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Atari Sells Cryptic to Perfect World Entertainment

Posted on Friday, August 19 @ 11:56:28 Eastern by

If you've got your hand in any of Cryptic's online worlds, including Champions Online, Star Trek Online, or Dungeon and Dragons: Neverwinter Online, you'll probably be seeing the following message very shortly. If you're not into any of these MMOs, the transition will probably go unnoticed.

Cryptic Studios has been purchased by Perfect World Entertainment. This (probably) means that most of their MMOs will be moving into the free-to-play family at Perfect World. If you've been interested in playing Star Trek Online, but don't want to put the cash down on a monthly fee, you'd probably do well to pay attention to Cryptic Studios in the coming months.

Thanks for the tip 213EDD. Full text of the letter from Cryptic follows:

Greetings,

Cryptic Studios, previously a wholly owned subsidiary of Atari, has recently been acquired by Perfect World Entertainment, a company dedicated to delivery quality MMO experiences to gamers. As part of the acquisition, Cryptic has begun a process of separation from Atari. We've prepared succinct informational pages with details about the transition, frequently asked questions and a Q&A discussion thread to help you better understand the transition and what it means.

http://www.champions-online.com/transition
http://www.startrekonline.com/transition
http://www.playneverwinter.com/transition

In short, our games and associated services will operate with minimal interruption and most of the changes apparent to our players and other users will be largely cosmetic. Thanks so much for your time and interest!
Related Games:   Champions Online, Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
Tags:   Cryptic, Atari, Perfect World


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  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
    Are any of these games any good?
    0 2
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
    I've heard good things about Star Trek Online and Champions Online. Cryptic knows their MMOs. But like I said in the post, I'm not one for jumping into something and paying a fee for it so hopefully PWE ownership will me some free-to-play options.
    0 1
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
    will probably bring more FTP options to Startrek Neverwind and maybe even the transition for champions online expansions to go FTP as well.
    0 1
  • quiknkold
    quiknkold
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
    STO started slow, but over the past year, its become a completely different game in a fantastic way. theres a ton of depth to it now and the only downside is the end game, which is the number 1 priority now.
    0 1
  • Ranim
    Ranim
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
    Champions and Star Trek were both complete crap at launch, but they've been making serious effort to turn them around. Star Trek was an absolute piece of trash when it launched, but they've been changing it majorly over the last year. Their plans for the next two seasons are going to vastly improve its staying power. The buy out by Perfect World Entertainment has resulted in a considerable fund increases.
    0 0
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
    The more stuff Atari isn't developing, the better.
    0 2
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
    Atari hater. :-)
    0 2
  • NickKmet
    NickKmet
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Aug 19th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
    I still play Star Trek Online. I actually have a lifetime subscription that I share with my brother. The game is still fun, but the end game does suck. And it's often hard to find a pug pvp match. You really need to be in an active fleet.

    Also, I could have told you about this like, I don't know, 6 months ago when it was first announced.
    0 0

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