Thing is New World sold such an insane amount of copies already. Most players who had an interest in it, bought it when it came out, and looking at peak numbers, the game easily sold 2 million copies, while I am inclined to think it was still considerably more, I’d say past 5 million. Sales now will be low alone due to that, and obviously right now the game does not have a good rep and will not draw players who may missed the hype and bought months ago already, but this does not tell us how successful the game could still become, given the time it clearly missed in development, being launched too early.
And Amazon will have no issue with Lost Arc doing well, they bagged the publishing rights for LA and will be making money through it.
You assume a lot of things , typical for a copium abuser . I didnt say anything about new world or that i even play it . Just Lost ark ppl trying to recruit for their p2w shit on every game forum is the most cringe shit i ever saw
So lets say someone on western servers matches this korean whale that drops 700K USD to whale his way to the top.
what is he actually winning? he hits some bigger numbers on a raid boss. this helps everyone WIN, in a number of ways. the people in his raid obviosuly, but also the millions of people who will now get to play this game FREE because of him, and people like him.
Mr 700K whale go’s into arena, he hits the same numbers as you and me
I think the whole pay to win is a little blown up. change my mind
I won’t even try Lost Ark as I am not interested in the camera angle and click to move. It will be fine with some, but I left that behind once I left Runescape behind over a decade ago. It is totally ok to like it, but you will find millions of players who will not touch it for that reason alone, and that’s grand as well, the market has room for all sorts.
However, again - New World already sold an insane amount of copies, people still own it, people are just not playing it right now for a variety of reason, but if New World starts addressing those reasons, and they can, and hopefully they will, New World will rise again and might even come to dominate the market, until Ashes of Creations launches (if that ever happens…) and then it will depend if AoC can live up to its own mega hype, and if it can, these two games will compete with each other. LA is not competing with New World, only for a small overlapping % of the market. Instead NW’s market is the ESO and GW2 market, WoW to pull players from it, but I don’t think WoW is still gaining new players as such, but ESO and GW2 do, they actually still also work as entry games for the mmo market, same as New World could, eventually.
Spin it how you want. You can buy large amounts of gold giving a huge advantage. AGS, through lack of action, has allowed cheaters in all forms to flourish on their servers.