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New World Dev Diary Explores Mysteries of Aeternum - MMORPG.com
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New World Dev Diary Explores Mysteries of Aeternum - MMORPG.com
A new New World developer diary has just released from Amazon Game Studios.
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New World is good for babies
Chapter 1.
My crystal ball sees many chapters in our futures between now and the (planned) launch in May.
And the video was also well produced - not just a put the camera in front of this weeks chosen sacrifice. Nine different people covering different aspects as well. A whistle stop - but informative - tour.
Money only goes so far. It's direction and talent that'll dictate how well this game does. They can throw all the money in the world at this game and it could still not do well or play well. It could be a bloody buggy, incomplete mess. Having been apart of the Alpha, I can honestly say I am a bit surprised they just straight announced a launch date and it being in the near future. Having going from Alpha to straight release, Im a bit skeptical...but willing to give it a try.
There will be a beta before release in May
I'm sure we'll see that fleshed out in a dev diary, but from my discussion with him it sounds like the skill paths we see with the Warrior will also be similar with magic users.
And there is no comparison with start ups like SC.
New World: we will need a staff of 30 artists, 50 coders etc etc. Somebody from HR sorts out the job descriptions, the advertising, arranges the interview slots and so forth. The staff arrive.
SC: we will need a staff of 30 artists, etc. 3 years later. We can now afford to increase from 20 to 30, if only we had some HR staff to arrange the interviews and do so much publicity stuff to keep the money coming in so we don't have to let everyone go we could spend more time on the game.
MJ talked several months ago about the effort needed to get the "right" staff and it was clear that it wasn't "easy".
Amazon is in a different league - even from the likes of EA, Ubisoft etc. let alone start-ups. And they are not simply creating New Worlds but "Amazon Games" the budget for which has clearly been massive e.g. $60-$80M for CryEngine (4.2?); a huge team to resolve years of bugs, other engines (!) acquired via purchases that are also incorporated into Lumberyard along with a raft of additional features. On "day 1". (i.e. the stuff they funded on day 1 that probably took a few months to implement - planned hires made, game engines bought etc.)
So I agree that money doesn't guarantee great things but don't discount it. And certainly don't compare it to any start up - even SC that has managed to raise over 8 years what Amazon Games may have spent on "day 1".
Do you believe that NW will launch btw - or are you sceptical? Haven't really seen anything after all so maybe its a scam!
(To be clear I have no doubts that "something" will launch.)
Actually no, if you look carefully at :24 seconds in, you can see a magic user wielding the new Staff weapon.