While PvP is completely optional, the game also highly encourages players to engage in it to help their faction earn influence and defend their own turf. The second thing we need to remember about New World is that its other headlining feature is inter-faction PvP. Being able to fast travel all over the world with no limitations means that players can exploit all of the markets if they’re looking in the right place the current system might be cumbersome, but it’s also extremely rewarding for the players who put the time and effort into researching the different economies and are willing to manually travel back and forth for that profit. If New World had a more efficient fast travel system, the economy would almost certainly break. They could fast travel there of course, but making those kinda trips between the two territories will cause them to run out of Azoth extremely quickly, and it’d leave them Azoth-broke in no time at all. The savvy entrepreneur will notice this, hoof it to Monarch’s Bluffs to purchase all the stone blocks they can, then come back to Windsward to sell them for a profit. But all the way to the west in Monarch’s Bluffs, they go for 0.50 coin each. One of New World’s biggest headlining features is that the economy is entirely player-driven, and even beyond that, every region has its own separate economy.įor instance, in my server, stone blocks are selling for about 2.50 coin each in Windsward. The only way to make money in this game is by doing quests (which give you about 80 or so coin), or by selling items to other players. The first thing we need to understand about New World is that there are no NPCs in the game that will simply buy your trash and give you money for it.
Maybe there’s a method to Amazon’s madness after all. No mounts? The need to spend a currency that’s pretty hard to come by whenever you fast travel? The inability to fast travel unless you’re in a village or at a shrine? In such a humongous game? Inconceivable!Įxcept, maybe not. As it turns out, after spending a whole week with the game, I’ve finally figured out why Amazon chose to launch it with such questionable design decisions. During this past week, I’ve also thought a lot about the game and the feedback surrounding it, namely the backlash regarding how goddamn slow it is to get around the open-world. And when I wasn’t playing it, I was either talking or writing about it or watching a stream of it. In the past week, I have done nothing but play New World. New World, the pirate-themed MMORPG from Amazon Games that lets you wage war against other players for territory, has completely consumed and upended my life.
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