you raise more questions than answers for me now. I paid 45 dollars for the game back in may 2021 to play the beta. is it free now? yeah I can agree with you that the game can have modders that would ruin the game for some. but paywalls is not something that prevents modding. look at gta 2take1 mod list. the paragon mod list. the whats it called the kidney mod list thats not right but heck im sticking with it. the point is even if the game costed 80 bucks the players will still mod. the mod makers will just look at different ways for the mod to sneak through their anti cheat software. and maybe that is the answer as much as I hate easy anticheat because you pretty much give it the keys to the entirety of your pc. but I think there is an opportunity here some servers where players can be given all the keys to simply mess with the game and make things happen for themselves… a modders playground vs the other servers where players can play legitimately. maybe pay as a 1 time payment to be a part of that where modders can show off and maybe teach players how to mod. it would be the very first mmo that sanctioned modding.
I find it intersesting why people find it so important to play an mmo that is popular vs playing an mmo that they legitimately enjoy. like there is some kind of extrovertive tendancies. when really we would be just as satisfied if we had 50 people that we would play the game with. i’m not really worried if we drop down to 1 or 2 servers in NA and 1-2 in EU you are at least playing with die hard fans at that point.
Anybody with a brain knows what the person you quoted said, is highly unlikely. What is likely though in August. New World will be peaking out at 5,000 concurrent worldwide. In which case chances are New World will still be running.
It’s just that the survivors, will find it harder to play the game. Because the central concepts of the game. Require at least 750 concurrent players on a server. To keep in game settlement and crafting station mechanics running smoothly. Any new or returning player coming back to play the game in that state. Will find it virtually impossible to progress.
At this point, I believe AGS should start changing in game systems. With the collapsing player base in mind. That way, potentially new or returning players. Can still have some semblance of fun even with in a barren player environment.
They could make it like what wow have, you can level up till like lvl 20, on a different server, and they should put in limits, for the gathering too, like 500ore/ type max or something to prevent people botting then join the game with a millions worth of inventory. And after you bought the game you will get a free transfer to a different server and you can continue from where you stopped.
I think it could work, it surely worked for me on wow, I stopped playing in wotlk, and then later like 10 years later I tried it again in legion and that free levels were enough to got me hooked on again.
AGS would have to learn to be consistent because F2P mmorpg’s especially KRMMORPG’s produce content often. The cash shop would need a serious revamp to what it is now. Overall judging from how small their roadmap was, this game would have no chance in hell of lasting in a F2P model. Especially with how locust crazed part of this community is. Without regular consistent content in the forms of dailies, weeklies, monthlies, weekly events, monthly events it will just be a pointless transition.
really wonder, when they add exp boost ( normal exp or anything to boost yield )
pretty sure i read smth about it last year before release.
why are you trying to sell the game for them ?
its not a question what the funds could do for the company. but Im more suspicious if amazon game studios the publisher is simply bleeding the sub development companies dry. regardless more interest comes more business and more business comes more r&d for future projects in that area usually but ags has an interesting track record for their post sale support in their games. dont forget that ags was the developer behind top gear the racing game. this team though is a bit odd though. seems they have it in them to make games, that much is not being questioned. but they have no real creativity and self expression of their own, like they seem to copy concepts and thats where it all stops.
AoC?
Sorry sir. But AoC is not a scam.
The studio has 90 developers work on the project while AGS has only 10.
New World is an amazing game for me. I enjoy every minute in this game. I want to be succeed.
But guys lets be honest. A studio with 10 developers on a MMO is a bad thing.
The problem for NW are not the developers neither AGS. The problem is Amazon. AGS is Subsidiary of Amazon and they don’t want to put money in AGS.
AoC will be the best MMO game ever created for me. I know that we don’t have an official release date, but they hard working on this project. Did you see the Dynamic Weather update? Bro this is amazing. And don’t forget that this game is developing on Unreal Engine 5.
Time to play other games. I’ll be looking into AoC and playing ESO while numbers dwindle here and the squabble persists on the forums. 
I do hope NW turns it around though. Just don’t have any faith in it.
Agreed!
Battlepasses? No. We already have one of those in the form of PVP tracks.
Blah blah blah…
F2P is not a solution, most of F2P games become P2W games to survive…
Yes… Do this. I aint ‘scerd’…
Cause like you… I paid for the game. Even if I’m not playing it, I still paid for it. I stopped playing a week ago after giving it a second chance and even still, devs continue to do really dumb shit.
So UNTIL the mods/devs ban me from these forums, which would be kinda neat, I think… I will continue to post my 2 cents in these forums to show the disgust that we’ve had to deal with for so long.
So like you… my voice is just as relevant. Guess you gotta deal with it.
probably? you’re definitely wrong. Dont play and never have played ESO
“This guy” is just one of the many that see NW for what it’s become. Total trash.
Though I agree with 95% of what you said, I really dont think 5k people can keep this game going.
Think about how many people you need on a server to actively keep Expeditions going. Add all of the other group joins like OPR and WAR and so forth… the only group function that would be doable is the 3v3. Everything else simply wont have enough people to continue.
Think about what a current 16k pop (peak) feels like on any server other than the primary active server in each area. Right now, you can push all servers into 1 in almost all areas aside from the east coast USA. East coast is the only area that seems to hold enough users to keep enough pop to do things and that’s only for the top 2-3 servers in that area.
At this rate, West coast wont have enough people in 2 months to do much. Right now, you can press ALL players in one server and still not hit the cap. The merges aren’t doing anything but moving people around. People are still leaving in droves.
Some of these fanbois can’t see past their noses to know the truth of it.
Nobody can predict the future. I know i cant, but quite a few folks on this forum think they can glance at some graph on the internet and predict the future with absolute certainty.
But we will see.
I agree with you that the game will get harder as the playerbase drops.
I did. 
Very true. Today.
But the longer you dont play and AGS continues to patch, your voice will become less relevant because you dont have first hand experience.
Folks do play for a very short time after a patch just to confirm their biases and then run to forums and yell “See? Im still right”.
Which is tiresome also.