I am currently taking a break from New World while I wait to see what is fixed and how the game looks some time next year. A big disincentive when I return will be having to play “catch up,” as I am mostly a PvP player.
I can tell you that I would ABSOLUTELY buy a high water mark boosting consumable on the cash shop when I return to help me catch up. Or a crafting booster that would let me choose the attributes and perks on a crafted item. Because if I come back it will be to PvP and no way I want to have to grind years of terrible PvE again to get there – and if I feel like I am way behind, I’ll just never return.
Just my opinion and experiences talking here, but I bet I am not alone. Would that make the game pay to win? Yes. But would it bring back PvPers who don’t want to suffer through PvE and want to compete on an even playing field? Yes.
Crafting should absolutely be (crafting level dependent) far more deterministic. I think that should be done without needing to spend real money to do it.
That’s really all you had to say. Maybe “New World Should be Pay to Win” would have been a better post title.
No, it would bring back some whales willing to spend their way to the top. That is the opposite of a level playing field.
Well, an alternative suggestion would be to do away with the RNG hell that is the high water mark system and end-game crafting. But I think they are even less likely to do that.
Bottom line for me is that, if I were to ever consider coming back, I would have to know that I could be PvP ready within a few weeks. I think I’m probably not alone in this sentiment – if the PvP gets fixed and balanced, PvP players might come back, but many would not if an interminable “catch up” grind awaits them.
With the current systems they have in place, it is RNG hell and you might never catch up – so I was just trying to figure out how that might be remedied.
I would say instead of asking for pay to win being implemented you ask for better GS equipment and weapons be available in faction vendors at an a newly created rank requiring X player kills to unlock. Wether this be the last faction rank or an increasing faction rank based off player kills to get further and further towards GS 600 pvp gear.
