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New World Devs: 'We Were Wrong' Concerning Controversial Endgame Gear Changes | MMORPG.com
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New World Devs: 'We Were Wrong' Concerning Controversial Endgame Gear Changes | MMORPG.com
New World's had a rough go of it the last few months since launch, and while the game isn't dying like many would have you believe, it is going through some major growing pains. One major source of contention has been the endgame gear changes that Amaozn has implemented. Responding to feedback, the development team has detailed what they are doing to address the concerns, admitting that it's "clear" the team was wrong in how they approached them.
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Save your money, go back to WoW, SWTOR, GW2, ESO, FFXIV... who knows, just stay away from New World if you know what is good for you.
(I have 320+ hours into the game, I have done all possible endgame stuff so I promise I am not just talking out of my butt)
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This is as hilarious as it is sad now, they need to completely clear house of anyone who has an emotional investment in this dross and hire someone to turn it into an appealing game because as it stands it is -
- Pretty, as Anthem was.
- Garbage combat system, looks clearly designed for a console port.
- Inaccessible PvP as cliques control the wars and dont want randoms in it.
- Trash PvE.
- Awful, completely uninteresting and forgettable lore.
- A initially interesting crafting system which turns into just a grind to hide the rest of the game.
Also of note as of posting this New World is 94% down on its peak players and is sporting only half the players it had at this time last week.
Got your moneys worth then with that many hours and only paying 39.99 or 29.99 (was on sale)
it was probably worth it. I am about 233 hours in and i still have not got to max lvl yet. Im still having fun.
lets just hope that there is future content for the game.
with no monthly fee .... its a easy game to always come back to.
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They also said recently that they plan to do a trial server cluster merge, merging several into one, sometime next week.
Edit: the two server merge in the EU region will now happen on Thursday and they are doing two server cluster merges now on Friday, one in EU and the other in SA. If those go well I expect we'll see the merges happening everywhere in a week or 2.
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They are just the publisher of Lost Ark not the devs, they need to ask the rwal devs to make any changes as far as I am aware. Also Lost Ark is out already elsewhere and already has ton of content....just need localization.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
When they announced the first version of expertise, I was about to quit after playing the Winter Event, but they listened to feedback and the new version is totally acceptable, and even good for the future of the game when level/tier increases are implemented.
My biggest grief with the game is the inventory management between the cities. They should just unify the bank like they did for the auction houses and be done with it. I organized my stuff now, but still, it's a lot of micromanagement that can become annoying.
Otherwise, I love the wars, invasions (and we win some!), dungeons, and open world content.
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Vanguard took 2 years before it ran even remotely decent on any rig. ultima Online and Anarchy Online had disastrous launches that took more then 6 months to fix even slightly. Even the infamous lootbug in WoW took well over a year to fix. I am trying really hard to come up with launches of MMORPGs that did better but I keep failing, well except Rift which came out of the gates swinging and look how that was a good indication of its succes.....
Ten weeks. Its always easier to see the warts on somebody elses' face I guess.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
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'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
While the changes they have made to the tweaking may have been better this sort of wording troubles me. Now it may well be just PR speak and I should read no more into it than that, but you should not commit yourself to any developmental path of this nature. They do mention that they will reduce player power if they see imbalance but then did they not make these changes because they saw imbalance?
It is very hard at a distance to judge this, but it seems to me that gaming media and player demands are the priority, they need to be more sure of their vision. It is a tricky balance but so far I see it going one way, bowing to media and player demands. Hopefully this is wrong and they stay on track.
I suggest you read (or reread) what they initially intended and what they will do now.
As I said, the new system will be just fine for future content additions, but you don't nerf player gear into oblivion in the middle of one content phase.
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can I add to this?
When DAoC lauched there where dungeons that didnt even have mobs in them, then later only one of the realms(midgard) highest dungeon recieved loot drops, that was a game that relied on PvP for its endgame.
The highly touted SWG had nothing to do other then kill mobs or craft, a little PvP, thats it, no quests no anything, it was ghost town 6 months in, so many ppl claim on these boards it was the greatest MMo ever made yet you could run the entire world and not see another toon anywhere, thats why they made the changes that everyone said ruined the game, but if all these ppl who claimed they where playing actually where playing then there would have been no need for the change.
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I honestly don't understand why people hype lost ark so much... play the russian version it's easy to get into, there is nothing special about that game.
I guess you did not really play Lost Ark that much if you say it has nothing special. In fact, I believe it has one of the best combat ever made in mmorpgs. Very interesting, unique and fun classes. One of the best endgame PvE and very fun equalized PvP.
But if you dont enjoy it, no one is forcing you to, there are plenty of games.
On another note, I don't know that I've ever seen another MMO where people actively want it to fail, and go out of there way to discredit anyone who actually voices something positive about the game or says they enjoy it. It's almost comical at this point. I'll just keep on enjoying the game though.