Recent reviews by =ZT=

Some of the best fun I've had in a while with friends. For $5, it's great.

Update: 6/10/2024

AGS is a failure. There is nothing more disappointing than watching them kill this game through sheer incompetence. They seem to not understand even the most basic parts that make a good game. They don't know what an MMO is and don't even seem to know how to release stable patches. If they spend any amount of time looking at what makes a successful MMO it would help. They don't understand end-game loops, they don't understand content, and they don't even seem to understand what the people that play their game even do. It's sad because this could be an amazing game, all it would take is a competent game studio, which AGS is not.

It's hard to imagine a management team worse than AGS that still has a running game. Honestly, they probably should cut their losses. Zero meaningful content in 6 months and no more content for 6 months?! A single raid that should honestly been around a month of work?!

TL:DR; New World is a game with amazing potential that I pray gets handed to a new game studio. AGS is doing it's best to kill it intentionally.

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I want this game to be good, but in it's current state it's not. As a mostly PVE player, the expeditions (dungeons) are fun, but the tuning orbs required to enter them become too much of a slog to even bother with. You get a few from the main quest, but it's not repeatable and crafting new ones is insane. I'll keep up with the patch notes to see if they address this in the future, but for now I'm out.

Update 11/27
Still play the game and still want it to be good. Would be nice if developers didn't seem to break more of it each update. Elemental creature = disabled, Elite mobs for watermarking = nerfed into the ground. It's pretty painful to make any meaningful progress right now.

Update 3/18
Things are better and worse at the same time. The Dev team might finally be heading in the right direction, but the server issues are a bit annoying. It's a "decent" game and can be better if you find a group to play with. It has potential to be amazing, but that might take another 6+ months