When looking at New World, I tend to ask myself over and over again, if the developers know that there are other MMO-RPGs around one could learn from.
I mean, if we take graphical MMOs as a start, they basically existed from the end of the 90s on. I started playing MMOs around 2000 and we already had events. So, a lot of companies and game developers have over 20 years of experience in building rewarding MMO experiences.
And yes, we also had events back then in those games. Even at the beginning of the 2000s and not all of them have been good.
In all those years I have forgotten about the really bad ones, as it looks like everyone learned, that the idea of an ingame event should be catching people to keep playing the game, give them a pleasent time inside the game, maybe let them forget about the time they actually spend on an event and give them a reward they can expect in participating.
I don’t even remeber seeing an event in any recent MMO where players where made to spend all their ingame time on hunting down thousands of enemies that they have to compete on with the whole server to end up not even gaining anything from this than wasting time.
I really wanted to give New World another chance, so I started playing it again during the easter event. There have been so many problems in the beginning and I had hope that there has been a learning curve respecting what players really want to see in a game.
Now, learning that there are ppl that just got their rabbit chest dropped on the first day and seeing that I have already killed nearly 2000 of those rabbits couting the boring hours I have been spending on this event and just continuing for the glimpse of a chance that I earn my chest before the event ends makes me want to quit the game again.
This is not how you would encourage players staying in a game. This is about frustration for those players who will never receive any reward for hours of grinding. This whole event is bullshit and I have not seen anything like this in any successful MMO for many years.
If I want to have a game experience that just trolls me, I would just go back to games like “Getting Over It”, because this is the way this whole event feels like.
There are obviously many ways on doing better, as a lot of MMOs do. You could let people earn a currency by killing rabbits and just buy it just make sure that the chest is always granted, after 250, 500, 1000 or whatever number of rabbits have been killed.
I am currently strugeling with the feeling that I really want to stop this and just leave the game again. It does not feel good and I am really frustrated about this whole game experience right now and worse than it has ever been, even on the launch days when I needed to switch the server several times and start over again.