The New World is on fire after Amazon’s announcement. Steam users are outraged, and there is even a fan with 5000 hours who is abandoning the MMORPG – New World: Aeternum.
After months of raising expectations in the PC community, few expected Amazon’s big surprise to be a console release.
There are problems in New world. Over the past few months, fans of this MMORPG, originally released on PC, have been pleased to learn that Amazon is preparing a lot of changes for your fantasy world. While details about the game’s future development were unknown, the team expressed the community’s expectations ahead of the big announcement coming this June. Now, as it became known at Summer Game Fest 2024, we know that the developers were working on a new New World: Aeternum; version with various add-ons the most notable feature of which is that will bring role-playing games to PS5 and Xbox Series. And computer users were quick to cry out loud.
Because after months of requests for fixes and changes to the MMORPG, the community believes that Amazon ignored their requests to focus on expanding its player base. launching on PlayStation and Xbox. All this, moreover, is aggravated if we take into account the detail published in Steam release Introducing New World: Aeternum: “Adventurers who owned New World (base game) and the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion on PC prior to the launch of New World: Aeternum will receive a free update on October 15th that includes all new content. Those who have the base game but no expansion, You will need to purchase Rise of the Angry Earth to access the New World: Aeternum update. The bottom line is that PC fans must purchase the DLC from Amazon to be part of the new experience, otherwise they will be left with an older version of the game;
Only 11% of New World’s recent reviews are positive.
This has caused a huge explosion in the New World community, as many of them feel abandoned by Amazon, which is more focused on console gamers. According to Steam game sheetrecent user reviews (reviews posted within the last 30 days) rated ‘Extremely negative‘ in MMORPG with only 11% positive reviews (from 3040 reviews).
The dissatisfaction, as you can imagine, is also felt in the criticisms shared by Steam players: “After essentially being a tester, a lab rat, since launch, waiting for the arrival of mounts, inspired by the new expedition updates, they (Amazon Game Studios) now they are asking for more money so you can use fasteners. For me it was their big mistake, that was the day I deleted it” (1CGI3). In fact, the opinion of a user who over 5000 hours invested on New World: “Having played the game since launch, the developers have taken it in a direction that is not what I want to play. Thanks for the entertainment, but goodbye“. It remains to be seen how Amazon will respond to this wave of disappointment, although few users remain hopeful about the MMORPG.
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