The Unfortunate Downfall Of New World

[@dmacarthur5356]

So after 2.5 years I finally stopped NW. Been there through the beginning and was really happy about how the game was making progress. The main downfall for me is that every time you get in tight with a small group it inevitably falls apart with players quitting. Over and over I went from solo sadness to group fun back to solo sadness. Just got tired of not being able to be with a long term group and ran out of energy trying to find new in game friends.

[@SmartyMcSmartsen]

It gets even worse when you want to compete in leaderboard speedruns. The amount of people who are able to do that are very very limited and also they burn out the quickest.

[@ethanthomas1148]

sameeeeeee

[@DavidAppleby]

@@SmartyMcSmartsen Speed runs, yet another player driven trivialisation of the content the devs were too silly to discourage.

[@x_x714]

@@DavidAppleby man shut up goofy dadgamer

[@eh298]

with no PvP content coming for probably at least 6 months, might be time for an extended break as well!

[@stephanbeaudin6353]

I still enjoy the game so much, and i wonder why, because i really suck in action PvP 😂. What keeps me goingvis the immersion feeling and my stubborness to get better. As Jay said, rhe graphics and sounds are amazing, the combat is awesome. Gathering and refining are very satisfying AND relaxing. Some will play "solitaire" to relax, i cut trees 🙂. What might help me enjoy the game so much is the fact that i never had the urge to reach the so called end game content. I'm near 4k hours in the game, and i still don't have BIS items (well, 1 item) i'm not even in a company (well, i'm in my own company and am its only member 😂), and i'm always broke. I'm still missing 1 weapon skill at lvl 20. I stick to bow cuz i always loved bows since i started playing AD&D 43 years ago. I don't EVER go for the fotm weapon, and for some reasons, bugs don't truly bother me but most importantly same thing goes for other people's feelings and opinion about a game. There's a lot of people out there that don't like something just because influencers or other people don't like it. I'm not built that way i guess ! In my 24 years of playing mmos, NW is my 2nd most played of them all, way behind Dark Age of Camelot back in the early 2000's. I played WoW 6 hours and it was enough for me (i'll get shot just for saying that lol). Anyways, i hope NW keeps getting better obviously, i think the game is great. Thanks Jay for covering NW with honesty and constructive comments.

[@jimmyohdez]

new world is one of those games that'll be good after it dies and people make their own servers to run the game.

[@MrYalcincavdar]

If New World adds these one day, it will be a great MMORPG. For PvE ; WoW’s Torghast ESO’s Endless Archive Tower Challenges Roguelike Mode (God of War's New FREE DLC) For PvP ; New OPR Maps with New Mechanics BattleGrounds Capture the Flag Caravan Trade Battle Royale Battle Arena Open World Elements ; Swimming Diving Gliding Challenged World Bosses New Professions ; Sailing Farming Archaeology Digging(Treasure Map Hunting) Bug Catching Fluid Collecting New Polished Mount System Other ; New Reworked Achievement System Collection Book System Guild House Guild Quests

[@chaboi8866]

Fluid collecting...😂

[@MrYalcincavdar]

@@chaboi8866 it is fun in black desert online :)

[@thelonebro8191]

New World had (and still has) the potential to be genre defining. The PvP action combat is truly unique and could easily be expanded into something special, but AGS' refusal to add more PvP content has doomed this game. They still haven't figured out that this game is STILL just gear grind without purpose. Nobody wants to spam lazy, repetitive 5 man dungeons over and over if they never get to participate in quality war content (NW's actual endgame) or 1 sided OPRs since we STILL have no form of role-based matchmaking. And even the 2hrs worth of story content every 3 months is valueless since none of it is repeatable, not even the bosses. It's all worthless. PvP content is the easiest way to make repeatable content, yet they refuse. It's insane. NW could easily triple or quadruple it's active player base if they just put some effort into their current PvP modes and added 1-2 new ones. It's one thing if the PvE content they released was good, but it's not. It's painfully bland and has 0 replayability. It's no surprise why NW always loses 50%+ of it's peak playerbase 2 weeks after EVERY major update. The direction they're going in has 0 value and does nothing for the game. - Cross-Server company vs company wars without territory being a factor. Just another way to experience war content would be MASSIVE for player retention. Warring and improving as a company with the homies is the best part of New World. - OPR Role-Based matchmaking - New OPR map(s) - New Modes: 20v20 Fort Siege (Queueable Fort Fights), Capture the Flag, Payload push, 5v5 modes, 10v10 modes...freaking anything, man. - REPEATABLE Soul-Trials. If the 2024 roadmap is the same cookie-cutter dungeons and basic QoL... this game has 0 chance of surviving. No chance people stick around.

[@davidnone8951]

Wars are always at like 30-40 fps. I dont know how you crazy people play with those frames. It actually makes me nausous. and no I dont have a bad pc. Everyone gets those frames. To me open world content is so cool in theory and then you play it and your frames go to shit. Until they come up with new technology so we can have tons of people in the same area and the server be able to deal with all that data, I prefer to stay away from that content.

[@alainsauve5903]

Completely agree and came to the comments section to type this up myself. Whenever there are content woes in a game I always laugh because I know it's because the PvP scene is too weak. PvP players create their own content, and small developers that don't have massive (cutting edge) teams shouldn't try to compete with studios that do on the PvE content front. You're going to lose the race, and players will move on to the next PvE hamster wheel. Smaller studios need to focus on player-driven content which is 95% of the time PvP. New World was doomed when they pivoted from a PvP focused game to a theme park game last minute. No one wants to run shitty dungeons forever unless they're brain dead.

[@cheeseblast]

Pvp lul.

[@BryanCanche-g6f]

not quite that low on my part in war my fps doesnt drop from 80 its usually cpu bound i have a ryzen 7 7800x3d oc to 5.5ghz @@davidnone8951

[@TheOpossum13]

Funny this video comes out now, I took a break for a year basically and came back for season 4 and am having so much fun. Sometimes you gotta just take a step back.

[@davidnone8951]

No game can keep you satisfied forever. People expect too much out of mmos in general. I never understood the need for one game to keep your attention your whole life.

[@somberaffair2316]

It's hard to imagine a game so technologically demanding being released on a game console any time soon. Also, there's a reason you don't see many MMOs with graphics and combat like New World. I'm not a programmer myself, but I know it's very complicated, and since they're making a new, original game, they're having to figure a lot of stuff out themselves. I just wish people would be more patient and supportive, instead of putting every issue they come across on a pedestal and insulting the game. If you want a perfect game with very few to no issues, stick to the content that's already been out for a decade.

[@baboonbanana99]

The action combat in this game is what will keep people coming back over and over. Hopefully AGS can bring New World from the slums into a truly great MMORPG that we can enjoy.

[@Z-MACx]

Devs need to recognize this and switch back to PvP focused development.

[@davidnone8951]

@@Z-MACx When the game had no pve content it died. Pvp only mmos all die. Most mmo players are pve first. The data is clear on this. It might not match your personal feelings but it is what it is.

[@Z-MACx]

@@davidnone8951 New World is much different than other MMOs. I’m not saying completely stop PvE development, but seeing as action combat/pvp is the best thing about the game, the devs need to invest more time/resources for PvP players. One OPR map in over 2 years is absolutely insane

[@Z-MACx]

@@davidnone8951 and currently the game IS dying with pure PvE development so what does that say?

[@SuperDotaPlaya]

I hate to say it, but it wont, the game is still bleeding players, we are coming up on a new all time low playter count wise only a few months after the expansion, brimstone pulled double the people back as the actual expansion, and we have already dipped to 30k peaks again

[@VeNoMz_]

I'm content creator, with 90%+ achievement completion, 95% transmog completion, 95% leaderboard capes, 5300+ hours playtime. Barely logged in the past 2 months, my entire company quit the game, got no one to play with. Hopped on earlier today during peak hours there were 2-4 lobbies for the new dungeon, that should tell you enough, no one did winter warrior either in the 2 hours I was on.

[@NordskovTTV]

Dead game

[@jayoddity]

S4 really didn't offer much to do, which is a shame for sure

[@VeNoMz_]

@@jayoddity 1,5 hour questline and a dungeon that you can complete casually in 20-25 minutes, and that's all we're getting for 3 months.

[@Barewell]

Oh how many videos with essentially the exact same title about new world. This happens with every live service I’ve played. It drops off, people complain and complain, KZbinrs exploit the negative sentiment and everyone jumps on it, then good things happen the next season and then everyone stops saying it’s the end until late in the season when they have a bad balance change in PvP.

[@actosh7670]

Still u r right, new world needs way more content! If they go the ESO way, keeping old content relevant on top of new dungeons, raids, other features would be awesome.

[@garlicboy5692]

They already do thag

[@LordGank1]

Good example of this is pve arenas, siren monoecious and the other one. Totally forgotten content, you can do them but they reward 500 gs gear it’s useless now. Why not turn those arenas into something else? Or hell make them pvp arenas?

[@coreybroussard5264]

No MMO needs to go the “ESO route” with bland content, the only thing good about ESO is lore and combat and with how trivial they’ve made the game PVE is a joke and PVP is dead

[@Sir_Moth]

Elysium wilds is used far more now. chest runs happen literally every day artifact runs every day my chat is blown up with people trying to run them every few seconds

[@jmbwithcats]

I disagree, once you get the artifacts you want, fdinish the MSQ and some other farming, most don't want to hammer ECR's and the new dungeon every day in and day out... and then, what is there to do there? Nothing.

[@brandorino]

“Chest runs” wow great content lol. That’s the content that you’re saying is being done in Elysium wilds, even after watching this video where he roasts chest runs. Copium

[@Failess1]

oom here 12k+ hours - world record m10 depths speed since leaderboards came out. Thanks for all your hard work Jay - New World players need honest transparent help like this more than anything. I will always check back in to see how things are slowly coming along in this great game of potential. I'm glad they are removing a lot of the time sinks. The expansion might be short of content but I'm glad they are working on their ethics and slowly removing how encrypted basic mechanics are.

[@Failess1]

also that guy scott is clearly the biggest problem amongst their leadership. The less he does the better the game will probably get.

[@TheJK89]

After 5500 hrs of playing the game since day one. I’ve finally called with quits for NW. I just got tired of replaying the same content constantly and I felt like the game wasn’t progressing Iike other MMO’s like ff 14.

[@lordfixit]

The problem is not with the game, it is 100% safe. It has things to improve, of course, surely many. The problem is basically the players, the voracity and immediacy of content, that is impossible for any dev team. Extremely demanding players, especially pvp players, who aim to achieve everything without playing an MMO, because the game as a whole is an MMO, not a shooter. New World is a great game, with a lot of content, but you have to play at a pace of enjoyment, without falling into stupid demands and without logical sense. I have almost 9,500 hours and I still enjoy every day within NW.

[@succubieify]

How is New World combat compare to Guild Wars 2? I have been playing GW2 since launch. NW have 60% sale now. But I see NW only have 3 skills. And the mount looks horrible when I see lazypeon play it.

[@newbishere1351]

“I’m doing the exact same thing just with artifacts and higher level” Holy cow how many times did I preach that in their discord and on Reddit for people to roast me and tell me idk what I’m talking about. Oh what music to my ears. I also said back then (a month before expansion)the player count be be under 20k by Christmas and well it’s been hovering just above 22k. There is a very long list of reasons why this game fails objectively compared to other mmos, why player count always continues to drop to damaging levels. The devs simply don’t care or simply don’t play their game enough to understand why people don’t stick around very long. Their balance decisions and changes to things like arena show they do t listen to the community. Or even when the community posts game breaking bug on ptr and the devs do nothing lol. Player count will continue to dwindle. There is literally nothing to do in this game for people who have played longer than 2 months. Just spam the same few dungeons endlessly with no real purpose or opr on the same map over and over with 0 matchmaking or ranking system to give a little more value to pvp. Wars are still extremely gated for most players and influence races are also gated by time, so if you have a job or family and a life and can’t play at that specific time well then screw you is AGS moto. Also every single update literally brings more issues than it fixes, while the devs post videos of all the tech improvements they are making to distract you from your game crashing over and over.

[@tayalt2406]

to me the combat is the worst, very clunky and messy. Leveling was never slow in new world, I find it actually way to fast lol. But ya, time to say goodbye, this game is broke to some extent I feel stupid playing it. I hate the fact that they remove the content from the old seasons, why keep removing content from a game with such a low amount of stuff to do? It doesn't make any sense. Amazon should sell new world to another studio, a more competent one and I hope is one that changes new world to unreal engine 5, an engine that actually works. Besides the lack of content and all the bugs, what makes me quit new world is the fact that amazon doesn't care about RMT, gives tons of gold to war players (the minority) while the whole server suffers to make 10k gold daily. They broke the gathering system that was one of the best I've seen, now nothing has any value, the gathering used to be fun and very rewarding, now is just some shiet. There's no guild system, the gold cap makes people play without guild. This game sometimes doesn't even feel like a proper mmorpg due to the lack of group interactions, to me it end up being just one more online game game. I'm really disappointed.

[@i-F-wp5uk]

An array of new big mmos are launching next year and i dont see nw surviving 2024,ags refusal to polish the games pvp and just adding pve small qol updates and other stuff is saddening cos from the combat itself we can get to know this combat is good for pvp and kinda garbo for pve(still decent).Final nail in coffin for alot of people is time gating content and level and locking mounts from player unless they purchased the new dlc,this is a very very bad move.I mean they could allow people who play the base game atleast a generic mount and, get cool mounts if we have paid the dlc but no ,greed kills. Another huge problem hovering over nw is severe lack of player population ap asia server is dead(prolly cos most asian countiries players gets very bad ping in it) an mmo with dead player population means its dying soon. Lack of vision,the game still has no vision.Is it trying to be a story focused pve game or pvp centric mmo or pvpve the game ,it has no defined scope just rolling on to its sure death. Mount update could have made a lot of people to comback but instead they made it into a 30 dolar paid locked content when games such as black desert giving away free high tier mounts now away to new players. Prolly the game is gonna gate keep more stuff and add more dlc that u need to get if you need to get the best level and gear and content(aka hidden p2w) until the game dies,milking those last people on its way to the fire. A 40 dollar game alleging as b2p non p2w game with huge open world that force players to buy 30 dollar mounts dlc to move around the map XD.

[@DavidAppleby]

The chest runs trivialised the best content in the game. The same kind of content was the best part of and most memorable back in Everquest, maybe even better than the fantastic raid system. It required a group and co-operation and it was challenging. It created conflict between groups that although it could be anoying it actually made the content more interesting. Doing an open dungeon in Everquest was terrifying. Open dungeons in New World are an all you can eat McDonalds buffet. The players are to blame for cheesing the content and the developers were too inexperienced to fix it. Neglect of the pvp system has been shocking. OPR updates, new maps and balance has been practically non existent. Economy is trash thanks to the very few that get to run wars having all the money. Bugs are still out of control. Half the time I can't see the scoreboard in OPR. All my house items have been missing for a couple weeks. It doesn't matter how much content they add, if players zerg it and make it trivial it will never be enough.

[@ericcaminero6246]

Agreed on the last point for sure, new pve content means nothing if everyone zergs it out.

[@kadeskywalker8367]

anything AGS touches it kills. The problem is that they outsource everything. game dead is game

[@prakulrathnakar]

The new "expansion" was absolutely underwhelming in terms of new content. The game lacks good content

[@shabazz717]

I gave it up after 2 years or so. I jumped back in on the expansion and had a blast. Then it got stale again. I tried several times to get back in and I just really do not feel it anymore and I hate it because I love this game.

[@flix1179]

me too, today new world is just like a gold sink and eternal grind to nithing

[@ti2bs177]

100% agree with you feel like you have said what we all been saying for so long, I think we are all just hoping that one day the game will get there but every big update seems to be getting worse every time. What New World needs is HELP!!!!! They need a team to come in and assist with the development going forward to push ideas and speed the time of the development. They cannot keep saying they will go slower and get it right the first time and still not achieve a better result it is really disappointing maybe one day they will get it right, As always love your videos dude keep it up

[@thenightingale7405]

New World is fine as long as you don't try to play it as a game that you can play for hours every day.

[@johanax9867]

@@thenightingale7405 Soooooooo you mean like an MMO?

[@thenightingale7405]

@@johanax9867 Nah, some mmos have enough treadmill and content to keep you occupied even if you put in heavy hours.

[@xacasd]

I've played new world for 500 hours, and paid dlc for a game that is not free to play was a big nope for me I don't think I'll install the game ever again

[@Bonnie-y3w]

Having to pay for the xpac to get my mutations back was enough for me to quit for good.

[@BuriedInInsanity]

I was hyped for the expansion, played it for 15 days was done with everything and then moved on ... new world has nothing that keeps me playing and enjoying. The big problem for me is the endgame there's no real endgame, we don't have Raids or any other modes. We have no new PVP mode that we can enjoy and OPR lasts so long as well is boring in my opinion and 3vs3 is just full of sweats and sometimes unplayable due to healers. And then season 4 oh BOI the delays were real ... quite sad. They should take their time of course they shouldn't release something half-assed, but I don't even know if the next year can help with that now that they wanna work more on "quality" they really need to blow it out next year, or they are done. Also, the content of the whole year was meh, okay. We had just 1 weapon not even a real raid and an expansion that got bare-bones content into a delay of almost the entire season... hopefully next year will be better as well as more weapons and long requested ones like dagger, crossbows or more magic stuff. I hope the next roadmap comes out this month or early January. And I still don't get how the bugs happen, I mean they are so buggy, I never have seen something like this with the bugs in any other game

[@LiamHYT]

06:53 Great system stop lying to yourself :P :D

[@provokatze23]

It seems to get worse. Latest patch broke my entire housing interiors. Decorated all for xmas n now its empty again. If i had known that i would have not spent money on the white cat :/

[@Vdanman]

Jay oddity your to loyal to this game when it’s not even loyal to you

[@raymondtrinkle3]

I think our mistake is continuing to have faith in the devs and continue to believe they don’t mislead and simply “ran into unforeseen issues. Thanks for continuing to share the game from a non biasis standpoint. I think most of us would have quit/took a break if they gave us an accurate roadmap with no pvp for 2 plus years.

[@SmartyMcSmartsen]

Jay you didn't address the fact that 700 gear score gear is entirely pointless since PvP is bolstering you up and M3 is for 695+ and tbh it is not even worth upgrading to 700 for just 1 stat. There is no content that requires you to be 700 gear score. They also missed a big opportunity with Glacial Tarn and Forge. If they would have made it a 10man raid where you split up in 2 5man groups and meet up after the orb / bridge is activated would have been awesome and an entire new raid experience, but no... instead we get an empty dungeon with annoying pathing, buggy endboss and an annoying boss design (not hard just annoying to play). What were they even thinking?

[@VeNoMz_]

They should have made it like a Molten Core attunement, do both dungeons to get the attunement then the portal opens up and you go into a elemental realm with a fire and ice raid, but these devs are pretty clueless like Jay said. the game with missed potential.

[@SrLennyMMO]

Totally agree. Waste of an incredible potential. Only we can do now is hope for a good 2024 Roadmap...

[@JamieKeefer]

It’s just a game for most of us. Not that big of a deal.

[@edwardandrade5720]

There game engine and bugs are killing it also.

[@moxxiee7510]

i left the game 4 months ago and came back 3 days ago , bought the expansion then got into the game to find my houses and all my trophies are gone , i talked to 4 supports and made a ticket. they basically said to me we can't check the account's information because you left months ago we can only check info for about 2 weeks and we can't give you anything back , sadly all that major trophy farming wasted

[@TechSway]

Its a current bug affecting all players. Items aren't gone, just not visible.

[@vahagnmosinyan6266]

True. I think main issue with New world is bugs, each new thing they added during this years was buged, each of them. Where was no any new added content without critical bugs. And its anoying. That why ppl stoped playing it.

[@L4BR4T]

What i get from this video is "streamer/content creator who is bored of the actual content in the game, and treats the game as a pvp arena lobby only game. Moans, there is no content in the game." You know there is good content in the game. you're just bored, time to move on to another directory. You are actively helping to destroy the game you love by making these videos! The game is great, but because streamers moan when they are bored, too scared to move away from a directory that make them money, they blame the game instead, which in turn makes the game lose more players, and stops old player returning to try the game again, because you are bored. You guys need to accept the game for what it is. Enjoy what you have, and try to help the developer's by giving them constructive feedback to encourage them and new/old players to come to this game. Moaning lack of content, when you know there is a lot to do (10+ dungeons now?), but are just too bored/stubborn to move on, really dont cut it. Your kinda like the violinists on the deck of the Titanic. Still playing to the bitter end, but moaning and asking to be paid for it, else you won't play to boost morale.

[@jayoddity]

You are somewhat right about the first but I still truly love the combat, that's not a lie, I'd rather sit in arena than play Throne And Liberty for example. I am moving away from being a streamer and trying to be a youtuber....I will still stream but the main plan is youtube. You do know the Titanic sank in the end right. There is not a lot to do, half those dunguons have been around since launch in some form (we've been playing them for 2 years). Honestly 5 man dungeons have some significant issues (I think the timer should go, I think mutations should be replaced with customised mechanics etc) And even if we get a new dungeon, it's only worth doing 1 week out of 5. And even then, its not really worth doing unless you are a speed runner because I have decent enough gear, there's no incentive.

[@L4BR4T]

Yes, the ship sank, as will this game. Let's make the best of it. If we all run around complaining, it'll sink faster 😂. As far as im concerned, the bar is well stocked. I'll enjoy it while i can. Plenty of lifeboats to jump on if you need, just the mmo ones might be a little late 😂

[@1ucky1ux]

The lack of a SEA server ruined a lot of the good things you said for a lot of people. The worst was combat. I admit combat was different from other games and the "class" system was versatile enough for people to experiment and come up with brilliant new ways to play. But the game was rough to play/unplayable for people based in Asia which is arguably a big playerbase. From the release of the game, it was clear that A LOT of people were interested and even up to August 27th, when I quit the game for good, there were still a ton of Asian players who hoped for an Asian-based server so we could start playing the game properly. I cant even begin to count the number of fights I've lost because of ping differences or the fact that I wasnt encouraged to even sign up for wars or to play the game seriously because it felt like it didnt matter if I did. The devs clearly didnt care about us so I decided to play other games and I didnt look back. I knew this game was dying then (it was blatantly obvious imo) and despite S3 I still believe its gonna keep leaking players because even my friends from the OCE region are slowly quitting the game. Its only a matter of time before the game dies imo. And I think its sooner than anyone thinks.

[@MinjuHSR]

100% agreed

[@MinjuHSR]

I can guarantee that if they make an asia server. They can fill up to 6-8 server with max population even with this game at it’s lowest state.

[@jaymack6981]

These developers disappoint me at every turn. It is honestly embarrassing at this point.

[@wisecherry]

It is a matter of opinion, but I don't get it how the action combat is better than in BDO

[@jayoddity]

I never played bdo

[@Hasil8424]

Since the combat system was its greatest asset, and since this especially shines in PvP, they needed to double-down on the faction-based system, using it to create an engaging 3-sided struggle that is experienced through all of NW's content and systems. Instead, they have this hybrid model that doesn't really do well at the faction conflict or PvP and also lacks the PvE theme-park content to keep people engaged. Add in the bugs and other issues and you have a meandering, bug-ridden mess of a game that will always be a "could have" in the history of MMOs.

[@lemoo6314]

Wasted potential,so true

[@davidnone8951]

The 3 things for me that new world needs the most are as ordered, Cross server expeditions Arena matchmaking. Performance fixes

[@lowensohn467]

noone needs that shit. only new pvp modes and no arena trashmode

[@danielkerr4100]

​@@lowensohn467arena is best best unlike trash that is opr

[@MrJramirex]

I got tired of Bow/FirePR, HealerV3, and open world Bow/Fire pvp. Also, as a new player, the gold sink was way too high. I never got proper pvp gear because it was expensive to get it, and then there is always the chance the devs would just nerf it, and now the gear becomes trash.

[@VeNoMz_]

Just imagine how it would feel to be a completionist in NW, it costs about 5m gold to get all standing 300, then we have faction vendor with ridiculous prices that rack up to another 500k, then we have lv 25 super rare rafflebone drops that go for 100k-200k each on the market. It's truly bizarre. No other game requires you to have 12-15x gold cap for just a few achievements and items.

[@fu6817]

Another mmo killed by group-only end game.

[@fu6817]

And early cashgrab expansion

[@benjaminwhite6452]

What I find so difficult to get my head around, is the fact that they've done the hard work. The hardest part of game creation is the base-game and they've smashed that, brilliant combat, graphics and music. Nowadays, content creation from a gameplay perspective is genuinely easy, why? Because the gaming market is so saturated, you don't even need entirely original ideas, you can simply look at what is successful in other MMOs and do that - I think they've partly tried this. But have completely missed the mark, they have no idea that the Dungeons they release while brilliant visually and musically, have very little replayability due to their lack of mechanics. Seriously the PvE difficulty scaling on this game is -Boss have bigger HP and hit harder- it is not content. Changes to the base dungeons further iterate how out of touch they are, story mode is so easy you can do it with literal auto-attacks alone. Why they think that this is a practical introduction to PvE I do not know, the fights are objectively easier than getting to the dungeons in some cases, Myrkguard & Tempest for instance. Any experienced player could have told you they remove replayability and turn it into a speedrun for coin fest. I'd go so far as to say they're disappointing content for new players too, as they pose no challenge to even an absolute gaming amateur. PvP has been brutally ignored outside of the nerf cycle for content. Wars continue to be gated, territory ownership is left over from the early iterations of the game and content they have moved away from that it no longer belongs in NW. Open World Wars for Company Forts would be far better, I'm not going to provide alternatives as they won't listen, but trust me the pinnacle of NW PvP endgame is a zerg fest full of toxic players who are not toxic people, they simply have to invest 15 hours a week into this one war, and the result means that a lot weighs on it for them, turning them toxic. An automated Warring system with frequent flips in territory ownership would solve this. Players do not want to play politics. PvP just needs more gamemodes and genuine rewards, it's no secret. Please add a Bounty Shop for Azoth Salt. OSRS handles PvP progression brilliantly. Influence Races are shit. They're laggy, uneven messes, with uninviting terrain that the majority of the time hugely favours Ranged for a fun Gameplay experience. Lets create proper chase items, not crap with a 10% drop rate that you obtain after an hour of farming with quests that make the Winter Event look fun. Ofc, much faster Respawn times, lower drop rates = more engaging content. Fix Artifact Balance - half of them are either bugged or so weak they're useless, or both, whilst the other half are crazy overpowered. Serenity/Finisher/Deep Freeze/Void Darkplate/Featherweight etc... are so good they diminish the value of other artifacts. Open World content my days give me 1 week in that Dev studio and I'll provide Open World content for a year: Remove Item Bloat. You could remove about 90% of items in this game and no one would notice. Music Sheets are unobtainable once read, same with Recipes. Rarer ones could both drop from certain Open-world Bosses, which don't have horrendously saturated drop tables, and a spawn timer closer to 1-2 minutes rather than 5-6 minutes for increased replayability. Half the reason trophies require luck mitigation through the "shard mechanic" is because each kill takes a frankly stupid 6 minutes, and the kills themselves are often unengaging. Treasure Trails/Rafflebones Clue Scrolls. New World has a brilliant open world as iterated, give me an incentive to go around and play it. Essential Clue Scrolls on Runescape, higher drop rate from certain Monsters, then you do 3-7 steps of a Clue for a reward. Give this serious chase items. An earring that applies all of the earring crafting modifiers on one piece of Jewelry, Azoth Inductors, Unique Cosmetics, Unique Music Sheets / Recipes, Luck Trophy Materials, Jewelry that saves on Ammo. Idk I'm spouting ideas. Castle Wars PvP, Capture the Flag PvP, Last Man Standing PvP. Proper visuals please too, why does PvP get all the lazy visuals? I want a Castle to fight on, not a run down copy and pasted "Watchtower". A new Skill, replayable Kill X mob quests, like Slayer on Runescape, this incentivises killing unique MoBs that could have brilliant drops. Corrupted Portals could also give XP in this Skill. Archeology, another New Skill, Skilling Trophy Materials are obtained from here, so is one way to get clue scrolls. The powerful unique craft modifier "Magnify" drops here, some unique cosmetics. Ability to restore "lost items" for illegal perk combos for instance, e.g. Vicious & Rogue. I could go on and on and on.. instead they add shite like Boon Potions, which after 2-3 hours of gameplay, I could have told you would be dead or bug abused content. The Devs need to go, their ideas are so bad. I mean it, it is not the engine, not the budget, it is the ideas that are the problem now, they are terrible in replayability. There are only so many bottlenecks you can have as an excuse before your lack of understanding of replayable gameplay loops becomes apparent. They clearly have no vision for the future of New World and wander along at a go-happy pace releasing content that is dead the same week or even day it comes out, and wonder why no one plays their game anymore. Rant Over, thanks for reading. As you say, this game has untapped potential.

[@peterdee5574]

I agree with you Jay, I stopped playing New World because of the neverending rain of "bugs", they got overwhelming at some point and it got too frustrating to play it. They fixed one, ten more appeared, which is trully sad because the game has potential like you said, but unfortunately wasted.

[@s13ef9]

I played a bunch after DLC. I finally stopped playing a few days ago because as a pvp player, its just dead for me. OPR is horrendous and is now the best way to level the pvp track. Arena nerf sucks for people not wanting a 45 minute pvp match. I have completed 150+ pvp tracks, but outside of influence races, it feels like there is nothing fun to do.

[@Musickkk]

I think we just need to stop making excuses for the game and AGS. Everybody trying to guess what went wrong this time, or last time. Why they can't embrace the potential of the game. Is it engine, founding, all together or something else. But NW was problematic since day one, and It's still there. Nothing changed in big scale. Yes, a bunch of minor improvements but in general - same story, same problems, same bugs. And tbh, at this point I don't really care "why". You either take it as it is and found the way to enjoy it, or let it go and move on. I returned to the game after expansion. Haven't played since launch. (Even thought used to be huge fan, played 300+ hours on public test and 600 on release). Dropped and let it cook for a while. In the same hope every NW "fan" had (some still have). That in time they'll put their sht together and make this game what it deserves to be. So I had my 50+ hours of fun by lvling up, exploring new for me zones. But once I got to end game - same story with same problems. Overall, I'm glad for people who can find fun for themselves in NW on permanent base. For me, I'm ready to let it go... No faith in AGS and Azoth or whatever this engine is. I will play their lotro mmorpg, whenever that will come out. But with absolute zero expectations and excitement. Especially since they're gonna use same shty engine. Zero learning on their own mistakes. Get me right, it might look good and NW is a gorgeous game from a visual perspective. But if you can't make the game work properly - nobody cares about visuals after 30 min in.

[@miltosLaz]

I belive terra had better action combat that NW.

[@jayoddity]

I never played it, I don't disagree

[@mercster]

They're hamstrung by the economics... they're probably already losing money on New World. Obviously, it's a chicken and egg situation (need more content to get more players, can't afford new content without more players), but budgets are budgets, and if Amazon is anything, it's a smart business. Personally, I was happy with the expansion because a) I'm casual, b) I like maces so I love the flail, and c) mounts are cool. I'm sure they're trying to make as many additions as fast as they can in an incremental fashion, but the fact of the matter is: if New World had held onto its launch population, it would be a completely different story. Amazon would be giving that division much more money and manpower. As you correctly pointed out, comparisons to mega-MMOs like WoW, FFXIV and ESO are largely pointless. Thanks for the video.

[@JebroSNAP]

Question: How many MMORPGs have you played? Because this is literally the way most mmos go from launch. Yea sure not the best start, but I feel like you might not have much experience with other mmos? I could be wrong though! Also a lot of misinformation about other MMO's. id encourage some research into what others offer. I.e. End of Dragons wasnt this year, and had a different expac. Raids ceased a LONG time ago as well.

[@kawa5727]

I played ~400hr when fresh servers launched, then dropped for some time and started playing again in mid season 3, 1200 hours already. As I didn't spend much time in game before, I don't get bored now. I almost don't play PvE, only some M1s to get a few artifacts I wanted. And sometimes I just turn on music and grind some resources or join chest runs (like 1-2 times per week). If I like to hit creeps, I would take antimage in dota and 40 mins hit jungle lol. If I need coins - there are ways how to get them without any boring grind to gear my builds, especially if you have nice IRL income and prefer to do 1hr of work than dozens of hours of grind in game)))) 90% of time I do PvP which I really like: Arenas, OPRs, Open world fun on forts, duels on fort and all around, races. Don't like wars, imo it's the most boring pvp content, too many people around playing for win and not for fun. But other PvP is great! I swap my builds every few days, so I can play a few builds of melees, tank, mage, musket - it doesn't get boring.

[@dobbersp]

Jay, this video is great, thanks for taking the time to put it together!

[@jmbwithcats]

I've been saying the same thing the last 2 years... wasted potential. Salvage popup spam, OPR popup spam, they never seem to care about fixing, where's the black dye? Where's the content? Why can't I save transmog looks to a full plate to apply fully whenever I want? Why are the drops in dungeons and events so disappointing? The season pass rewards are just not that interesting and I wonder if I will ever pay for one again in New World? Thanks for the muddy, ugly dyes... I also agree with you on Elysium Wilds, I do not spend much time there at all now. There's no real reason to go back but the ECR which is just placeholder content in a game woefully lacking in it. And you're just looting worthless crap there too. Why don't the events drop fun items, mounts, etc...?

[@ShrappNewWorld]

They can still fix New World. Amazon just has to stop being cheap and hire whoever they have to, to get their game studio going. If New World became the fall of Amazon because it bankrupted the company, that would be freaking awesome and amazing but totally impossible. They should either fix their game or shut down their studio now, they have no chance at LOTR if they cant pick this game up.

[@dbh-wu4oc]

no sea server?

[@licklogacres]

New World failed after the wars failed and chest looting issues, since the Wars / PVP were supposed to be the primary goal of the end game. Launch issues were to be expected, other issues should have never existed. Then there was nothing to do for endgame. When New World failed to deliver proper content and updates, most of us as part of the initial player base quit. Gave up when it seemed devs wanted to do nothing but push out skins / housing decor for extra money. Best PVP in an MMORPG in my opinion was Archeage / Aion. Combat in NW wasn't terrible but needed serious work.

[@amirgelman]

I love New World but it just isn’t able to sustain many players unfortunately, not sure why but I haven’t reached end game either so maybe I’ll discover later. And yeah the Combat feels okay but it lacks some kind of ultimate strike or something… 3 skills to be used over and over, and even with upgrading those skills nothing happens even animation wise. It’s very repetitive. Plus I think there are some very demanded weapons type they should add. Dual wielding swords or daggers should be brought… and possibly a Katana.

[@VexGamingTV]

As much as I understand the reasoning for this video I just cant bring myself to complain about this game. It is beautiful and i think a lot of the work is put into the visual polish, 3d art, and animation. Its not fair to compare this game to the other mmos that are doing things differently. I did the season quests this season and was shocked. On stream i even said that other mmos would release these soul trials as main raids and center content around this when new world gives you that shock value in a one person dungeon. Yes it sucks that we play through it once and its over but thats probably why a lot of the content feels like not a lot. They threw 3 soul trials at us and all were amazing but you got past them pretty quickly. Also, imagine how much content they would be able to do if the graphics were like WoW? Thats why comparing the two just doesn't feel right. I would take the look and feel of this game over WoW or ESO any day. Now, the only thing I really dislike is the economy and I feel that is the main reason they lose players. The game obviously is made for PVP and there is nothing fun about getting nearly one shot by people who either had their gear supplied by their clan, bought by RWT, or got an early start and became a big crafter early on because they live in their moms basement and dont work. With a combat system like this I would rather it be skillbased rather than gear based because as of right now the casual player has no way to make the gold to buy or even craft bis gear. Unless they want to get a group to mass run genesis all day every day which is just shit, and even then will take a lot of time for bis gear. A week to get one piece doing mind numbing content. This economy needs to be reworked entirely.

[@jmbwithcats]

If you value your time, you'll have higher standards than just taking whatever they give you. Your name is Vexgaming TV, which tells me you probably stream for a living so you kind of have all the time in the world to waste, and many of us simply do not.

[@VexGamingTV]

@@jmbwithcats Actually the TV in my name was created prior to Twitch.tv. It was made in the late 90s when I decided I wanted to make content and it stands for television. I do not stream for a living. As much as I wish I could. I work a normal job like everyone else. I think peoples standards are just way to high in the gaming industry nowadays. There is a lot more to game dev then people think. Every game that releases everyone finds something to complain about instead of enjoying the experience provided. I guarantee if the internet wasn't a thing and all this negative energy wasn't spread around on the daily everyone would love what this game has to offer. We could of only dreamed of something like this when I was younger.

[@alex1212456]

The first time you clear a dungeon should be the funnest most engaging and rewarding time to clear it. Now they make every new dungeon and existing one easy like pbs kids first dungeon clear. I remember the pop of from the first time clearing dynasty or genesis. Now I jump into glacial tarn and I’m falling asleep left clicking cause it’s only “challenging in mutated format when the experience is no longer new and exciting. Everything just lands like a wet fart. And OPR and arena get 0 content for years on end

[@pliyo]

The game was fantastic, but they decided to put all their efforts into making it PvE oriented. Many like myself joined because of the PvP and the combat, and it was fun at the beginning even with all the queue issues, all the bugs, etc, unfortunately they didn't put any effort into PvP hence we left and we might never come back.

[@toxccommando]

ive been saying the same exact thing as you jay for 2 years. Everything you say is spot on but Ill give you a hint into why I think there is no real content and its going to be very polarizing. They are just plain lazy. They make so much money off of skins and stuff from the store. As well as server transfers (which is probably like 70% of their income). But the only thing they can add are new dungeons and no real meaningful content means dungeons are easy to make and everything else they actually have to put effort in. Like for christs sakes, it isn't that hard to reuse assets and make a new opr map or an arena map or even a new pvp game mode. Everything you said I've been saying for so long and the reason I stopped playing 9 months ago.

[@cloudy5504]

not to mention the sudden change such as the chromatic seals, it was just popped on us out of nowhere. give us time to use them first. also they yeti event. you cant even get everything in the shop if you wanted if you did not grind yeti before the change.. this an many more examples lol

[@FoxayV7]

It’s garbage now, I played it since release and have quit twice. I can’t convince my friends to buy the game cause the dlc is p2w, without it you can’t get artifacts which are crucial to compete in Pvp and even PvE. How can I convince someone to pay for the game twice? Just to go thru the same pain we all have

[@Ox5f3759df]

poo world

[@Gl0wStickss]

Amazon is terrible, don't let them take over the world... (Dev team aside) Just the company itself is just terrible.

[@mq1405]

They’re doing a good job fixing all of the problems very slowly, in 5 years time new world will be a good game if they don’t give up by then lol

[@MellowFungus]

Translation, the people that shill for this game are dumb enough to play this game for 5 years before its actually any good, or ready. Dumbasses that are happy to be free "Beta Testers" for AGS

[@Manc268]

The main story itself is quite a good tale but its just not portrayed that way except for the opening scenes when you 1st create a character... if they could enhance its story telling like that opening movie then the msq would be truly epic.. but the seasonal story for me is a bit weak.. ideas are not bad but the acting is not great, i like the irish lady but the rest dont fit well for me & its almost like a circus act rather than a group to save the island from its many perils. Players seem to be in a rush for everything all the time which causes less interaction & almost borders ignorance.. which imo, doesnt suit mmo's very well. The silence in group content is deafening most runs.. finding a decent company can be tough to do general content for players not in full 700 gear... chest run 30 man zergs are crap.. they are 5 man areas, no need for so many.. its hard to see direction of bosses, aoe kaleidoscopes, players pulling all sorts from every direction & some ignorant players leaving others to die instead of a 2 sec rez.. attitudes can stink, ive seen it too often to enjoy this type of content now.. chest runs are better in smaller groups with friendly guilds but even then its a rare thing.. they all seem to do just war, opr/areana & m3's then not much inbetween for anyone less experienced or lesser geared... that drives some players back to solo play, which again is not good for mmo in the long term. Part of it is the game but part of it is a fractured community.. no offense to anyone or any group.. its just what ive seen on 3 servers over 6 months recently and 2 servers back at launch for few months.

[@hoyemiliano]

First mmo I've played where you need a dlc to get a mount. What's next? paying another 30$ to get your character to swim or ride a boat?

[@ELeva8ion]

I went on a hiatus on this game for like 6 to 7 months, because I've been doing the same routine all day. Logging In > Finishing Daily Faction Quest > Do the Chest Run > Corrupted Portal Run (If Not Bored) > Late Night OPR's. At first you'll enjoy it, but as the time goes, it gets really really boring, like you get nothing out of it but just exhaustion (except to talking to guildmates and friends you played with). When i got back, pretty much you are doing the same thing again but now there is more Chest Run to do, Seasonal Pass to finish. Its missing huge chunk of content (Different Maps for OPR, Massive Open World content (Boss fights, Instance Dungeon that you don't need to grind your ass off for 5hrs, Less Gold Potential earnings unless you go hardcore_) Its sad to see that you get back from a hard days of work in real life, you are supposed to sit down on your chair and play the game to have fun, yet instead its giving you more work just to get better gears or gold, glad i quit this game it is indeed a Wasted Potential.

[@cosaryno]

the expansion offers some very important system changes, yes. system changes that players who own the base game also deserve. it doesn't make sense to me that you buy a game to enjoy it, and it's not entertaining you because of some dumb details. and they sell all these fixes as a separate package xD even then, the lack of content is a major issue. I must say that the gameplay felt awesome. But after season 2, my computer wasn't able to give even half of the FPS I used to get before season 2, for some reason. that's the major reason i didnt buy the expansion and not planning to.

[@lapis.lazuli.]

*Persistent New World Issues: * *AWS/AGS can't scale gaming. Even after the launch queue debacle 3 years ago, and the same repeated at the launch of every season except S4 (i guess people have quit trying to pay attention to New World)

[@SamFortalCE]

New world's devs are horrible managers. Since alpha they don't give what people request most, they never did and when they could have done, they wasted 2 years.

[@tomasengstrom6362]

WRONG! Its the balancing that made most quit playing.... 1. you always fight companies in OPR! So stupid 2. you always fight premade in arenas! So stupid Thats it! The majority of players is/was casuals and as a solo you don't really want to end up fighting fully geared companies communicating together on discord! AND ofcourse the queues as mentioned! NOW they will introduce console players which will be as ALL other games, gamepad AIMBOT! This game will be useless! Fix this and it will blossom

[@victorhughgo2376]

CHEST RUN! lmao Hey, the developers pushed it on the players by making such a trash game (with excellent graphics and fun combat). Chest Runs are like the January 6th of MMORPG's. We just got tired of it bro.

[@billy_cross]

Oh Jesus Christ it is not an MMO unlike any other MMO it is exactly like every other MMO it has massive numbers of people that’s what an MMO is I think you meant it’s an RPG unlike any other RPG but that’s also not true, but for different reasons because it is exactly like every other RPG, or like other RPG I mean different RPG have different skill progression methods and I think in New World your progress the skills you use right well got to tell you Online did that shit in 1997 and lastly the demise of New World would not be unfortunate. I don’t give a shit in fact 30% of the gaming industry actually 80% of the gaming industry mobile devices they don’t give a shit cause it’s not on mobile canceland mobile devices make up 50% consuls which make up 30% they don’t give a shit cause not on consoles it’s just the 20% of you fuck on VC the car all about New World but 80% of us we don’t give a flying fuck what happens to the New World because it’s never gonna be on our platform. Why should we care

[@Boretooth]

It feels to me like people are confusing 'unique' combat with already-long-since-imagined combat. There's literally nothing unique about it. It's just action combat. But action combat, because of lag/latencies, doesn't mix with MMOs. Tab-target was created because of this. It's been thought of before plenty.

[@quentinrouyer723]

The biggest problem for me as a PvP player is the balance of the classes.... I'm sorry but playing healer, pooping an healing AOE on the ground and rolling infinitly in your shit to be immortal is NOT AN INTERESTING GAMEPLAY. We can talk as well about the difference of skill requirement asked betwenn the classes. This game can't pretend to be a good PvP game, mostly when we see the concurence . They are so disconnected of normal expectations that the PvP players can have... it's a huge wasted feeling and it's really frustrated... there are some mistakes can't be forgivable, because it's just about bad decision (to not say stupid), this is just untolerable this no-professionalism... mostly when you see the bubget involve for the developpement of this kind of game.

[@ckycky1225]

This is a little sad.... but so true "waste of potential" but even amazing graphics and combat aren't enough for me right now. I'm waiting for Throne and Liberty which will probably be launched when S5 is in New World. If TaL will be good enough for me - I mean combat-specific + gameplay - I'll leave behind the New World. Sorry, but the content in TaL, social stuff like "guild progression" excellent optimization, amazing group open pvp and a lot ... a lot of activity is much better than what NW can offer us right now. -- but we will see how the group finder will help ppl, how much content we will get in the future... maybe a new road map soon. I think AGS know the potential of Throne and Liberty and when it will be launched. They also know how big success this game is in KR and this game can be a big competition and a great refresh for NW players. Hopely they will take some advance and bring us something that can hold us more in NW... right now I'm a little bored player in NW. I'm just waiting for more details - mostly regarding the Auction House system because this from the KR server is a little p2w, You need currency that you can get only from selling on AH or buy by real money. We will see.

[@OGParzoval]

Bugs, bugs, bugs. Every time we turn around there are bugs, bugs fixed a year ago show up again. Pushed content. S4 is a barren release and again buggy as all get out. Then they restart servers during prime time, and reschedule wars with zero thought to people's schedules. PVP is dominated by professional players who can dedicated 40 hours a week to PVP, that have rosters of paid for alt accounts across many servers where they run companies on all factions and take over all territories and then use mules to funnel gold from those servers to their priority 1 servers. Combat balance is completely screwed up. You spend dozens of hours and hundreds of thousands in game gold only to have the gear invalidated by a nerf. Player poulation is non existent. They gain 80k players and within 3 months those players are gone, those who stuck around trickle away slowly. End game? Ha! It's just the SAME 2 year old OPR map, whatever 2 dungeons people are running and nobody's forming groups so you login and just twiddle your thumbs. New Zone is more empty than First Light. Nobody does influence races anymore. PVP is decided before the war happens. Come go GW2 folks! AGS wont let Throne and Liberty come out anytime soon. They still need suckers to play New World to fix bugs in their engine before lord of the rings. People come to Dragonbrand for NA and lets gear up and show these people how we war.

[@bargomcfargo3753]

What New World Needs.... is more incentive to go out and PvP any time during the day. More content for solo players to grow without needing a party.... More PvP Maps with different objectives. Adjust combat to be more fluid for some weapons and their skill animations. Biggest problem for New World I think.... Is that most gameplay doesn't feel rewarding.

[@CILINKY]

Their downfall for me was the lack of PvP content support. Their combat system offered a completely new PvP experience that had me addicted to the game for almost 2 years after being burnt out from FPS games. But playing the same OPR map since launch and wars becoming repetitive while being time gated killed this game for me. A proper ranked system, more PvP game modes, and more PvP maps would have gone a long way. Hopefully the new LOTR MMO that AGS is working on will pull the combat system from this game and implant it in the LOTR universe with proper PvP support and ditch the awful cosmetics that New World keeps putting out.

[@zaskiaalsakila7248]

Hey bro are u a shill?? New World is mmo like no other mmo. No tats not true, and u know it. New World is like Black Desert but is worst in everything. Action Combat, stunning visuals and excellent sound design. Are u talking about Black Desert online bro?? New World is just a copy pasta or Black Desert and Eso and Skyrim. But with worst graphics, less compelling chars, badly written villians and no "government" of any sort in the game. Bdo has a very good Kingdom style system, functioning religions, impressive legends, great lore story and more.... Just goggle up the Labreska and Markhtanan two rival dragons lore. And how its related to the Guardian and Drakania classes. But hey if ur shill for New World its okay no need to check Black Desert.

[@jStorm75307]

I've been saying this all for quite a while.. I feel suckered... like they jump out and say "Gotcha" like.. the world is so beautiful, but the leadership at ASG is SOOOO bad, if these people would have looked at any other MMO, instead of a "Rust" wannabe that morphed into an MMO, it probably would have been better.. I think they failed.. but I think any game that loses 90% of their customers in the first 6 months is a fail, they are Failing to keep their customers, and keep their attention to check it out.. the only way for this game to change, is people stop playing... then asg had to make an ACTUAL decision, and change the leadership to get some good people in the drivers seat not these twits. Because if they don't Lord of the Rings is going to be a completely waste of time... like New World.

[@Anthony-fk2zu]

What gets me about the game, is that it's neither a PvP game, or a very good PvE game. There's 1 OPR map, 2 Arena maps? Overworld PvP is incredibly poor, PvP in general is wildly imbalanced, and Wars are not content for over 90% of people if I had to guess. PvE missions are basically just fetch quests with a little flavor. The dungeons are not that wild or crazy, and there's not enough of them at all. There's too few overworld bosses and raids. The lack of huge raids is a real shame. It's just a very boring PvE game that has less PvP content than a PvP game in alpha.

[@sunfiretys]

We need ROADMAP 2024 with big content atleast 2 season of 4 per year. PvE raids and more PVP OPR maps atleast. :L i also play over 3200 hours this game last 2.5 yearh, but after mid of season 3 i have only play like 20-30hours max of season 3 and season 4. Hopefully Season 5 have big content to get me more back in the game, because this game as you said has potential and it's fun but when no interesting things to do as veteran it's time break for me also

[@koshukesawalk1643]

Personally I thought the new DLC expansion zone was a flop. Writing over First Light zone with the new expansion DLC was a big mistake. It ruined player's time investment and aesthetics of the whole game. I take it in comparison to with Classic WoW. Where the expansion Cataclysm changed many zones of Classic WoW. Also, New World took gold away from players making gathering resources a waste of time. No reason to go out in the world. A good thing about the new expansion were the mounts. But this couldn't offset the disappointment from players IMO.

[@harrisonthompson]

honestly i feel like the wars were what drove a lot of people to play and the reality is very few people actually were chosen to be in wars and when you got in them, the wars were LAGGY AS SHIT!!! almost unplayable! horrible experience even with an RTX2080

[@CantankerousOB]

Completely agree Jay. I paid for the expansion, and quickly lost interest. Over 9k hours in the game and it just seemed to be more of what we've been doing for the past 2 years. I'm done with the game unless something major changes.

[@mikadsu]

There for sure should have been a second OPR map at this point or/and a different pvp mode. Though the pvp players are minority. At least my steam achievement "win 25 opr" was like gotten by 3,8% of players. Sure don't know if that counts out of all players that have played. Which is quite a bit because of the start hype, but still I would say directional number. Where NW went wrong for me was no road map released before/with the expansion. So I just didn't have motivation to buy and play since I didn't know what the devs are planning for the game. Specially with gaming having problems and not knowing if they even have plans to fix those. Now it seems we know why they didn't give it. Since there is pretty much no content up to May. Which I guess would be start of s6 so probably some content in s7 in August? before presumable next expansion. 8 months is a long time to lose players again and for me personally it will just be harder and harder to get back into NW. Specially since I guess would need to buy two expansions next Autumn. As a side note I don't feel the combat is that fluid with all the animation locks and I feel sometimes I just totally stop to attack. Otherwise its good as action based combat without target lock. Although their control support supposedly will add some target locking and what not so... :D

[@winterhearted6780]

New World has more bugs than all other more or less popular MMORPGs combined. They broke MSQ and other vital quest chains tens of times. That is unfortunately an unprecedented level of incompetence.

[@markjackman1712]

As a casual pvper I would love more pvp content....just 1 or 2 OPR / Battleground maps would make a fair difference. It feels like the opportunity has been there (as there appears to have been time to create a fair chunk of pve content in comparrison since release). Hate to say that word as I know it can make people cringe, played wow this weekend and it was a total joy to play in comparrison - after many years of not playing it. Yes its a sub funded game, the graphcs ofc are awful in comparrison and yes wow has been around for almost 2 decades so has had more chance to become refined but things which were in wow from day 1 - people are screaming out for after 2 years of NW, in 2023, just simple things like UI tweaks and a decent LFG tool. For me New World has been good value (the game) but the expansion hasnt been worth it - not even close, and feel NW is really testing peoples patience now. I begrudge spending money on a game to make it more convenient to play (gear sets in mind here) when the game is deliberatly made inconvenient to play in the first place! In 2023 for a game with this much emphasis on different gear sets for expeditions / pvp / professions its a bit sad that this wasnt in the game to begin with for free. Im putting NW down for a while as its just not much fun/rewarding and playing it currently isnt worth the cost of electricity! Edited because I realsed its now 2024! HNY!

[@omaior20]

New World was a financial flop for amazon, game barely has any monetization and amazon doesn't want to invest resources into it anymore. For now New World is just a demo showing they can be a good publisher in the west and its the only reason why Amazon doesn't shut down the servers. As a new player I had so many bugs while leveling to level 53 with 1 dead end quest that is bugged for 4 days, I didn't experience such low level of polish in a MMO in any MMOs I played. New World quest Experience makes BDO look good.

[@BuuWhuu]

S4 was a dud i knew it was gonna be trash before season 3 ended... think about it season 3 had the whole expansion with all the new stuff to hold us over for 3 months (prob lasted little more thn 2 months) but season 4 has nothing but 8 artifacts with most of them being shit. They pushed out the expansion before they should have all the cross server shit and group finder all shoupd have launched with the expansion CATCH ME ON ONCE HUMAN 🤷‍♀️

[@tedmundnw9310]

The issue is Scot Lane and the piss poor management, leadership, and methodologies at AGS. Repetitive quality mistakes, awful balancing, bad endgame vision are what flushed this game down the drain. S4 is inexcusable. And you're being too kind about the tremendous quality issues and horrific bugs (both impact and time to resolve)

[@screaminglizard1570]

I still have more fun in NW than other mmos such as Lazy Peons favorite / hated BDO. That games more popular but god damn is it boring, solo player grind with 1 set of gear that is p2w and rng upgrading and £40+ costumes because gear looks terrible. thats any good and boring territory wars. NW just need to improve simple things, better storage, better AH, more gold generation and add some propper raids.

[@hardtrancedj8575]

Great video Jay! It really does not look good for Lord of the Rings MMO with the way AGS are running New World they are not exactly putting out a good example, shame really. I truly wish another company were running this and not AGS :(

[@joe6pak14]

I'll just start with saying that I have never played NW for various reasons, but I don't think the problem lies with the Dev team as much as it does Amazon as the publisher and a company overall. Amazon is obviously good at marketing and using Twitch to build hype for the games. They get huge release numbers and then use those to use in their quarterly earnings announcements. in order to justify their inflated stock price. They did the same for Lost Ark, pump huge numbers, let bots run rampant and claim they were players. Six months after release, no one cares what the numbers are because they are blowing smoke up peoples arsses on something new. Meanwhile the playbase dwindles and development goes to a pseudo life support. Now we have Throne and Liberty coming up with western release in the future. Do you think it will be any different from New World or Lost Ark? To the comment about New World having the best action combat, BDO says "Hold my Beer".