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New World Interview: Talking Heart of Madness Update With Creative Director David Verfaillie | MMORPG.com

With the latest update of Amazon's New World hitting this week, Heart of Madness provides more opportunities for players to enjoy Aeternum. We chatted with New World creative director David Verfaillie about the update.

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Celcius

game is such a shitshow

Scorchien

Vinterkrig said:

Shut up Scorch!

Dam it .. Beat me to it

LePetitSoldat

This game still has a lot of potential... it wouldn't surprise me at all if it became a solid game in 2022-23. I don't play New World (yet), but I've been following updates, and everything sounds promising (except for bugs and exploit hehe).

Scorchien

MadLovin said:

This game still has a lot of potential... it wouldn't surprise me at all if it became a solid game in 2022-23. I don't play New World (yet), but I've been following updates, and everything sounds promising (except for bugs and exploit hehe).

Thats like saying , that really Great Looking girl  over there looks , promising except for the Genital Warts and Herpes

Brainy

MadLovin said:

This game still has a lot of potential... it wouldn't surprise me at all if it became a solid game in 2022-23. I don't play New World (yet), but I've been following updates, and everything sounds promising (except for bugs and exploit hehe).

Its got core problems that I don't see how they will fix without changing their game completely.  Sure on the surface it looks great.  After you get to end game, its another problem entirely.

Neoyoshi

Vinterkrig said:

Shut up Scorch!

JudgeUK

For a struggling game to really recover there needs to be an admittance of failure by the game studio.
This requires a complete honesty that many senior game studio personnel will shy away from, taking the continual tweaking route instead.
It takes a lot to openly admit large scale mistakes, particularly in the western culture of needing a blame target.
I don't see Amazon allowing for that kind of complete honesty. Rather people will seek to protect themselves by whatever means possible.
Consequently I see NW continuing to stumble on, with the company willing to stomach losses, rather than an honest recognition to the degree of rework required.

Scot

MadLovin said:

This game still has a lot of potential... it wouldn't surprise me at all if it became a solid game in 2022-23. I don't play New World (yet), but I've been following updates, and everything sounds promising (except for bugs and exploit hehe).

If it becomes worth playing I am increasingly leaning to 2024, I am not sure they will be even on track for next year. They are still running an early access when what they should be doing is closing for a relaunch.

Mensur

Scorchien said:

MadLovin said:

This game still has a lot of potential... it wouldn't surprise me at all if it became a solid game in 2022-23. I don't play New World (yet), but I've been following updates, and everything sounds promising (except for bugs and exploit hehe).

Thats like saying , that really Great Looking girl  over there looks , promising except for the Genital Warts and Herpes

Were you not told to Shut up ?

Batak_Killer

JudgeUK said:

For a struggling game to really recover there needs to be an admittance of failure by the game studio.
This requires a complete honesty that many senior game studio personnel will shy away from, taking the continual tweaking route instead.
It takes a lot to openly admit large scale mistakes, particularly in the western culture of needing a blame target.
I don't see Amazon allowing for that kind of complete honesty. Rather people will seek to protect themselves by whatever means possible.
Consequently I see NW continuing to stumble on, with the company willing to stomach losses, rather than an honest recognition to the degree of rework required.

Didn't Amazon Game Studios Game Director quit a few days ago? I mean, that's a pretty big step to admit someone messed up and its time for a change.

BLNX

I can't wait until they make the game part of your prime subscription lol

Xiaoki

MadLovin said:

This game still has a lot of potential... it wouldn't surprise me at all if it became a solid game in 2022-23. I don't play New World (yet), but I've been following updates, and everything sounds promising (except for bugs and exploit hehe).

No, the game is worthless.

I played New World and I like it but the game is worthless.

Because of the completely amateur hour way the game was designed they will always be dealing with exploits and dupes, and if they have to fix those all the time then they will have no time to iterate on existing content to make it better.

Then they make things worse by pushing new content that introduces more bugs, exploits and dupes.

Yeah, new content is more likely to bring people in then making old content better but currently it's just piling crap on top of crap.

JudgeUK

Batak_Killer said:

JudgeUK said:

For a struggling game to really recover there needs to be an admittance of failure by the game studio.
This requires a complete honesty that many senior game studio personnel will shy away from, taking the continual tweaking route instead.
It takes a lot to openly admit large scale mistakes, particularly in the western culture of needing a blame target.
I don't see Amazon allowing for that kind of complete honesty. Rather people will seek to protect themselves by whatever means possible.
Consequently I see NW continuing to stumble on, with the company willing to stomach losses, rather than an honest recognition to the degree of rework required.

Didn't Amazon Game Studios Game Director quit a few days ago? I mean, that's a pretty big step to admit someone messed up and its time for a change.

Yes one person left, and all the other people who contributed to the current poor state of the game no doubt got their scripts ready as to why it was all his fault.
Blame assigned, now what?

JeroKane

Batak_Killer said:

JudgeUK said:

For a struggling game to really recover there needs to be an admittance of failure by the game studio.
This requires a complete honesty that many senior game studio personnel will shy away from, taking the continual tweaking route instead.
It takes a lot to openly admit large scale mistakes, particularly in the western culture of needing a blame target.
I don't see Amazon allowing for that kind of complete honesty. Rather people will seek to protect themselves by whatever means possible.
Consequently I see NW continuing to stumble on, with the company willing to stomach losses, rather than an honest recognition to the degree of rework required.

Didn't Amazon Game Studios Game Director quit a few days ago? I mean, that's a pretty big step to admit someone messed up and its time for a change.

He has just been made the fall guy.  All the incompetent developers are still there and continue to screw up with each patch / update.

Incoming new exploits and dupes..... three.....two.....one......

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Scot

Mensur said:

Scorchien said:

MadLovin said:

This game still has a lot of potential... it wouldn't surprise me at all if it became a solid game in 2022-23. I don't play New World (yet), but I've been following updates, and everything sounds promising (except for bugs and exploit hehe).

Thats like saying , that really Great Looking girl  over there looks , promising except for the Genital Warts and Herpes

Were you not told to Shut up ?

The less he says the more volumes that speaks.

brenth

new world is all hack and slash and no content. it is in a death spiral for casual players. unless they do a major turn around which was not in their road map it will be hemoragin the players they have left that are not pure pvpers or hard core.

illutian

The only, and I mean ONLY, way New World could ever hope to continue to exist. Would be to completely scrap the current game and throw out the engine*. Then revamp it for a full-on Player Driven Experience (like EVE Online). Implement meaningful PVP and marry it with the PVE experience that most look for when playing MMOs.

*As I understand it, the engine just isn't easy to work with. It's like Anthem with Frostbite; great engine for visuals until you want to do multiplayer.