Somewhere where nothing happens. Ever.
Here’s a video that appeared on my YouTube timeline yesterday, this particular YouTuber sets about investigating a dead MMORPG from 1999.
The style of the game really reminded me of Ultima Online which clearly influenced it.
Ultima Online was probably my favourite MMO of all time (up until it suddenly wasn’t), with the downfall of Ultima Online being a story in itself.
I don’t want to give too much away, it worth the watch if you played such games from back in the day.
I had seen some talk about the state of New World, an MMO released approximately 2 years and 5 months ago by Amazon Games. So I decide to take a closer look at it myself.
Released to great fanfare and with the deep deep pockets of Amazon to back it up, you would think to yourself that it couldn’t fail.
Though those of us with memory of Crucible, also by Amazon might have had some foreshadowing of a possible lack of success.
Starting off with an average of 410,000 players, it quickly settled down to an average mid-to-late teens with respect to players count. But its really fallen off a cliff as of this year.
Even taking November 2021 as a starting point, the player-base has shrunk to just 3.75% of that number. That’s a pretty spectacular drop in just about two and a half years.
Personally I found it an interesting game, but always found the movement in it strange and slightly off-putting. Something I’ve noticed in other games based on the CryEngine from which Lumberyard was derived.
Link: Steam Charts: New World