done too
Steam is actually the only place you can review the game. They disabled reviews on Amazonâs website, at least for those that pre-purchased awhile ago.
The game is fun⌠the queues are typical with any new game, although they could have handled it much better. The whole game feels like its a bunch of new developers diving into an MMORPG for the first time. They literally took no lessons from previous MMORPGs⌠fan bois will argue its because its own game, but veterans of mmorpgâs know better. The swimming is just âunfinished.â I canât tell you how much my immersion crashed after finding myself walking along the bottom of a lake⌠i was surprised by the lack of creativity there.
Either way⌠i am having fun, especially with crafting. They did the crafting really well. I would still give it a 7, even with all of the issues, and how unfinished it is.
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Looks like itâs getting better
Not sure if youâve ever seen a steam reviewâŚ
Itâs not dishonest. Dishonest is Amazon not investing enough on its own servers and placing terrible patches like blocking character creation on full servers.
The very company who owns one of the largest cloud service in the world wonât put enough money on servers? REALLY? whatâs the message here?
Amazon handling on server load and the following solutions are not only shameful but quite scary for whatâs next with this game.
AlternativelyâŚ
TAKE A BREATH.
Remember that itâs a game.
Consider whether youâre overreacting.
Breathe deeply.
Watch some porn.
Take a nap.
Itâs not ONLY the queues, but because of that; they made the terrible decision to block char creation and now people are either forced to re-roll or wait until server migration is here to play with their friends. This kind of decision making is not acceptable.
We want to turn potential users away. They clearly canât deliver a good thing with many players on so we donât want more players coming in. At least for now. I already had to discourage a few friends from buying it saying they wonât be able to play with me and my friends anyway so donât.
Never seen so many snitches in one place. Itâs like a police informant convention in here lmao.
I think you may be thinking about this the wrong way. Amazon Game Studios is a separate entity from Amazon Web Services and such.
However, they do have access to stand up more servers. I think what everyone is thinking is hardware issue and underpowered servers is not the case. Iâm not sure if anyone here has ever looked at Amazons Gamelift service or anything else they offer for game developers, but it is all really robust and scales well.
The issue they are having is not server/hardware related. It is a limitation they set within the software and within the programming to ensure stability. While they definitely underestimated the amount of people that would be trying to logon and play, I would speculate that they set the population limit low to ensure stability.
What would be the point of launching with a 10k player cap when you get to 2500 or 3k and the server becomes unstable. Spawns stop working, quests donât respond or get accepted properly. They wanted to ensure that people had a stable environment to play in.
They even realized and recognized that they didnât expect this to happen. They are working on solutions with increasing capacity and offering server transfers. Once the server transfer system is available, people can transfer to lower populated servers and queue times should become much lower or non-existent.
With something the size and scale of New World, you canât find all of the kinks until you have hundreds of thousands or millions of people playing and stressing it. WoW, ESO, Final Fantasy XIV and others had queues, login issues and other things when they launched. This will be resolved in time.
do you want new world to lose potential players ?
because bad rating WILL cause it.
they are well aware of the crazy queues (all they need to do is create an account and make a character) and they are working on it.
You know the drill just make it better, thanks
I actually left a bad review, I might change it later but for now Itâs there.
Why do you ask?
I got in the game in the first day, leveled a char to a decent level and then spent 3 days without being able to play any decent amount of time on it because the server got flooded.
Amazon as so far done the following measures to prevent these situations:
- More servers
- Preventing users from creating accounts in servers already way past the limit
This changes came too late to help me but they will benefit new users.
Iâm still stuck with a char on the server were me and my colleagues agreed we would start.
We havent played together much because they canât get in.
Also, Steam is taking into account the time you spend on queues as playing time since it has no way to tell if you are in the menu or actually playing, so long hours on Steam at this moment mean nothing.
Problems that still exist:
- Huge ammount of Bots (fishing Iâm looking at you)
- When a server is full things like Achievements and Titles stop working
- Several resources get bugged and are not harvestable/minable
- The first patch day has been going for almost 6 hours alreadyâŚ
I donât see this last one as a problem, they better make sure the patch is just fine, right? Iâd rather them taking their sweet time than rush it and fuck it up.
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