That is the great thing about Guild Wars 2, you have so many avenues to develop your character. Also that game has been out for years and the level cap has stayed at level 80. With the next expansion your gear didn’t become obsolete as in WoW. I wish new world would take a few lessons from the previous games.
I won’t quite the game, I’ve already made the initial purchase of it. That is the nice thing about the non subscription games, I can bounce back and forth. I’m a really casual player so I will always have something that I can find to do in the game to keep me occupied.
You’d think with both several days off for the recent US Holiday and a 25% discount there would have been a spike in daily peak online players. But checking the New World Status website for the past week there has been a daily DECREASE in players.
I remember a thread a couple of weeks back claiming there’d be 300K players and increasing daily by now. According to the site the World daily number has slipped below 120K and dropping daily. At a time you’d normally think it would spike somewhat at least. But no. This game is clearly dying and will soon be on life support based on the trend line.
AGS had a chance to turn this around but they just keep going down the wrong path, and doubling down on bad designs. Sad to watch. Some will still play regardless of where this game ends up and grats to them I guess. Good luck to them and hopefully they continue having some fun.
Assuming from Steam stats that NW lost 80% players is false. Ppl are waiting for updates, so they spen less time in the game, but that doesn’t mean they stopped playing. What it does is that the 24 hour peak is lower, since ppl play less and not as many of them happen to be online in the peak hour. So the peak may be 80% but the players who no longer log in wont be -80% but less.
Perfect. it was a slap in the face to everyone who spent hours and hours leveling up weapon and armor and then gathering the materials to make lvl 600 items. this is outrageous. I have no words to say how much I felt betrayed and offended. after 850h im out too. gl.
There isnt much to say only 2 words. : Bless Online
I think that game had a way more disastrous start as NW and well they released a second X-Pac and its doing good. I guess its troublesome for now but come time it will get better I guess
I can tell you why my girlfriend left and she and I played this game every day when we had the time to play. We spent time exploring the world, doing quests, leveling up.
TL DR: My girlfriend quit the game because she doesn’t like pvp, she didn’t like the idea of the endgame grind and how repetitive and boring it seemed to her, she enjoyed leveling her trade skills but since the update that doubled the experience for them, she basically gave up on that. That was the only thing keeping her in.
The experience from level 1-30 was, in my opinion, the best experience I’ve had in an MMO for a while. The world is gorgeous, the lighting effects, the surroundings the vast regions you get to explore are interesting to journey through. The trade skills are perfect, they give you the feeling of being there, you can see the materials disappearing when you collect them.
From there on out, the walking becomes apparent, environments don’t look as spectacular when you walked through them for the hundredth time. Half of the playtime is just you getting from one direction to the other. Yes quests give you out good amounts of resources to travel for someone who walks sometimes. My girlfriend just traveled because she didn’t want to bother walking because she walked a fair lot. There were times that she just didn’t want to play because she had to walk from one region on one corner of the map to the other region on the other corner. She couldn’t travel to that region because she was running out of azoth as well.
There were weeks where she didn’t feel like logging into the game. Meanwhile, I was playing and I leveled my character to max, because I was curious what’s the endgame like and I won’t be saying what everyone has been saying these past months. You can get the picture if you’ve made it this far into reading this post.
PS: I am still playing this game and I want to remain hopeful that the team will listen to the community more so that they can deliver us a great MMO, which I know New World has the potential to be.
Game is rigged against casuals to sell them QoL. Not a conspiracy theory, its literally their design philosophy, go read the interviews with David. It’s published on websites, and would they risk litigation from one of the largest companies in the world for posting slanderous shit? No.
Don’t you need a stat that shows total unique logins to know how many people left.
Everyone being online in first few days doesn’t mean they quit because they are not all online at same time again.
Is there a stat that shows how many people of the 900k have logged in this week?
80% of people I think are the same people who buy games, play them for max 1 weeks then go look for new game. They just got hyped by streamers and hoped on the train. And, as to be expected, started dropping off one by one. The last 10% are mostly people who got fed up with all the problems.
stop complaining about shield stat, did you not see that wielding shield & sword give you a bonus stat that you will never get by wielding a 2hand weapon ?
jus try it unsheathed shield&sword then K attributes count it, then switch to any 2hands weapon K attributes and count it again.
The effect of the Thanksgiving holiday on gaming is strange. Yes, most people have more time to game. However, they also have family commitments, left their gaming desktops at home or in their dorms when traveling for Thanksgiving get togethers, and so on.
Other games I play, like Second Life, have visible fall-offs for Thanksgiving. I don’t see why New World would be different.
