Like the title says, the legit players are being punished left and right. Two full days of not being able to make money, guess I’ll just pay all the taxes with IOUs as I lost my two money making days. Two times the trading post have been disable due to dupes. ONE of which was reported in close and open beta. Why do we keep getting punished for AGS poor choices/slow response and people exploiting? What/where is the drive from AGS to keep players in the game? All we see is you guys punishing legit players and giving light slaps wrist on people who exploit. Case in point SOLIDFPS, You say you banned the dupers. Is this the same ban that those who changed their emails were able to avoid in the past?
All these really poor decision have caused my server to flat out die, we used to have around a 1000, a day before the first dupe was “fixed.” Now we have less than 400. I know some servers are in even worse shape. At what point do you does your leadership accept they’ve made bad choices and move to make it right?
I agree with Asmongold, this game has so much potential but really bad management and some really poor game design is killing this game so fast.
Can a CM bring some information on this for us? @Luxendra
We should be punished! The writing was on the wall and we refused to read it. Somehow the name “amazon” gave AGS legitimacy and we bought it literally and figuratively.
Bezos would be dead if his rocket had 1% of the technical issues that NW has.
NW is just another failed R&D event for Amazon AKA tax write-off. This is how they get away with paying almost no taxes.
I’m asking what they plan to do. I was stating that their poor management has hurt the player base. The have showed their hand over and over that whoever is making the calls is either clueless or grossly incompetent.
Take the fact they’ve only stated their going to refund wars, not people who lost their listing fees or taxes. Again another showing that leadership is grossly incompetent. Where is the drive to bring in and keep players? All they have done is show the majority of players they don’t care about them. Look at the horrid wording on the first house. They made it “right” be refunding like 2k gold. Not fixing the broken taxes. And don’t call adding two days a fix it’s a bandaid to a poorly designed system.
Look at the forums so many people are asking for all gold sinks to be stopped during a period of the TP being disabled. They didn’t do that or refund anyone the first time they disabled it. They likely won’t do it this time. It’s again another bad call by leadership.
It’s not complaining when you call out the bad choices they’ve made and how they plan to fix the good will of their player base.
I think they just don’t know what else to do. It feels (which doesn’t mean it’s true) that AGS was caught off guard by the amount of players who played on release. How things have been handled since then gives the impression many at AGS are inexperienced at their job & many are not gamers. They may have the technical know-how but not practical experience.
It’s taking it’s toll on players. I’m still hanging in there until the content patch & changes to see how the game goes. The only other thing I can think of is the duping & what some players were doing was more serious than we know.
I think they are trying and really, what more can you ask?
This game is an experiment on so many stuff Amazon is pushing or trying to sell in the coming years to development studios. A few of knowns of course the engine (Lumberyard) and the back-end infrastructure. They also probably used a NoSQL (maybe DynamoDB) to persist changes, reason we have this dupes when players uses a net limiter.
If this is Amazon’s goals, I have big hope this game will be much much better in the coming months.
Sydcanem,
I 100% I believe New World was planned to be 100% cloud based with client being hosted as well. It only makes sense if you look at the type of bugs they had. They wouldn’t be issues if everything was in the cloud.
I hate to admit it but I feel like New World is a tech demo done up as a beauty queen.
No you would not put a client hosted. That’s a very bad design. Imagine going through the world and seeing un-rendered trees, houses etc because your internet is slow and its still downloading the data and processing it. Even with optimizations, you will be bottlenecked with the internet speed instead of processing speed (cpu/gpu). The client is there for the sprites and images so you could view your environment.
What I’m saying there is that the technologies used not yet ready for MMOs and New World is a test of this. Example of this is dupes, a database with good consistency wouldn’t let that happen but the fact that those databases don’t support large scale data is a problem. Then they choose a distributed database but with “eventual consistency”, dupes will be happening.
I think you hit the nail on the head, and it’s why I’m actually sympathetic to the devs even though I keep making posts about their incompetence.
I really feel like the fault lies with the people making the decisions because they don’t have enough experience to see the bigger picture and to foresee the consequences of their actions. I don’t know who made the decision to turn off the Trading Post for example. I’m completely open to the idea that it wasn’t even a dev, but somebody else who is completely ineffective at decision making.
I feel bad for the rest of the devs, I really do. I think they poured their heart and soul in this project only to see it ruined by the people making bad decisions, whomever that may be. I think most of the devs are doing the best they can do in this kind of situation. But, I can’t support the game anymore. I even went so far as to delete my character to ensure that I wouldn’t log back in (I’m not regrinding everything - at least not now, let’s see how the game looks in a year.)
I wish the vast majority of the devs the best, and I really wish there was something in my power to make things better for them. But, there isn’t, and I’m not going to keep playing a game where people make these kinds of decisions and ruin my gameplay.