Time For AGS to shut down and rework...

[Deathtome]

So I think its time that AGS admits they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and shut down the servers and offer refunds to all that want one and work on the game for another year or so and release, other wise the game is just going to fail and they will shut down the servers for good...

[hyperion]

Originally posted by Deathtome:

So I think its time that AGS admits they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and shut down the servers and offer refunds to all that want one and work on the game for another year or so and release, other wise the game is just going to fail and they will shut down the servers for good...

They'll not admit to anything, period.

The best thing that could happen would probably be for Amazon to sell it to another studio. The game has tremendous potential, but I don't see it being realized under the direction I've seen from this studio.

And we can never even know what happened. Amazon is a huge corp and this is just another facet of things they've gotten their paws into. There are going to be layers upon layers of administration and politics behind all of this. And if any of it even leaks out, you just have to believe who you want to because everyone will have their own story.

Or the game could go on like it is for a very long time. You can look at the numbers and see just how quickly they've went down. 60K at the peak now, so it's bled another 20K in the past couple of weeks. They don't need the money and so it could go either way. That's why I want them to sell it to another studio who do need the money because they will care, because they have to.

[Urban Legend]

The time you took to make a post requesting refunds was wasted time. That will never happen.

[hyperion]

Originally posted by Urban Legend:

The time you took to make a post requesting refunds was wasted time. That will never happen.

That's another thing that won't happen. Of course I'll never ask for a refund since I already have over 300 hours. When it's time to move on, I just move on.

[Ricochet]

It was time for that in November 2021

[ExplorerNMS]

Selling the game to another studio is even more unlikely than Refunds.
Who would buy it? If anyone showed interest in it Amazon/AGS would overprice it. Then whoever bought it would have to spend more money and years to re-vamp the game.

Plus, as an IP and setting for an MMORPG 'New World' is pretty moronic.

IMHO, the most likely scenario is that they just keep on wasting money and time until the game is completely eclipsed by other games ... Lost Ark ... Elden Ring ... Ashes of Creation ... the RIOT MMORPG ... and the other unknowns in or about to enter the pipeline.

Then Amazon will wake up and realize that being more like TENCENT is the way to profit in gaming, and start buying promising studios with promising games.

And the Devs at AGS will announce plans to develop "EVERQUEST NEXT NEXT" ... and when that flops they'll disappear.

[jackman]

Teething problems. New team, new MMO, it will take them a while to get their act together, it would be foolish to expect anything different

[dude_beutlin]

Why is New World compared to Lost Ark? That doesn't go together at all. Lost Ark is much more in the direction of Diablo 3 / Path of Exile?

In my opinion, New World is a copycat of Black Desert Online. Intended for the western market. But New World doesn't come close to the quality of Black Desert. Black Desert has a lot more gameplay mechanics, a much bigger world.

[Deathtome]

Originally posted by jackman:

Teething problems. New team, new MMO, it will take them a while to get their act together, it would be foolish to expect anything different

top grade coupium right there

[PortalShifter]

Originally posted by hyperion:

The best thing that could happen would probably be for Amazon to sell it to another studio. The game has tremendous potential, but I don't see it being realized under the direction I've seen from this studio.

There are many reasons why that will never happen.

[hyperion]

Originally posted by PortalShifter:

Originally posted by hyperion:

The best thing that could happen would probably be for Amazon to sell it to another studio. The game has tremendous potential, but I don't see it being realized under the direction I've seen from this studio.

There are many reasons why that will never happen.

Name a few

[hyperion]

Originally posted by Deathtome:

Originally posted by jackman:

Teething problems. New team, new MMO, it will take them a while to get their act together, it would be foolish to expect anything different

top grade coupium right there

Yeah, expecting a dev team to be competent is over the top crazy. I bet it's racist, isn't it? Of course it is.

[jackman]

If I treated my new employees, the same way you guys heap abuse the dev team, they wouldn't stay on long enough to become old employees. Up front, I pay them to do a job they can not initially do, patience is required for a product or a person to improve.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Deathtome:

So I think its time that AGS admits they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and shut down the servers and offer refunds to all that want one and work on the game for another year or so and release, other wise the game is just going to fail and they will shut down the servers for good...

1. Dont be silly.
2. In the last 2 decades of mmorpgs, only one comes to mind that ever shut down and offered full refunds. If you think Amazon would do this, see point 1.

[Clarimonde]

Imagine if the rework is to see what other mmo's are doing.
FFXIV is successful and has retainers that allow you to post up to 20 items to auction. Can have 2 for free then pay monthly sub for each additional you have. Don't think people would like that...

[EMCM Magellan]

Originally posted by Deathtome:

So I think its time that AGS admits they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and shut down the servers and offer refunds to all that want one and work on the game for another year or so and release, other wise the game is just going to fail and they will shut down the servers for good...

Amazon is about making money. Your suggestion costs them money, it doesn't make them money.