this game is pay to play. there is no subscription.
the devs are not making a product for someone who is going to play it for 700 hours in the span of 3 months. those people actually hurt the brand when they whine about their grievances.
they are making a product so they can sell copies of it every month to new players. my girlfriend and her daughter are in their levels 40s and 50s and have been having a great time playing. neither has ever played an mmo before.
Imagine if they played a good one instead. And no, New World is just “OK”. Easy to get sucked into graphics etc until you realise there is zero point to it as the game doesn’t even know what it is itself.
I have 750 hours in this game. I have nearly everything maxed out, including WM. I’ve clearly played a lot, and I intend to play for a long time (if the game survives).
But regardless of these facts, I find it almost scary how delusional some of the people on these forums are. The game literally lost 90% of its initial population and still, “game stabilized”.
Seriously, how delusional can you be? Will you come here in 2-3 weeks and tell us how the game stabilized at “70k”? And then a month from now at “50k”?
As someone who routinely bashes bad dev decisions and in Alpha naively assumed the game would stabilize at around 200k-250k, I doubt the game will see anymore downward trends in the next 3 months or so.
However, without significant core changes in things like combat and content, I doubt it’ll grow much either.
Right now, New World’s combat is dumbed down and notably worse than it was a year ago, and the content that they sacrificed combat for is just a series of disrespectful grinds.
The developer interviews do little to garner hope because the words they choose to use don’t seem to acknowledge underlying issues.
Ye, the game lost 80-90% of its playerbase and it stabilised 3 weeks ago. Its not hard to read charts. We have the same peak players for 3 weeks now, how else would you call it other than the population stabilised?
Ofc you are bored if you´ve done everything in this game. Wait for next content. The game is too young to have content for thousands of hours.
If they are friendless neck beards as you so eloquently put it, why don’t you use your strength and prowess to take back the territory with all of your friends?
Lmao, stabilized. Get your head outta the sand; New world will continue to bleed a large portion of it’s player base for months to come. The vast majority of us who played this game feel the exact same way OP does. That’s why we stopped playing.
Ye its totally normal to stop playing a game after you play it 8 hours a day every day since launch If the game has a limited content you always reach a point where you have nothing to do, especially in MMOs. You know how booming is WoW after new expansion? A lot of players come back and play, 2 months later? They got nothing to do and are bored and quit. Is that because WoW is a bad game? Hardly.
Will NW bleed? Yes, unless they come with content update which they will, so, I don´t worry about the future. It will be just like any other MMO. New content - people come back, then quit playing until new content is added again.
And yes, population is stabilised for now. Some people quit playing but new players come. We basically have the same peak players since 8th December.