I’ve seen no evidence of returning player spikes, so its a bit of a stretch to expect them to come and it’s kinda nuts to leave current daily players in the lurch based on the hope of some other player logging back in one day.
At best some people log in on patch day, aren’t wowed and then log back off for a month.
Has anyone had to queue as a result of that? I imagine we’d have heard from them before now if it was occurring.
If I was the dev and wanted to provide the best customer experience, I would be prioritizing the quality of life for the current daily active players way over the possible players returning.
Possible future players wont go out today and tell their buddies to buy your game because its fun.
Daily active players who are having a good time on nondead servers actually will.
You could generate sales this way, along with goodwill.
Adding my support for US East server merges. I also want to add that many of us who still have a usable token are saving it for two reasons:
Choosing a server that ends up dying and having no way out.
Choosing a server that ends up getting merged with/into a server we want nothing to do with.
What would go a long way towards helping, if no merges are incoming, is putting a population cap on invasion station downgrades. It is the invasion system that really kills servers because no one wants to do town boards for two days, only to potentially lose that station two days later. Provide some invasion relief on the small servers and I think more players would tolerate waiting to see what happens after the March patch.
PLEASE AMAZON… heade our demands… We need servers to be merged ASAP. I haven’t played in over a week. I refuse to play on a dead server. MAKE NEW WORLD GREAT AGAIN! MERGE THE SERVERS
I don’t know why they are being so quiet about merges… Lets make the player base play a group based game but not have people on a server to do said activities. Most at this point just got fed up and quit because of a low pop server, server locked with friends and the lag / desync
That’s what pisses me the most off: the silence from the dev team.
I don’t care if Luxendra mentioned in February update video that server merges are not in the horizon anymore, but that was before many transferred and killed servers.
They are working so hard to improve the quality of life of game features, but they are doing nothing to improve the server population.
In short, two key aspects they “delegated” to end-users are:
Change server if you want to, or go create yourself another account elsewhere
Report toxic chat behaviors if you see any
They do not improve anything on the server population and they do not actively moderate public chats inside a world.
And these two aspects are critical to quality of life in game.
I feel like vague answers like “not any time soon” and “not on the horizon” and “eventually” should not be considered actual answers from the devs.
What does a “not soon” from more than a month ago even mean? Nothing.
It means absolutely nothing, and even worse than just being nothing, it gives people something to point at and justify behaviors that are making the game worse, like the mass exodus from medium pop servers to high pops that caused queues and negative experiences for thousands of players.
Now we have overfull high pops, a tiny number of medium pop servers and a bunch of dead ones with sub 100 players online.
Instead of just saying “we’ll merge you in a couple months” they make it so vague that it effectively means there is no hope of a server merge for a lot of people in a reasonable amount of time.
This caused panic and stupid choices, and those caused issues.
If they’d given us a real answer we could have avoided those issues by being better informed players. The only downside to a real answer for them would have been accountability.
On Saturday night, there were at peak times more than 10 European servers with less than 100 players. What’s the point of keeping it like this? Do you really think that the gamer community does not know the time it takes to manage, technically speaking, a server merger and what it implies? That is why we are so angry, because we are taken for fools, as if we were people who do not know that a server merger is something relatively simple and more so with such empty servers. and even so, the company chooses not to speak… not to give announcements and let the players get locked up in empty servers where 50% of the game is simply non-existent, making you either decide to delete your character and create a new one on another server already that they are ignoring you… or that you lose the desire to enter.
or I’ve gone from playing almost 7 hours a day to playing 4 a week because that’s how long it takes me to do everything that doesn’t need people, and then I have to leave the game because there’s nothing interesting to do other than farming boringly…
but amazon games… hush. instead of putting practical solutions… silence… and then they get angry when the community shouts saying that they are tired of being ignored… in short, no one understands
As someone merged into CoS … mergers arent always a good thing… Over population kills casual play and the amount of bots and AFKers kill the ability to take a break from fighting and wanting to just take a break and go farm your own mats your basically stuck having to buy any and everything. Its obvious a lot of these “players” that are spending 12+ hours a day stadnign on the same nodes are gold sellers cause there is no way they are playing the game for any reason other than farming Ori til their bags are full to see for nearly 5G a piece and turning around and selling the gold for real money. Please Unmerge me back to a nice Mid/Low pop server so when my insomina is running wild I can venture and do stuff solo when my guildees are all sleeping
Mid pop is best if grass is greener people don’t flee to high pop and your server suddenly becomes low pop. I can’t begin to tell you how horrible low pop is. No OPR. Invasions Downgrade everything. No one to buy or sell. The game is unplayable.
@Engelsmorder I couldn’t agree more… CoS was a chill place before, I could do all my casual farming before 9am while working from home… Now its a nightmare even at 6am… Dont even bother farming anything past 10am… Dont get me started on the ORI, I could net 5k ore in a 3-4h period un contested and while working (I supply my company mates, well used to anyways)… I have reverted to recording bots instead and posting it all on youtube… Making them public one at a time… Sadly AGS doesnt care anyways, loosing battle both ways…
. It almost feels like they want New World to die so they can focus on Lost Ark which they can make $$$ with their pay mechanics.