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As New World Looms, Is There Enough Time To Iron Out The Bugs?
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As New World Looms, Is There Enough Time To Iron Out The Bugs?
Brian a while back had a chance to check out Amazon's New World, and while he came away impressed, he still has questions. Namely - will some of the major bugs he noticed during the Alpha be ironed out before Amazon's launch?
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Didnt Wildstar try this 50v50 guild pvp shit?
Is that really the reason Wildstar had issues? I tend to doubt it.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
I see a lot of the original Rift's dynamic activities in the way Amazon presents this game. Even though there don't seem to be many quests, NPCs and all that usual stuff in NW, if they implement the dynamic systems well and manage to connect them to each other and to the players' professions, it could turn out to be an amazing game. Personally, my best MMO time was in the first days of Rift (pre-nerf), where I was only doing dynamic events. So I do have some cautiously good feeling about a lot that NW claims to deliver, because it reminds me precisely of that all the potential behind the early Rift.
A lot depends on whether the sneak peaks, teasers, etc. are just hype without any substance behind it or whether there is something solid there.
And one final remark re: Amazon. Many people seem to think that Amazon = big money for the game = they'll pump cash in until NW succeeds.
I'd say that is very far from reality. Amazon did not get to where it is by supporting failures or by being wasteful. The game will get its chance, sure - but Amazon will not hesitate to kill it (and start something different) the moment the game stops showing promise or if it takes too long to do that.
Just a case in point,when Blizzard started having the fallout,people leaving,bonuses taken away,just an overall change in how things are done they actually tried and asked if players really cared about the Esport side of the game.
Rather than some examples i know of including streamers ,i should cut straight to the chase.
These giants have a lot of overhead,they have a lot of people that want to make a lot of money.These giants try their best to cut costs which using the example Blizzard has been doing.
The assumption of this article is that Amazon wants to spend lots of time and money to get this right,i doubt this by 100% NO,this is not how they do business.
If you are still blind to the opinion then look at the simple fact>>a mostly definitive release time line.They are even already selling pre orders ona game not even known to be ready.How can a SERIOUS developer have ANY kind of release date without first saying....ok here is our Beta to see if it is ready to launch".
This is a non professional way to do this,make sure it is ready then announce the release date.So what this tells me is,Amazon like all the rest,DOES NOT care,whatever problems are around at the time and on release day,they will simple "get around to fixing the issues".Every single day this game is not making money,the team,the board,the CEO,the investors are not making money,this will be guaranteed to be a RUSH job.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
The famous psychologist, Timothy Leary, once called television the "plug in drug" because of its addictive properties...video games are a hundred times more powerful that TV, in terms of their addictive qualities. Video game publishers, and their bankster financiers, know this and they use it to their benefit.
Iron out the bugs...sheesh!
Why would they give you a subpar build of the game to play. Its not like this was a last min thing planned by them. If anything the build you where playing should have been more stable then what is currently in head.
It is this whole well the release will be better attitude that has gotten us into the release the game as alpha and patch it up as we go or until people stop buying then we just move on to the next game.
Have we as gamers really stooped to such a low that we will accept garbage and be hope that it will just get better. I mean has Anthem and all the many many games over the past 15 years not showed us anything.
Now that is not to say New World is going to be a bad game. It is still to early to say but it sure does not bode well when there is only a few months left and the game has majorly changed from what it was original developed and advertised as. And to just be a few months out and parts of the game world not loading and such does not give much faith. At this stage it should be all about polishing the game and fixing minor bugs. Not changing major system and still trying to get the game to work.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Shame on you Amazon. Know your history.
It would not surprise me one bit if they did sell a million copies of their game...the "public" is hungry for entertainment, and it's hard to keep them fed.
This "just good enough" mentality is now SOP in the world economy. I read an article some years ago about how corporations hire psychologists to advise them about what the typical person will accept in terms of quality in the products that they buy...they then cut the quality to meet those levels of expectation. Then there's the fact that corporations actively use psychological warfare techniques to mold public opinion in order to maximize their profits. There's a whole science behind this - it's called "perception management".
So you never had fun in a game even if it had bugs?
I dont think any game release ever has been bug free.
Just depends on the bugs...Fallout 4, for example, had numerous game-breaking bugs that forced me to quit playing about mid-way through the main quest. So, it doesn't matter if I enjoyed parts of the game because, ultimately, the game was ruined by lazy/incompetent design.
I've never had a problem with bugs in Guild Wars 2...there have been some issues, but they are very infrequent and have never affected my game in any appreciable way.
Remember Vanguard and the bare bones H1Z1?
SE Marvel Avengers pushed their May release date to September. Is there anything preventing New World from doing the same? Especially now with this outbreak they kinda have an excuse right?