KMMO! They are just ptw!
Anything that is pay to win is not a game!
Just cash grabs
There are P2W & P2A.
Some are P2W
Some are P2A
Some have both
NW going F2P will most likely sink into P2A.
You are getting something wrong… Albions main plattform isn’t steam, it’s even the least used plattform.
Main plattform is mobile, second is their own launcher. Steam users are and allways have been the minority for this game and yet those numbers peak at 9k each day.
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Albion Online has one of the biggest player base I’ve ever seen. Over 150,000 players online every day in a full loot game. All solutions for New World are there in Albion, just copy and paste. Few people play on STEAN because it has a lot of bugs.
Albion Online is a success. I want New World to be a success too, but for that to happen AGS has to attract more players.
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In April, some people who stopped playing in December logged in, saw the expertise was still a thing and promptly left.
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I wouldn’t be opposed to F2P servers being a thing, and that if players want to play with the rest of the population they have to invest in the game like the rest of us. I have seen too many F2P games turn into cesspools of toxicity because those who play it have ZERO investment in it and dont care if they get punished. F2P as a “try it before you buy it” mechanic is cool… not sure I would want to keep playing if the whole game went F2P this early in its life.
Lets see what the next year brings, if the game cant recover some of that loss then maybe…
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This hurts New World far more than many including the Devs. Are willing to realize. At this point the choices for PvPers are this.
- Spend 500 plus hours doing 3 hours of PvE content on repeat. Trying to catch up in New World to be a factor in PvP.
- Spend less than 20 hours leveling in Lost Ark to be competitive in PvP.
- Spend less than 20 hours leveling in Guild Wars 2 to be competitive in PvP.
- Spend less than 50 hours leveling in Elder Scrolls Online to be a factor in PvP.
- Wait for a new season in Black Desert Online. Then grind levels, gear, and skill points can be competitive in Seasonal Open World Forced PvP in under 100 hours.
- Be competitive right out of the gate in PvP oriented genres like MOBAs, BRs, FPS, and Hero Shooters.
With all that in mind. It’s no wonder New World’s PvP scene is barren. PvPers can get a better experience with less PvE investment elsewhere.
Let’s just admit it. The Expertise system completely crippled this game’s PvP scene. And the lack of realistic catchup mechanics. Make sure that 99.999% of PvPers don’t bother with this game.(Don’t believe those numbers. Just go look at New World peak player count. Now go look at all of the MOBAs, FPSs, Survival, and Hero Shooters player count. It’s not even a competition.)
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Expertise system is a big joke. I like how archeage handled gearscore. You had to sink money to levelup gearscore.
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You won’t see any large content drop.
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true but the people that paid for it dont even want to play it. Making it free with the problems it has does nothing but add people to the count that likely aren’t buying a thing in the cash shop that is also mediocre. It also just opens the floodgates for bots.
They have had multiple sales knocking the price down to 23 bucks. At least 3 times.
Game is free for like 15mln player who bought game. And they are not playing it. You should think why this is the case.
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The price is not a problem, the problem is the bad reputation AGS have in general and the game have, 2/3 of old players will never come back.
Don’t understand why AGS never did a official statment and apologize about what happened in the first 6 months of the game, outside is like AGS have no balls.
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Then we may see like 2 or 3 k new legit players, and 20k+ bots
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There is no new a real content that applies to all player base… Rich becomes richer… Gold Sellers, Gold Buyers ruined the prices in the Trading Post…
There is no real new content for +7 months… Even this non-sense July Update that comes at the last week of July for the new dungeons etc, all the ********** mobs and bosses are same from the open world monsters… WHAT NEW CONTENT OR IMPROVEMENTS??? This game even cannot handle 40 people pvp in open world at the same area that your in game latency becomes +70, +100 ms and server becomes laggy and FPS drops so much… Some players might say “I have under 50 ms” but not everyone lives near the Germany…
Non of the main major problems fixed in this game.
I am a musket player and I cannot enjoy the game as pvp and pve that the game forcing me to play other classes when I want to do pvp and pve content. NERF NERF NERF on musket… The most useless class in the game… Range of musket is useless now; because everyone or majority has BIS best gears in the game. Musket is only good at killing low levels, less geared players in pvp… and long range is nothing because this game named New World - FPS drops so much, and in game latency is so high and server lags for 20-40 players at the same area lol and the enemy can see the bullet projectile and the enemy can catch you so easily at this game… Noone wants musket as ranged dps for any dungeons too… thy prefer archer lol…
That is to say, there is no balance between classes in pvp and pve related content…
3vs3 pvp arena is a total joke, same for OPR… You fight against BIS geared pre-made parties…
This game turned into a small friend group gameplay and territory owner guilds’ play ground… Thy dominate and manipulate everything…
The new patches are coming so late and slow… NEW WORLD ROAD MAP is a total joke about bringing any new contents… The only consistent thing we get is the new COSTUMES in the STORE which are not so good too most of the time…
Lumberjack graphic gaming engine cannot handle MMORPG and in this game “NEW WORLD”… AGS should make this game with UNREAL ENGINE 5 really…
The game is too grindy with no purpose to have fun from anything… If you don’t buy illegal gold you cannot get full BIS BEST GEAR ARMORS, WEAPONS ETC with right perks… Crafting is total RNG, so only territory owning guilds can spend their free +2, +3 million weekly gold to make and give best gears to their members and sell the rest…
NEW WORLD is the NEW ARCHEAGE. I see all toxic Archeage players and guilds in New World that thy ruined Archeage and now thy ruin the New World in EU Region already that most of them are playing the games to earn real life money by selling illegal gold…
Everywhere is full of bots, cheat users, macro users, alt account users… If you remove these, the real amount of legal players in New World is really less.
The game is already ruined and it cannot make a come back, so make it FREE TO PLAY to open a fresh server to play from zero… But of course you need to fix all the major problems of +7 months first and to bring some real content, new monsters, SOMETHING NEW and get rid of or re-organize the faction pvp system (noone is fighting and everyone exploding the open world pvp with easy teleportation or camp spawns…).
AGS just re-make the game with Unreal Engine 5, and name it as “New World REMASTERED”…
New World Server Status - Total Number of Players in the world-wide is around 15k only…
AGS, how much more do you want players to quit the game? EU has more active population than NA and other regions… Just hire more experienced mmorpg developers or just RE-MAKE THE NEW WORLD with Unreal Engine 5.
New mmorpg is coming “throne and liberty unreal engine 5” within 2022, and then Ashes of Creation and Archeage 2 mmorpgs are coming too, and all of these games are made with Unreal Engine 5. AGS, do you think NEW WORLD can survive?
New World will survive with less than 5k players worldwide.
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AGS should make the DEMO of the game available for new players to test. There’s no point in leaving the game with limited-time access. Many miss promotions or don’t even know it. If you leave the option to create an account and have free access to a certain level with chat restrictions, the population will increase very quickly.
Runescape has a solid f2p system where they are limited to f2p servers and only get enough acces to try different parts of the game. I feel like that would be the bast way to implement it
The $40 buy-in is not the thing preventing this game from growing.
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I wonder if people asking constantly are people who run gathering bots?
Let’s use common sense. After buying the game, why would you go to forums asking for the game to be free? If people cant afford 40$ (<20$ on sale) for hundreds of hours of fun, then they shouldn’t be playing games in the first place, IMO.