Ok so I’ve been doing some thinking recently whilst observing the situation both in game and on the forum as well. When you actually take a look at it everyone (myself included, until now) are posting and creating threads about OPR, wars, weapons, armor types or whatever being this and that complain about the same thing over and over - balance. This is micro scale and the result of a bigger issue/s in my humble opinion.
Which begs the question: if there are so many issues occuring simultaneously resulting in complaints, frustration and even toxicity then maybe we need to look into it deeper?
What I mean by that is taking a look at the root cause of the problem and I managed to identify 3 major ones as below:
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PvE and PvP being balanced as one… which results in one or the other being left out and/or unattended in some or multiple cases. If AGS did not manage to find the magic pill to fix this a year after release then perhaps we should rethink the system itself instead of spreading butter over a burnt toast? Lets face it ladies and gentlement - AGS is not capable of balancing these two as one and probably never will be. Do I blame them? Not really, its hard and if you take a look at the bigger picture it just seems like a waste of time and effort.
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AGS’s general approach to balancing (besides point 1): analisys of data telemetry over live monitoring of raw gameplay by unbiased & experienced individuals. This game doesnt even have 50k players daily so there is room for more hands-on approach. All it takes if finding appropriate people who can see New World for what it is and suggest changes which shouldn’t be ignored no matter what devs “vision” for the game is. It has already been proven that there’s not much MMO developing experience in this house.
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Bad feedback. Some people just shouldn’t voice their opinions because they create confusion with false statements and influence others to do the same. I am aware that most of them have good intensions, perhaps did not even intent to lie (lack of awaraness/knoweledge/perception/critical thinking, bias or a combination of things) and want NW to succed - so do I. So… we should start identyfing prematurely what a bad feedback is and create systems to prevent that from happening. In fact that is a change that can be made on the forum with ease. Fact checking should be much more appreciated as well.
tl:dr its fucked up guys.