You also have to take into consideration players didn’t all buy NW off Steam either. Between steam players dropping the game due to the lack of attention to known bug issues from alpha and beta that has yet to even be addressed and those who didn’t buy from steam and still play, those stats aren’t the be all end all by any means
hahahhaha
if they dont know that he is an admin then no serious guild would even allow him to join the war with those weapons.
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Having a spear at lvl 20 isn’t really an achievement of a hardcore player… I have over 600 hours in this game, had voidbent within a few weeks…
My spear is lvl 0.
Remember, most people like to play certain things… In most MMO’s you can only pick one class and would have to reroll to try a new weapon of choice… This game just happens to let you me multiple classes on the same character 
More like many millions. 900k is the peak of how many was logged in at the same time and not a total of how many have been playing the game.
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You can see a decline in engagement with new world though. Two weeks ago people were not playing 12 hours a day either. If your saying each week people log in less than the week before I think that’s the real point. It’s an index number not a player count number. If your point is all players are playing 90% less than they did at launch I think you are right. Are subs down? No there is no subs. Are revenues down? Who knows? Is player engagement down 90%? Yes it is.
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Well, before this update, it was super clunky. There was hardly any tracking as compared to other two handed weapons, and the light attack sequence was super lack-luster.
The changes to spear this update make them feel so much better! I love the spear now, and I think it’s in a super great spot. I’m already seeing a ton more of them in OPR.
Bow/spear Bow/hatchet Bow/rapier here!
Time to nerf weapon xp gain. Way to many have leveled up spear. This is what they did with crafting. When they nerfed crafting, a smaller % had maxed out cooking, which i can emagine is the easiest to level, and one people level while leveling another crafting profession. I almost maxed it out, and i didn’t put much efford into it. Atleast not nearly as much as i did with those i actualy tried to level. You don’t really have to go search for the food in the same way. You just get it by playing
Lol I did that when I hit 60 a long time ago. kinda wished I did my skills sooner. But it’s nice to have the weapons all maxed.
3,7 % of 900k is quite a Lot.
Now check how many got to level 60 
Only 10% of players are still playing sooo, basically 37% of active players is probably a closer estimate.
I too enjoy the Spear + Rapier. Would be nice to get more proper skins… Trident is nice, but a halberd ooh…
Taco Bell was a PepsiCo company before YumFoods…
Shroud brought 60k, AsmonG brought 120k… Like most streamers and their viewers, they only join in for the hype (rush to be first to post a negative review [even if they love and are addicted to the game]), then move on to the next best thing. It’s how opperate…
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If the achievements are based on everyone who ever logged into New World at some point, then it will be inaccurate.
They need to be based on a more current sample size of active players, which is much smaller than the launch week populations.
Shh don’t let everyone in on the secret. Spear is the best weapon in the game.
Wait until a streamer puts out a video on it, then everyone will be playing Spear.
You’re not factoring how many bots (banned or unbanned) bought accounts for this game. They count in the achievements and definitely throw the count off.
Spear is the ONLY weapon I got to lvl 20. Then I stopped playing this game. About a month ago.
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That’s gotta be wrong.
In invasions on the merged server there are spear users specifically for certain attacks. There aren’t just a few of them either. At least from observing the group at the keep.
OTH pretty sure that neither FS, IS, IG, or VG will ever be on my list of things to level. Perhaps everyone else feels the same way about spear.
3.7% of everyone thats ever bought the game.
TBH it sounds high. How many people even made it to 60? Considering we had 1million concurrent and now we are down to 100k, just the simplest of math will leave you at 37% of remaining players have spear 20. Which is just wayyyyyyyyyyy to dank.
Good question.
Spear is extremely useful in PvP. Sweep skewer and javelin. Has a good balance of DPS and crowd control.
People bashing spear on PvP… I don’t think they really tried