Streamers do say there is no other PVP action game such as NW at the moment. I totally agree. And exactly as you said -- NW has a beautiful world in place, relatively unique action type. They need to focus on content. Both PVE and PVP (I am a hardcore PVPer since day 1 release). No major OPR change so far really bothers
As an Old player that came back to give it a second chance and quit again. My complaints are the absolutely insane amount raw mats to craft. The endless gathering simulator for simply daily income to cover the outrageous costs of needed items in the game. The endless dark matter farm. the game is just endless farming of one sort or another. There is a reason that it is estimated that 90% of players have bought gold. its dumb and deserves to die.
I think somewhere along the line the game took the stance that crafting = economy like it does in a sandbox game, not realising most people come to MMOs for the themepark side of things. Sadly I'm in the same boat in that decent gear is just too costly (time and gold) to craft.
Great Video! =D I feel the exact same. It is so sad to see that they moved in the wrong direction again. As you said we need more and better Content. After seeing the Roadmap till May I quit the game. I played 2K+ hours since release and the moral, or hope, is below 0 for me now. 8 Artifacts and Control Support till May? That is how you kill an MMO...
Exactly what I feel =) I love this game so much that it just hurts the more I see how it trips over small unnecessary things that could be fixed with the right strategy. It could be up there with the top MMORPGs and I still hope that comes true someday. Though this hope gets smaller and smaller with each day @@ItsGlaive
Thanks for voicing some positivity for New World! I think it’s a miracle that AGS stuck around fixing the game rather than abandoning it. Perhaps this combat recoding will be the final remedy for the rushed launch that will allow the devs to focus on creating future content. Fewer game breaking bugs would be nice tho yes
I think the combat recode is the first step - I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other things have been getting rewritten too! I've said before, I think 2024 will be a big year for client performance in NW! :)
theres a lot of urgency for new content but i think all the fixing would pay off in the long run. It is disappointing that half of the winter roadmap was removed and perhaps AGS could’ve communicated better on what exactly they’re spending their resources on. Copium or not i’m grateful for the game that New World is right now and i too am excited to see what will happen in the future!
100% agree with your first statement, and it's so nearly there, but news of content has to come for players to stick around. When key community members start wavering like they did last week then you know something is up and that window is closing. Fingers crossed for a strong 2024! :)
So I've played Horizon Dawn Zero last night. Being an active player NW, I'm "used" to the large amounts of basic bugs being present for years. It was amazing to play a game actually finished and fluid. There are no reasons for a game to be so broken at it's base after so many years and development.
I think there’s an accountability problem, it could stem from Mike frazzini stepping down when new world started or just new worlds management as a whole. Still hopeful for a promising roadmap, fingers are crossed.
I really want the roadmap, at least an early version of it, to be in today's video, but I don't think it's likely. Gotta say I'll be buzzing if it does make an appearance! 😁
One thing I think you're missing is that AGS set player expectations high for content in 2023. If you watch the roadmap videos from just before you joined (end of 2022, and start of 2023), Katy and Scot really made it sound like players would be blown away with just how much bigger the game world would be (and what you could do in it) by the end of 2023. In those vids, its clear that AGS believed their content goals were achievable, so something significant must have happened given how underwhelming the xpac turned out to be. I mean, they couldn't even finish the MSQ, which they've been working on for 2 years. The fact that they have gone back to rework the core combat system, to me suggests, they may have come up against some pretty deep and fundamental flaws in their core systems. One possibility is that AGS may put content on the back burner for NW, while they build capacity and fine tune their production processes for the LotR MM, as they realize they are still a year or more away from being able to develop content at scale quickly and efficiently.
That's a very good point, all signs point to Amazon Games not being properly resourced sadly, I've never stopped believing the NW team are busting their chops to make the game great and that they give it 110%, I just don't think they've been given the resources they need to get the job done yet.
Tbh I think some of the war logger community that gate keeps wars and make alts kinda ruin the player game and retention … think if Amazon nipped rmt in the but I do think this game could bounce back… no matter what ags does if they don’t fix the wars and war loggers people will continue to leave the game.. it’s not unspoken fact that some of the top company’s control the server on most servers and rmt the money.. it’s just time to get rid of territory control and just make wars for everyone..
The game has every chance of making a bounce back for sure, it's why I'm here lol, but the longer it takes, the smaller that window of opportunity gets.
the poor reception from launch really staunched NW growth. no matter how many improvements or updates the devs make, there will still be the haters gatekeeping new players from trying the game. I do think it still needs a good bit more development before its really top tier. I mostly play it for pvp aspect. but more pvp content and more end game/fun social content will turn this game from good to great.
We're definitely on the same page here I think mate, soooo much potential to be great but it needs that push, and that epic content drop to make positve waves in the gaming world and get it's positive reputation back.
Honestly that's not a bad thing for NW. For LOTR to be a success, AGS needs a good reputation for MMO management and fun games, it hasn't yet built that following launch. So if NW benefits from continued development and much more content to benefit LOTR then great, because it benefits us first :)
@@ItsGlaiveIt is a bad thing for players that are still playing NW since they are being used instead of giving them a good experience. I will probably move on too because of this lack of concerns for actual players. I have no will to wait another year and there are so many great games that will soon launch that will be a direct competition to NW. I don't know if this game will last that long again... even if i'd wish for it. Let's hope for a miracle.
I am really really hoping for sure! Yes they'll get something from using us as guinnea pigs, but it'll keep the game actively being developed, we'll be directly benefitting from it too - kind of a symbiosis.
Season 4 was a disappointment. Not only a lot of new bugs and crashes, but again, they introduced new artifacts and things that bring back the ghost of the past. OPR and Arenas are full of boltcaster players and rangers in light armor. In the last two days, I played arenas where I think the only melee was me. The other team was composed of boltcaster in light armor, kiting and doing more damage than melee players very easy. I think pvp players are desperately yelling to AGS that we don't want to play a counter strike mmo!!! We are done with the ranger meta and the light armor flee unpunished actions!!! Sadly, somehow AGS boosted this kind of meta again at levels of the past.
Speaking as a bow main I've gotta say I play it because I enjoy it (bow and daggers is my main in most MMOs) but I can understand the frustration. Up till yesterday I think I was the only bow main rocking a medium build, finally I've switched that out for light and oh my god the mobilty!
it's due to them not hjaving access to the major code seeing how they fired two sets of dev teams before launch, everything is just pieced together through backends hoping that it works and it causes bugs that takes forever to fix. QA is non existent because they dont have backend access to their own game
I'd imagine that any code written at that time remains the property of AGS but whether or not anyone is still there who knows the code is another thing. Rewriting key aspects of the game engine is a pretty good sign to me, but it's also a big chunk of work, which I guess might be why content hasn't been as plentiful as we'd like?
Yeah should still be intellectual property but rewritting it just kinda proves that they most likely dont have access to the base original code. Hopefully this is the first step in the right direction to remove these combat issues/bugs and hopefully they can start to apply it in other aspects of the game to give usd some actual content longer than two months @@ItsGlaive
Ok the NW bashing has gone on since launch and the ones who do the bashing never offer a solution, but they continue to play the game when new content drops. I think the solution is for AGS to double down on the content that people play consistently which is PvP. NW’s PvP community are the real player base.
Content is 100% the answer! I've talked about that a lot in this video lol. The game needs much more PVP content for the PVP community but it also needs a LOT of PVE content adding, the reason numbers are so low is this lack of PVE content.
@@ItsGlaive The issue with PvE content is that they been producing it but as soon as it dry’s up the PvE player base moves on to the next game complaining that it wasn’t enough. A more precise solution is difficult PvE content that becomes a different experience every single time with a leader bored. If the content is too easy or just basic then it will be consumed then discarded. The biggest problem is the trinity system. The potency of sacred ground trivialized most if not all of the content. Second issue is the theory that a dungeons difficulty is gauged by enemy hit points and damage output. Mutators are cool but is just changes those aspects rather than creating anything really interesting. Difficulty should be gauged by mob density, elite types, and the need to prioritize specific targets during engagements. Whoever is the dungeon and quest designer in NW has got to be simple minded. I am a PvP player who also plays PvE. But the PvE content in this game is a snoozefest as well as just content that is gate kept by the need of a group with the trinity system. In order to get better more engaging PvE content isn’t to do more of the same but a change in fundamental philosophy about the design of the content. I’m not holding my breath nor have I been. Despite that the players I’ve seen stick around despite player number is the PvP player because PvP content generate its own unique experience through player drama. I hope everyone gets what they want in the end and I do want more but better engagement in PvE content not just another expedition that is a skin over.
@@OlyPhoenix86your same thing goes towards osrs, but osrs pve content stays fresh while the pvp is dead. Pve brings in the players and pvp keeps the hardcore players. There needs to be more rewards for pve. Coming back there isn’t anything special with pve. Yay I get a random title for my character. No real accomplishment
Yes it fundamentally needs more systems and modes than just expeditions. You're right that PVE content only lasts so long, but PVP audiences are finite as you can see from current player numbers. More PVP content and more replayable PVE content is needed to keep feeding the beast :) Really well thought out comment by the way, huge respect for your response!
I wonder if life skilling in the way BDO or Archage do it would work - some sandbox type content that loops over and over? Along with other PVE activities in the world and the continued expedition additions for a start?
The thing thats is nothing to do in this game. U got pvp arenas and opr and that all interesting, nothing to grind, nothing to farm, nothing to explore and etc. In egzample after expansion we was 14 friend playing daily after like 3weeks all 14 in wow now.
I definitely understand why content has been a slow trickle for two years, there's been a lot of under the hood work to improve the game performance but you're absolutely right. The game now desperately needs a lot more content, seasons need to be bigger in terms of new evergreen content they contain, and it needs a full sized expansion in 2024 to keep people around longer term.
@@ItsGlaive i dont undesrtand why they just copy things that works for decade in ither mmo and just made in nw way. Nw have totaly the best combat system i like it so much. If they have rich lore even close like wow clasic it will be tooooop mmo. But if they move so slow when they archieve it? We will be granfathers at this time. 😁
I think they struggle a lot with resources. Was thinking about this the other day - originally it was going to be a PVP survival MMO, no PVE. That needs much fewer devs, much smaller staff, which equals a smaller budget. I'm wondering if they've struggled to upscale from that to the kind of staffing and funding needed for a full featured MMO?
It's not really much of surprise that NW can't keep people around. If you think about it the game is just a gear grind without purpose. There's nothing to do AFTER you get your BiS gear. OPR is terrible pretty much all the time. 9/10 matches are stomps and horribly unbalanced team-comp wise. Wars (the actual END game of New World) are basically exclusive for an extremely small sub-set of the population. Areans are fine, but aren't anything special and that's pretty much it. The premiere endgame for New World (war) needs to be more accessible to the vast majority. Need more ways to declare war and get to experience the content without getting farmed over and over by alt characters / companies. Remember when they did Fresh and every server had dozens of companies all interested in war. How many are still around? Next to none because the current war systems in place are awful at retaining players. Nobody wants to grind gear just get farmed over and over by the same players on every server. This game needs cross-server company vs company wars without territory being a factor.
100% agree wars should be open to all, having them so closely tied to company profits forces companies to close them out to anyone other than the super skilled. I know many people, myself included, who've yet to even experience wars.
@@ItsGlaive Yup. I've gone through so many guilds with everyone quitting by the end because war content is so difficult to get regularly unless you want to get farmed over and over, but that'll just end up disbanding the company and people quitting anyways. Can only run so many dungeons after you get geared before it gets stale. Especially since most dungeons in this game are formulaic in design. PvP is what keeps people around long-term and it sucks AGS do nothing for it.
I couldn't agree with you more. Came back for xpac, still hanging around but the amount of bugs still present in a 2-3 year old game, is nuts. Something as simple as the weight in your storage sheds not showing up every so often (more often than not), or the "capture the control point" screen bug... I could go on, Blizzard entertainment would have that corrected in a hotfix or at minimum server maintenance in a week.
Glad you enjoyed the vid! Hope people don't take it as a bashing vid, it's not meant that way. I know the devs bust their chops on New World I just don't think the parent company gives AGS the resources they need and a lot of these issues stem from that.
To be fair mate ive played this since day 1 release, it is way better than what it was unfortunately the time gating rng drops and perk distribution was super aggressive compaired to now. sadly the timegating is still a thing but the profession tree is a major issue. its flat thers no choices no variation and no skill tree to invest in is just bland grinding. the other issue is the gear its so normalised i can enter opr with green gear and fight someone with gold and artifacts and kill them that should never happen , the game is too skill reliant there should be a way larger gap in gear based on quality not just GS,and skill. my next issue is overland content its almost the same size it was 2 years ago, exploration is super basic and 100% map completion is a few days at most it should easily be at least 1/3rd larger by now sadly its only 1/10th due to brimstone . Eso drops a few new areas and a new class, 3 new sets 2 dlcs per year and a few new dungeons every year. and its still considered a mismanaged game but due to the regular content drops its played . It just seems like there is really not much happening in NW and for a max GS player no real reason to continue for more than a few days every season .
Way better than at launch for sure. I was so bored leveling then I stopped around early 50's just due to lack of interest. I truly feel like crafting is one of the best things about this game but that can only go so far. I'd like to see more open world content/raid boss' like in guild wars, where you don't even have to be grouped to contribute. And def more map packs for OPR/arenas.
Oh trust me I know it's improved a lot, I talk about parity and there's a list further in the vid of some of the great QOL updates we've seen this year :D
ESO is not a game to base good off of. They’ve ruined that game. Performance is awful, PvP was abandoned years ago, balance is stupidly bad and they removed all combat skill from the game. All they do is pump out new zones
@@jlaw1901 This is true as I said its mismanaged and has been since the one tamriel update but it has so much content. I play bdo mainly now due to how free to play its become . its a slow game but if I want to pk although I'll get hunted I can flag anyone up pretty much ( also people who lifeskill in the middle of a war zone are asking to get 1 tapped the Aoe on Awakened ninja I just can't control the 100 apm rotation fighting 4v1 although even in tet manos i feel an auto would probly kill, so sorry if anyone was that person ) In short NW need new actual content or im afraid even as a beta player I have to proclaim the death spiral.
New world, comparatively, is a good game. I put 1000hrs in and it was ass quite fun. I've personally have not noticed any bugs. For me the game was fixed with Brimstone. Saying all that the game does needs something; I've not played for the last month.
C minus devs = C minus content. I've said it from the beginning the SR leadership like scott lane and Dave need to be fired and someone else take direction. This is not a PVE game it never was. This is a PVP game with 2 modes for end game. OPR is so broken and unbalanced its not even worth playing these days.
There in lies the issue though, it was originally going to be a PVP game, then they pivoted to PVE. I enjoy both (mainly PVE) but rather than do one or even both well, both just seem to get lip-service at the moment.
Oh yeah there's a very dedicated playerbase, and say what you want about the launch and the issues, fundamentally the game is gorgeous, combat is fantastic and it's got potential - it's just got to start delivering the goods :)
You have alot of content byt what ive notice is alot of whining about everything because it doesn’t fit their instant need, and we got a lot of other game releases now and people just love to buy 3 new games every month for that weekly dopamine hit
I'm sorry you feel like it's whining to point out flaws or suggest improvements - this video covers the good and the bad so I do hope you got far enough into it to actually see that. However I want this game to grow and so I'm going to keep suggesting where things could be better so that the numbers go up and stay up :)
Streamers do say there is no other PVP action game such as NW at the moment. I totally agree. And exactly as you said -- NW has a beautiful world in place, relatively unique action type. They need to focus on content. Both PVE and PVP (I am a hardcore PVPer since day 1 release). No major OPR change so far really bothers
How there aren't already several OPR maps to rotate between I don't know, it seems like such an easy win to me.
As an Old player that came back to give it a second chance and quit again. My complaints are the absolutely insane amount raw mats to craft. The endless gathering simulator for simply daily income to cover the outrageous costs of needed items in the game. The endless dark matter farm. the game is just endless farming of one sort or another. There is a reason that it is estimated that 90% of players have bought gold. its dumb and deserves to die.
I think somewhere along the line the game took the stance that crafting = economy like it does in a sandbox game, not realising most people come to MMOs for the themepark side of things. Sadly I'm in the same boat in that decent gear is just too costly (time and gold) to craft.
Great Video! =D I feel the exact same. It is so sad to see that they moved in the wrong direction again. As you said we need more and better Content. After seeing the Roadmap till May I quit the game. I played 2K+ hours since release and the moral, or hope, is below 0 for me now. 8 Artifacts and Control Support till May? That is how you kill an MMO...
It's so sad, I enjoy this game so much but sometimes it feels like it just battles against itself.
Exactly what I feel =) I love this game so much that it just hurts the more I see how it trips over small unnecessary things that could be fixed with the right strategy. It could be up there with the top MMORPGs and I still hope that comes true someday. Though this hope gets smaller and smaller with each day @@ItsGlaive
Thanks for voicing some positivity for New World!
I think it’s a miracle that AGS stuck around fixing the game rather than abandoning it. Perhaps this combat recoding will be the final remedy for the rushed launch that will allow the devs to focus on creating future content.
Fewer game breaking bugs would be nice tho yes
I think the combat recode is the first step - I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other things have been getting rewritten too! I've said before, I think 2024 will be a big year for client performance in NW! :)
theres a lot of urgency for new content but i think all the fixing would pay off in the long run.
It is disappointing that half of the winter roadmap was removed and perhaps AGS could’ve communicated better on what exactly they’re spending their resources on.
Copium or not i’m grateful for the game that New World is right now and i too am excited to see what will happen in the future!
100% agree with your first statement, and it's so nearly there, but news of content has to come for players to stick around. When key community members start wavering like they did last week then you know something is up and that window is closing. Fingers crossed for a strong 2024! :)
Been enjoying new world
Good I'm glad :)
Well said and I hope next year AGS makes some moves to spice things up a bit 👍🙏
I really really really hope so, there is sooooo much potential here for a top tier success! :)
So I've played Horizon Dawn Zero last night. Being an active player NW, I'm "used" to the large amounts of basic bugs being present for years. It was amazing to play a game actually finished and fluid. There are no reasons for a game to be so broken at it's base after so many years and development.
I really do hope this improves with the engine improvements.
I think there’s an accountability problem, it could stem from Mike frazzini stepping down when new world started or just new worlds management as a whole. Still hopeful for a promising roadmap, fingers are crossed.
I really want the roadmap, at least an early version of it, to be in today's video, but I don't think it's likely. Gotta say I'll be buzzing if it does make an appearance! 😁
@@ItsGlaiveYa judging by their history they usually don’t create hype for the future right before a new season but my god give us something already.
One thing I think you're missing is that AGS set player expectations high for content in 2023. If you watch the roadmap videos from just before you joined (end of 2022, and start of 2023), Katy and Scot really made it sound like players would be blown away with just how much bigger the game world would be (and what you could do in it) by the end of 2023. In those vids, its clear that AGS believed their content goals were achievable, so something significant must have happened given how underwhelming the xpac turned out to be. I mean, they couldn't even finish the MSQ, which they've been working on for 2 years. The fact that they have gone back to rework the core combat system, to me suggests, they may have come up against some pretty deep and fundamental flaws in their core systems. One possibility is that AGS may put content on the back burner for NW, while they build capacity and fine tune their production processes for the LotR MM, as they realize they are still a year or more away from being able to develop content at scale quickly and efficiently.
That's a very good point, all signs point to Amazon Games not being properly resourced sadly, I've never stopped believing the NW team are busting their chops to make the game great and that they give it 110%, I just don't think they've been given the resources they need to get the job done yet.
Tbh I think some of the war logger community that gate keeps wars and make alts kinda ruin the player game and retention … think if Amazon nipped rmt in the but I do think this game could bounce back… no matter what ags does if they don’t fix the wars and war loggers people will continue to leave the game.. it’s not unspoken fact that some of the top company’s control the server on most servers and rmt the money.. it’s just time to get rid of territory control and just make wars for everyone..
The game has every chance of making a bounce back for sure, it's why I'm here lol, but the longer it takes, the smaller that window of opportunity gets.
the poor reception from launch really staunched NW growth. no matter how many improvements or updates the devs make, there will still be the haters gatekeeping new players from trying the game.
I do think it still needs a good bit more development before its really top tier. I mostly play it for pvp aspect. but more pvp content and more end game/fun social content will turn this game from good to great.
We're definitely on the same page here I think mate, soooo much potential to be great but it needs that push, and that epic content drop to make positve waves in the gaming world and get it's positive reputation back.
I play since beta....you got it! Its sad....pvp system sucks war system sucks. In DEVALOKA server selling gold is killing pvp
I do really love the OPR game mode, but please AGS PVP needs some love - lots of maps please!
@@ItsGlaive yeah OPR its ok...despite its the same map since launch. But wars are broken...the hole system is broke
I'm really wondering if they're just using NW to beta test their next LOTR with the fewer efforts possible.
Honestly that's not a bad thing for NW. For LOTR to be a success, AGS needs a good reputation for MMO management and fun games, it hasn't yet built that following launch. So if NW benefits from continued development and much more content to benefit LOTR then great, because it benefits us first :)
@@ItsGlaiveIt is a bad thing for players that are still playing NW since they are being used instead of giving them a good experience. I will probably move on too because of this lack of concerns for actual players. I have no will to wait another year and there are so many great games that will soon launch that will be a direct competition to NW. I don't know if this game will last that long again... even if i'd wish for it. Let's hope for a miracle.
I am really really hoping for sure! Yes they'll get something from using us as guinnea pigs, but it'll keep the game actively being developed, we'll be directly benefitting from it too - kind of a symbiosis.
@@ItsGlaive You have more copium thatn I. But i hope too.
Season 4 was a disappointment. Not only a lot of new bugs and crashes, but again, they introduced new artifacts and things that bring back the ghost of the past. OPR and Arenas are full of boltcaster players and rangers in light armor. In the last two days, I played arenas where I think the only melee was me. The other team was composed of boltcaster in light armor, kiting and doing more damage than melee players very easy. I think pvp players are desperately yelling to AGS that we don't want to play a counter strike mmo!!! We are done with the ranger meta and the light armor flee unpunished actions!!! Sadly, somehow AGS boosted this kind of meta again at levels of the past.
Speaking as a bow main I've gotta say I play it because I enjoy it (bow and daggers is my main in most MMOs) but I can understand the frustration. Up till yesterday I think I was the only bow main rocking a medium build, finally I've switched that out for light and oh my god the mobilty!
it's due to them not hjaving access to the major code seeing how they fired two sets of dev teams before launch, everything is just pieced together through backends hoping that it works and it causes bugs that takes forever to fix. QA is non existent because they dont have backend access to their own game
I'd imagine that any code written at that time remains the property of AGS but whether or not anyone is still there who knows the code is another thing. Rewriting key aspects of the game engine is a pretty good sign to me, but it's also a big chunk of work, which I guess might be why content hasn't been as plentiful as we'd like?
Yeah should still be intellectual property but rewritting it just kinda proves that they most likely dont have access to the base original code. Hopefully this is the first step in the right direction to remove these combat issues/bugs and hopefully they can start to apply it in other aspects of the game to give usd some actual content longer than two months @@ItsGlaive
Ok the NW bashing has gone on since launch and the ones who do the bashing never offer a solution, but they continue to play the game when new content drops. I think the solution is for AGS to double down on the content that people play consistently which is PvP. NW’s PvP community are the real player base.
Content is 100% the answer! I've talked about that a lot in this video lol. The game needs much more PVP content for the PVP community but it also needs a LOT of PVE content adding, the reason numbers are so low is this lack of PVE content.
@@ItsGlaive The issue with PvE content is that they been producing it but as soon as it dry’s up the PvE player base moves on to the next game complaining that it wasn’t enough. A more precise solution is difficult PvE content that becomes a different experience every single time with a leader bored. If the content is too easy or just basic then it will be consumed then discarded. The biggest problem is the trinity system. The potency of sacred ground trivialized most if not all of the content. Second issue is the theory that a dungeons difficulty is gauged by enemy hit points and damage output. Mutators are cool but is just changes those aspects rather than creating anything really interesting. Difficulty should be gauged by mob density, elite types, and the need to prioritize specific targets during engagements. Whoever is the dungeon and quest designer in NW has got to be simple minded. I am a PvP player who also plays PvE. But the PvE content in this game is a snoozefest as well as just content that is gate kept by the need of a group with the trinity system. In order to get better more engaging PvE content isn’t to do more of the same but a change in fundamental philosophy about the design of the content. I’m not holding my breath nor have I been. Despite that the players I’ve seen stick around despite player number is the PvP player because PvP content generate its own unique experience through player drama. I hope everyone gets what they want in the end and I do want more but better engagement in PvE content not just another expedition that is a skin over.
@@OlyPhoenix86your same thing goes towards osrs, but osrs pve content stays fresh while the pvp is dead. Pve brings in the players and pvp keeps the hardcore players. There needs to be more rewards for pve. Coming back there isn’t anything special with pve. Yay I get a random title for my character. No real accomplishment
Yes it fundamentally needs more systems and modes than just expeditions. You're right that PVE content only lasts so long, but PVP audiences are finite as you can see from current player numbers. More PVP content and more replayable PVE content is needed to keep feeding the beast :)
Really well thought out comment by the way, huge respect for your response!
I wonder if life skilling in the way BDO or Archage do it would work - some sandbox type content that loops over and over? Along with other PVE activities in the world and the continued expedition additions for a start?
The thing thats is nothing to do in this game. U got pvp arenas and opr and that all interesting, nothing to grind, nothing to farm, nothing to explore and etc. In egzample after expansion we was 14 friend playing daily after like 3weeks all 14 in wow now.
I definitely understand why content has been a slow trickle for two years, there's been a lot of under the hood work to improve the game performance but you're absolutely right. The game now desperately needs a lot more content, seasons need to be bigger in terms of new evergreen content they contain, and it needs a full sized expansion in 2024 to keep people around longer term.
@@ItsGlaive i dont undesrtand why they just copy things that works for decade in ither mmo and just made in nw way. Nw have totaly the best combat system i like it so much. If they have rich lore even close like wow clasic it will be tooooop mmo. But if they move so slow when they archieve it? We will be granfathers at this time. 😁
I think they struggle a lot with resources. Was thinking about this the other day - originally it was going to be a PVP survival MMO, no PVE. That needs much fewer devs, much smaller staff, which equals a smaller budget. I'm wondering if they've struggled to upscale from that to the kind of staffing and funding needed for a full featured MMO?
It's not really much of surprise that NW can't keep people around. If you think about it the game is just a gear grind without purpose. There's nothing to do AFTER you get your BiS gear. OPR is terrible pretty much all the time. 9/10 matches are stomps and horribly unbalanced team-comp wise. Wars (the actual END game of New World) are basically exclusive for an extremely small sub-set of the population. Areans are fine, but aren't anything special and that's pretty much it.
The premiere endgame for New World (war) needs to be more accessible to the vast majority. Need more ways to declare war and get to experience the content without getting farmed over and over by alt characters / companies. Remember when they did Fresh and every server had dozens of companies all interested in war. How many are still around? Next to none because the current war systems in place are awful at retaining players. Nobody wants to grind gear just get farmed over and over by the same players on every server. This game needs cross-server company vs company wars without territory being a factor.
100% agree wars should be open to all, having them so closely tied to company profits forces companies to close them out to anyone other than the super skilled. I know many people, myself included, who've yet to even experience wars.
@@ItsGlaive Yup. I've gone through so many guilds with everyone quitting by the end because war content is so difficult to get regularly unless you want to get farmed over and over, but that'll just end up disbanding the company and people quitting anyways. Can only run so many dungeons after you get geared before it gets stale. Especially since most dungeons in this game are formulaic in design. PvP is what keeps people around long-term and it sucks AGS do nothing for it.
Just make a new OPR map. Plenty of excitement.
Honestly I think one isn't enough, we need a map pack of four or five on a random playlist :P
I couldn't agree with you more. Came back for xpac, still hanging around but the amount of bugs still present in a 2-3 year old game, is nuts. Something as simple as the weight in your storage sheds not showing up every so often (more often than not), or the "capture the control point" screen bug... I could go on, Blizzard entertainment would have that corrected in a hotfix or at minimum server maintenance in a week.
Glad you enjoyed the vid! Hope people don't take it as a bashing vid, it's not meant that way. I know the devs bust their chops on New World I just don't think the parent company gives AGS the resources they need and a lot of these issues stem from that.
To be fair mate ive played this since day 1 release, it is way better than what it was unfortunately the time gating rng drops and perk distribution was super aggressive compaired to now. sadly the timegating is still a thing but the profession tree is a major issue. its flat thers no choices no variation and no skill tree to invest in is just bland grinding. the other issue is the gear its so normalised i can enter opr with green gear and fight someone with gold and artifacts and kill them that should never happen , the game is too skill reliant there should be a way larger gap in gear based on quality not just GS,and skill.
my next issue is overland content its almost the same size it was 2 years ago, exploration is super basic and 100% map completion is a few days at most it should easily be at least 1/3rd larger by now sadly its only 1/10th due to brimstone . Eso drops a few new areas and a new class, 3 new sets 2 dlcs per year and a few new dungeons every year. and its still considered a mismanaged game but due to the regular content drops its played .
It just seems like there is really not much happening in NW and for a max GS player no real reason to continue for more than a few days every season .
Way better than at launch for sure. I was so bored leveling then I stopped around early 50's just due to lack of interest. I truly feel like crafting is one of the best things about this game but that can only go so far. I'd like to see more open world content/raid boss' like in guild wars, where you don't even have to be grouped to contribute. And def more map packs for OPR/arenas.
Oh trust me I know it's improved a lot, I talk about parity and there's a list further in the vid of some of the great QOL updates we've seen this year :D
ESO is not a game to base good off of. They’ve ruined that game. Performance is awful, PvP was abandoned years ago, balance is stupidly bad and they removed all combat skill from the game. All they do is pump out new zones
Yep it's better to have a broader view of MMORPGs. LOTRO, GW2, SWTOR, FFXIV, ESO, Tera, Archeage, BDO, Champions Online, STO to name a few :)
@@jlaw1901 This is true as I said its mismanaged and has been since the one tamriel update but it has so much content. I play bdo mainly now due to how free to play its become . its a slow game but if I want to pk although I'll get hunted I can flag anyone up pretty much ( also people who lifeskill in the middle of a war zone are asking to get 1 tapped the Aoe on Awakened ninja I just can't control the 100 apm rotation fighting 4v1 although even in tet manos i feel an auto would probly kill, so sorry if anyone was that person ) In short NW need new actual content or im afraid even as a beta player I have to proclaim the death spiral.
New world, comparatively, is a good game. I put 1000hrs in and it was ass quite fun. I've personally have not noticed any bugs. For me the game was fixed with Brimstone. Saying all that the game does needs something; I've not played for the last month.
More content? :)
@ItsGlaive I agree but it needs to be specific type of content. Angry earth was new content and we ate through that in a week or two.
xmas miracle delayed >.< other than that i strongly agree
Got a tweet earlier to confirm it's not the last video of the year, so maaaaaaaybe a lil something something to come still?
The small expansion killed it for me, 1 new expedition and artefacts are mostly trash and unusable. Its a shame.
It's a fun expansion, but it's definitely a mini expansion. As I said, the entree was lovely, can we have the main course now please? :)
I ve quit after they announced a small expansion for that much money id rather buy games with more content than this.....
To be fair to them it's a beautifully done expansion, and the zone is outstanding, but yeah it's definitely on the smaller side of things.
C minus devs = C minus content. I've said it from the beginning the SR leadership like scott lane and Dave need to be fired and someone else take direction. This is not a PVE game it never was. This is a PVP game with 2 modes for end game. OPR is so broken and unbalanced its not even worth playing these days.
There in lies the issue though, it was originally going to be a PVP game, then they pivoted to PVE. I enjoy both (mainly PVE) but rather than do one or even both well, both just seem to get lip-service at the moment.
Do people still play NW?
Oh yeah there's a very dedicated playerbase, and say what you want about the launch and the issues, fundamentally the game is gorgeous, combat is fantastic and it's got potential - it's just got to start delivering the goods :)
@@ItsGlaive they did too little too late for me.
Yeah sadly you're not the only one, appreciate the comments thank you for that :)
Game is dead…so much potential. RIP
I'm still confident it'll reach that potential in 2024, I just hope it's not too late for a proper redemption with the playerbase
You have alot of content byt what ive notice is alot of whining about everything because it doesn’t fit their instant need, and we got a lot of other game releases now and people just love to buy 3 new games every month for that weekly dopamine hit
I'm sorry you feel like it's whining to point out flaws or suggest improvements - this video covers the good and the bad so I do hope you got far enough into it to actually see that. However I want this game to grow and so I'm going to keep suggesting where things could be better so that the numbers go up and stay up :)