
Hah, what do you know! Despite Atari's saddening decision to discontinue the Neverwinter Nights premium modules program some time ago, apparently one of the modules was so good and close to completion, that they changed their mind and made an exception for it. Therefore, BioWare is now happy to offer their fans one final NWN premium module, called Wyvern Crown of Cormyr.
The last of the Premium mohicans is the result of the hard work done by community developer DLA in conjunction with BioWare, and it features the long-awaited addition of fully ride-able horses, plus cloaks, tabards, a completely new tileset, creatures, placeable objects and a lot more. In Neverwinter Nights: Wyvern Crown of Cormyr you can become a Purple Dragon Knight, and try your hand at jousting and ride your horse through the Kingdom of Cormyr and into battle. The 234 MB module is available for purchase from the BioWare Store for $11.99, and it requires both NWN: Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide expansions to function.
To get an early feel for it, you can view the local Wyvern Crown trailer, screenshots and a nice big wallpaper. But getting back to Atari's (in)decision, here's what BioWare designer Georg Zoeller had to say in the NWN forums:
"You can believe us when we say, we would have liked to give an official store release to all the premium modules tht were in production when the decision to discontinue the program came down. Everyone involved with those modules has put incredible effort into them and we would have loved to give all of them their official release.
As for WCoC, it was the most complete of the premium modules at the time the decision to cancel the program was handed down to us, in fact it was very close to release.
Atari and other parties were very impressed with the amount content and quality of work that had been done and how close to completion it was, so they changed their mind and decided to make an exception for this module.
I'm sure Robert's persistence about the matter didn't hurt either." Here's hoping for more "exceptions"!




