Perfect World and Cryptic Studios’ free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons MMO Neverwinter has reached 1.6 million players on Microsoft’s console.
These 1.6 million players have created 2.3 million characters, played for 86 million minutes, earned 16 billion Astral Diamonds, and formed over 10 million parties, according to the publisher. In terms of smaller scale accomplishments: 92,000 players have reached the game’s level cap of 60 and 92 players have killed over 1,000 dragons.
“As our first entry into the console market, we’re absolutely ecstatic to see the success of Neverwinter on Xbox One,” said Bryan Huang, CEO for Perfect World Entertainment. “Our goal with our online games is to create worlds that players want to play in, and support them through fine tuning their gaming experience and introducing fresh content with expansion releases.”
“As the first Xbox One game to ship globally from our partners at Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios, it is exciting to see Neverwinter achieve such early success,” added Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox. “We’re thrilled gamers have embraced this unique free-to-play MMORPG on Xbox One and look forward to seeing engagement grow on the platform with new content.”
Perfect World also revealed that Cryptic will be launching five free expansions for Neverwinter on Xbox One in 2015, including Tyranny of Dragons and Elemental Evil.