NewWorld is still a grind-heavy MMORPG one year after its launch, though it's a bit more relaxed than it once was.
It hardly feels like much time has passed between now and last October when I dropped over 170 hours of my life into a new pirate-themed MMORPG with a suspiciously colonial-inspired backdrop. When it was still relatively new , Amazon Games Studios’ New World promised to be a whole bunch of things that a “modern” MMORPG like Final Fantasy 14 or World of Warcraft usually isn’t.
When it was first released in late September 2021, New World peaked at about 913,027 consecutive players before steadily dropping to a consistent range between 20,000 and 40,000 active players at any given time. Curious about what’s kept so many dedicated players hooked since launch, I decided to redownload it and check out what’s been added in the first full year of patches.
Amazon has clearly done a lot to improve and expand upon its existing content. I recall being pretty turned off by the lack of a party finder for its dungeon-like expeditions, and now that seems to be remedied. Expeditions themselves can be mutated for increased challenge and better rewards, and it does seem like there are a couple of new progression tracks to keep you occupied past level 60,0 such as the Expertise system that can continue pushing your numbers up.
By comparison, Final Fantasy 14 masks its fetch quests with plenty of drama and moral quandaries, leading to some genuinely shocking and moving scenes — especially in the latter expansions. New World never manages to reach anything close to that level of gravity in its story delivery, and in some ways, its more lax approach to gameplay turns down the tension that once dominated its interlocking PVP and survival sandbox systems.
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