MMO streamer Asmongold has given his thoughts on the state of New World, and thinks it’s going to end up like Guild Wars 2 and have a resurgence in players when it gets updated.
“Lost Ark is Amazon Game Studios’ first big success”, said Asmongold (thanks, Dexerto), “I think that over time with New World, the experience of the game will get better. New World is going to be a lot like Guild Wars 2 in the way that you don’t have to pay a subscription or anything like that”.
Lost Ark was already available in Asian markets, but it only came to the West this year, and has been a big success. Both Lost Ark and New World are published by Amazon, but the numbers suggest that not only is Lost Ark winning in terms of concurrent players, it’s also dominating on the likes of streaming platform Twitch, at times even beating mainstay games like Grand Theft Auto and League of Legends.
Regarding New World, however, Asmongold said: “There are going to be people that just buy the game and come back regularly to play it every once in a while whenever new content comes out. However, because it’s a game that’s simply buy-to-play, there’s not a barrier to entry to coming back to play the game again.”
Reacting to his chat, he agrees with one user who said New World made Amazon a lot of money. Asmongold reacted, saying: “I think that’s why they’re still trying to stick around with it. They’re still trying to keep making money from it because, yeah, it probably did make them a tonne of fucking money”.
