As the title said. Make the game open source. Let the community fix the game. Capitalize on a marketplace and let people sell mods, game modes and skins. All of which AGS would get a cut of.
Be the Minecraft of MMOs. I know Minecraft isn’t open source BUT it still gives people the freedom to interpret the game as they want.
New world has good bones it’s just everything else that’s a headache. All new world servers have less population that private servers for dead mmos. Imagine an mmo though that actually gave players and developers tools and boosted the private server hobbiest communities. It would be one o the first to do so.
I’d be the first to get in line to run a private full loot pvp server…. Or a factionless server where all pvp was company vs company. There could be infinite ways to play and imagine new world. Every server could literally be a new world.