New World is currently in the beta and attracts tens of thousands of players. The new MMO from Amazon is fun, but is not comparable to established MMORPGs - finds at least MYMO author Benedict Grotaus. Nevertheless, he is sure: If a game can do the Place Hirsch World of Warcraft "kill", then it's New World and just now.
Since now over 16 years I play World of Warcraft without longer breaks. Finished Vanilla, I started with The Burning Crusade my WoW life properly started and until today I am delighted Progress Raider.
In fact, RAIDS is the only thing that keeps me permanently wow and in my view of the best content that distinguishes the MMORPG from all others and the reason why Wow still lives. But now there is a new challenger: New World from Amazon.
New World is currently still in the beta to appear on 31 August 2021. According to the current state, the MMO is pretty good:
- Over 180,000 players lined alone the Closed Beta, launched New World on 3rd place on Steam
- 66% of you find the beta well, even if some little things disturb
- Here on Meinmmo, New World is just one of the biggest and hottest topics
Although the numbers are pretty, they are not enough for the millions of World of Warcraft. "Why do you then do then, New World could kill Wow?!" - Excellent question and one to which the answer will be a little longer.
First of all: New World and World of Warcraft are definitely different. So much that after my almost 30 hours in the beta, I would claim that New World is strictly not even a MMORPG. Therefore a little explanation.
NEW WORLD and WOW are actually two basic games
The new MMO never had the ambitions to become one of the famous "WoW killer". New World is not a classic MMORPG, but mixes many classic characteristics of RPGS, MMOS and Survival Games to expand with PVP and PVE content.
Accordingly, there are hardly similarities in the gameplay. New World has no classes, little story and no different peoples. Wow has huge raids and is based on a gigantic world that has already been worked out in dozen books and other literary works.
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Nevertheless, there are certain similarities that are not exactly at first glance. Exactly those are important when considering why and how New World could be a WoW killer.
NEW WORLD is more like Wow Classic
New World talks pretty much with his contents exactly what players still experienced in Classic and later in Burning Crusade. Amazon's MMO is simply slower, lasts longer and is at the same time a bit easier:
- Quests are rather flat, usually only comprise: "go there, kill x and collect y" - and again and again
- Crafting has a high priority, so much that some of the best items come about by crafting and grind
- The ways are long and you run forever from A to B
- Classes or their replacement are more easily kept, do not use too many skills but differ significantly in the gameplay
All points meet for both games. The fact that there are many players standing on the "Wow of then" shows alone the success of WoW Classic. And finally, even the first extension "The Burning Crusade" was reissued.
So New World can certainly serve the "core" of WOW and inspire players, which at least have been there for several years. Even longtime WOW players like the Streamer Shroud believe that New World will succeed, where Wow failed.
More important, however, is probably that New World seems right now.
The ideal time to bump wow from the throne
MMORPG players have been waiting for new replenishment for years. Although there were always new releases from Asia, but Western developers have long not been heard or games have been postponed.
Now, 2021, for the first time, there is a proper replenishment. Only a new PVP MMORPG appeared with Crowfall, now comes with New World a new MMO, which at least addresses MMORPG player.
All in all, 4 new MMORPGs 2021 have appeared which WoW potentially players might be disputed.
mmo drought makes wow attackable
In the long time before there was no large selection of MMORPGs with many players, at least not in the west. We mainly had:
- Wow as a huge place deer
- Final Fantasy XIV as "Western" Asia-MMO and competition
- ESO and Guild Wars 2 with significantly fewer players
- Smaller competitors and lover games like Neverwinter and Lord of the Rings Online
Although the great titles have always received extensions, updates and content, but they still stayed the same games. There was a lack of fresh ideas and MMOs that players could tie long.
New World meets exactly this need now.
Shortly after the start of the beta, something else came with that probably no one has expected, but that new World could strengthen unexpectedly: a huge scandal.
Blizzard hurts himself and it will not be better
At the moment Blizzard beats allegations of sexual harassment and toxic business climate. This was initiated by a lawsuit of the state of California against the Group.
Within days, this quarrel grew and increased greater proportions:
- Icons like Chris Metzen reported to speak, say, "We have failed"
- Videos of 10 years ago fall the boss on the feet
- More than 1,500 employees face themselves against Blizzard
- Work to WOW should be completely quiet during this time
The WOW players also respond to the development and information they can snap. Many are upset, some even start demonstrations in which they slaughter certain NPCs to set signs.
The mood is very heated in places and a big problem should be that she was before. Again and again there were complaints about the new Addon Shadowlands and the current patch 9.1, the systems and features or technical condition.
That went so far that some thousands of players were otherwise over - and found.
No MMO can kill Wow alone, but New World has help
Traditionally, there has never been a MMO managed to "kill" Wow. One of the probably most famous "WoW killer" was WildStar, which himself did not survive long. The problem of these games was always that they wanted to beat WOW with their own weapons: PVE content and gameplay.
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Here Blizzard already has so many years of experience that it is hardly possible. The basis that new content for WOW is developed is already at such a high level that new games do not need to try it here.
In fact, this "re-emerge" is one of the reasons why WoW killers almost killed the whole genre, as Mmo-Guru Gordon Walton said.
But New World does not trying exactly that, but is pursuing its own approach. The alone is not enough to unburden the huge gameship of Wow, but Amazon has help.
FFXIV catches disappointed players
The dissatisfaction has been driving many thousand players to Final Fantasy XIV for several weeks. The beginning made great streamers like Asmongold, whose communities and more and more players followed.
Final Fantasy became a refuge for disappointed WoW players, grew always and broke some records. The talks in both community have been dominated by talks about the games.
From this unconfirmed stroke of fans of both games, which dominated the communities on both sides. But even if the players could not agree, which MMORPG is now better, it is clear: FFXIV has received many new players - so many that the boss even apologizes for success.
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- 8 years old MMORPG overtakes Destiny 2 on Steam, has over 60,000 players
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Final Fantasy itself could never kill Wow alone just like New World. The games differed too much and shortly or long, most WoW players return. At least for the moment you are gone and that could be enough for the "beginning of the end."
If WOW dies, then that will take a few years
Both New World as well as Final Fantasy and sexism nibbles together at World of Warcraft. Each of them alone could not bring WOW to fall, they all together but very well.
However, Blizzard's flagship will not turn off from today to tomorrow. When WOW dies, then this process will take a long time, with security for a few years. But now just certainly the foundation stone is laid.
Many core gamers have migrated to Final Fantasy, but will reward when they realize that they do not find the same kick there. But if you want to come back, it may be good that the World of Warcraft does not exist anymore.
New World will certainly be able to avoid some of the old players as well as casuals, so that the communities in wow further shrink. In the worst case, the guilds have dissolved and the FFXIV returners are then suddenly homeless.
In addition, Blizzard has already received an image injury by the scandal, from which the recovery will take a lot of time and even more work. Maybe that's even the wake-up call, the Blizzard needs to redirect Wow and yet to "save". But if it creates a game to overthrow Wow, then it's New World and only right now - even if some players think it's not for a long time: Twitch Streamer Meckert: "New World is not ready for the release" - still goes for hours
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