I can't tell you how devastated I was and how cheated I felt that anyone could swipe their card and get the best artifact in the game that I worked so hard for. I quit that day.

[Voltage]

Seeing one of your favorite games just get turned into a cashgrab is one of the things that honestly hurt more than almost anything. And that "New players aren't playing through our memories" was just such a hard hitting line like that TKO'd my soul

[Idiosynchrosis]

Neverwinter should be one of the best MMOs out there, if it wasn't for the extremely predatory and scummy systems that hinders every step you take so you'll feel the urge to pay real money.

[heyfell]

Bro, i wasn't expecting to be depressed for a game i never even played. That's gotta be one of the saddest videos i've seen in a long time, you can almost hear the narrator's heart slowly breaking as he goes deeper and deeper into the problems of a product that used to be his passion.

[Talsbynians]

The further the video goes, the sadder Josh’s voice gets. It’s like the earlier points in the game are closest to his fondness for the game, but as it goes on, it goes further and further away from that

[Tramelle]

The emotion in Josh's voice as he talks about the game that was such a big part of his life is so real and moving. Truly an inspired review.

[LoudRevised]

This MMO review is like Josh revealing his origin story and his modus operandi.

[klop]

The bit about 'it's better if I forget' is heartbreaking. That's how I feel about WoW. The hope and promise of a return to a better time in a game is so damaging to so many people.

[QT-JME]

I can really hear the anguish in Josh's voice over this. It's a feeling I've had before with games that I loved ruined by predatory pay-to-win mechanics, until I couldn't take it anymore and left. But Josh spent most of his *career* on Neverwinter, it's beyond that I could have possibly felt at that point.

[Mogojoegotube]

Hello Josh, I saw this video the day it came out, and put in a comment over a year ago saying that I agree with you but was hopelessly addicted to the game. I'd like to say thank you for publicizing the issues this game has with its economy and pay to win style. You opened my eyes to have the strength to stop playing and I can comfortably and happily say that I haven't played this game properly in over a year. I recently tried to install it and play it but simply didn't enjoy it and after only 10 minutes uninstalled the game again. This tells me and shows me that I'm properly done. I love never winter and it gave me some excellent memories with my friends, but I'm also happy that I dropped it and won't be returning. Once again thank you Josh, keep doing what you're doing.

[x]

I never expected to feel anything from an MMO review.

But the way you delivered "This review score will cost you 3, 500 Zen... out of 10." Just... that was painful to hear. Josh, this review is phenomenal. I have no doubts that it was hard to make, but you did an incredible job with it. I never played Neverwinter, and now I'm a bit sad that I didn't... back then. Not now.

[TheLawliet]

That honestly sounded like it hurt at the end. Thank you for making this Josh, and I'm sorry that greed destroyed a game you loved.

[Tiggoelicous]

my partner and i got to know each other through neverwinter. we both started new characters and played to max level (70 at the time). i remember my partner deciding to buy a 1 month VIP pack and even though we continued to only play together, they ended up waaay ahead of me. it was really disheartening. while i was struggling to keep up, they were plowing through enemies with little to no effort. we dropped it at some point and after we moved in together, we decided to give it another go to check out the changes and for the nostalgia. we barely made it to level 5. it was awful. everything that made the game fun was stripped. we both uninstalled and haven't looked back.

RIP in peace private wilfred. i still miss you. i still have a screenshot of his memorial of where he died to valindra. best NPC.

[diego]

This video expresses exactly why, and how I feel, every time I wish I was back in my teenage room playing neverwinter nights multiplayer servers, or more strongly so dungeons and dragons online.. I wish I had friends that enjoyed those games as I did, or moreover that we were still friends for I had a guild back in the day and so many friends I knew more than I know my friends nowadays, I would still enjoy those games I'm sure, but those wonderful places are now empty deserts full of ghosts and shadows.
I still try to go back from time to time, and right after it becomes evident how broken it is, I try to find another game I can play with friends, but it seems everything sucks...
What a terrible crime it is, to give life to a dream just to let it wither away.