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The devs at the start of this year hyped up an update for June which they teased with multiple videos of incoming updates such as swimming and other plans (Plus a silly video which muted the secret news which was a bit of an insult to us PC players). They kept teasing the June update which got a-lot of players including myself hyped up and patiently waiting to hear what the big news would be.
June came along and in the end the update was for Console players. We were told to wait till October for any new content and also the marketing and release for this new update was very badly worded. People thought and some still do that New World Aternum would be a seperate game... When its not. Its just a free update for those who have New World and Rise of the Angry Earth but will be a new game for Console players who can join us PC players in the existing world. People who already have the base game on PC can still play the polished version of New World Aternum, they just won't have access to anything above Lvl 60 or mounts.
Even journalists were confused and were posting that New world would become a single player RPG and be a separate game and so of-course this didn't help matters, when in reality it's staying as the exact same game and as said above Aternum is just an update.
PC players even those who had thousands of hours started posting negative reviews because of the confusion and understandably so. I never posted a negative review but I quit the game back in June as I had thought it was becoming a single player game and removing the MMO aspect, when in reality which I found out the next day, it was not removing anything. They just for some reason want to market it as an Action RPG which you can play solo all the way though. The word MMO I imagine doesn't reach console players as much as it does those on PC, so to drive in console players they chose Action RPG.
Anyway, overall PC players who played from the start are a bit bitter with the treatment they've received this year with being told great things when in reality it wasn't for us at all.
I personally, now seeing the beta am quite happy with what they've done it's more of a polished game now and I think it looks and plays better and people can now swim in the game but I think the only time I have needed to swim was in the introduction... As to be honest in New World you don't need to swim but people got funny about it (But it did look a bit odd when you did fall in the water and you were just walking at the bottom). Plus they've added new content for those of us who are already waiting for further end game progression. So will see what happens going forward.
Hope this helps!
Separate storage for every town (annoying as hell), no account bank (makes season rewards a pain in the arse), rubbish housing, ♥♥♥♥♥ pvp, 3 active weapon skills from a very small choice, paywall for mounts, devs are deaf and blind - the list is endless.
It'll be fun to see the console kiddies faces when they find out that after paying £50 or so for the game they then have to buy the expansion just to unlock mounts and then pay again for the season/battlepass/whatever its now called every few months.
The game has almost everything you want in an MMO it is just that not one part of it is any good/
TL:DR - This game is just not good.
LMAO! Good one man, you had me rolling.
Hopefully they are at least giving you a free copy for shilling for them.
Wars were (imo) the best part of this game and never got the attention they deserved from the devs to address lag, accessibility, or balance. This is because the devs were mainly PvE players, who did not understand the competitive aspect in the depth they needed to. Theres nothing wrong with enjoying PvE more than PvP, but if you aren't competing in high level PvP then you need to listen to the community when they raise issues or problems that are gamebreaking. Hell, before the 'big announcement' they had been telling players to wait for, in a dev update, the lead developer Scot Lane tried to suggest that OPR (a domination style 30v30 with random groups of 5 members match) was a substitute for wars (an highly planned and organized 50v50 seige the fort battle) just showing how little he knows about or plays the game he was in charge of. And just for context in competitive wars every players weapon combo / position / strategy is planned beforehand otherwise there was next to 0 chance of winning. OPR is just for practicing mechanics and is more or less a team deathmatch.
People left negative reviews and reviewbombed this game because at one point, they loved and invested a LOT of time or energy, or both into the game and the community. And that investment was met with apathy from the devs who were more interested in making THEIR own gameplay interests exciting / in depth than the gameplay the community was begging for for years. That love then eventually, over time turned into frustration and disappointment as they were let down again, and again, and again.
TLDR: The devs have ignored the community for years while lying about plans to improve the game and development cycle. At this point the console release is simply a moneygrab directed at console players who are not familiar with the history of the game and lack of attention put forth by the lead devs / dev team.
"ThEy'Ll TuRn ThInGs ArOuNd" No, they had two years and a half to do that already, and nothing happened.
Also the engine sucks, and yet they're going to use it for their LotR MMO.
Not true, the devs are clueless, so clueless that it resembles self sabotage, but its a good game. It has a somewhat lacking endgame for people that play too much, for casuals its fine.
I'm going again mid october, because i want to check it out again, mostly because i like the world and the ambience.