This guy turned a 28 minute long video into an 1 hour long video This guy has to actually be the best reaction streamer he adds so much of his own commentary.

@The Boulder yeah i would be terrible at streaming lol, no way ill be able to talk for 6 hours straight whilst it also still being entertaining. is alot harder than it looks to be a good streamer i think.

Kermit with an AK link your twitch account

Kermit with an AK depends on your job. You seen how many streamers there actually are that never get above 50 viewers because they have the charisma of a sponge? Hardly any streamers actually become successful. Talking for 6 hours straight every day and be entertaining is way harder than working on a till in a shop or being a delivery driver for example.

Kermit with an AK Anyone can become anything bro(ofc theoretically), but it is certainly not easy to become successful and even more so to become one of the top % in anything. So while i do agree to a deegre. It is not 100% correct

I played New world. It was actually great, I loved the world, the music and the atmosphere. BUT The bugs, the exploits, the cash shop and the systems within the game (mainly endgame) were unacceptable.

Question, do they change/add something to the Cash shop? I only play the game for 3 months since release, but Cash shop not even included in my quit factor for me.

@Mehrunes the cash shop isn't bad and they give you free tokens if u have amazon prime every month, it is purely cosmetic and dosnt give you any single advantage that makes you stronger or even cut some content from the game so they can sell it on the shop, I played the game for months and it never bothered me and I never used it

sounds exactly how most people with a brain said how an Amazon MMO game would go, and it did LOL so obvious

I still have 0 clue how anyone who saw how the dungeon combat worked thought "wow this looks amazing" just zerg combat is the most boring kind there is.

@Dark Poisoneer Oh, I thought they would add something more sinister, Just like you, I don't really care about Cash-shop that much, like it or not, they will always exist in MMO games. I only focusing on my own way of fun. Which not even covered by the cash shop anyway. If they does, not only how? and it will be most disgusting MMO ever in term of cash-shop. BUT, I will hate the cash shop in the game IF they keep popping up every single minutes and remind us that they sell stuff and advantages.

Face earth shield has 5% dirt reduction per stack. Stacking up to 20 times. At 20 stacks you get the 'desensitization' buff which reduces the effects of negative senses such as smell by 90%

20 stacks of earth shield also give a buff that repels "Mobs with bullshit Ai". Other players

The biggest reasons as to why we enjoyed New world was because it was something new and MMORPG players had craved something new for a long time (and we still do). It was new in terms of the action combat, the graphics, the sound design system and its overall look. It was immersive, exciting and very fun the first few weeks, until I guess people realized how lazy, copy and paste the game was developed, as well as how many problems it had at its core.

Wait until Riots MMORPG. Gonna take over I bet.

@Jaime Ruiz Yeah if anything I'm looking forward to Riots MMORPG, I don't think Ashes of creation will deliver, Riot are atleast good at delivering quality games but they usually mess up after

@Jaime Ruiz Don’t keep your hopes up.

@Akira Leelarapin Im not, Im literally just doing my life and if Im alive by then. Ill play it. Ive literally played League since season 2. just fun, by then hopefully Im married or have a gf to play with haha

No one cares about "RiOoT MoOrog"

Played a lot of new world. Glad asmongold is finally watching a nerd slayer video. Dude has been putting out solid content for a while.

I came to say this.

Years*, dude's from Austin too

To me, even though the game has improved a lot since launch, there's still one big issue that hasn't been fixed and what I think would be a huge gamechanger. open world activities. more things to do in open world in general. I mean dynamic events, world bosses, more NPCs with sidequests (many more), and more unique places in the map. I think by doing this, the game would finally be on the level on other MMOs and being able to compete.

YES. Few world bosses would make such a big difference.

And... come on. Instantiated cross server expeditions? And Arenas? With a group finder? GW2 had that day 1. Why in the world would you want to split player base for dungeons and PvP instances...

With their recent patches and upcoming patches, it seems to me like they're genuinely trying to make improvements. They're making good changes. I'm cautiously optimistic that New World will actually be quite a decent game eventually if they have the resources to keep this up.

The gpu bricking was a flaw in the cards that only would have happened during either intensive cryptomining or a bug. Gpus have sensors on them that measure the temperature, in this case those were not near the spots that would get the hottest. So while the gpu was reporting nominal temperatures the card itself was essentially melting the solder. New world triggered this design flaw because the frame rate on the menu screen was uncapped. A stupid bug, that shouldn't have been in there. But i agree that it is hard to fault them for the bricking because those cards should have been able to handle that... even if they shouldn't have to.

I've come back to this game ever since I found out the fast travel azoth is capped at 20 I spend literally the most of my time running across the world. Also the group finder for expeditions is a main reason why I came back to the game, before I couldn't progress with the story cause I had to do an expedition

Glad he watched this guy, loved watching the dude content so it’s sick he’s getting noticed more.

it really is great to see NS get some recognition, he makes great content

Nerd Slayer is a great content creator, there should be more like him

100% agree. Nerdslayer is awesome!

I loved New world when it first came out. I gave me the same feel I had back when I was younger playing mmos. But the end game part of it got stale for me quick. The leveling felt rewarding to me, most of the zones felt good to be in and gave me a reason to want to explore, the dungeons were fun and could actually be challenging if you didn't have that great of a group. But I just got bored in the end :/

exactly how i felt. leveling especially from 1-40 was amazing

I quit at level 35. Just got back into it for the 3v3 arenas and its night and day already. I started over with a new character, the changes to the storage system, the fast travel costs, the UI improvements and the quality of life changes like ammo not being required for ranged weapons really made the game a lot better. My new character is now level 50 so I can't speak as to the endgame but the leveling is MUCH better than it used to. I have hope. *Breathing in the Copium*

I’m glad you gave it another shot. Most people will not do this and continue to just talk negatively about their 30 levels from launch sadly.

New World has a ton of great things going for it. I love the way you level weapons. I love the gathering and crafting. And the world feels massive, and interesting. The biggest problem I had was it feels like doing nothing over and over, just to do nothing over and over.

It is like they assigned all of the mechanics to different designers/engineers/teams. Those mechanics were great on their own, but they never had a good director that could take those mechanisms and designs and mesh them together in a fun, engaging way. All of the pieces of a puzzle need to fit together. Instead, all of the pieces, as well done as they were, ended up being from different puzzles

Most value-adding reaction streamer on YouTube/Twitch right now. Amazing knowledge of games and players and what they want.

He’s come a long way in 5 years; he’s really defined his character. He used to be a meme for stereotypical super dorky wow streamer

What killed my momentum in New World was how often the economy broke. Dozens of hours collecting ingredients for crafting and selling and it kept amounting to nothing.

One huge problem that killed it for me and a bunch of others on my server who stuck it out for months is that for the first 6-7 months AGS focused the endgame towards pvp, and the pve content was really just to increase your pvp gear. But when they added the 600+ dungeons, endgame pve was no longer able to directly affect pvp, and we ended up having to toss our long developed and tested builds in lieu of gear solely focused towards pve progression. It got to a point where skills and tailored gear no longer mattered and only the GS was important

I liked the game too, has some of the best movement in any game out. I'd add a real sprint, and thats all I felt it needed as mechanics thus far, but you have played a bit more. I just picked it up again and been enjoying it. Got a new respect for it after I got away from it.

I actually like a dangerous world. However, I think there are ways you can do it, that makes it "not" annoying. I feel like early wow did good with that, and I think Skyrim did a good job with it. A lot of dangerous worlds are dangerous just by having really high level monsters near roads. To me it's other things, but I am more of a WoW style fan. Thirst mattering, maps being hard to come by maybe. High cost for easy traveling, or make it a PC thing ((Like old wow with portals before you could easy of life never need a mage. When you had like 3 hearth stones all over the place, and gates for any class just about. I feel like New World did good with a hard world at first, but then you get into Brightwood and it becomes a little more rough, but managable. Then the swamp to the right of it, and it sucked ass. More over, as Asmongold said, ya, I couldn't bother to level more fighting the same shit over and over, and top that off with them patching shyt that wasn't broke.

I loved the skilling, pvp, and even some of the expeditions were good. Reminds me of RuneScape in a different direction. The bugs and lack of unique mobs is what ruined it for me. I also didn’t like they way item level worked, felt like it lacked the ‘rare drop’ feeling and it was just grinding out better level items aka more levelling

Bro I thought you said you loved the "skiing" and I was kinda hyped ngl lmao

@Roz I wish man I do love skiing haha

I was level 45 or so when I quit. I got so fucking bored killing the same copy/pasted enemies over and over, the questing was literally about as much fun as crawling naked through a tunnel made of cheese graters. I actually really enjoyed the PvP. But I couldn't be bothered to level :/ then I got to 45 and saw the multitude of bugs and I quit out because I didn't like the idea of putting myself through lvling to 60 just to experience a buggy mess.

Same. I managed to get to 60 but the gear grind after that made the level grind look diverse af. Instead of killing the same copy paste minions over and over again you just killed the same world boss over and over again until you boosted your gear rating enough to get a max level whatever you were after. The PVP was awesome til everybody started exploiting everything. Game fell off quick.

the game was painful

@PoochMG Oh yeah that was the other part! I remember watching videos on what to expect at endgame and thinking it looked awful xD it's unfortunate because I think it wasn't too far off being good tbf

I wanted to actually help out defend stuff but couldn't join because it required level 60 to do.

Same here but I bailed at lvl 35. Shame I REALLY enjoyed the game until lvl 30.

Watching the progression of Scot Lanes physical stress is low key the best part of this video

I'm 1200ish hours into New World on mainly one character, pretty much just myself working on trade skills and another buddy fetching resources to help me max out all my trades. I just found it really relaxing to be able to relax doing crafting/gathering while still making enough progress to eventually get to 60 so that I can still run the odd expedition with friends here and there. I've got loads of quests left to do. I've been tolerating the grind for a while, occasionally taking breaks to hop on other releases in the meantime. New World has one hell of a foundation to build upon, and seems like they aren't ignoring feedback so far. I'd say for anyone who lost interest part way through leveling to 60, put this one to the side and let it grow. Headlines talking about how the game is dead or dying kind of dissuades potential players from giving it a go. My biggest gripes are the copy/paste of enemy character models and similarity of many settlements. I think some quests should have had longer chains that force you into the next zone to complete them, granted while I mainly leveled off crafting, im getting the feeling that eventually even if all you did was quest, you'd wind up doing random things everywhere. I'm also running into a lot of quests where either the mob isn't spawning, or the marker is wrong, even after multiple patches the same issue persists.... Hopefully over time as we get more regions, maybe even a complete overhaul, we'll end up with the MMO we all want... or think... or cant... become a reality. You can't please everyone.

On the hitscan, playing musket it's a massive difference, played on launch and got dragged back kicking recently, I couldn't hit anything because I always account for projectile travel not knowing it switched to hitscan, and having projectile travel just feels soo much better in new world's setting since the strongest aspect of the game is immersion Also solo chest runs were the most fun I used to have in endgame, if they kept those I might've been still occasionally playing And they absolutely fail at server merging, multiple servers with around 100 peak players for weeks while they say they constantly watch for servers needing merge and merge at the soonest thursday (at least I think it was thursday)

Holy crap I was not expecting to see footage of Conquer Online, no matter how brief it was. I frigging LOVED that game, especially before the update that added the Potency stat and the Talismans, but continued to love it even after for a long while. It was incredibly pay to win after a point, but still wildly fun.

ωнαταρρ me right away please👆🏽

I played new world recently for a week or so and honestly it's easier to play with greatly reduced costs for traveling and stuff. I think the game is definitely playable. Mainly the massively multiplayer parts aren't really playable rn

As a Sr Software Engineer, I can tell you companies can't "buy their way" to quality talent. The industry is severely understaffed & most engineers are already highly paid and aren't even considering switching companies. Quality engineers do not look for jobs, they are primarily poached by recruiters, and if a good game developer is already working and invested in another project with another company, they are unlikely to jump ship to join AGS, regardless of more money waved in their face, as these game devs are very passionate about seeing their project to completion, already make plenty of money to be happy. It's not just the game industry either, this is a software development problem as a whole. This is why Intrepid Studios (Ashes of Creation) continues to promote their Development Updates as "hiring opportunities" to entice quality game devs to join them on their project. You have to sell the idea of your project to the engineers in order for them to join you. Most recruiter messages come with a generic line about "joining a growing team working on an unannounced upcoming project" which is unlikely to even yield a response.

Actually from personal experience the "passion" aspect is just platitude used to feel better. We are working for money, simple as.

@Mother Pigeon If you look at the new Frost Giant Studios game reveal that's clearly not true. Those people, regardless of being short on money, are boldly trying to revitalize the rts genre. There are a lot of starcraft II devs from old times on that team and it's obvious that all these devs want to do is make a new good rts that can stand the test of time - because the rts genre has been kinda dead for a long time.

@Mother Pigeon yeah that’s some BS bro. Good attempt to try and hijack the original commenters thunder though. After a certain point you don’t let money tempt you unless it’s much more money than you will realistically make. Being a game designer isn’t going to make you a billionaire. Probably not even a millionaire unless you invested wisely.

Also the game industry as a whole is part of the it industry not that many people want to work at. In most companies yoi suffer, bad work conditions and terrible deadlines (nothing special by itself) but also mostly incredibly low wages as well

@Bananenbauer123 Yeah yeah, you certainly work opportunities and for passion xD Maybe if you don't have family and responsibilities then yeah you can jump around but someday you will need to focus on your future. That's why I personally swapped to cybersecurity for money and I don't use funny platitudes to make myself better.

I think an expansion like patch (new zones, add more dungeons, add raids, new PvP modes/battlegrounds, solo friendly content etc) will bring back new players. Couple this with going free to play for the content that was available prior to this patch. That will bring new players in and old players back IMO. Game is actually pretty good and has only gotten better over the last few months. Here’s to copium for my favorite game.

I loved and still enjoy playing New World. I don't play as much as I used to, but come back to it at least once a week or so. I took my time and finally hit level 60 and I've had a lot of fun with the gypsum and such. I can tell what Asmongold means that if New World launched with that patch it'd have had a better retention rate. I may not have the same hours or play extensively, but I keep coming back to it and enjoying it as more of a casual game. I hope the devs keep working on the game and it does pull a No Man's Sky, or an ESO or even a Realm Reborn if they have to. I love the setting and the life skills are the best in an MMO I've ever played, being a huge fan of Survival games. It needs more time but I think New World could reach a fairly good community even if it doesn't get to even 50k daily players.

What asmon said about following a build guide shows me that he really is experienced and intelligent, he's not just full of himself, he backs it up

I hope this game makes a comeback. And before you say I’m high on copium, I haven’t played a minute of the game. I don’t play MMO’s on release, because that’s when the game is at its worst. It does look like something I’d enjoy, and if it does make a comeback, I’ll check it out.

I loved New World and you nailed it on the head Asmongold. Sucks that the game itself couldn't hold its luster.

i'll be honest with you, my dude. never was a big fan of yours but you're growing on me. keep up the great work, man! Also New World will always have a place in my heart. :D

That's almost like everyone lmao .. just understand that this guy is his own self. You might agree with him and disagree. Laugh and enjoy the show!

I was playing like 50 hours of New World a week while working 60 hour weeks. I loved this game. The games gameplay loop is so simple and cozy but there is too many unignorable flaws. The devs not rolling back servers after the duping basically killed the desire for anyone who was playing casually. The fact that issues pointed out in the closed beta were never addressed. The fact that the game launched in an unfinished state. If patch 1.0 was the gypsum patch I honestly thing the game would have about 100k players. The game also just straight up lacked content to do. There was no down side to running the same 50 man War team so it lead to player burn out and resentment of players not as good or hardcore because they never got to partake. Then server lag, game breaking bugs and unbalanced pvp with Ice Gauntlet and Void Gauntlet. I could go on and on but I think if Amazon doesnt abandon this game and they keep developing content it should become successful in the future. All of these things are what drained me from New World. I really really hope they are able to do a major content patch, maybe a barber, bunch of pve grinds, maybe even 2 new weapons. I am excited to see how the arenas are though. Thanks for reading my tedtalk

I still chuckle whenever I remember the story of how Yoshi-P made the dev team of FF14 play WoW has homework when he was placed on the team... I don't think anyone was expecting that to happen when they received news that they were getting a new game director, but it definitely helped them make ARR work as well as it did XD

If you read some interviews coming out of FFXI 20 Anniversary, it seems clear those devs did play other MMOs. FFXIV launch issues ultimately come from a disastrous development due to a horrible engine (the same one which derailed XV) and a lot of stupid features come from coping with that due to no content.

It seems stupid to have a development team working on MMO while none(or almost none) of them actually plays an MMO. I mean, yeah, if they never worked on an MMO, there is no problem, they still have a certain experience in game development but to have people that are unfamiliar with the genre is a recipe for disaster

@Riposte8 yeah honestly, FFXIV 1.0 felt like they thought "let's make FFXI again, but prettier", without taking into account the evolution of the genre at all.

Asmon, the difference between WoW and New World not having experienced devs is that WoW was bred from passion and New World was not. I can't speak about WoW nowadays but at its inception It was inarguably created by people cared deeply about the project. New World feels absolutely soulless.

Also New World was developed remotely and not centered in a studio

New world was the first mmorpg video game I played. What I loved about it was gathering materials, crafting and then selling them to other players. I only wanted to go to dungeons and level up for that reason. So far I've played mobile mmorpgs and just recently got Elden Ring and Star Citizen. Still lost in SC world so not sure if they have that system yet. But not really enjoying Elder Ring as much as others, weirdly, playing New World was a lot more fan for having that the market.

I feel for the team, imagine putting years of your life working on something that is fated to die before it can reach its true potential...

or you know, having $2000 graphic cards explode was quite the scare tactic.

Well its their own fault xD

They made a bad game thats all

Asmon looks more and more like South Park Jesus.

True dood. True AND real.

WOW. Never made the connection... to the subreddit.

"Hello childrens"

I can't believe I never saw it

LOL so true!! 😂😂😅😅

My issue with the game was the material grind and my gf mentioned this and I agree - it's hard to quest and run around with your friend. It would be better if we could quest share.

Asmongold is one of the guys who would be able to ressurect new world , but until gray hair devs don't listen to him , game is on the way to the graveyard

On the topic of the mid game experience. I played New World for a couple evenings with friends and it was really, really fun. However, after reading reddit and forums we realized there wasn't really going to be much for us going forward and it just wasn't worth the time commitment when there are things like FFXIV for us to play.

I still log in from time to time, to see what is happening, as I was having much fun the first 2-3 months. Great atmosphere, music and immersive environment. One of few games where its actually nice running around and gathering, which is mostly what I did, beside leveling up to 60. I really hope they are going to pull No mans sky, but its going to be a very hard.

Well time for Amazon to splurge more on its development then

@Feel Collins Oh I dont mind if they do, probably there won’t be anyone to play with by that time, too bad.

@Dendrin Ain't hard to market stuff when you got money, people would be curious either way and try it, the real problem is if they can actually succeed in making it great or not, naturally it would attract more people if it did

@Feel Collins Yeath It’s too bad, they did many things right, but it is what is it.

I've been playing Foxhole lately, and I'm still amazed at how so many people can work together to accomplish something, rather than tear it apart.

It's kind of adorable how Asmon insists the game still has a heartbeat because after shedding over 90% of the player base, the shedding finally stopped lol. I also don't get the bit about the devs deserving credit for not just abandoning the game, because... that's not their decision to make. They'll work on New World as long as the people above them want them to work on New World. The game's monster numbers at launch probably convinced AGS it was worth trying to see if they could rebound, but I bet if this summer content expansion doesn't see a large and sustained increase in players that's going to be the the end of trying to salvage the game.

If a game featured on DOAG comes back to life thats perfect. Whole heap of content for episode 1 of Resurrection of a Game.

I actually came back to the game, with lots of other player. I enjoy. Imo the game is not dead yet and could resurrect.

ESO was in a far worse situation and just do perfectly fine now.

A game's not dead till the player count hits double digits

Man I’m already playing new world less now after the new patch. Go do PVP and it’s just full on range users. You step out of cover once and get shot by a million arrows. Can’t be in the open in OPR now because you’ll have 10 bow users aiming at you.

Enjoyed the content creator, good video to react to. These types of videos makes for a very good mix with Asmons on going discussion on the topics.

I really liked the New World combat. at least until I joined a guild and every other weak they would want me to switch to fit the meta which was super limiting to the point where half the weapons I enjoyed using weren't allowed, and then the new thing I spend hours leveling would be taken off the list the next week.

If they would have implemented naval combat into New World the game would have been a great success! Player to player interactions is the key to making a successful mmo.

I loved playing when servers were full and I had a bunch of friends online. Most of my friends quit after becoming disillusioned with the developers promises. Every patch created more problems than it’s solved. I would play a re-release yes they could ever make it happen.

I love your videos! From the Amber Turd case to game play, reviews, and commentary! Wonder if you have plans to stream/upload 1440p content?

42:27 it was the graphics cards problem, it was several of them due I believe to them using fewer chips (I forget what they did specifically) on the back of the card under the silicon, there are 6 spots, they only populated 2 to save a penny, which under normal circumstances, wouldn't be a problem, but new world pushed the game to its limit in menus by running them with no cap. the cards were on borrowed time yes, but new world put the final nail in them, at if I remember the point where 3060's were selling for 1000+$

Yup, my 3090 died playing FF14 due to the same problem, 100% a hardware issue.

If the game released NOW with the Arena update I strongly believe it would've kept close to 50% of the peak, even more if/when Arenas get a rated mode so people can properly compete. The PvE experience is slowly improving, they're adding more dungeons and I believe the new desert zone before the end of this year. It will continue to slowly improve, and could very easily have a resurgence with a big expansion if they do one. Also I googled "Musket bullet speed" and it says roughly 450-540 meters a second, which is definitely "hitscan" to the naked eye.

With everyone going with a bow build. I literally logged on for the new patch and arenas. OPR more than half of the players running bows. Arenas will pair you up with 2 healers and one melee, either that or 4 out of 6 players using the bow. I can’t be in the open now because I’ll get shot to death by arrows and bullets. Personally I don’t want to be in PVP if half the players are just ranged, killing you before you can even get close to them.

@Gerbo Yes there's a lot of bow users because the bow is really good if you can aim, and playing full melee in world PvP is almost always a bad idea for the simple reason that you often can't close gaps easily without support. Something I like to do for melee is run Spear/Hatchet or Spear/Gaxe using the Spear purely for CCing people as they run away. Javelin, Sweep and Vault Kick are insane to combo with a thick Gaxe.

Honestly, I just came back to New World after 3 months and the dev's are actually making a lot of strides. Combat feels MUCH smoother and they added 3v3's. I'm surprisingly enjoying it again and I'm glad.

New World is a great experience for going off and getting lost in the world of the game. If you take it too serious, then I could see it not being that great. The PvE is a lil rough, and I never got into the PvP (not my tea). I loved collecting mats, and just chillin.

Asmon I am amazed and thankfull for this video, only you know how to decorate shit with a gift bow, giving equal attention to both. NW is amazing game and you are actually doing amazing job to advertise it!

I personaly think that the mmrpg standart seems to play zoomed out reduces the emersion. If it wouldnt be possible positioning etc could be much more statetigic too and it would support the teamplay aspect. I think it gets one much more into the world. And old wow beta videos had a much more zoomed in gameplay shown for example. What do you think?

This thumbnail formula is making me go insane. It's literally almost the same picture of Asmongold doing a shocked or distraught facial expression in a white shirt plastered over some random bs edited screenshot from the video. Legit makes me feel like I have traveled back in time to a 2016 commentary channel

Any game developer who can not get "security" in place to prevent cheating is set to fail in a "big MMO" game. And they even failed to rectify the cheats. How many people were duplicating shit like ultra rare resources to make high end craft gear was crazy and I still bewildered how the system was not hardened against such things which were known at least since the alpha.

It sounds very exciting to be apart of building out a big beautiful map, with every detail considered. To create this incredible place 100,000s of people will explore. But it may have been a better idea to create a base map, with base assets, and rules, and have the world auto generated, along with a force wipe periodically and proportional.

the problem with new world, in my opinion, was that it was designed to be a successful software release, not a fun game. They tried a bunch of completely different approaches to the game, listened to feedback if people like that type of game, and if they said no they changed it. They never had someone at the top with a real vision, as asmon also says in this video, nobody had an idea of what they wanted the game to be like.

a MAJOR point that has not been brought up is gold dupes that to me and many others completely killed the game and the economy as it felt like it was not fair to grind for things while others managed to get their hands of hundreds of thousands of gold for free. I quit at level 40 and I feel like I would've still played even if the quests were boring and repeating if it was not for the fact that I felt like It simply wasn't fair anymore.

I made it to lvl 40 or so the thing that killed it for me was I joined the world my friends where in two weeks after the game launched because the population was full. The problem is that by the time I got in everyone on the server was levels ahead of me so every time I got on other than the main hub towns the other towns you go to on the quest line where completely empty other than a few people that fell behind in level or my friends that came and helped me level. So in the end if you didn’t level as fast as the super try hard group or join the server late you where absolutely screwed to a land of solitude. Also just remembered this there are missions that you have to play with others and missions that are really really hard without other people which the last one is the thing that finally got me to quit

I think the important thing is not that any of the individual devs were "bad" choices, but more the lack of SOMEBODY with experience. That's the thing about New World, there's a LOT of good there, but because they are basically reinventing the wheel instead of hiring at least one wheelwright to teach them how to do it, and there's a lot of systems where this is apparent, not just the general MMO experience, things like the auction house could have probably used an economist... a hire they probably also skipped. Much like how the way the heal staff (and stat) functions it kind of punishes support players, almost like their systems designer had no experience with making systems, nor did they seem to have a single support player on staff to point out how the game actively forces support players to have less fun.

Nerdslayer does really good videos. worth watching

I agree with Asmon when he says that MMOs should be amusement parks with sandbox elements. While some people enjoy and strive with content that requires you to make it, most people need more structure than that.

Crucible is actually a Paragon clone, when i played it the game was really good, had a really interesting card type of shop, where you prepared deack before the battle and then bought the cards and upgrades in the battle. I really liked it, sad to see the good games go and shitty one still alive

I still love new world, they need to make a lot of improvents to the game and their process in implementation. People often say 'why ask for this nice to have feature that'll improve qol when there's insane bugs or imbalances yet to be fixed'

bro i have a saying in life "the apprentice that actually wants to learn will one day be better then the master who teaches him" literally the exact thing you said asmon watch the people that are most sucessful in what you want to do and then add your own twist and abilities to it and youll be successful 100 percent of the time

I only made it to like level 43 in New World and then it got too repetitive. I think what really killed it for me was the multiple stashes and cost for transferring your gear. As soon as I got to the new town and had to redo all my stash system was the final nail in the coffin. And the gold cost for switching your spec.? I thought they would patch that out early on, but nope. Why would you have to pay gold to switch to a weapon that you've already trained? I think the Azoth costs were also pretty bad. Also, my server went from 500+ to less than 200 because everyone transferred out during Thanksgiving. I also would find the giant Turkey for the event, while leveling and let my guild know, and then after we would kill it, I received absolutely nothing for it because I was too low level, Lol I wrote lots of feedback in and out of the game but they never seemed to take notice of it. Anyways, I'm playing Lost Ark now and really enjoying it.

It sucks how many MMO games just totally forget about the middle experience. Age of Conan, as an example, had an amazing 1 - 20 early game until you left Tortage which then dropped you in to a barren game that didn't even have enough quests to out level zones so you just did mob grinds.

I was the Executive Director for a healthcare non-profit and the board for the organization was a rotating volunteer board with literally no understanding of the industry or specifics. It was like herding cats around a room full of land mines while having to wear a smile. Oh also, black powder muskets had velocities between 400 feet per second to 1100 feet per second so at even 100 feet it wouldn’t be hitscan on a moving target

Back in 2005 my guild was raiding in bwl and the last boss neff buged out. Could not talk to him to start the fight. So we got a GM to fix it. And he said he never played wow and seeing the last boss was cool to see. So yeah at the end of the day its just a job.

I'm quite certain that if I was able to go back to 1985 and show my Grade 13 class the rapidly scrolling chat text in this video and convince them that's an acceptable way of communicating in 2022 ... they'd think I was nuts.

Is it acceptable though? It’s fun to read and all but it might as well be AI generated and no one would know the difference. Also I don’t know why anyone on a personal level bothers typing anything - seems pretty sad.

Watching this I just remembered that Maplestory 2 was a thing. I really enjoyed it, can't believe it died so fast and got deleted swiftly after by Nexon. Meanwhile Mabinogi and Vindictus still exist with low player counts...

Problem with MS2 was the costs they were using on devs to make/develop a different version of MS2 KR which is P2W over there but wasn't P2W in western, wasn't worth the dev costs. So they just decide to pull the plug and be done with it. But yeah I did play MS2 a lot now I'm playing MS, oddly enough MS was far superior than MS2. I never tried it until MS2 closed down. I'd give it a try but the grind can be nuts at the very high lvl content for Black Mage etc.

@Novuhz Yeah I remember not feeling the need to spend money on anything, I thought it was a temporary thing to attract new players at the time but I guess not. Plus they couldn't monetize the whole "FashionStory" thing, I remember making my own custom clothing for free which was insane at the time.

I had almost 300 hrs for a $40 game, so it was good value for the money. My friends and I quit after our server pop during prime time was 88 people with bots, the healing nerf, armor nerf and crafting nerf with no server merges in sight. I was a gatherer/crafter on a server where one faction ruled the entire map. Hours of gathering mats you couldn't sell, couldn't store and couldn't craft with, destroyed this game. You can't make gold without an economy and you can't have an economy when there's no players. They've made some changes since but at this point they couldn't entice me back to the game even if they paid me. Want to talk about no vision? Let's put in a summer event and play guitar hero instead of fixing crafting or any of the other problems. No thanks!

I love Asmons take and feeling about new world. I loved the game. I did the same solo chest runs in myrk and mines he was talking about.

I was fine with the leveling system, it was grindy but was fun. I left at 60 due to lack of content. having to grind millions of ingot just to get a couple levels in crafting or signing up for that corruption even just to not be able to enter (setting up alarms or getting ready and drop everything your doing to just get a rejection in the end...) just started to get too annoying and found out that I wasn't really doing anything but grinding mats. in all, no end game content in the game for a majority of players and only available to selected few (elites).

The middle game slog is exactly when I dropped off. Got to like 27 and was pretty bored of doing the same job-board missions over and over again. Repeatable content is fine, but there needs to be a good balance with some unique scripted content too. Also, the whole economy in the game was completely f*cked.

Im right with Asmon. The first week of launch I was in all chat telling everyone that "Being forced to walk back and forth to collect wood is going to kill this game, especially if Azoth is going to cost an arm and a leg if you're in the wrong faction. We need mounts, cheaper azoth or some kind of global running speed buff while out of combat." All the no lifers and hardcore survivalist andys shot me down, called me casual and echoed one another about the TRUE MMO experience. And would you look at them now, strapped to a hospital bed being constantly injected with 30CCs of high grade Copium. Then to rub salt in the wound, AGS not only reduced the fast travel cost on Azoth, they added a 10% speed boost when traveling on roads, like I said they should've, 3 days into the game. I still think mounts with a 30% speed boost would've been 100x better and helped retain a lot more players though. But the hardcore pvp andys whined and cried about how mounts would ruin pvp, even though every MMO with open world pvp and mounts found a way to make it work. Like being dismounted if you take any damage, or being slowed to a crawl upon taking player damage. But nope, no one could see past there being "NO BEASTS OF BURDEN IN THE LORE!".

This. Thought this exact thing, I had a week off of work about a month after its release, and blasted through to lvl60. Burned out and was also tired of running everywhere. Not only that though, the politics in teh game was jacked. Like I could never participate in guild related content to defend stuff. It always went to top donors, or friends. BS concept really. On paper it sounds cool. But in practice, you can never trust the player base to make good faith decisions.

trying to sound like the smart person in the situation when you were suckered into paying for and wasting time on a game all of the beta testers said to avoid isnt pretty ironic.

game had bigger problems than this, clearly you only played 3 days.

@luc rative not a waste of time if I enjoyed it. can enjoy a flawed game, nothing wrong with that.

@Aaron about 47 days, actually. hit 60 and all motivation to run around in circles opening chests for hours on end, immediately dried up. did at least get 200 in trade skills before they nerfed the exp. Literally just sharing one aspect of the game I experienced and people try to jump in acting like they know something "CLEARLY YOU ONLY PLAYED THIS PART OF THE GAME!". Pretty sure I at least hit 200 hours in the game before quitting so pls, bother someone else.

I quit at lvl 30 or so, the lvling was not even that bad, but having to walk the whole map, and not having enough dust to fast travel killed it for me, I wanted to play an MMO not walking simulator

There was something very odd too about there being NO horses anywhere. Hearing everybody's footsteps everywhere without intermingling with hooves took away from the immersion for me.

I feel this one heavy, so much walking and running around, especially for the pvp times to hold territory really bad.

Well that is fixed! So during levelling you are almost always at the azoth cap! Fast travelling is very accessible now :)

@K E they could fix every issue in the game, and people will still complain.. oooh dead world.. game is trash.. its so broken... stupid negative andy's

@I Loot You Hoot Well I only needed faster travelling and that's all haha, if that is fixed might pick it up again, the game was overall fun

I think they should keep fixing the game and working on a huge update. It has to be with new mechanics and level cap. If they can do that correctly and market it correctly, then I think they could bring back players and because the game has been fixed can retain more players.

Defiance wasn't a failed MMO at all, it was amazing in every way, people that played it couldn't say it was "failed" the thing was legit fire

@34:24 Disagree on the POE build thingy, I started playing without guide and found a crazy berserker flickerstrike build on the first play through. I remember while playing, I had a deliberate idea in mind and started chasing that concept (lifesteal, with fast attack speed). Gathering talent points until you find the gear to make that concept work. Perhaps I was lucky, but I know I quit the game because it felt very broken (which was my mission to begin with).

i stopped playing at level 29 in the pre order public test because i didnt want to get too far into the game before it actually launched. then by the time launch actually came around i realized that i was just playing the launch version of the game. this really demotivated me to continue playing so i quit around level 20 along with many of my friends. its sad because i really did enjoy playing the game in the pre order alpha.

One of the biggest issues was the developers would patch the game to make things that were fun less fun, or no fun. They focused their efforts on literally killing the game instead of focusing on fixes and updates that would retain players or draw more into the game.

New World made me feel like an Amazon Mass Production factory worker and a slave. The amounts you have to gather and produce to get any tangible progress was just not for me. But I loved the combat, graphics and general feel of the game. Glad I tried it, but they didn't take it in a direction I cared about whatsoever for endgame PvE and it didn't turn into the PvP game it could've been either, so I bailed. Happy there's no sub. Can plop in again in a few years if it's still up and check it out.

It will always be heartbreaking to know that Double Helix was pulled from their amazing work on Killer Instinct to work on the trash that was New World.

The biggest issue is that pvp based games are not destined for failure but they have the deck stacked incredibly high against them. Case in point: Warhammer Online, based on the fantasy warhammer universe and very pvp oriented, was an awesome experience with some great pve quests and systems but “the endgame” was based on pvp raiding of opposing factions home cities. The problem was twofold. One you’d have servers dominated by one faction. Two LAAAAAG. Honestly the lag killed it more than anything. I could have dealt with being an underdog and fighting up from the bottom but that’s really not something you can do in a game where giant pvp battles, the endgame, featuring THE ENTIRE SERVER, are unplayable. It was awesome though. How many mmos have an endgame that involves EVERY SINGLE PLAYER whether they want to or not. Still these are where non-hardcore pvp mmos fall apart.

It sucks the player count is so low even though I don’t play, I was going strong with a group early on but quickly people were dropping like flies. I ended up playing solo (when all the bottling/duping and market crashes were nearing its peak) I grinded from 37 to 59 swapped server and that one soon dies as well, I gave up & uninstalled.

30:55 this reminded me of my first job, so there is the NGO on my city that provides pretty much teenage labor education and jobs for teens about to get to adulthood in governmental institutions with office spaces, and on the job I got, by month 2 of a 2 year contract I realized the guy responsible for my sector was just a someone who didn't knew nothing, the only thing that he would do was expect documents to show up in his desk magically, and try to awe the teens on that sector about how "great" of a boss he was, although we were young we weren't THAT impressionable, and when I realized, I was treating the old lady, who worked on that sector since the 80's and knew EVERYTHING there was to know about our functions and our responsibilities like she was my REAL boss, and I feel like that since today, after years out of that place. (Besides she was just a nice lady, and sometimes even bring home made pies and other things for the sector people, they were delicious btw) What I think I am trying to get at is, if your leadership is lacking, there will be dissatisfaction, and your workers will either try and rely in other people, or even just straight up not do their work right.

Just got back a few weeks and leveled to 60. I really enjoy it and trying out the dungeons and just being in the world is great. I like how immersive and cozy it is. Furthermore, my server Midgard is full and it is also full of people my age. I am in a company with a lot of other 40-something and it is great with a game that appeals to us older gamers :).

Companies almost always go cheap mode with AI devs. Which, one of my favorite things from BFA WoW was the expeditions. The AI for the npc players was the best I've experienced for an mmo - how blizzard didn't realize they hit gold with that feature, I have no idea... every mob should have unique AI implemented - i.e. Cowardly enemies , etc... AI is huge for just making basic combat or grinding fun, compared to tedium.

@Blackelite89 that wasn't the AI, that was the difficulty they were scaled to. That mode wasn't meant to be difficult, so their dmg numbers, armor, etc... were all low. If you raise that, the AI itself was great. 'Garbage' - stfu haha, miles better than any other mob in any mmo..

@Blackelite89 you're the one that gave specific % buddy. Numbers are everything, the AI just makes it seem like less of an NPC you're fighting (the way they move, learning your rotation and countering, etc...) - as said that mode of expeditions was meant to be easy and there wasn't a hard mode. Hard mode was against other players... I'm just saying that AI should be implemented into all npc and you keep making horrible made up arguments that hold no validity. It's about tuning the numbers for difficulty you want to achieve. You're saying it would be unfair, but the numbers could be tweaked to make it fair and fun. Again stfu... :) No other mmo has had that good of AI for mobs in an mmo and it would be game changing. Also I'm an AI guy, my senior project was creating a deep learning machine that could learn to complete photos that were cut in half. So trust me when I say that there is AI in games and that the mobs in those expeditions do have good AI in terms of a video game npc.

@Blackelite89 we are, you just keep ignoring what I'm saying... Those mobs were the best AI out of any mob in the game, or any other mmo. You just keep peddling around that fact and saying that overtuning is unfair, and that good AI in games doesn't exist. When all I'm saying is that the AI on the npc player mobs in expeditions is the best AI in the game and should be implemented to all mobs in one way or another. It's much more advanced than the basic mobs in any mmo to date.

I just realized how asmon might be ahead of us all. Taking showers is actually bad for your skin and hair, its just that too much gunk is even worse. So, asmon's skin care routine might actually be genius.

I struggled with the leveling process at launch, chore list quests with no story, and constantly walking everywhere.. I've heard it's better now but I don't know if there's enough content there for me to go back.

So far my favorite mmo is still gonna be ESO. Even with the shit lag in the massive warzone. It's still one of the best mmo. Just because you can go away for a year and not be behind on anyone else in terms of power. Sets that are 5 years old are still usable. Level cap is still the same. The CP system is pretty good in that regard.

MMO‘s are not only hard but impossible to create. There’s so many things people will quit on or not even start it’s insane in comparison to other genres and you can clearly see that when you are looking at WoW’s timeline only. It’s way too hard to please so many different takes while on for example Battle Royale shooters basically just have to have a good feel and performance and you’re good to go. I’m certain every MMO will die. Some slowly like WoW and some faster.

@J Dubbs even if they cant do it right, people still enjoy more BR's if they like BR overall then MMO's if skip the games with bad performance.

Christ, you can tell asmond is passionate about the game. 2 minutes into the video and he has 25 minutes of commentary...

Finally someone who said that's cute because another youtuber used his video, and know what fair use mean and didnt scream copyright strike like a maniac like 90 % of youtubers/streamers do

He's always welcomed it, he considered it free advertising and thinks it's cool when people make money off his content. Seems to have worked out for him so fair play to asmond

@Syntage88 Reaction content is kind of sad tho. The person reacting makes so much more money than the creator.

​@Bollibompa advertising ain't free

@Bollibompa gain is not comparable unless both channels have the same foundation/base. 1 farming method in an mmorpg and 2 characters will have different gains. Use your brain

@A G And that is exactly the problem. Especially since the creator does not get advertised nearly as much as people think. Research has shown that viewers rarely go to the original video or original channel at all. I advise you to watch the series on this by Josh Strife Hayes and (more contentious but fair) DarkViperAU.

As the other Zach whos played as much internet gaming as Asmond, I'll say that Breakaway was Amazon gamings 1st tragic mistep, literally they over tweaked the game ruining the wonderful base mechanics because a few alpha testers complained about knockback nonstop on forums. It was one of the best pvp games i've ever played though, on par with OG Arctic Valley WOW

I hit max lvl and quit. 182h played. It was good fun but the servers is what killed it for me. I live in Japan and there were not servers I could join to have a low enough ping to compete in PVP. I play many competitive shooters in NA servers with 120-140 ping and have minimal issues. New World had me at 350+ ping connecting to the same servers.

A lot of companies don't understand the maxim: "Make it BETTER, don't take things away." Removing things from games just guarantees the loss of those players who enjoyed that thing. I really enjoyed playing Firefall as you could glide across the entire map, reach the highest points of mountains, and do content solo (lone wolf style); then they stopped you from being able to build for those capabilities in an attempt to make it "new user friendly", and I lost all interest. If they had just introduced a skippable tutorial instead they would still have the large numbers of players that pretty much paid for the games existence and development (i.e. the "Founders").

As a FFXIV andy, I was planning on playing New World myself whenever I get a new GPU (since prices are still jacked up and my current GPU died at the worst time), but it seems it didn't live up to expectations.