Those are the content locust. They come play fast, hard and leave. Almost always jumping among the freemium games. New content they return, but they’re not vested in the game or their characters and don’t get the RPG of MMORPG.
There is/was also a number of FPS gamers that came and MMO’s and FPS aren’t the same thing - many can’t adapt to the pacing of a MMO and the fact it’s not a 15-20 min queue or less for their dopamine hit. Lobby games and MMOs…
As for player numbers dropping off 1-2 months out that’s pretty normal. I can understand (kind of!) the need to add servers at launch so people could play, but here’s where you are now, lots of mostly dead servers because the locust and people that just didn’t like the game are gone.
Granted NW has had a list of issues at launch, but nothing really new from most MMO launches, not DLC or Xpacs, but actual new to the market launch.
As far as i recall, GW2 didnt have missing crafting items on launch. There werent multiple duping bugs either. Endgame had functional content and the skills worked as intended. I also think the weekly updates didnt progressively introduce new bugs.
Im not saying NW hasnt stepped up since then, but sugar coating the launch isnt doing anyone any favours. This was by far one of the poorest AAA products launched since fallout76.
Reaching max level does not mean there is nothing to do in MMOs this just means you can do things a bit easier or go onto more challenging things this is a MMO, content should be ongoing not stop when you reach max level.
For a game that was many years in development and has the backing of one of the richest persons in the world this is dismal.
MMO is not a new genre that amazone are creating.
I guarantee if they introduce resource area control via pvp it will bring back a lot of players and attract more. Their decision to pivot to pve turned NW into a mediocre game.
It depends on which side of the coin you see. On one side, that amount of drop can be quite alarming, especially if a game that needs new players. Any mmo needs new players and not just retaining its current ones.
On the other side, many, if not all mmos suffer from a drop-off. Doesn’t matter how big they got, they will always go through a drop the moment the current content is done. It’s hard to retain players when content is theme park like, there’s only so many times a player will go through a ride so to speak.
The issue here ain’t whether the player drops off. The issue here is whether AGS will support this game through and through, just like how Zenimax and SE did for ESO and FF14 respectively. Its alright to falter at the start but it’s how good the devs can get the game running, in both the players and devs image of the game.
It’s on AGS to show they’re in it for the long haul.
the first big update I’ve seen seems positive. PTR, quest updates, creature updates, etc
GW2 had a ton of exploits. Instans achievements, instant node respawns when you relog, permanent speed boosts, duping. No MMO has been void of exploits or dupes. People tend to forget because those games launched so long ago.
Not saying that it’s happened before, it’s fine to ignore, but I feel a lot of people have rose-tinted glasses when it comes to other MMO launches
MMO Population is probably counting towards all available platforms. I didn’t count it on my answer, because new world has no other platform available than Steam.
The highest peak was 49k, 2 years ago on Steam.
Oh, and my point was not to criticize ESO, but to criticize New World, which just came around a month ago and is losing more and more players on a daily basis…
Actually, I can.
The numbers I said were collected from SteamDB Graphs, so only Steam numbers were counted, no other platform. I’m comparing Steam Launching Game Data vs Steam Launching Game Data. And I know that ESO have much more players than these numbers I put, but my point was to compare Steam Data, since New World is available only on Steam.
I know what I’m about to say is heresy, but I am actually dreading moving to a more populated server. Smaller servers seem to have better communities overall. There’s also less contention over resources. This would include various minibosses from bears to ancients and beyond.
Also, with simple statistics the larger the population the larger the percentage of players who will harass, stalk, and whine loudly in /global. Clearly not the majority. This is almost always a small group who feed off the behavior they exhibit and the responses it gets.
The merge is obviously something the game needs. Every player out there is either calling for it or hoping for it and soon.
You are right but on the other side, it can be a pain in the ass to find a team for Elite/Dungeon.
And regarding ressources you will have more of them and you will be confronted to the lack of demand. On a high populated server you do not need to farm a lot (or farm only the half of what u need and the rest you bug for cheap).
This and only this. They released a broken mess, and it scared a lot of us interested players off. The game is probably going to see more gamebreaking exploits too.
for myself, a PVE only player. I played game hard, with all those gathering, and crafting skills to skillup. Also all the quests to do, and enjoyed exploring the world. had so much content to chew through.
now, i am 200 armoring, 200 arcane, with 200 in all supporting gathering, fishing 103, etc. and quests mostly all done.
dungeons don’t seem worth to run over and over. easier to just get watermark in an elite zone. crafting is just so painful to gather legendary material to make 10 pieces of armor in attempt to get a piece of armor with a perk you might like. There are those rare legendary weapons, and void bent, with set stats, those seem very worth working up to.
i am used to end game grinds, it just seems or feels like a grind more than other games.
Along added pressure to pay the taxes on the homes, in order to keep those trophies going. i thought, OK i need to downgrade to T1, but that literally will cost me money to buy the new home! should give money back to release a T3, or T4… ie sell old home to buy new one?
just finding less desire to keep logging in, to keep this going.