Amazon ships an MMORPG - New World

[rusty_shackleford]

According to an early alpha tester, New World's dev team had shockingly little experience in MMOs which explains why they implemented failed systems from Ultima Online like criminal flagging.

That seems like positive to me not negative.

All those who have experience only make wow clones.

Having people without experience working on centralized networked games is how you end up with all these various issues they're having with regards to exploits, economy going to shit, etc.,
Design? Sure, yeah, throw all of them in the trash.

 

[Perkel]

Having people without experience working on centralized networked games is how you end up with all these various issues they're having with regards to exploits, economy going to shit, etc.,
Design? Sure, yeah, throw all of them in the trash.

Those happen either way for every new MMO and in general for RPGs.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Having people without experience working on centralized networked games is how you end up with all these various issues they're having with regards to exploits, economy going to shit, etc.,
Design? Sure, yeah, throw all of them in the trash.

Those happen either way for every new MMO and in general for RPGs.

No, they don't.
It was apparent it would happen here the moment they announced it uses EAC -- the only reason to use such is because the game is at least partially client authoritative.

 

[Perkel]

No, they don't.

Ok give me MMO which didn't have any problems when it launched and had actual people playing it.

Remember WOW "killer" FF14 ? It was so bad that they had to cancel whole game and start from scratch. New World problems are nothing compared to that.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

No, they don't.

Ok give me MMO which didn't have any problems when it launched and had actual people playing it.

Remember WOW "killer" FF14 ? It was so bad that they had to cancel whole game and start from scratch. New World problems are nothing compared to that.

just look up a list of MMOs and most of them don't have issues anywhere near what nu world has

 

[Perkel]

just look up a list of MMOs and most of them don't have issues anywhere near what nu world has

And no one plays them.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

just look up a list of MMOs and most of them don't have issues anywhere near what nu world has

And no one plays them.

Not every game can have bezos-levels of money to shill for it.

 

[Perkel]

just look up a list of MMOs and most of them don't have issues anywhere near what nu world has

And no one plays them.

Not every game can have bezos-levels of money to shill for it.

I am talkin enough people to not fail after few months level. Any of those would instantly combust into flames if there was same amount people playing it as new world or whateverfuck name it has.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

just look up a list of MMOs and most of them don't have issues anywhere near what nu world has

And no one plays them.

Not every game can have bezos-levels of money to shill for it.

I am talkin enough people to not fail after few months level. Any of those would instantly combust into flames if there was same amount people playing it as new world or whateverfuck name it has.

Maybe they should have used that bezos money to hire a professional instead of interns lol

 

[Clockwork Knight]

edit: not real

 

[rusty_shackleford]

honestly kinda impressive that a company which afaik owns the most servers in the world is having so much trouble keeping a game online
feels like one of those things you'd have to work pretty hard at

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

This game is still crap .

 

[Caim]

This game is still crap .

The hype's been moving on to an isometric Korean MMO, so the decline of the player base is even steeper now.

 

[ADL]

New World bros... We won.

 

[Caim]

New World is at 30k players in the weekend now, with more than double that two months ago. That's hardly a win.

 

[Reever]

New World is at 30k players in the weekend now, with more than double that two months ago. That's hardly a win.

Those numbers are still not bad. Especially for how much bad press it got I was expecting it to dip into triple digits by now. The game is salvageable and there's clearly a market for it so in theory they could pull a ff14. However, this is me being extremely optimistic and completely ignoring the fact that it's AGS at the helm who has proven their ineptitude time and time again.

 

[Sykar]

Well it could be worse. The game could be managed by Gamigo for example.

 

[Caim]

Well it could be worse. The game could be managed by Gamigo for example.

Don't jinx it.

 

[Myobi]

We won.

Congratz bro!

... to give you some sort of prespective, it's doing as good as Cyberpunk, a single player title, with a +1year old clusterfuck of release. @ https://steamcharts.com/cmp/1091500,1063730#All Well done amazon :D

 

[Late Bloomer]

Was giving this another try. They must have merged most every server as the server selection at least in my neck of the woods is minimal. The controls are pretty janky. The slow run speed doesnt match the hectic pace the running animation present. The world is looks fairly nice early on. The dodge mechanic is poorly implemented. Blocking has an unsatisfying amount of feedback. The Warhammer I think its called has been my favorite weapon type along with throwing the Hatchet. It appears you only get three moves per weapon type while being able to swap two weapons? Everything else is passive. And yet its not on consoles? Hmm. The gathering/crafting appears to be pretty in depth. The main hub or at least the one I am at is very active but I guess thats a consequence of the servers being merged as only 17k people are playing on Steam and its the weekend. I doubt i'll keep playing as it seems to be a bit of a timesink and I have better games to play but I might spend another day or two giving it a go. There appears to be bots perhaps doing gathering.

Question for anyone who is actually having fun. What is your average day like in New World? A lot of pvp? Dungeons? Gathering/Crafting? Would be interested to hear what people who like the game have to say about what an average day of playing plays out like.

 

[Desiderius]

Old World on the other hand seems pretty solid.

 

[ADL]

Greatsword added New World is saved
New Egyptian-themed zone is 3x the size of other zones in the game
First 25 levels revamped with plans to overhaul the whole thing
Good changes to territory management

 

[Zeriel]

I'm sure the 10,000 players left will really appreciate this.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

My mmo sometimes has 0 players on all 5 servers.

 

[Late Bloomer]

First 25 levels revamped with plans to overhaul the whole thing

Did they elaborate? MMO's have a way of dumbing down everything over time.

My mmo sometimes has 0 players on all 5 servers.

Which is?