After raising the expectations of the PC community for months, few expected that Amazon’s big surprise would be to bring its game to consoles
There are problems in New World. Over the past few months, fans of this MMORPG initially released on PC were excited to learn that Amazon was preparing many changes for your fantasy world. Although details regarding future developments in the game were unknown, the team raised the community’s expectations ahead of a big announcement that would take place this June. Now, as revealed at Summer Game Fest 2024, we know that the developers were working on the new New World: Aeternum; version with various additions whose most notable characteristic is that will bring the role-playing experience to PS5 and Xbox Series. And computer users have not been slow to cry out loud.
Because, after months of requesting fixes and changes to the MMORPG, the community feels that Amazon has ignored their requests to focus on expanding its player base with the launch on PlayStation and Xbox. All this, furthermore, is aggravated if we take into account a detail published in the Steam release introducing New World: Aeternum: “Adventurers who own New World (base game) and the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion for PC before the launch of New World: Aeternum will receive a free update on October 15 that includes all new content. Those who have the base game, but not the expansion, You will need to purchase Rise of the Angry Earth to access the New World: Aeternum update At launch.” In short, PC fans must purchase the DLC from Amazon to be part of the new experience; otherwise, they will be left with the old version of the game.
Only 11% of recent New World reviews are positive
This has caused a huge explosion in the New World community, as there are many who feel abandoned by an Amazon more focused on console players. According to the game sheet on Steamrecent user reviews (reviews posted within the last 30 days) have given ratings ‘Extremely negative‘ to the MMORPG with only 11% positive opinions (from a total of 3,040 reviews).
The discontent, as you can imagine, is also perceived in the criticisms shared by Steam players: “After basically being a tester, a lab rat, since launch, waiting for the mounts to arrive, excited by the new updates of expeditions, they [Amazon Game Studios] now they ask for more money so you can use the mounts. For me, that was his big mistake, that was the day I uninstalled it” (1CGI3). In fact, the opinion of a user who invested more than 5,000 hours on New World: “Having played the game since launch, the developers have taken the game in a direction that doesn’t match the one I want to play. Thanks for the entertainment, but goodbye“. It remains to be seen how Amazon reacts to this wave of frustration, although few users remain hopeful with this MMORPG.
Via | Mein-MMO
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