i actually really liked the meat and bones of the game, i like the combat and 3skill bar, named bosses for drops and stuff but they just dropped the ball hard
@@natefoldan I said this to my mate the other day about the lotr, Iv gone back to eso never even bought the angry earth expansion, I went on to see what it was like the other day, 400 people peak time on a Sunday server pop and I couldn’t level without buying the expansion and they’ve upped all the mobs to level 65 lol I just gave up and uninstalled and reinstalled eso, shame
true console players really wont even bother win testing an beta.. and tbh i hope they dont sell any copy at all at console they dont deserve a single penny the way they ruined this game played for almost 2k hours in hopes of them actually fixing something or making actually new contnet not just same one in diffrent version aka 10 same boring dungeons! this game went downhill fast ever since they wanted to change PvP game into PvE game would never be possible with such a bad PvE reskined mobs with same attack moves yeah ppl wont playing that but thats what happens when your paycheck dont depend on your success on sales amazon was throwing money at them and thats it.. sad cuz in core that was a good game
I'm playing the console beta and majority of players are on console. The PC players are mainly just sitting on low level characters bitching in global chat because they realized they were a multiyear beta test for console.
@@OGParzoval You clearly don't play console then lol A ton of console releases do betas, it's pretty much the norm now. TL, New World, Valorant, XDefiant, COD, Smite 2, Madden, the list goes on.
the fact they focus so much time and resource on pve because statistic said that most player are pve shows how wrong they were. Loyal player have been asking for just a new pvp map, not even that they could delivered to us. The worst dev team in the history of gaming. How hard is to read the hundreds of good recomendations from the community.
thats what happens when bad management meets bad dev team... When Scott Lame meets Katy and Dave V... I'm so sad what a great potential ruined. The world was beautiful, the combat, sfx... They just needed to make this world feels alive. I'll always remember leveling in Cutlass Keys and Reekwater Siren chest runs - what a beautiful zones
Chest Runs being deemed as "End Game Content" is what sank this ship. People want raiding, NO RNG CRAFTING, battlegrounds, and dungeons were too hard for most players.
Dungeons are simply not rewarding anymore, peak popularity was when u could loot items and sell for 200, 500k or even 1m. M3 now is yotally waste of time and most ppl cant play it so its dead content. Why would i play dungeons and watch some noobs with 200 con killing mobs for 2h just to salvage all rewards 😂
The devs are so retarded they leaned into this as well. They counted "ECR" as content which it is NOT. It was a boring activity born out of necessity because of the watermark system. Instead of realizing this and fixing these large elite zones to be challenging and rewarding 5-10m content, they created more with the intention of having them steam rolled like the others....the sheer incompetence blows me away.
I am sure I could do more alone in these 3 years. Its beyond pathetic how lazy they are. Like updating loot table is few hours to day of work, but fucking corpo cant do this. New opr map is also easy shit, I would even sell it as dlc for extra money, like 1 new for free and next paid with some bigger dlc.
I have heard so many sweaty PVP players asking for free for all PvP. Just stop complaining when they actually give players what they asked for. It all I heard about on the discord server.
New World will forever go down as the game with the greatest potential that failed the hardest. Absolutely beautiful world, wonderful music, phenomenal gameplay and combat - the foundation of the game was just incredible. But ultimately, they killed themselves by releasing the game a year too early knowing it was unfinished and incomplete. They then had to spend the past several years just trying to fix the game and that killed them. Hopefully lessons have been learned for the upcoming LOTR MMO. But I'm not holding my breath.
I have talked to a couple people that have played the beta and obviously I can't say much, but I will say erm yikes.... This game is actually going to shut down I fear.
It will surge for a bit since most the console folks aren’t privy to the actual state. Then, it will flow downward. It’s literally just a copy/paste port with some adjustments of the MSQ. The “PvP island” is DOA.
There's A LOT happening this weekend. Fortnite has a limited run for a Cyber Truck, Marvel Rivals has a limited run for their Beta exclusive skins, and much much more. Aint no one gonna play a closed beta with no rewards when there's so much more to play and earn. I haven't been able to play the beta on my PS5 for those reasons alone.
I don't think the playerbase should be an issue because I don't believe console players even really knew about the beta. I got my key literally on monday which only left me 2 days to test it out and the only reason I even knew about it was through word of mouth through the community on black desert console. I don't necessarily believe they are struggling to get players to get on it I just don't think they advertised it properly to get adequate numbers on the game for the beta. I do believe needing a key was a little silly considering new world has massive potential on the console market due to lack of good mmorpgs and with black deserts current decline on console, the playerbase is looking to jump ship to another mmo that will respect the players time investment. I personally enjoyed the beta and the opportunity to create a max character and experience the end game to see if its something I cared to work towards in the future on release. Everything for the most part felt pretty smooth and functional from what I played but take that with a grain of salt since I got in on the last 2 days of the closed beta. Overall I do believe they dropped the ball on advertising the beta and I did hear there was some sort of NDA on recording/streaming the game, I'm not sure if thats true but the beta did have a watermark on it and if that NDA was a fact that also hurt its advertisement since people like myself and others would have been happy to stream/record the game and give thoughts and opinions. Definitely a bag fumble on their end.
Disappointed to say the least. New World was incredible for me at launch, the potential was phenomenal. It's actually impressive how massively Amazon fumbled the bag on this game.
I am a console player and I have been playing the beta (First time trying New world). I got the key only because I watched another video that was shitting on the game and the number of unclaimed keys otherwise I wouldn't even know that there was a closed beta. I shared the info with a few friends of mine and we all played mmos on console (eso and BDO). The first feeling with this game is very satisfying, good progression, good story full of cutscenes, modern graphics and the combat feels very good overall, very dynamic and good responsiveness. I genuinely understand the PC community but you need to understand that the developers generated a complete new game starting from an unfinished game released on PC. Sorry if you had to play the alpha test until now but I don't think the game is going to die on console too, quite the opposite tbh.
100% agree with you. Not only does it actually feel good to play on console (I thought it would run like shit ngl), people on console don't have MMO's to play. It's the same like 3 MMO's that have been out for ages that people are bored of. This alone means New World will maintain a player base because the players have nowhere else to go.
I remember when I was like you. Trust me the game looks great upon first playing once you start ACTUALLY playing content at a high level you'll see how soulless the world is it doesn't feel lived in and the reflects in the dungeons and other content the game provides. You'll get bored and move on trust me I'm not joking I was so excited and so positive and hated the hate but I have been through it with this game it's not going to succeed.
@@rebel8215 I do I've played those games. I'd pick ESO over New World ANY day trust me you'll see once you start playing the game on a non surface level. Better yet idk you but we are friends now let's revisit this in November after you've had a month to play it let me know how it's going 😂
@@probeA123 Bro I've already played the game on PC lmao I hit max gear score and have done all of the content in the game. I stopped playing because all of my friends are console and I had nobody to play with. ESO has gone to shit more than New World has and the pvp community has been completely abandoned. I'm somewhere around 2800 CP and have played the game on console since it released. I've watched the game originally advertised with a big focus on pvp become completely ignorant to that player base and become a pve slogfest.
I agree. But for pve, crafting, solo or story gaming, this is a great time to be on. No bots, no fighting for resources, great and supportive players... there is a silver lining at least for a moment
2:17 … unsubbed. Tired of you making excuses for AGS. After how bad they’ve been, it’s inexcusable. Yet here you are constantly defending them. You basically just said…. “Take the numbers down so they can scam console players on their last cash grab”. Which is all console release is. AGS isn’t trying to revive the game on console. It’s one last cash grab before they abandon it. You of all people should know this and dam sure shouldn’t be encouraging AGS to “hide” anything
It’s crazy, half a year ago I made jokes about wow and I started it when I dropped new world around 2-3 months, logged in in that time 2 times just to refresh my buy and sell orders and now I just play wow for the first time and don’t really see me to come back to new world… really loved that game but I think that’s it for me
The problem is console players don’t go out looking for beta keys. I had about 15 people not even know the beta was going on and they all wanted to get into the game. The promotion for the beta was practically nonexistent on PS5. With Council if there is a beta, it usually just pops up in the store and you can download it and try the game. There’s no extra steps that’s how Council players like it.
I'm so pissed at this team. This could be THE mmorpg right now and instead they've just absolutely blown it in every conceivable way. AGS should sell the game to someone who is capable of fixing it. This team is not and never will be. I can't wait to see them destroy LotR.
Part of the issue is they didn’t allow options of starting levels like the PTR it was all fresh from level 1. So you have to ironman your own health pots to test the content. So unless you no life it you’re really limited in testing new content/end game. tons of weapon swap and input lag. When doing high level rotations with Blunderbuss massive freezing and lag spikes happen. PvP island is vast and looks like it could be something promising IF the drops are worth it. I doubt they will do that.
Wow, that's a huge ball dropped. They boggle my mind... wait. Never mind, I'm well beyond mind boggling with AGS. They're absolutely terrible and have no business in this business.
@@jpiggott9523 No, you can literally make a level 65 character for free that spawns in with endgame gear and 100's of pots, foods etc. These people don't know what they are talking about.
@@rebel8215 I was going to say that’s a bit fucking stupid if not 🤣 I never really play the ptrs I just wait till stuff gets released normally but I didn’t think even Amazon could be that dense hahaha
@@jpiggott9523 Yeah the first 2-3 days were purely new characters only, I assume to force players to play through the new MSQ and test that out, but after that you were able to make a max character.
I loved this game before it was neglected. I still log in for like 30-40 minutes a day (most days) to do some dailies, just in case a miracle happens and this game takes off again ... BUT ... I've already downloaded and installed 3 other games.
I remember when the free PC beta reached a peak of 150K players. And on console, the sum of all PS5 and Xbox barely reaches 1K players (being a free beta). AGS always being so optimal, so efficient, so useful. The game does not deserve it in the state it is in, but AGS does deserve this and even be worse. My conclusion, Scott Lane has won, but NW has lost.
Yeah, it's DOA. Anyone with eyes could've seen it coming. They should've prioritized fixing war, womp womp. Friends keep friends playing, and war is the only large scale content NW has to offer. If they fixed war (cross-server GvG not tied to territory) and THEN went all in on console, NW could've easily made a comeback. The FFA PvP Island has to be the biggest joke they've done yet. Something literally NOBODY was asking for. Waste of time.
Going to make this very clear. Me and my friends have never played New World until this console beta. As someone who knows nothing about this game, it is an absolute W game. I think everyone who is judging the game, has no lifed it to the extent where anything they add, you are judging it far too much. As a NEW player, not PC player.. This game is absolutely addictive. If this game is free on release, it most definitely will thrive on console and die on PC. I personally think it should, with how much PC nerds are expecting. Bring the game, let console player be the judge of it and go on.
I really really wanted NW to succeed but AGS has ran it into the ground. I'm actually surprised it's still hanging in there. The game has such fantastic potential but I don't see a long furture for it
I played the beta on ps5 and did some pvp, mainly with the bow bc it is my favorite weapon, it was surprisingly good/acceptable, i can confirm that there is lock on pvp, but honestly i could only land arrows with it when the other player stopped bc of travel time.
omg world wide player number is 2,216... this game is done really, even NW:A cannot save it with fresh servers... x3 EU servers are total number is 1001 too... When Throne and Liberty comes, it is going to affect NW a lot for sure, so when thy close NW? or make New World Unchained version similar to Archeage Unchained to release a game with a fixed version to start from zero? It seems like the only solution if thy fix all problems of course...
I still love this game, but haven't played in months because of everything they've done. I was loyal for years when all my other friends gave up on it early. But after all the recent debacle, it just feels pointless. I'm bleakly hopeful that things will change in the future, but... we shall see.
I feel your disappointment. We put a lot of hope in this game, we supported it and it lied us in the face, cheating us during 3 years to the point where if they would even start to do things right now, many of us would not have interest anymore.
honestly imo the best thing that can happen for the game is simple, everybody involved currently, steps tf away and goes and does what they really want to do, because clearly they have no passion for New World, I don't know any of the Romanian dev team, yet i would wholeheartedly trust them with the entire game over the incompetence of the current team and their lack of awareness even when told what is wrong, how can you not know what to fix when you're literally hearing about it on a daily basis from every aspect of the playerbase.
Hey one plus about these East Europe Studios, Total War Sofia literally just saved Total Wars ass with their update, botched by US sides influence. Maybe less involvement from Scott and Katie would be wonderful :P
Stopped playing after I saw its seasonal model. Serious development can never get done when you’re scrambling for content in a matter of weeks. Seasons are terrible for mmos and I feel bad for developers stuck having to meet those kinda deadlines.
@@Damageinc32599 The only glitch I experienced was not being able to access my inventory but it would go away after a few minutes. Happened maybe 5 times and stopped completely after day 2. Other than that I've had no problems.
@@rebel8215 yeah it runs pretty smooth on my PS5 as well. Couple disconnects and some quest bugs but thats not a big deal. Graphically its terrible compared to PC though.
the game was fairly coming back and each season was increasing the dept... then 2024 came and they sniped it completely so sad for that great world, i almost made friends coming into it... but june debacle made them all left... very frustating leadership in AGS... shifting from open talk to total mute i bet we wont even get any necromancer weapon now :(
@@jpiggott9523 pretty sure it was sarcasm. Yet another msq wannabe update, otherwise it’s just a copy/paste console port. Don’t care about the nda. Whole thing is a gaslit cash grab.
The big issue here is that nobody on console knows about the beta or even the game. I was aware of New World coming to console just because one day Ive decided to see "upcoming games" tab (and it was too late for me to access the beta).
Game won't get a single player on console. The beta is absolutely horrendous. On PS5 it runs at 720p and is so blurry and low res it's simply unplayable.
This ain't gonna fly. In hindsight it seems like the devs team has been doing wrong conclusions on the data they get and otherwise for a long time and their communication proved out to be not so honest and respecting. Honestly, if New World Aeternum fails I feel like the higher ups will cancel both New World Aeternum and their Lord of the Rings altogether and kick a whole lot of people out and then make new plans on the future and direction they are heading, maybe focus strictly on distribution side.
LOL no judgment here! edit... AGS has deceived us enough for me to be angry with them. If they were honest about everything from the start about the state of the game, I would still be playing and supporting them. But they weren't and they won't be. So I have ZERO faith in there ability to make LoTR any good at all. And will not be giving them money for LoTR because they've used and abused the New World player base to create it.
I am a pc player and have been playing the beta on Xbox. There are more differences than they have shown. It runs great on my series X and I can still use Keyboard and mouse lol. Yes I feel like I have been a beta tester on pc since launch but everything I have seen has been positive and is moving in the right direction. I can see why the current pc version has been in maintenance mode while they worked on this update.
I still believe the NW problem is all about AGS being not big enough to work on a mmo. They could put all the money needed to NW to succeed but somehow, it’s not the case.
Look at X/Twitter comments on their official Beta Thread Friends from what I have been reading... AGS's beta of PS/Xbox has been a disaster... very few people have actually redeemed codes... those that have played it (not PC players) have complained about PS2 Graphics and poor performance issues. I, like you, loved/love NW... but the devs are intent on killing it.
Glad I didn't play this on PC as I don't care for PC tbh. Console felt really good and truly a good experience. I will agree that NW should have been an open beta not a closed one. Going to be a interesting premier for console in October as they should have put it on console a year ago. But glad they are revamping the game for us console folks.
Ive recently started playing it on PC after not getting into it the first time round server isnt that old i dont think. As someone levelling up (49 so far). Theres nothing i can seemingly get involved in. Complete bystander if you arent with the initial wave pvp is off limits its stupid design is it not. Couldnt they create something to do for newer players to contribute.
Well. It was fun, those chest runs, and hours of chopping banana trees when the xp for furnishing was crazy HAHA. Grinding ridiculous mutated 3 for a golden horse I rode for 2 days haha.
Great example of a good game being handled by a bad dev team. Ever since launch, players have been giving LOADS of feedback. Yet there is so much this game still does not have, that other MMO's has had for ages. Just look at something as basic as swimming. It took them three years to add it in. THREE YEARS. The console release is "finally" going to add something that resembles a raid. Although it's insulting to call it a raid, when all you have is 3 bosses and 10 players. That's just a glorified dungeon. The people who will get NW on console, are people who likes MMO's, who haven't played NW yet, even though the game has been out for 3 years, who only owns a console and are willing to pay 60 dollars for a 3 year old game, that is 20 dollars less on PC. How many people do you think they will actually get?
They needed to make the beta open...not have to sign up on website to get keys. On top of that they need to reduce price because Throne and Liberty is going to release a month before and also f2p... They also would be wise to allow cross progression between PC and Console...if I can't play my character...I am not going to convince my console friends to buy.
I uninstalled after the "Big Announcement" , 2 friends started playing on a server I used to have around .250 lag on, was going to play with them anyway and found now its .650-.800 lag, Unplayable. I have a 1 gig fiber internet, it's not my side!
I built my pc for this game and played for awhile and they literally just added NOTHING to the game in years and if they are not willing to make content they obviously don’t care about the player base
I tried playing the beginning, and it's so boring. They really need to work on the fun of the first 50 levels. Instead of running here and there. Nothing happens until your max, I feel like. I will try the update when it comes, but after that, no idea
Watching this game get massacred by incompetent leadership has been painful.
i actually really liked the meat and bones of the game, i like the combat and 3skill bar, named bosses for drops and stuff but they just dropped the ball hard
It makes me bummed that they're doing lord of the rings. If only that game was being made by a competent studio.
@@natefoldan I said this to my mate the other day about the lotr, Iv gone back to eso never even bought the angry earth expansion, I went on to see what it was like the other day, 400 people peak time on a Sunday server pop and I couldn’t level without buying the expansion and they’ve upped all the mobs to level 65 lol I just gave up and uninstalled and reinstalled eso, shame
Shit i just started it, is it that bad? :D
Game is great, leadership is not.
I had so many hopes for New World... Its really shame it is in state like this and going for worse
I rekon 95% of the players who have downloaded the console beta are just PC players checking it out
lol... and you are 100% right... honestly.. WTF is AGS doing.. they had a good game.. they should have just work on it... what a EPIC fail
true console players really wont even bother win testing an beta.. and tbh i hope they dont sell any copy at all at console they dont deserve a single penny the way they ruined this game played for almost 2k hours in hopes of them actually fixing something or making actually new contnet not just same one in diffrent version aka 10 same boring dungeons! this game went downhill fast ever since they wanted to change PvP game into PvE game would never be possible with such a bad PvE reskined mobs with same attack moves yeah ppl wont playing that but thats what happens when your paycheck dont depend on your success on sales amazon was throwing money at them and thats it.. sad cuz in core that was a good game
Console games don’t do betas typically.
Hopefully whoever is responsible for the console pivot at the expense of the PC version gets canned.
I'm playing the console beta and majority of players are on console. The PC players are mainly just sitting on low level characters bitching in global chat because they realized they were a multiyear beta test for console.
@@OGParzoval You clearly don't play console then lol A ton of console releases do betas, it's pretty much the norm now. TL, New World, Valorant, XDefiant, COD, Smite 2, Madden, the list goes on.
Who would have thought trashing your player base is bad for business
the fact they focus so much time and resource on pve because statistic said that most player are pve shows how wrong they were. Loyal player have been asking for just a new pvp map, not even that they could delivered to us. The worst dev team in the history of gaming. How hard is to read the hundreds of good recomendations from the community.
thats what happens when bad management meets bad dev team... When Scott Lame meets Katy and Dave V... I'm so sad what a great potential ruined. The world was beautiful, the combat, sfx... They just needed to make this world feels alive. I'll always remember leveling in Cutlass Keys and Reekwater Siren chest runs - what a beautiful zones
The story was also interesting,not good but interesting.Thorpe's and Isabela's storyline along with the Empress Zou was dope man.
hey now. Dave seemed competent. lol
Chest Runs being deemed as "End Game Content" is what sank this ship. People want raiding, NO RNG CRAFTING, battlegrounds, and dungeons were too hard for most players.
Dungeons too hard?? They were very easy.
@@baju2560 hardly anyone ran them even on high pop, lol. only clique groups ran or sold them.
Dungeons are simply not rewarding anymore, peak popularity was when u could loot items and sell for 200, 500k or even 1m. M3 now is yotally waste of time and most ppl cant play it so its dead content. Why would i play dungeons and watch some noobs with 200 con killing mobs for 2h just to salvage all rewards 😂
The devs are so retarded they leaned into this as well. They counted "ECR" as content which it is NOT. It was a boring activity born out of necessity because of the watermark system. Instead of realizing this and fixing these large elite zones to be challenging and rewarding 5-10m content, they created more with the intention of having them steam rolled like the others....the sheer incompetence blows me away.
dungeons too hard lmao
Hate this game is going downhill the way it has been over the years, has loads of potential
Don’t even know if this game is saveable if they fired every dev and hired a new competent team
That could be what they are doing in Romania
I am sure I could do more alone in these 3 years. Its beyond pathetic how lazy they are. Like updating loot table is few hours to day of work, but fucking corpo cant do this. New opr map is also easy shit, I would even sell it as dlc for extra money, like 1 new for free and next paid with some bigger dlc.
Devs: “what do the players want?”
Players: “OPR! OPR! OPR!”
Devs: “Open world free for all PVP 😀”
Players: 😐😐😐😐
^^^^^ This ^^^^^
Thats not true.. we want both of it. Thats the whole point.. .What we dont want is more dumb single player quest. Thats the whole problem!
Free for all is the thing I am most excited about. Wanted that more than pretty much anything else.
Just saying, but myself and a lot of people I played with were asking for open world free for all, so its not fair to say that it wasnt requested
I have heard so many sweaty PVP players asking for free for all PvP. Just stop complaining when they actually give players what they asked for. It all I heard about on the discord server.
New World will forever go down as the game with the greatest potential that failed the hardest. Absolutely beautiful world, wonderful music, phenomenal gameplay and combat - the foundation of the game was just incredible. But ultimately, they killed themselves by releasing the game a year too early knowing it was unfinished and incomplete. They then had to spend the past several years just trying to fix the game and that killed them. Hopefully lessons have been learned for the upcoming LOTR MMO. But I'm not holding my breath.
Could have easily, easily been the best MMO that ever existed. Super bummer to watch it fall apart like this.
3400 Hrs - loved it somewhat - even with all its flaws ( as single player / ironman it would be nuts ) but they just killed it..
I have talked to a couple people that have played the beta and obviously I can't say much, but I will say erm yikes.... This game is actually going to shut down I fear.
2025 gonna be shutdown
It will surge for a bit since most the console folks aren’t privy to the actual state. Then, it will flow downward. It’s literally just a copy/paste port with some adjustments of the MSQ. The “PvP island” is DOA.
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They should have just had a beta on console without needing a key. Just an open beta.
they had delusions of demand exceeding capacity lol
They are delusional since day 1, but they prooven its not tactic, just lack of IQ 😂
Imagine if they had just given us a couple more OPR maps, what could have been...
Loading up the game after 3 months of not playing and getting into Windsward and not seeing anyone is depressing
More depresing is any queue except opr is dead 😂 m3 doesnt exists anymore.
Let it burn! it's all this game deserve
TRUE BROTHER
There's A LOT happening this weekend. Fortnite has a limited run for a Cyber Truck, Marvel Rivals has a limited run for their Beta exclusive skins, and much much more. Aint no one gonna play a closed beta with no rewards when there's so much more to play and earn. I haven't been able to play the beta on my PS5 for those reasons alone.
It is amazing that they are using the same broken dev team to develop another game?? Interesting move lol
Well to be fair, I know for me, I wont play it since it will wipe and I just don’t have time for that
I don't think the playerbase should be an issue because I don't believe console players even really knew about the beta. I got my key literally on monday which only left me 2 days to test it out and the only reason I even knew about it was through word of mouth through the community on black desert console. I don't necessarily believe they are struggling to get players to get on it I just don't think they advertised it properly to get adequate numbers on the game for the beta. I do believe needing a key was a little silly considering new world has massive potential on the console market due to lack of good mmorpgs and with black deserts current decline on console, the playerbase is looking to jump ship to another mmo that will respect the players time investment. I personally enjoyed the beta and the opportunity to create a max character and experience the end game to see if its something I cared to work towards in the future on release. Everything for the most part felt pretty smooth and functional from what I played but take that with a grain of salt since I got in on the last 2 days of the closed beta. Overall I do believe they dropped the ball on advertising the beta and I did hear there was some sort of NDA on recording/streaming the game, I'm not sure if thats true but the beta did have a watermark on it and if that NDA was a fact that also hurt its advertisement since people like myself and others would have been happy to stream/record the game and give thoughts and opinions. Definitely a bag fumble on their end.
Disappointed to say the least. New World was incredible for me at launch, the potential was phenomenal. It's actually impressive how massively Amazon fumbled the bag on this game.
I am a console player and I have been playing the beta (First time trying New world). I got the key only because I watched another video that was shitting on the game and the number of unclaimed keys otherwise I wouldn't even know that there was a closed beta. I shared the info with a few friends of mine and we all played mmos on console (eso and BDO). The first feeling with this game is very satisfying, good progression, good story full of cutscenes, modern graphics and the combat feels very good overall, very dynamic and good responsiveness. I genuinely understand the PC community but you need to understand that the developers generated a complete new game starting from an unfinished game released on PC. Sorry if you had to play the alpha test until now but I don't think the game is going to die on console too, quite the opposite tbh.
100% agree with you. Not only does it actually feel good to play on console (I thought it would run like shit ngl), people on console don't have MMO's to play. It's the same like 3 MMO's that have been out for ages that people are bored of. This alone means New World will maintain a player base because the players have nowhere else to go.
I remember when I was like you. Trust me the game looks great upon first playing once you start ACTUALLY playing content at a high level you'll see how soulless the world is it doesn't feel lived in and the reflects in the dungeons and other content the game provides. You'll get bored and move on trust me I'm not joking I was so excited and so positive and hated the hate but I have been through it with this game it's not going to succeed.
@@probeA123 You don't understand the resiliency of console players who have been stuck playing ESO and BDO for years
@@rebel8215 I do I've played those games. I'd pick ESO over New World ANY day trust me you'll see once you start playing the game on a non surface level. Better yet idk you but we are friends now let's revisit this in November after you've had a month to play it let me know how it's going 😂
@@probeA123 Bro I've already played the game on PC lmao I hit max gear score and have done all of the content in the game. I stopped playing because all of my friends are console and I had nobody to play with. ESO has gone to shit more than New World has and the pvp community has been completely abandoned. I'm somewhere around 2800 CP and have played the game on console since it released. I've watched the game originally advertised with a big focus on pvp become completely ignorant to that player base and become a pve slogfest.
I agree. But for pve, crafting, solo or story gaming, this is a great time to be on. No bots, no fighting for resources, great and supportive players... there is a silver lining at least for a moment
How do i get Access to the Beta in Xbox?
2:17 … unsubbed. Tired of you making excuses for AGS. After how bad they’ve been, it’s inexcusable. Yet here you are constantly defending them.
You basically just said…. “Take the numbers down so they can scam console players on their last cash grab”.
Which is all console release is.
AGS isn’t trying to revive the game on console.
It’s one last cash grab before they abandon it.
You of all people should know this and dam sure shouldn’t be encouraging AGS to “hide” anything
Wait, you think that's me making excuses for them? I haven't played the game in 2 months
They need new DEV’s….
What a frickin bummer man. Executives ruin everything.
People need to understand that beta numbers are wayyy less than actual release numbers.
It’s crazy, half a year ago I made jokes about wow and I started it when I dropped new world around 2-3 months, logged in in that time 2 times just to refresh my buy and sell orders and now I just play wow for the first time and don’t really see me to come back to new world… really loved that game but I think that’s it for me
A million times more interesting than New World is that you seem to have The Midnight, Jason on your favourites bar.
All the nerfs destroyed this game from the start just CRAZY nerfs right out of the gate.
This is inspiring me to make a yelling-based video about what AGS has done wrong recently.
You're a sex icon and I love you Jay
lol
why would you make a video that no ones going to watch?
The problem is console players don’t go out looking for beta keys. I had about 15 people not even know the beta was going on and they all wanted to get into the game. The promotion for the beta was practically nonexistent on PS5. With Council if there is a beta, it usually just pops up in the store and you can download it and try the game. There’s no extra steps that’s how Council players like it.
That alone should tell you they don't have any clue how console works either. Best to avoid this game.
I'm so pissed at this team. This could be THE mmorpg right now and instead they've just absolutely blown it in every conceivable way. AGS should sell the game to someone who is capable of fixing it. This team is not and never will be. I can't wait to see them destroy LotR.
New World Oddity, You deserve more views!
Part of the issue is they didn’t allow options of starting levels like the PTR it was all fresh from level 1. So you have to ironman your own health pots to test the content. So unless you no life it you’re really limited in testing new content/end game.
tons of weapon swap and input lag. When doing high level rotations with Blunderbuss massive freezing and lag spikes happen.
PvP island is vast and looks like it could be something promising IF the drops are worth it. I doubt they will do that.
Wow, that's a huge ball dropped. They boggle my mind... wait. Never mind, I'm well beyond mind boggling with AGS. They're absolutely terrible and have no business in this business.
wait so you had to lvl your self to 50 on the ptr XD
@@jpiggott9523 No, you can literally make a level 65 character for free that spawns in with endgame gear and 100's of pots, foods etc. These people don't know what they are talking about.
@@rebel8215 I was going to say that’s a bit fucking stupid if not 🤣 I never really play the ptrs I just wait till stuff gets released normally but I didn’t think even Amazon could be that dense hahaha
@@jpiggott9523 Yeah the first 2-3 days were purely new characters only, I assume to force players to play through the new MSQ and test that out, but after that you were able to make a max character.
I loved this game before it was neglected. I still log in for like 30-40 minutes a day (most days) to do some dailies, just in case a miracle happens and this game takes off again ... BUT ... I've already downloaded and installed 3 other games.
2:34 hey hey! US West 201 lets go! that's us! wooot!
I remember when the free PC beta reached a peak of 150K players. And on console, the sum of all PS5 and Xbox barely reaches 1K players (being a free beta). AGS always being so optimal, so efficient, so useful. The game does not deserve it in the state it is in, but AGS does deserve this and even be worse. My conclusion, Scott Lane has won, but NW has lost.
You the man Jay. Thanks for your honest updates.
Thanks :)
Yeah, it's DOA. Anyone with eyes could've seen it coming. They should've prioritized fixing war, womp womp. Friends keep friends playing, and war is the only large scale content NW has to offer. If they fixed war (cross-server GvG not tied to territory) and THEN went all in on console, NW could've easily made a comeback. The FFA PvP Island has to be the biggest joke they've done yet. Something literally NOBODY was asking for. Waste of time.
They sadly didn’t really advertise the beta at all.
Going to make this very clear. Me and my friends have never played New World until this console beta. As someone who knows nothing about this game, it is an absolute W game.
I think everyone who is judging the game, has no lifed it to the extent where anything they add, you are judging it far too much.
As a NEW player, not PC player.. This game is absolutely addictive. If this game is free on release, it most definitely will thrive on console and die on PC. I personally think it should, with how much PC nerds are expecting. Bring the game, let console player be the judge of it and go on.
All i see is salty pc players. TY pc players for beta testing the game for us console players, we'll take it from here.
Lol have fun
I really really wanted NW to succeed but AGS has ran it into the ground. I'm actually surprised it's still hanging in there. The game has such fantastic potential but I don't see a long furture for it
Blame the shareholders for rushing this game, if it released with the content it has now, it'd be doing great
I played the beta on ps5 and did some pvp, mainly with the bow bc it is my favorite weapon, it was surprisingly good/acceptable, i can confirm that there is lock on pvp, but honestly i could only land arrows with it when the other player stopped bc of travel time.
at this point only a F2P launch would probably increase the numbers, but even then I don't know
omg world wide player number is 2,216... this game is done really, even NW:A cannot save it with fresh servers... x3 EU servers are total number is 1001 too... When Throne and Liberty comes, it is going to affect NW a lot for sure, so when thy close NW? or make New World Unchained version similar to Archeage Unchained to release a game with a fixed version to start from zero? It seems like the only solution if thy fix all problems of course...
On XBOX it was only available via the insider hub. No advertising showing it available.
I still love this game, but haven't played in months because of everything they've done. I was loyal for years when all my other friends gave up on it early. But after all the recent debacle, it just feels pointless. I'm bleakly hopeful that things will change in the future, but... we shall see.
The PvP is what kept me around for so long (2k+ hours) but with just OPR and arena in 2 years is a joke.
They forgot to tell people about the beta then the sign up process is also a deterrent for some
I feel your disappointment. We put a lot of hope in this game, we supported it and it lied us in the face, cheating us during 3 years to the point where if they would even start to do things right now, many of us would not have interest anymore.
I already had a feeling it was gonna suffer
honestly imo the best thing that can happen for the game is simple, everybody involved currently, steps tf away and goes and does what they really want to do, because clearly they have no passion for New World, I don't know any of the Romanian dev team, yet i would wholeheartedly trust them with the entire game over the incompetence of the current team and their lack of awareness even when told what is wrong, how can you not know what to fix when you're literally hearing about it on a daily basis from every aspect of the playerbase.
If they will have to listen to same suits then nothing will help.
@@impulserr hence my point, everybody involved stop being involved.
If you're a PC player and still support this dev team you're crazy. Game will flop on console and the PC player base is done so GG!
Hey one plus about these East Europe Studios, Total War Sofia literally just saved Total Wars ass with their update, botched by US sides influence. Maybe less involvement from Scott and Katie would be wonderful :P
Stopped playing after I saw its seasonal model.
Serious development can never get done when you’re scrambling for content in a matter of weeks.
Seasons are terrible for mmos and I feel bad for developers stuck having to meet those kinda deadlines.
For me the way the beta played they didnt want alot of people in it.
As it didnt play so well.
I disagree. The game looks pretty rough graphically but it played very well on the Series X.
@@rebel8215 alot of glitches for me that werent there even at pc release. Which im guessing is why it had the watermarks.
@@Damageinc32599 The only glitch I experienced was not being able to access my inventory but it would go away after a few minutes. Happened maybe 5 times and stopped completely after day 2. Other than that I've had no problems.
@@rebel8215 yeah it runs pretty smooth on my PS5 as well. Couple disconnects and some quest bugs but thats not a big deal. Graphically its terrible compared to PC though.
@@sols.2525 Yeah it doesn't help that the game even on PC doesn't look that great
Not sure what the cause for concern is. It's all cross-platform, cross play... Every player added is a plus
They have had it coming for awhile now. I love the game, it's sad how it has been managed.
the game was fairly coming back and each season was increasing the dept... then 2024 came and they sniped it completely
so sad for that great world, i almost made friends coming into it... but june debacle made them all left...
very frustating leadership in AGS... shifting from open talk to total mute
i bet we wont even get any necromancer weapon now :(
The console beta has so many awesome changes man. God I hate this dev and marketing team
what changes?
@@jpiggott9523 pretty sure it was sarcasm. Yet another msq wannabe update, otherwise it’s just a copy/paste console port. Don’t care about the nda. Whole thing is a gaslit cash grab.
Can't talk about it yet. Under an NDA.
The big issue here is that nobody on console knows about the beta or even the game. I was aware of New World coming to console just because one day Ive decided to see "upcoming games" tab (and it was too late for me to access the beta).
I hope console players stay away from this garbage game. Not worth their time and money.
"We have gathered here today to remember..."
Lol
Game won't get a single player on console. The beta is absolutely horrendous. On PS5 it runs at 720p and is so blurry and low res it's simply unplayable.
This ain't gonna fly. In hindsight it seems like the devs team has been doing wrong conclusions on the data they get and otherwise for a long time and their communication proved out to be not so honest and respecting.
Honestly, if New World Aeternum fails I feel like the higher ups will cancel both New World Aeternum and their Lord of the Rings altogether and kick a whole lot of people out and then make new plans on the future and direction they are heading, maybe focus strictly on distribution side.
LOL no judgment here! edit... AGS has deceived us enough for me to be angry with them. If they were honest about everything from the start about the state of the game, I would still be playing and supporting them. But they weren't and they won't be. So I have ZERO faith in there ability to make LoTR any good at all. And will not be giving them money for LoTR because they've used and abused the New World player base to create it.
Give it two years on console and I bet it will be shutting down by that point…there’s no saving this game unfortunately
I am a pc player and have been playing the beta on Xbox. There are more differences than they have shown. It runs great on my series X and I can still use Keyboard and mouse lol. Yes I feel like I have been a beta tester on pc since launch but everything I have seen has been positive and is moving in the right direction. I can see why the current pc version has been in maintenance mode while they worked on this update.
I still believe the NW problem is all about AGS being not big enough to work on a mmo. They could put all the money needed to NW to succeed but somehow, it’s not the case.
Dude i could do more alone in these 3 years, its just management problem and whoever pulls strings.
Nice honest. Ill try it and see what happens.
They lost a dime trying to make a nickel..
Look at X/Twitter comments on their official Beta Thread Friends from what I have been reading... AGS's beta of PS/Xbox has been a disaster... very few people have actually redeemed codes... those that have played it (not PC players) have complained about PS2 Graphics and poor performance issues. I, like you, loved/love NW... but the devs are intent on killing it.
man SA East only 19 players online its sad. that used to be my server
Glad I didn't play this on PC as I don't care for PC tbh. Console felt really good and truly a good experience. I will agree that NW should have been an open beta not a closed one.
Going to be a interesting premier for console in October as they should have put it on console a year ago. But glad they are revamping the game for us console folks.
I couldn’t understand what you said at the end about PvP? I reminded a few times… the luck on it?
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@@NewWorldOddity Ty Sir! Hope they convince you to come back soon! We need new material!!
Ive recently started playing it on PC after not getting into it the first time round server isnt that old i dont think. As someone levelling up (49 so far). Theres nothing i can seemingly get involved in. Complete bystander if you arent with the initial wave pvp is off limits its stupid design is it not. Couldnt they create something to do for newer players to contribute.
AGS gets what AGS deserves. We can only play a rehashed MSQ so many dang times lol they didn’t learn and the game is over
Well. It was fun, those chest runs, and hours of chopping banana trees when the xp for furnishing was crazy HAHA. Grinding ridiculous mutated 3 for a golden horse I rode for 2 days haha.
Great example of a good game being handled by a bad dev team. Ever since launch, players have been giving LOADS of feedback. Yet there is so much this game still does not have, that other MMO's has had for ages.
Just look at something as basic as swimming. It took them three years to add it in. THREE YEARS. The console release is "finally" going to add something that resembles a raid. Although it's insulting to call it a raid, when all you have is 3 bosses and 10 players. That's just a glorified dungeon.
The people who will get NW on console, are people who likes MMO's, who haven't played NW yet, even though the game has been out for 3 years, who only owns a console and are willing to pay 60 dollars for a 3 year old game, that is 20 dollars less on PC. How many people do you think they will actually get?
They needed to make the beta open...not have to sign up on website to get keys. On top of that they need to reduce price because Throne and Liberty is going to release a month before and also f2p... They also would be wise to allow cross progression between PC and Console...if I can't play my character...I am not going to convince my console friends to buy.
Open beta coming
I uninstalled after the "Big Announcement" , 2 friends started playing on a server I used to have around .250 lag on, was going to play with them anyway and found now its .650-.800 lag, Unplayable. I have a 1 gig fiber internet, it's not my side!
I miss your content. It was a big part of my New World experience. It sucks not having a game that you and Duke Sloth could put your time into.
I'm not done yet but I have to be realistic :(
@@NewWorldOddity I totally agree. In the same boat and playing other games until (IF) AGS figures it out.
is it only me feel like we live in mmorpg dark age .... right now.. nothing new only going down hill..
I hope it's the calm before the storm!
yea me too..
We miss the golden age with Lineage 2, Aion, Mu Online, WoW, and so many others that changed gaming history forever. We are far from that.
I built my pc for this game and played for awhile and they literally just added NOTHING to the game in years and if they are not willing to make content they obviously don’t care about the player base
I will skip LOTR. I don't believe AGS will do anything properly there cause they don't learn
This is what happens when you make a game for the devs and npt the players.
I did try the beta on ps5 and did like the changes they felt good just couldn’t deal with the performance a console provides lol
it wasn't really promoted much which hasn't helped either
I tried playing the beginning, and it's so boring. They really need to work on the fun of the first 50 levels. Instead of running here and there. Nothing happens until your max, I feel like. I will try the update when it comes, but after that, no idea
Appreciate the update Jay! Love always!
Thank you :-)
Looking forward to Dune Awakening
Same
Ive been playing the beta on ps5 and it feels really smooth and good on controller in my opinion
Love the game. Hate the direction it's moving. Not many mmos on console.... Wonder why...
Dog water devs drove the game into the ground
Can confirm I'm just a pc player using console I happen to have to see new stuff
When I saw a lot of unused beta keys, that's never a good sign.
It was fully predictable, this is not game for consoles and it will never be. You need mouse and keyboard to enjoy it, not fucking pad.
@@impulserrThat's not true I'm playing it on Xbox and using a controller it's easy to play and navigate menus