What actually changed?

[Racktoar]

I'm confused.... What actually changed with Aeternum?
I thought the game was supposed to change to solo/co-op and the whole MMO thing was a thing of the past...
Soooo, huh?

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by Racktoar:

I'm confused.... What actually changed with Aeternum?
I thought the game was supposed to change to solo/co-op and the whole MMO thing was a thing of the past...
Soooo, huh?

who the hell told you this nonsense?

[Racktoar]

Originally posted by Darth Revan:

Originally posted by Racktoar:

I'm confused.... What actually changed with Aeternum?
I thought the game was supposed to change to solo/co-op and the whole MMO thing was a thing of the past...
Soooo, huh?

who the hell told you this nonsense?

That's what I understood from all the terrible promotion that went on in spring/early summer (think that was the time period).
I'm pretty sure I even read the co-op part on the website!
Then, if that's not what changed, what did? You know, except for downgraded character model graphics, bad UI changes and pointless addition of archetypes.

[ZeroGiven]

Originally posted by Darth Revan:

Originally posted by Racktoar:

I'm confused.... What actually changed with Aeternum?
I thought the game was supposed to change to solo/co-op and the whole MMO thing was a thing of the past...
Soooo, huh?

who the hell told you this nonsense?

AGS PR in their horrendous announcement. According to them, Aeternum would make New World a co-op ARPG.

[Racktoar]

Originally posted by ZeroGiven:

Originally posted by Darth Revan:

who the hell told you this nonsense?

AGS PR in their horrendous announcement. According to them, Aeternum would make New World a co-op ARPG.

YEAH! I knew I wasn't going crazy. ♥♥♥♥, I remember stuff wrong so often these days I feel like I have dementia...
Thank god I remembered correctly!

[Stefan1200]

Originally posted by Racktoar:

I thought the game was supposed to change to solo/co-op and the whole MMO thing was a thing of the past...

There was never such an announcement.
They just changed it to "ARPG" for the console marketing.
And they changed the experience of the main story quests, so it feels more like an ARPG than a MMO.

[Racktoar]

Originally posted by Stefan1200:

Originally posted by Racktoar:

I thought the game was supposed to change to solo/co-op and the whole MMO thing was a thing of the past...

There was never such an announcement.
They just changed it to "ARPG" for the console marketing.
And they changed the experience of the main story quests, so it feels more like an ARPG than a MMO.

Eitherway, that's not the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ question. If you're not gonna answer my question, then buzz off.. Jeez. What was actually said is irrelevant.

[Stefan1200]

Originally posted by napkinfactory:

There was never such an announcement.

bold statement, unfortunately we can't just go back as it doesn't exist any longer, but I think we can agree on the fact that AGS has pulled off one of the worst and incompetent marketing campaigns ever earlier this year.

I agree with the "worst marketing campaigns" sentence.
But AGS never said, that New World is not an MMO anymore. They just want to highlight the better single player experience in New World. Well, they did this bad :)

But I saw very much blog posts and streamer commentary, which was just wrong. I saw all videos from the AGS dev team and announcements, most streamers and wannabe gaming journalist said it wrong or just interpreted it wrong. Of course, it was Amazons fault, that it was possible to interpret it wrong. But I would expect, that a gaming journalist would ask Amazon to verify the stuff, before they write ♥♥♥♥, but not everyone did this.