[PC]New World

On September 28 2021 19:12 Harris1st wrote:
I was thinking about making a thread for this. Thanks for taking that load of :D

Imma play somewhere in EU. Not sure where yet, since I'm not part of any guild and probably just get on a server with low population to avoid queues

EDIT: Forgot to answer your questions ^^'
I played the beta last year on one of the original release dates. Mission design was poor and some say it still is. But that's not was the game was supposed to be about. It's about the combat, the crafting and world exploring. There are numerous reviews already out on YT and twitch. Character development is classless. You are what you wear and can develop every weapon by using it a bit like TESO. Which is also the most comparable game IMO

On September 29 2021 16:30 Harris1st wrote:


Good question. I have only low level experience so I can't really answer in detail.
PvP is obviously challening,
PvE in the lower levels is rather easy and more about clearing speed. Killing mobs without getting hit by dodging etc. is nice gives you practice for later but you can also just spamclick most mobs in the early game

Didn't get farther than that yet ^^

On September 30 2021 01:07 Archeon wrote:

Ah ok thank you. Sounds like the average MMO difficulty curve, basically rush through the game and go raiding if you want a challenge.
Tbh I never got why you introduce multiplayer aspects if most of the content doesn't require playing in multiplayer. But I guess I'm not a social gamer.

On September 30 2021 03:26 Yurie wrote:


I would guess that MMOs are so expensive to make that they try to rope in multiple demographics. The PvP players for hardcore solo/small party players. Raids and general PvE end game for hard core social people. Then decent things to do solo such as fishing or crafting (plus combat) for the people that enjoy the game but are not really into the grind, much of which can be done in small groups or solo.

Thus you cover as wide a demographic as you can for your money making methods. Some groups probably pay more but I assume all of them pay off since they make content for them.

To be honest, the solo players would probably enjoy single player games more but there are some decent MMOs to play solo while finding people to be social with in chat/guilds. SWTOR is kind of famous for being recommended to people that want to play solo in an MMO.

Hi everyone,

We have the final pieces of the server transfer system tested and ready to go, but we are making a difficult decision to hold it until next week. This was a balance call between honoring a date we told you to expect, versus the disruption of a deployment during a peak play period (the weekend).

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Mike Frazzini, a longtime Amazon.com Inc. employee who helped start Amazon Game Studios, is stepping down. The executive told staff Friday he was leaving to focus on his family, said Amazon spokesman Ryan Jones.

“Mike was there at the beginning of Amazon Games, and his leadership and perseverance helped build the games business from the ground up,” Jones said in a statement. “Our recent successes with New World and Lost Ark are the result of the long-term, customer-focused vision for games he helped establish. We are very grateful for all his contributions, and wish Mike the very best.”

Amazon Game Studios was an expensive endeavor for the e-commerce giant, costing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but for years failed to produce hit games. Frazzini, who previously worked in the books section of Amazon, was a relative game novice when he became head of the division. Some employees had criticized him for veering too far from game-making’s traditional playbook, Bloomberg reported last year.

After cancelling, and even once unreleasing, games at various stages of development, the company did have a breakout hit this fall with its release of online PC game New World. At a conference soon after the game’s launch, Amazon Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said that gaming could become the company’s largest entertainment category. Following New World’s warm reception, former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos tweeted: “After many failures and setbacks in gaming we have a success. … Don’t give up no matter how hard it gets.”

But even New World’s success faded after its initial release. The game had 913,000 concurrent players late September, and now has about 26,500, according to data from Steamcharts. One former Amazon Game Studios manager, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said that Frazzini’s leadership of the unit suffered because he had not had prior experience in gaming. Amazon is a company that often assumes that if you can succeed in one category, you can succeed in another, and staffers in the unit felt that he underestimated the complexities of the medium. Frazzini did not immediately respond to a request for comment.