Forsaken World

Forsaken World: War of Shadows
Developer(s)Perfect World Entertainment
Platform(s)Windows
Release11 March 2011.[1]
Genre(s)MMORPG
Mode(s)MMO

Forsaken World (Chinese: 神魔大陆2, commonly abbreviated as FW[2]), is a 3D adventure and fantasy MMORPG with traditional Chinese settings, developed by Perfect World Entertainment's Beijing studio. Players can take on various roles depending on choice of race and choice of class within that race. Published in Russia by Nival (named as Dark Age),[3] stopped in 2016.[4]

The series is a spin-off of Perfect World Entertainment's flagship 2005 game Perfect World, and the title is based on it.

Seasons

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The game has gone through a series of several subtitles:

  1. War of Shadows, as of 12 December 2012[5]
  2. Blood Harvest, as of 9 July 2014[6]
  3. Vengeance, as of 12 January 2016[7]
  4. Homecoming, as of 13 January 2017[8]
  5. Exordium, as of 1 January 2018[9]
  6. Voyage, as of 12 January 2019[10]
  7. Sleepless Carnival, as of 6 January 2021[11]
  8. Gods and Demons, as of 10 September 2021[12]

Closure

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On 22 April 2022 there was an announcement that the servers would be closed (deleting all the characters) by 30 November 2022. Purchases were disabled April 28, with all March/April purchases converted into Arc credit for other games. Purchases from February and earlier would not be refunded.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Forsaken World | Arc Games".
  2. ^ "Forsaken World | Play Free Online Video Games". fw.perfectworld.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Dark Age - Узнать больше о бесплатной MMORPG Dark Age". 2016-10-10. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  4. ^ "VK.com | VK". m.vk.com. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  5. ^ "Forsaken World - the Ultimate Free to Play MMORPG". fw.perfectworld.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Forsaken World - Arc". www.arcgames.com. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Forsaken World | Arc Games". www.arcgames.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Forsaken World | Arc Games". www.arcgames.com. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Forsaken World | Arc Games". www.arcgames.com. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Forsaken World | Arc Games". www.arcgames.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Forsaken World | Arc Games". www.arcgames.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Forsaken World: Gods and Demons on Steam".
  13. ^ "Shutting Down our Servers".