Geostationary Orbiting ObserverAmazon Games confirms MMO New World has a year left before it goes offline permanently
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I’m not surprised. I tried it out around the time it first came out, and it was awful. Everything about it felt very corporate, like what a suit would expect an MMO would be. The game was well built and the graphics were nice; but the story was so bland - “Go fight this bad guy because they’re bad”.
It seems the further we go, the more we have to realize that “design by committee” has nothing to do with public owned vs private owned, but with becoming too big too care.
It wasn’t even supposed to have a story. Originally it was going to be entirely PvP focused, but all the alpha testers hated it so they shoved all the PvE in last minute.
Seriously - I never understood why it got so popular, especially considering performance and hardware issues it had (remember when it was actually *bricking components in people’s machines* for a while after it was released?)
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I expected it to be worse. Maybe not worse on the begging for money side, but worse in that it’d come pre-enshittified in a way only a megacorp could deliver.
Wasn’t this the game that had an RCE exploit in the chat system? Like you could just type JavaScript in general chat and the game client would run it for anyone who saw it. That’s about as enshittified as it gets (see also: smart appliances)
Wait wtf. That is insane.
It had all sorts of weird exploits. There was an exploit where playing in windowed mode and resizing the window would effectively make you unkillable. That got used in PvP where you run into a capture point and then start resizing the screen keeping the capture point forever contested.
keep corporations out of gaming
Best thing about new world was the secret level short: “AND YET AELSTROM LIVES”
Contrary to others I liked this game quite a bit. The life skills were fun, if sometimes tedious, and the sound design of gathering materials out in the world was intoxicating.
I spent hours mining rocks and cutting down trees. I still hear the sounds of it sometimes.
Didn’t enjoy the combat that much but others seemed to have at the time. The game didn’t have much to keep it relevant long term but I’ll miss that flash in the pan that hooked me for a month or two way back when.
This game fucking sucks. Fuck Amazon.
This game was one of the driving forces behind the development of the Lumberyard engine, which eventually became o3de.
The game might suck but it spawned a new, free, open sourced game engine based on CryEngine, so at least something potentially useful came from it.
I got this at launch because I was so desperate for a new PvE MMO. It was okay, but I lost interest pretty quick.
I actually really like it. I can’t remember if I got the game for free or relatively cheap. But it scratched the itch that Elder Scrolls Online had. In other words, it fulfills the itch I used to have when I played WoW nonstop as a kid, while also being more “action-y”, and you can play it solo with hundreds of other people playing it solo.
I don’t remember if there was a subscription or microtransactions were aggressive. But I do remember spending 2 months straight just going around chopping wood.
I remember quitting it because there was nothing to really DO with that wood.