Fresh servers are what we need right now, so I’m happy for every returning and new player that we are getting some. However I believe that AGS is missing out on a huge opportunity by not offering fresh servers with locked transfers. I know tons of people who would play the game again if they could start over in an environment where everyone has to start over!
Now this wouldn’t mean that these servers would have to stay transfer locked forever but maybe a reasonably fair time like 90 or 180 days. Especially now with the revamped leveling experience I think that these servers would be full very fast.
It would make more sense for them to do that when Brimstone releases…
They are revamping the 1-25 experience. If anything, it would make most sense for them to make fresh start servers when they revamp the entire 1-60 experience, but I think they’re going to do fresh start for 1-25.
The update will probably release towards the end of October and a lot of things can change until then. The new leveling experience is not even on live yet and playercounts can fluctuate in very extreme ways as we all know. I think we just need to be patient for now, watch how the whole thing develops and then react accordingly when we’re closer to the update.
New World has suffered massively from prematurely opening too many servers at the start, so I think we need to be super careful to not repeat the same mistake because some people want to have everything
Just imagine you start on a fresh start server and for some reason the server dies down after a while without any opportunity to transfer away or to the server and at the moment without the cross-realm play (that we’re going to get at some point in the future). Realistically you’re then stranded on a dead server, are locked out of all endgame activities and probably will stop playing because of it.
This entire scenario is something that most players asking for fresh start servers don’t really think about, but the developers have to… And that’s probably why you’re not going to see fresh start servers any time soon.
People would abuse the shit out of dead servers to farm an abundance of materials without any competition and then transfer over. If you can’t transfer in, you also shouldn’t be able to transfer out.
I think you solve that with a “No transfers to another server for XX days after a Fresh Start server launches” instead of a blanket “No transfers off” policy. You could make it long enough that people won’t use it as a farming stop - 3 months perhaps?
LoL, Imagine AGS taking a note from all these other games trying to bring life back to their projects… WoW Classic Fresh servers, Guild Wars Steam release with fresh servers, and Archage: Unchained fresh servers dropping soon. These folks all have xfer turned off to these fresh servers…because they listened to the community.
Yup. Blizzard/Activision also made the same mistake with Classic when bringing out their first expansion tho. Seems like they have learnt from that now as they brought fresh servers with 90 days transfer restriction etc. MMO players (especially the ones not actively playing anymore) love to start or return on fresh/fair/balanced servers. This way you get people way more excited than by releasing servers where veteran players (like me btw) can transfer to.
Hell, even I personally would consider making a twink there just to experience the early game hype again!
Almost in the right direction. Now leave out the part of the transfers…
Imo New World should have been shut down and taken back to the drawing board after the exploits occurred. It completely ruined the game and could never be solved in an online-game.
With hopefully the major issues fixed now and a big update around the corner, I believe it would be a great idea to open fresh servers to which transfers are DISABLED.
I would at least look forward to this a lot and I’m sure many other people too!
Yes the new servers are a good fix for current queue issues, id disagree with anyone saying these specific servers should release with transfers disabled as the new leveling on ptr is a much better early game experience and worth waiting for.
But when brimstone sands releases with the new leveling, new fresh start servers with transfers disabled is absolutely the best call, the support for them on these forums and reddit is resounding and the amount of people saying they would only return for no transfer servers is also no joke. It’s a huge opportunity and the numbers it would bring back shouldn’t be underestimated. Personally I really want to dive back into new world but when i think of the amount of fun I could have on a fresh start server, in comparison I just cant find the motivation to get back into my old character. Thanks for the communication, PTR is a blast and many people like me who had shelved new world early on are taking note. <3
When it was discovered that gold was being duped shortly after release, it completely took the wind out of my sails. I essentially quit playing at that point. When I heard about a fresh server coming back - I was ready to hit the game hard. Finding out that existing servers can transfer to this fresh server has once again removed that wind. AGS comes so close to knocking it out of the park and then kills it with minor tweaks.
= bad decision