Is New World Shutting Down? | Asmongold Reacts 

The game had tremendous potential but was absolutely mismanaged from the get-go.

"Let's invent a game that has the top 1% control the map and get huge tax breaks for player housing and the 99% will have to pay additional for fast travel and taxes" .... literally just made real life in the game and it's shocking people left?

I remember loving the game, the ambience, the music, the lore. Then I tried to mine high level ore and seen someone with 20+ bots trailing them picking the locations barren like a swarm of locusts and I realized the devs really didn't care about managing the game.

I got over +250 hrs in the game as a new player recently. New world is a without a doubt a graphically impressive game. Look beautiful af, game play is pretty good . I enjoyed the game until i got to lvl 65, it just becomes a dungeon grind / material grind and my server was dead / Slow, couldnt even do the 10 man raids or 25 one. At 65 something just feels missing, its disappointing because i really enjoyed it.

man I really miss when i enjoyed new world. It was such a wonderful time, the wars were great, but they just let us down again and again

New World was fundamentally flawed from the beginning, and never acknowledged nor addressed its many problems. Considering how long MMORPGs have been around, this level of incompetence is inexcusable.

note for the 45:00 player comparisons steams is not the original nor primary launcher for: BDO, nor GW2 nor FFXIV (only FFXIV, had that pointed out in vid)

"You log on, you have no friends" is the story of my entire gaming experiance.

Guild Wars 2 has a megaserver system that let's players from all servers play together (openworld, dungeons, any content) - exactly to counteract the issue of dying servers.

"I had to pay real money to transfer to a new server because my server died." Amazon "Working as intended."

I'm overseas traveling for a year and don't have a desk setup so I was waiting for the controller update and now I'm worried haha.. the steam forums always complain about mis management but theres some very strange decisions or lack of decisions that would obviously help the game like server merging...

I like how the stats for gathering perks are tied the main stats. I need that mining advantage to keep up with the bots, guess I can't be a spellcaster or an archer.

When I was a kid I played a Disney MMO Toontown, and your character wasn’t locked to a server, you’d sign in, load in whichever character you were playing, and had the freedom to swap between servers. If you wanted to do group stuff you’d go to one of the more full servers but if you wanted to chill, do solo stuff and have super fast connection you could go to a less populated server. I’d go to quiet servers to fish lol, never understood why this isn’t an industry standard among the genre. OSRS does something similar too

im surprised no one talking about all the gold duping bugs and the market prices all crashing so early on in the game, killed it for me

As someone who spent nearly 3k hours in the game, the absolute biggest downfall of the game isn't really something that the devs could change. It's that the hardcore war guys have multiple accounts so they could participate in as many wars as possible. And you can't really blame them at all because the wars were fun as hell and that was all there was to do for a very long time. I was in tons of wars in a good company and the feeling of war is awesome, but there are the top tier guys who play the game like supple and dropouts who are just way above anything classified as a good company and if they decided to have people on your server, it was either you slot them or the people you were warring against would slot them, lowering your chances of winning. This happened to every server and it'd piss off people in your own company for noy getting slotted, they'd stop playing, and it was a domino effect. I don't know what the state of the game is now in regards to that, but I saw more people quit from this reason than almost any other reason outside of the original major dropoff of players

The real problem right from the start was the fragmentation into different servers, these days you solve that with shards like GW2 instead and only have one server. I suppose the reason it is like this is that they wanted a smooth transition and no zoning while travelling the world, but the price to pay for this minor thing is just not worth it.

Another issue GW2 solved like a decade ago. Everyone on one dynamic server with maps opening as needed. Every zone is populated, game never feels dead.

I wish New World didn't fuck up so badly. I played it with a large group in the beta and on release. Validus had territory and we absolutely destroyed other groups in PvP. Unfortunately we also saw a lot of bugs and exploits firsthand. The server cap absolutely also caused us problems. Imagine having a territory you fought hard to get get taken away by a group that stooped to using invulnerability exploits and server lag exploits to take it. That was new world in the first few months and that killed our engagement with it.

I've really struggled with this, after spending a lot of time and money moving my game from free targeting to a WoW-like tab targeting system, and really not feeling great about the outcome... I do want to move it not only back to free target, but more towards a souls-like movement & animation lock system, but it is hard to avoid getting into a system like New World also, where you're smashing LMB for attacks 24/7... It's a really difficult balance, but so important to the core loop...

You say it was server mismanagement but if the game was popping off then the servers wouldve filled, server mismanagment was just them not suturing a bleeding wound.

Server Cap is not even a problem. Your character should be playable on all worlds and the economy should not be world specific. They should've done this like Runescape

New world had major issues sure, but the first issue for me was having the same mobs everywhere, same cities. I leveled to 30 to see what that zone had to offer, oh yeah, the same mobs ive been killing since level 1. I knew i had nothing to look forward to. The end

New worlds primary issue has always been that the bones of the game were meant to be more akin to Rust as a survival MMO rather than a traditional MMO. This is why the servers were as limited, the way PvP/territory ownership and war worked is based on smaller servers. Going to a mega server is just not compatible with the basic gameplay that’s part of new world.

I loved new world, I loved my first server we built a community and the politics of companies really added to the game, the more they merged the more it tore away from that community. I played it every day for a solid year I have over 2000 hours in game but it's dead now

Another aspect of Runescape that simply makes sense with regards to the MMO genre. You have world servers that are independent of the player's characters. The player logs in and then picks a world server to play on. They aren't stuck to it. It's a much more rational approach. I would love to someday see a revolutionary new MMO that takes this approach for servers and then takes it a step further by having things associated to individual world servers that players would seek to protect. If the "evil faction" wins, perhaps that world server is taken down or otherwise irrevocably changed. A different take on territorial conquest, I guess.

Guild wars 2 has its own launcher, and most players play it through that as steam has some downsides ( like being unable to link your gw1 account to your gw2 account, and get special rewards for it etc )

I remember when the game released i called my wife about 2 hours before getting off work to go in Q so i could play when i got home..NW got a special place in my heart. It hurts me to see the game going dead. Hope it can get revived on time. It had so much potential. The world theme and the mountain and beach views were awesome

Remember the invulnerability exploit people used in wars to hold capture points? All they had to do was set their options to windowed mode and then alt+tab lmfao. They wouldn't die, but they wouldn't be able to move either. It took them weeks to fix. Then the gold duplicating started happening... and there were more problems they needed to fix than they could reasonably handle. Newer problems that potentially ruined servers were lower in priority because they were still resolving older issues. Was just a massive snowball effect that got a lot of people to quit. The fact that they didn't even fix how light/medium/heavy armor worked in the game for months was already a major turn-off... and the fact that the information had to be datamined in order for the community to find out, when they should've just told us in the first place... that's broken trust.

Crazy to me that this game uses separate servers instead of a mega server that connects people behind the scenes. ESO does this and it never feels empty to me and is pretty seamless.

I just remembered that after month #1, the devs couldn't solve a problem with the cap on the number of houses per town. So player transfers were disabled for several months because some variable couldn't go higher than 255 lol.

ive played it really "hardcore" in the beginning and the thing that made the game interesting was also the thing that killed servers. aka zone control. there was almost always 1 guild that got so strong that they controlled the 2 center zones so that they made all the money, and even tho it not was super game changer to own them, players left the server/game just because they could not own them. and then we transfered the whole guild and same thing happened over and over again

I wanted to go back to New World recently, and even buy expansion to try out the mounts. The game did not let me in on my previous server (where all my friends were playing), even though I had a character there. It lasted over 2 weeks and gave up. Amazon would have made an easy money with my purchase, if it wasn't for their terrible server infrastructure. I wonder how many players were in a similar situation.

have over 3k hours into the game, still playing and I would say I got my money worth a long long time ago. Still love the game :)

I took the day off to play New World on launch. It was great. The entire day was reminiscent of old MMO launches with people lining up for quests, open world PVP taking place etc. I fell off around lvl 35 due to how boring the questing was, how grindy the crafting levels were (and the RNG involved) as well as how all of the economy issues. Tried to get back into it via the fresh start servers and the improvements introduced with each expansion but by then the world felt dead. I play FFXIV now and find it hits the sweet spot.

"The more seriously you take the game, the less fun you're going to have." This sums up every discussion-worthy element of New World. Well said!

Haha I remember helping admin a bit in 3v3s for that greatsword artifact with trick trick think he ended up grinding and getting it one night solo on stream but I remember feeling so bad not only for him but others who didn’t care for PvP but still wanted the artifacts and its a grind too for the PvP track especially if it’s like artifacts at track lvl 25 or something like super ridiculous lol

I keep trying to do back to it but I just can't get involved. I really tried but the whole thing just feels weirdly hollow

No matter what, this game will always have a special place in my heart.

NW is a Frankenstein'd game, which a completely legit way of making something but why the ESO combat? The point of coping a competitor is to take the best parts from each game. I think maybe they got confused. They should have gone with Black Desert combat and ESO housing instead of the other way around.

22:52 You don't HAVE to change out your gems but if you want, you can. We can use the gear slots in game to make mutations easier. But you'd need double the gear in order to insert new gem slots. Its annoying but its more convenient now :3

The problem with new world is limited customization. Weapons have maybe 4 methods of different play styles at max. It has very little choice. There nothing to really go after as well.

I agree that janky game design does not help and hurts but i think the real issue is the lack of social systems and actual content (battlepasses and cosmetics do not count as content)

i could never get rid of the blurriness in the game graphics. there always seemed to be a slight look of vasoline smeared over everything. even with max 4k settings and changing all the typical sharpening filters down or off. it frustrated me to the point i just uninstalled and havent looked back

It lacked a dungeon finder tool like in WoWs. I think this was the makor problem. But there were also some quest you needed a party to do them so also for those missions/quests it would be handy to be a similar tool in game. And to use cross server for the dungeon finder of course. But maybe was too hard to make it don't know. But you see that lacking in that department i think this caused the bad outcome

It is hard to justify selling seasonal content when the base game is broken. I mean you got all this time to develop new seasonal content, can't tell me you do not have the resources to fix your game. Sorry, but not sorry.

Fantastic potential, I'll always say that the first month or so was some of the most fun I have had in an MMO. Running around with your companies in big open world PVP was class. It wasn't even the lack of end game content for me, I could've waited for that. But the gold duping bugs and the invulnerability bugs. Damn shame, game was amazing.

the server sizes really screwed my fun in the game, I was scouted by a couple people when i switched servers with a buddy and me and him decided to go to the bigger company with higher levels as we could do content together but people in the company who were slotted for war we took their spots that they were promised because we were better geared and higher level. I didnt really mind at the time because yeah i get to join the war where i know we will win because every high level on the server was in one company and we dominated but not even a month after the server was pretty much dead. wars werent full teams and i think the main reason was because low levels were gate kept from doing the most fun content in the game. I havent played in a minute since that server started dying and i havent even thought of going back because as the cycle goes itll be my turn to get gate kept from doing end game content. To add insult to injury you do get stunned and hit a lot in the game so if you arent actually geared to do the content you get killed very easily which pushes foward the idea you need to have only perfectly geared people.

I remember playing through the story on launch with my friends and like 3/4 of the way through or so we realized mid cutscene that none of us had any clue what the story was. we started listening to the dialogue and were just totally lost lmao. still to this day 0 clue what the actual story was beyond something to do with souls or something

It's been glossed over but a huge problem I had was the gold duping happening immediately after launch. Instantly killed the appeal of playing for control of the map of someone on the other team could be a duper.

the one thing that turned me off from playing anymore was resource scarcity. I would love farming out materials... if they were ever there. orichalcum ore is always gone, starmetal is heavily contested too, trees, wirefiber, the animals that drop rawhide, literally all of it. i didnt have alot of gold so i wanted to farm it all myself. it took me 4-5 hours just get get enough materials for my prismatic ingots. 1 days worth... it takes way too long. they need to rework how you farm materials for sure, whether its instanced nodes with a timer on it or something but its needed badly.

I feel like the reason a company doesnt combine servers is because its like admitting defeat that your game is dead or dying.

I used to be able to warp speed run at launch. If I hit my weapon swap button just as I rolled I would roll at hyper speed and come out running. I could clear large swaths of land in no time. I reported it but they never fixed it. I think it had something to do with my hardware at the time. I upgraded and couldnt do it any longer. was very weird.

I stopped playing when a planned server merge was cancelled because a dominant clan on the server spammed forums. The server I was playing on was dead and one clan was dominating the server, gate keeping wars and events. This clan didn't want to merge because they would have to fight other clans when merged. The devs stopped the merge because of the forum spam from this one clan.

I will say GW2 did the server stuff really well. Automatic migration and a boon to transfer. Within a wider server namespace.

15:00 SWTOR did the same thing... waited till everyone left before merging servers. Too little too late. 22:50 just get a new set of gear for each gem type :D

With the 'Rise of The Angry Earth' story expansion, they have plans that go past Brimstone and Shattered Mountain, which isn't a small task. With that in mind, updating QoL, bugs, items, and supporting console release and cross server connections whilst developing new enemies, combat, items, and entire areas, along with lore, is a handful. I don't mind working on my main character again or making 2 more to reach lv cap with this possible upcoming expansion, because I love New World like that, but they'll have to possibly increase server cap, level cap, and/or introduce a new weapon to regain player count. Another issue is that if it's another paid expansion, players who haven't purchased the Angry earth expansion will be left behind even more because they're already barred from the new weapon, new area, mounts, and artifacts. If they unlock it for F2P players, which I highly doubt they will, then what about our $30 paid for the DLC?

A friend of mine still plays….it’s his first MMO and he fell in love with it….it’s sad seeing him play still because as much as he wants it to grow, he knows the inevitable….I’m guessing that’s exactly how the remaining player base feels like

The worst part were those wars. Cause if you didnt have a network of people right away, you joined a guild, you tried to join a war and you were just never chosen, because the 50 priviliged people were chosen first. So we were just missing out a big chunk and fun of the game. Was really disappointing

Did they ever fix the storyline quest? I played about 6 months ago and was shocked to find out that people could not progress the main storyline from the original xpac into the later content because the quest was broke. I logged on daily for about a month checking to see for a fix, and it never came. With no way to progress the main storyline, why play?

If you set nwdb's charts to max and 30 day period, the trend down is still consistent and decently strong. Max because it kind of represents interest with just players logging on. Min will show downtimes and server crashes. Mean shows how populous it felt when logging in.

Trust me, the jankyness of the game is not what the problem with new world is. Ark is the jankiest game I've ever played but it's still extremely fun and popular despite it. The game has fundamental progression and content issues that prevent it from realising it's full potential.

I used to govern a company on New World with around 70-80 members on Amarah, where initially I just wanted to make new friends and run the content. After they started merging servers, we got merged with Lilith, and that's about the time they started introducing the capes and titles for being the best speedrunning or scorerunning teams. This was the peak of New World for me, but the issue I had was finding ways to include everyone. Not everyone wanted to run the Wurm Raid or run M10's (or M3's now) to earn capes, but wanted to be apart of a living PvE team. As someone who put 2200 hours in a single year, I'd have to say its the way they handle the variety of content. OPR would be fun if they just added two or three more maps and randomly selected one of them each round. 3v3's were fun and they came out with a new map at some point with the changes last summer. Essentially adding more maps and variety would've made PvP a lot more attractive to some of the playerbase instead of one map for each. I never got an opportunity to fight in a war, so I can't speak for it. The last big issue they had was with the new update it completely ruined the economy, and changing drops in both dungeons and open world chests made selling or trading on the market a pain in the ass. Before I could've run an M10 Expedition, get one really cracked item and sell it on the market, then take the coin and use it for crafting other BIS items I needed. After the big chapter two update where they introduced the first "beast" dungeon, ALL of the items in the dungeons became bind on pickup. So it forced players who had companies with hundreds of thousands of gold saved up, to do crafting, to go broke because it cost a fortune to upgrade one piece of gear. All this did was give players more of an incentive to seek out third party websites to purchase coin or "supporting small businesses". Ultimately for my Company, we moved on due to the game economy being extremely unreasonable and unfair. There was almost no reward for running dungeons on the new update, it was much harder, it required more coin than ever before, and the content wasn't inviting to new players, so we all moved on.

I don't understand how the servers can't somehow communicate with each other so that all players who are online in the game right now can all see and communicate with each other like on a global level and not individually on each separate server ecosystem. At the base level, Im sure separate servers would probably be necessary for storing a user's data and stats, but when they log on to the game that stuff should immediately be uploaded to a cloud that handles all of the game metrics for everyone who is playing the game so everyone can be on and playing together at the same time. Who even knows, maybe Iim wrong about some stuff, but I haven't played any mmo I liked in a long time and I really typically enjoy video games.

They need to tie movement to armor weight. There's no reason why someone in light gear shouldn't be moving at least 1.25x faster (or close to) than someone in heavy gear. Tank should = slow except burst speed from weapons and abilities.

Server transfer cost in 2024 is dumb. I'm experiencing exactly this problem with WoW SoD and it's kept me out of the game for weeks now. If I could transfer for free to the more active server I'd be playing, but now I'll probably just end up quitting.

As someone who has spent 5,000hrs on the game, since launch, the game was fundamentally flawed from day 1. Structurally, it was broken (and feels like AGS didn't understand how to manage an economy), combat was riddled with bugs and the devs were slow to fix them. The huge lack of communication from AGS was painful. This is the true definition of how to mis-manage a game.

i wonder why when games get into that death spiral none of them ever go radical and just throw caution to the wind? why not (as youre porting code or fixing bugs etc) introduce a wealth of new classes plop a near unkillable world boss somewhere with awesome loot give out promo items etc etc etc. ive seen so many games just dwindle away over the years and it seems like theres little to no effort to stop it

I was actively playing through the brimstone content when the expansion came out and they introduced level limits which suddenly denied me access to the quests I was involved in and the item s I found effectively taking that content away from me because I didn’t buy the expansion. So I stopped playing.

I played New World for the first time when they added the mount expansion. I was shocked at the borderline unplayable lag in cities, something I hadn't experience since Shattrath City in 2007 on my family's Toshiba laptop. Also seems like the whole point of the game is the big faction wars but there was only 1 viable faction. I thought the actual gameplay was fun enough, there was just nothing to make me actually care.

I wish they used all all the stuf of new world and make a new game thats more casual based on the proffesions. The sound was so good that i actually enjoyed chopping wood and hunting animals with my musket. The visuals and how the vegetation moved also fit in this theme.

I got it very recently on a sale and decided to try it. It started well but there is barely anyone Online. The combat is ok, could be a lot better. The enemies are all the same, just reskined enemies. I might play until I finish the story but not really any more than that.

I couldn't deal with the desyncing and server lag, I just stopped playing a few months after release.

The fact that they rushed it right before Lost Ark came out was the beginning of the end. They had poor communication with the community and 0 direction. Constant bugs plagued the game for MONTHS on top of months. 0 end game , PvP dictated by your guild and WHO they invited. Not to mention the factions were hella one sided due to HUGE streamers getting their community to join and plague the map with over priced controlled cites and the insane over priced market. I for one won’t miss this game.

Why not have mega servers like Eso or Gw2. In Gw2, when there are not enough players, it asks if you want to be transported to a new instance.

Yep I made 2 characters to lvl 60 and got board after that the best parts was solo play and running around with mobs in the end game but that gets boring I loved the crafting grind but didn't see a purpose after getting board with the end game and onestly I want even fully max gear lvl yet

never even got to play the new content. i downloaded the game again and the queue status was so large and the fact that they didn't do anything other than just wait for the storm to calm it went right back into dead status. Never even managed to log on before i uninstalled again.

I picked this game back up after 2 years and honestly not much has changed. Pros: Better story telling through some drawing cinematics and mounts. Cons: Optimization has taken a shit (can barely load into the game, but runs ok once you're in... except in a town), and mounts (because you have to pay $30 for the DLC to access them). Nothing else has really changed other than the number of servers. There used to be 15+ servers and now there's 4, with one being only being accessible if you make a new character (Lilith Server).

I didn't mind the animations , I didn't get any Dsync , I had fun gaming with my son , But I have to admit it pissed me off when they implemented a battle pass months and months after it was released, the stench of MTX ( being cosmetic or not ) put me off in a big way . I never played it again after that . If they never put in BP and MTX and concentrated on making DLC I guarantee I would still be playing it today. Even if they had a monthly sub instead of BP I would still be playing it.

Game was great for the first 200 hrs I played, what really killed it for me was the last Christmas event. When they nerfed the amount you could stack to hand in and forced you to hand in every 6 hrs on cool down that was it for me.

I tried coming back last year but the game had increased performance requirements. Not everyone has a insane pc. I have 6gb VRAM. I could play on low settings on launch without any trouble, but that quickly changed after one year.

New world like Halo infinite and a few other games got praise at launch but then few months after people were going like actually not as good as we said....it does feel like games instead of launching at 100% content they are launching at 60% or even less and then trying to catch up when people have experienced everything very quickly and its not a good idea as first impressions matter.

A big thing with the combat : Every...single....attack , from EVERY mob , pushes you back , interrupts you. I get it for special attacks but every single normal one , no new player is sticking around after getting pushed back non stop from 2 mobs that aggroed from 10000 miles away and one is a archer. And another is how AWFUL most weapons and armors look , even if you WANT to spent money to buy some skins , they are outright awful , so even if the game had millions playing it would not be making profits , no one is wasting money on house items or the ugliest armours you have ever seen in any game

Me and my RL friends started a whole ass guild, had a discord server set up for it, met a shit ton of new people we were playing with every day and hanging out on voice with, and we dominated our server. Everyone on our server was cool with each other we also had a server wide discord that all the major guilds were on and chatting with each other all the time. The 3 factions worked amazing on our server and there was tons of politicing and backstabbing and loyalty flip flopping between them without a ton of drama because everyone was having a blast because the combat was fun. At the start of the game we'd have giganitic wars every night out in the open world with hundreds of people from all 3 factions fighting in random places just because it was so fun. Then everyone on our server started slowly quitting because of the War lag, the exploits, the server rollbacks, the lack of endgame, the entire economy getting shut off every other day, or they were finally able to move to their friends server, etc.. Then our server got shut down and we got moved to a new server. Then that server died and got shut down and merged with another server. By then all of us had stopped playing already and it had only been like 2-3 months. The game was in it's best state during beta and got worse literally every update they did; why would I ever go back ..

My company whom I had so much fun playing with, disbanded because not only did we all get very busy by the start of the year, but the game itself slowed to a crawl in content and things to do. We had so much fun playing together but alas, I don't think the game can make a come back anymore.

The third time they tried to fix a bug and by doing that created 3 more bugs i immediately disinstalled. I played like 3 weeks. I already knew everything that i needed to know.

why do so many games flop? its crazy how it feels like 7/10 games are just so bad. Are game developers bad, is it higher ups that are making bad decisions? is it a cultural change in the industry?

Star Citizen uses Cryengine. Amazon bought after that Cryengine and developed it into Lumberyard. SC developed Cryengine with the Crytek Team in Frankfurt to make it into the Star Engine. Those systems cant be compared anymore. Lumberyard would be crushed in an instant under the same load

If this game offer the possibility to play like a single player game with many many quests to do , it's good for me. (I do the same in Wow with the limit of lvl up unfortunately)

I'm surprised the game even stayed alive for this long

Don't use steam charts to get the number of players in GW2. majority of players are using the original launcher. Not steam.

I really enjoyed New World... it has so much potential but for me the slow merging of servers was a huge issue. I server transferred to play with friends then they quit so I had no one to play with. Plus running around was a huge pain in the butt and their refusal to implement basic open world MMO things like MOUNTS was a huge detriment. I'm a hard core Black Desert and Lost Ark player now, both games have been displaying good server management (merges, reworks).

To your point about the Garage Door Opener.. Yes that is True... but there are all kinds of Legalities with Cross platform... Im not sure about all of the legalities, wish you elaborated on that topic vs how easy it is to implement it.

i dont understand how giant companies like amazon can still make games in this day and age where you cant freely hop from server to server at your will. its no wonder these games die so quickly

I think Guild Wars 2 has more players than New World, New World and Lost Ark are only over Steam Playable, Elder Scrolls, Guild Wars 2, Black Desert have also other Launchers New World is a nice Game, but there is a huge potential that is not used

Good times Will never forget the 12-30h long queues When you dced because you lagged out or smthing, you could literally go to sleep and when you woke up the next day you still had couple of hours to do whatever before you finally logged in.

Have over 3k hours on the game. Played from the beta, did the PVP, was farming m10s, maxed all the trade skills, did every main and side quest, leveled every weapon to max, hit every lore page, got my 100 invasion wins and a whole lot more. I quit not long before they announced the DLC which cost $30 (for a game that cost $40 base). There are so many issues with this game and there have been fundamental problems that just haven't been fixed and design flaws with the base game that keep it from ever becoming good. It's exceptionally unfortunate and I hope to see a good MMO come along sometime soon. RIP

This was my first MMO, spent over 2k hours on It. As bad as it is, it will always have a place in my heart.

New World's healing experience was by far the worst experience out of any MMO I have played. Dungeon healing was trying to scroll the mouse wheel to my target so I could heal. PvP Raid healing was kiting around with my fencing sword and light armor until they give up on chasing me then mouse wheeling to the biggest group I could find to throw down all my aoe heals asap before kiting again. Let it die. The question then becomes, are we going to play Amazon's LOTR?

I had a lot of hope for this game, even put about 2000hrs into it from launch up until about a year-ish ago when I finally walked away from it. It just never panned out and with all the issues it had I just had to cut my losses.

Guild wars 2 steam chart is complete load of bollocks. Most of us who play gw2 play through their launcher. Why? Because we couldn't link our existing Arenanet Account to steam, so steam charts only shows the new players that started because of steam launch, and yea it didn't bring that much.