Nah nah, they’ve been begging so let them have their little “even playing field” experience. They’re just gonna quit again anyway.
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Correct sir -
I really believe that AGS would have the best shot at player retention releasing “Fresh Start” after they have fleshed out the entire leveling system.
In reality the majority of players who left did so probably AFTER level 25 but far before getting close to endgame - so things wont really be different at all for them as far as leveling difficulty ( not to discredit the 1-25 leveling revamp, I love that AGS did that)
Gear really needs to be looked at and ward should just be removed completely, Its really quite the task for a fresh 60 when they start to understand the endgame.
As far as endgame gameplay loops we absolutely need
- More PvP Modes with smaller teams
- Endgame PvE content like Raids or 10m dungeons however you want to swing it
- World Bosses
- General QOL systems like loadouts and even mounts ( yeah mounts I said it)
Then after this is finalized players would likely comeback and stay.
Cheers sir!
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I understand why some of yall are hostile to 'em. But AGS can choose not to listen.
Most of the blame is on AGS.
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Probably true… as silly and annoying as the idea is - It would be nice to have the player retention so us veteran players have a growing game months and years from now.
We just need to do it the right way.
People are treating New World like an insta dopamine feels good fix lobby while they wait for other MMOS and it is a really trashy behavior. Instead of wanting every title in the genre to do well when the genre itself is hurting.
But the genre itself is hurting because a good chunk of the dopamine addicts calling themselves gamers.
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I agree with your points but perfect (new)world does not exists. If they expect a wave of returning players and need to add new servers anyway why not add fresh start at the same time and capture some of that wave? Fresh start servers should be launched every 6 months so that people can plan around returning if they wish to start fresh. There are 21 servers right now so a couple more should not make a difference.
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They need to set a date and send every innactive character to their own server on that date. As many as it takes.
They need to get the currently innactive players off their servers before they all decide to come back on brimstone launch day.
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Correct, at the end of the day the players who are begging for fresh start right now are the same ones who are going to rage quit when they cant make it to 60 again.
Same people who are going to review bomb the game again. Vicious cycle.
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I’m personally particularly interested in the revised story, so I would be fine with just a story progress wipe/restart.
This I feel is highly preferable instead of players restarting a toon somewhere else and abandoning friends, company, community on their current server, as well as any special items and decorations from an event.
With revised quests, need a quest progress wipe - Game Feedback / Game Feedback - New World Forums
All the other reasons for a fresh start server are pointless since the main issues for server population failures have not been addressed.
Yes, they are going to TRY to deal with shell companies, but I suspect it will still fail as players find workarounds for the new systems.
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To me, it’s just a waste of time and resources for the illusion of being on even footing. The people that quit early on and come back to these special servers are behind. They’re going to be behind because of their lack of knowledge. The game has been out for a year. Those that have played or at least kept up with the game will know the best way to get from 1-60, farm and make money, this dominating the servers. The freshies will feel bad again because they’re still behind and then quit.
It’s just not gonna be a sustainable server when you have major companies already planning to come in on these new servers and roll them. It’s gonna leave a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths. Especially those that quit cause they couldn’t keep up the first time. It’ll look bad on the game and AGS in the end.
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Shell companies exist because gold isnt getting deleted from the server as fast as its comes in.
There is a lot they can do to stop that if they wanted to.
Because if you release a fresh start every six months you’re literally pulling an Arche Age and are not a serious gaming company.
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Could not agree more.
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If you try to bring this up in any of the fresh start threads you will be attacked by a bunch of, what I suspect to be, bots.
I actually think the gold farmers are making these accounts and are aggressively pushing for fresh starts to prey on returning players in droves as they struggle to catch up.
Yup, then expect New World to get review bombed again on steam. Wanna know who suffers here? Us. The players who stuck with the game.
Cheers wolf 
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So many Major issues in this Game.Most people will quit again. Im still here cause i Love the Combat system and im used to unfinished raw Games 
But for example leveling past 30 is painful and boring. do Majorquests, Portals or townboard. Everything Else is inefficient. But new Players dont know that. They gonna grind Mobs or step into the noobtrap - sidequests. More running less XP.
At this Point they are even Not confronted with the Tons of bugs! Teleportingbugs, weaponswitchbugs, visualbugs, stuck in Animationbugs, wrong Translation or Not updated tooltips or hints in the loadingscreen. AGS should have fixed all old Bugs and the new, which came with the Summer Patch before consindering to make a new Major content Patch.
Furthermore we have Major Balance problems with rewards PvE vs PvP, Armor, Game modes and weapons.
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Balancing is chaos… hopefully in time they’ll settle that, same with armor.
Otherwise I’m hoping they will have 26-60 done, makee no sense if they don’t imo
Honestly, who cares?
Most of the returning players quit before 60, probably because “3 button game”, “no mounts”, “even shroud hates it”.
They will quit again in droves when they realize this isnt a new wow patch where everyone starts fresh and you have a chance at rushing to the front of the pack with time investment.
They are behind in strategy, mechanics, and gear. None of that has a catchup mechanic while experienced players will start with 2/3 and better knowledge on how to achieve the 3rd.
They need to require an active account to post on the forums and they need to commit to only releasing content for the entire playerbase.
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You’re exaggerating the smallest thing to think about. Are fresh start servers your biggest concern? Really? You are the source of the problem, you just don’t realize it yet.
OPEN PvP SERVERS not FRESH START SERVERS C’MON AGS, IF YOU DON’T OPEN WE LEAVE!!!
Haha funny!
Are you serious? Because i dont know a single person who would leave over no pvp servers. If you like pvp in this game youre already enjoying it.
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Fresh Start nor PvP servers actually solve the problems.
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AA vibes man.