The game was first publicly displayed at E3 2011 , where many details about the game were revealed . The game was originally scheduled to be released as a cross media event coinciding with the release of a series of four books by fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and a tabletop game from Wizards of the Coast . Due to Cryptic 's acquisition by Perfect World Entertainment , '' Neverwinter '' was delayed to 2012 . Perfect World also bought the rights to publish the game from Atari , coinciding with the conclusion of Atari 's lawsuit with Wizards of the Coast on the '' Dungeons & Dragons '' license . Perfect World announced that '' Neverwinter '' had shifted from the co-operative multiplayer game that was announced the previous year into a free-to-play MMORPG on October 5 , 2011 . This further delayed the game to late 2012 . Perfect World would later again delay '' Neverwinter '' into early 2013 to better polish the game
E3 2011
E3 2011
Neverwinter (video game)