Goodbye New World, Thanks For Trying

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To start I couldn’t decide whether or not to put this in game feedback or general, being that the topic can always be moved we’ll start in general.

I wanted to start this off as a thank you to AGS for attempting to create a new enjoyable world for all of us. The players were very excited to see what you could bring to the table and were hopeful for a bright future with this new title. Sadly you’ve dropped the ball for whatever reason.

I have definitely got my moneys worth out of New World so I can not be upset about that. What I can be upset about is some of the post launch decisions that have been made. I am not writing this to flame the developers/community managers but I feel sharing my experience summary servers a better purpose than the bitching and whining that normally happens on these forums.

First and my personal number one pet peeve that was done in the most recent patch is shadow updates to the game. No notice, no notes, no nothing. Many studios have made these shadow updates to their games and have been met with nothing but backlash, why did you think you’d get away with it? If you’re going to make any changes to the game there’s a simple process which can be followed for future updates, document your changes in the patch notes. When you blatantly change aspects of the game for the better or worse without updating your fanbase there is always going to be issues. Being that it’s your studios game you can and will change whatever you feel appropriate, but the least you could do is let the players know what’s being changed.

Server stability has taken it’s toll on many. Valhalla stability has become unbearable (unsure how other servers are), crafting takes forever due to failed crafts or lagged out crafts. PvP is near impossible especially as ranged trying to lead your shots while people are jumping all over the place is amusing but impossible. Expedition keys are being wasted due to server drops (although lately you have been very good at reimbursement in this area). The game is unenjoyable roughly 60% of the time due to these issues.

Bugs, bugs, bugs… There’s no question about it every single game released these days has minor bugs and game breaking bugs. No triple A game in recent years has avoided this, so I do not fault your developers on this. What I do fault them on is their approach to it. Too many times when new dupes/exploits from bugs are shared the :eyes: emote is the first response… This should not be the response we see repeated each time a new major flaw is discovered. The first time it was amusing, but now it’s just old. Each patch introduces some form of new bug or exploit. I don’t need to go into detail on how bugs and exploits ruin the player experience but it effects every aspect of your game.

In closing I enjoyed my time in New World to the best of the games ability, so thank you for that. I’ve met some new friends which I hope to game with in the future elsewhere or here if the issues are ever resolved or improved. I’ll keep watching your updates and wish you the best as this game does have potential, but there are too many issues to warrant my time any longer.

Take care and best of luck.

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I did not read you text, sorry, but I liked your title! Well done. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Heyho,

your post is in the german part of the General Discussion, if i see this correctly.^^

But I think, you wrote it well. I hope you will come back soon, after some patches. :slight_smile:

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Moving this to the English discussion category.

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check back in 6 months, it will either be shut down completely, or fixed.

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maybe unreleased so they can rerelease later? like AGS’s other games

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itll probably just end up in the toilet like anthem did.

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Probably after a complete wipe, most bugs fixed and with Great Axe / War Hammer having been nerfed into the ground.

And if not, alas, shut down as you say.

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Can i have your stuff? Did not read

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after 6 months of changes, who knows what state the weapons will be in. maybe theyll have actually corrected their damage calculations. im willing to guess thats what is still plaguing this games balance.

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Would you come back if they fixed the server stability issues and nerfed the content back a bit to a more realistic state next week and squashed out some of the bugs?

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I’m basically only still playing because some of my friends are still playing but interest is clearly waning. We will probably move on to something else in a week or two. Don’t know if we will come back, maybe if they fix all the major issues we might check it out in a year or two. Things would need a major overhaul tho so we’ll see if they deliver or if it goes defunct.

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lemme guess, you probably also make alt f4 jokes in global

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That’s pretty optimistic when there is 0 evidence thus far that they are capable of fixing anything. Every patch/update has made the game worse, every fix introduced several new bugs. It’s one step forward, three steps back with this game. Except for the latest update, which was more like 50 leaps backwards. Either they are doing this intentionally so they can pocket the initial sales and then run a skeleton crew managing only a few servers, or there are issues that run so deep they will never be fixed. Either way, I think this is the beginning of the end.

If anyone wants to give me crap about why I’m still here, just watching the dumpster fire.

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It’s tough to say at this point. When everything was starting to go downhill I tried to stay positive with company members and friends, only to be disappointed. There are still many that I enjoy playing with so we’ll see how the upcoming patches are handled.

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tldr

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Can i has your stuff?

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Damn bro, that begging game strong :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Has it worked yet?

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Sure has. Mats coins all the stuffs. Try it , you’ll be surprised

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I’m not even a copium/hopium dependent New World player and that did MASSIVE soul rend dmg.
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