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New World War PTR Test Abruptly Ends After Potential Dev Error, and Players Have Some Opinions | MMO

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited January 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageNew World War PTR Test Abruptly Ends After Potential Dev Error, and Players Have Some Opinions | MMORPG.com

A PTR War with the New World devs to test out Leaderboards abruptly ended after a potential dev error, and the community has some questions.

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  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,651
    Luckily Amazon employs Stacked Ranking evaluations so the team should improve going forward :)
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  • BrotherMaynardBrotherMaynard Member RarePosts: 647
    Typical game publisher these days...



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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    They asked everyone to come to the PTR and play in a war then they forgot to turn off the new maximum company members/mercenaries ratio requirements that are currently in the live servers.

    Totally self-inflicted...


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  • theGnadetheGnade Member UncommonPosts: 147
    And then you are surprised why New World sucks so hard
  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,675
    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-set-to-begin-new-round-of-layoffs-affecting-over-18000-people.html

    Maybe they should rethink the layoffs.....
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    edited January 2023
    It is a genuine mistake, but it does point to a lack of thoroughness on their part; however they did own it and not try to pretend it was something else. I think the game has bigger fish to fry than this really and they showed last year that they are on their way to doing so.
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  • Pr0tag0ni5tPr0tag0ni5t Member UncommonPosts: 263
    edited January 2023
    My favorite part was...."and players have some opinions". /gasp, no way, I am shocked!
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  • mercstermercster Member UncommonPosts: 71
    It's a PTR... why are people insisting on "answers." LOL. Entitled brats these days.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427

    Pr0tag0ni5t said:

    My favorite part was...."and players have some opinions". /gasp, no way, I am shocked!



    These days if people don't have "opinions" you should send them to a doctor to check for a pulse.
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  • ThomasO316ThomasO316 Newbie CommonPosts: 4

    mercster said:

    It's a PTR... why are people insisting on "answers." LOL. Entitled brats these days.



    Well after TWO failed attempts now, at some point you have to ask WTF is really going on here. I mean really how the f**k do you plan a WAR event and forget to turn off a limitation YOU put in place. The lead dev over the whole PVP mess should have known this, because he approved it and made it happen. They can't even remember what they are putting into and doing to their own dam game, so it's no wander there are dupes and hacks out the Wahoo for this game.
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    While not in game development I've witnessed similar situations which generally occur when development is silo'd into separate teams who rarely, if ever interact with each other.

    So they are all unaware of how features recently employed might impact their own upcoming development.

    Communication is always a big challenge in any larger organization which is a responsibility of the producers to review the overall big picture to identify gaps and conflicts.


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  • GatsuZerkGatsuZerk Member UncommonPosts: 137

    Scot said:

    It is a genuine mistake, but it does point to a lack of thoroughness on their part; however they did own it and not try to pretend it was something else. I think the game has bigger fish to fry than this really and they showed last year that they are on their way to doing so.



    I can understand trying to see the positives in things.

    But defending the dev teams incompetency at this point is something else entirely.
  • TokkenTokken Member EpicPosts: 3,649
    Trolliver said:

    theGnade said:

    And then you are surprised why Amazon sucks so hard



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  • TokkenTokken Member EpicPosts: 3,649
    ThomasO316 said:

    mercster said:

    It's a PTR... why are people insisting on "answers." LOL. Entitled brats these days.



    Well after TWO failed attempts now, at some point you have to ask WTF is really going on here. I mean really how the f**k do you plan a WAR event and forget to turn off a limitation YOU put in place. The lead dev over the whole PVP mess should have known this, because he approved it and made it happen. They can't even remember what they are putting into and doing to their own dam game, so it's no wander there are dupes and hacks out the Wahoo for this game.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    GatsuZerk said:

    Scot said:

    It is a genuine mistake, but it does point to a lack of thoroughness on their part; however they did own it and not try to pretend it was something else. I think the game has bigger fish to fry than this really and they showed last year that they are on their way to doing so.



    I can understand trying to see the positives in things.

    But defending the dev teams incompetency at this point is something else entirely.
    I am not, they have been incompetent, in fact I could go back to the launch and start mentioning mistakes from there onward. But the bigger picture for me is the work they did last year, if they can do that again I may well jump in at the end of the year.
  • Viper482Viper482 Member LegendaryPosts: 4,101
    edited January 2023

    Dattelis said:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-set-to-begin-new-round-of-layoffs-affecting-over-18000-people.html



    Maybe they should rethink the layoffs.....



    Pretty sure this has nothing to do with New World.... As for the screw-up, kind of like sending an email and forgetting the attachment I guess. Mistakes happen, just seem to be a lot of them with these devs.
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  • Jaguaratron1Jaguaratron1 Member UncommonPosts: 299
    In a real game it would have been resolved by changing a database value and then refreshing or at worst a fast server reboot.
  • CalavryCalavry Member UncommonPosts: 133
    Seems someone was in a rush. Guess the developers are all feeling/getting pressured a lot currently.
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