New World Dev responds to rumors of game shutdown and working on new mmo.

[Hoshigan]

Delakron - New World Developer
"I’m seeing this new rumor start to fly around… you have nothing to worry about. We do not have plans to close down New World, and the full New World team is wholly invested and dedicated to the long-term health and continual development of the game. Our New World team is not working on another project. Amazon Games as a whole is quite large now, spanning multiple studio locations, and other teams have their own projects but we’re still focused full-time on bringing you new content. And while we’ve only shared a part of our roadmap, we still have many more exciting things to come in the future."

https://forums.newworld.com/t/official-possible-close-of-new-world/742445

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well, yeah, but do you think they would admit it if it they did have plans?

[Subsonic]

Wonder how big their team is, considering how little they have done in a year of developing new content.

[Azreael]

LOL @ Evol correct.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by floppa:

Delakron - New World Developer
"I’m seeing this new rumor start to fly around… you have nothing to worry about. We do not have plans to close down New World, and the full New World team is wholly invested and dedicated to the long-term health and continual development of the game. Our New World team is not working on another project. Amazon Games as a whole is quite large now, spanning multiple studio locations, and other teams have their own projects but we’re still focused full-time on bringing you new content. And while we’ve only shared a part of our roadmap, we still have many more exciting things to come in the future."

https://forums.newworld.com/t/official-possible-close-of-new-world/742445

Just some things to consider:

1. No dev worth their salt is going to respond in a thread and say "yep we're shutting it down". That'd be a marketing/pr responsibility and one that'd not be relegated to a thread reply.

Thus propping it as a "rest assured" sort of validation is probably something one should take with a grain of salt.

Keep in mind though Im not saying its shutting down. I doubt it and that leads to point 2.


2. MMO's can languish and linger for years. We've plenty of mmo's we can cite that do/have done this for years before shutting down, OR some still are languishing in relative obscurity/maintenance mode too.

Defiance is a good example. It tanked pretty hard not long after release (and its entire dev team (except 2 people) laid off staggered over 3-5 months from the San Diego branch studio(which they shut down)) and then languished for years, even after gamigo bought Trion before it finally was sunsetted.

So...

3. The main focus should be on the statements of their entrenchment to continue to essentially provide the --same-- intent and focus that they've been doing thus far.

Its that "same" that should be of concern because it has lead to the game being in the steep and pretty steady decline its had now for 8+ months and from a dev team with experience deficits that have been discussed on here multiple times.

[Ironwu]

Reminds me of the position the captain and crew of the Titanic put forth right after it struck the iceberg.

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Originally posted by Ironwu:

Reminds me of the position the captain and crew of the Titanic put forth right after it struck the iceberg.

"we totally have no plans to hit any icebergs, good sirs"

[Dogtatokun]

I'm laughing so hard because that is almost what AGS said verbatim about Crucible only to shut it down a few months later. Granted I don't think NW is getting shut down yet.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pulls-crucible-from-steam-2020-6
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-amazon-new-game-crucible-2020-7

Sadly all official posts from AGS are deleted. But they vowed to move it back to beta. Vowed they will fix it. Then they threw in the towel.

[Boots]

Originally posted by floppa:

Delakron - New World Developer
"I’m seeing this new rumor start to fly around… you have nothing to worry about. We do not have plans to close down New World, and the full New World team is wholly invested and dedicated to the long-term health and continual development of the game. Our New World team is not working on another project. Amazon Games as a whole is quite large now, spanning multiple studio locations, and other teams have their own projects but we’re still focused full-time on bringing you new content. And while we’ve only shared a part of our roadmap, we still have many more exciting things to come in the future."

https://forums.newworld.com/t/official-possible-close-of-new-world/742445

Hmmmm......Alfred E Neuman would simply say "What, me worry?". Alfred had a 67 year run to brag about, which is more than this developer will every have.

[TechNiCoLeR]

it's way to late this ship is sinking and players are drowning and don't realize it

[Wild]

Originally posted by R U R:

it's way to late this ship is sinking and players are drowning and don't realize it

I'm imagining Jeff Besoz as Kate Winslet laying on a door floating in the middle of the ocean and the players as Jack.

[Kissing Fish]

Originally posted by Evol:

Wonder how big their team is, considering how little they have done in a year of developing new content.

lmfao ZING

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Basil.ThreeKings:

Originally posted by Evol:

Wonder how big their team is, considering how little they have done in a year of developing new content.

lmfao ZING

All he has to do is look at the game credits but hundreds of people, basically. :P

[Ex]

"other teams have their own projects"
So they're working on other stuff? Iirc LOTR and the other thing got cancelled?

[Aeekto]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by Basil.ThreeKings:

lmfao ZING

All he has to do is look at the game credits but hundreds of people, basically. :P

Credits are ALL the people who have ever been part of this project, even when leaving the studio during it's process.
It's not even close to represent the current numbers of devs working on this game

[Crunktanium]

Netflix lost near a million users and people are still fleeing in droves. It's over the sky is falling they will shut the servers next month I predict. Who needs Netflix when you can get more content free. Their content sucks anyway, they lack enough content for me to watch 80 movie a day, And nobody cares about crap exclusive series. Oh and tey add so much lewd adult content which goes against my (insert religion) values. It's over for Netflix for sure and I bet they has a tiny team left to sweep floors at most.