Love It Or Hate It: Neverwinter
Some free-to-play games are more polarizing than others, with some sides taking the stance of "great, totally non-exploitative implementation" and others thinking "total pay-to-win trash." We'd like to see on what side of the spectrum the gaming public -- and by that, we mean you guys -- think of certain F2P games, and so we've invented something new called Love It Or Hate It?
Every week, we'll present a new F2P game and give you the option of passing judgment on it. Then we'll look back at it the next week and see what people thought. There are no prizes, except for the satisfaction of knowing you clicked on a button and made something happen. Really, what else do you need?
Out with the old, in with the new? Heroes of the Storm got a pretty favorable reaction last week, netting 54% Love It versus just 13% Hate It. By comparison, other big MOBAs were 48/17 (Dota 2), 54/24 (League of Legends), and 70/8 (SMITE). Not too shabby for the "little" guys!
Back in MMO-land, Neverwinter's had a pretty big recent content update, so I think it's high time to get people's opinions on it. It can't do worse than the other Perfect World game we tried this with, can it?
Tell us what you think of Neverwinter, and leave a comment below to expound upon your views!
About the Author

Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.
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Compared to Vanilla LOTRO the PvE in this is faceroll, I can kill a group of 12 same level mobs in about 4 seconds with a 'healing' class.
Looks decent maxed out and is fairly fun to play.
So it's not that P2W where your not un-compentive, or can't play PVE at some point. (PVPs always P2W when cash is about)
Is the cash shop an over priced trash heap. Hells yah!
But that's actaully not the problem, it's the D3 "real money" / Astral Diamond action house. Lay down your cash and get all the stuff ... I class it as Play-to-PWN-Now. This brings the bots, and expliots. None of which Cryptic are capable of dealing with, it was "exploit as fast as you can" since they don't ban. Make as big as an AD farm as you can, trade items / siphon it through the AH so you can buy overpriced in game consumables for power.
So Like: Game
Hate: Policies
The characters are butt ugly. And the character customization is PISSPOOR. I mean, Star Treks model is AWESOME and FULLL of customization (probably best on the market by Perfect Worlds). They used the same model but limited... And when you press SHIFT + Direction do dode...you do this skate board slide thing...where as in star trek you can actually roll and crouch...WTF went wrong? Only get parts of the code to work with? HORRIBLE.
Button mashing leads to finger aches fast. Boss fights and every monster you fight is same strategy. Just more and avoid hit spots...I prefer a 10 keys of proper skill placement tab targeting than this kind of crap. In the end though, it looks good, has some decent progression, And POTENTIAL. Just potential not realized. So MEH.
The only reason i hate this game its because of its pay to win model
yea some may argue with me that its not
but its
for a "free game" it is fun combat wise and skills
the lore is fine too interesting enough for mmo