Due to high losses in the past financial year, the Chinese publisher Perfect World Games has announced tough cost-cutting measures. These include the cancellation of several game projects.
Which MMORPG is it about? During a press conference, the publisher Perfect World Games announced the ambitious Action MMORPG Perfect New World for Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series in April 2024. This was supposed to be the quasi-successor to Perfect World from 2006.
The last test round of Perfect New World took place in November 2024. In this, the players were actually supposed to be presented with a noticeably improved version of the online role-playing game compared to the strongly criticized beta from May 2023. However, after the test, there was silence. The last update was in February 2024, in the form of a post on X for the Spring Festival.
Here is the trailer for the beta test of Perfect New World:
What has been announced now? Several Asian websites report that the Chinese publisher Perfect World Games has announced tough cost-cutting measures due to high losses in the past financial year. These measures include the cancellation of four game projects, for which the responsible parties were not convinced of their financial success:
- Perfect New World
- Spiritual Cage
- Code Name Lucking
- Code Name New World
Perfect New World is the most advanced game on the list. There are also plans to reduce the developer teams.
What am I missing? Impressive graphics, action-packed fights, the ability to fly with the character – these elements made the previous trailers of Perfect New World exciting for the launch. At the same time, feedback from the beta phases and regional peculiarities such as gender locks in character/class selection dampened the anticipation.
As for the latter point, it should be noted that the predecessor Perfect World was not known for a fair payment model. On the contrary, the free-to-play MMORPG was significantly responsible for establishing and spreading the term Pay2Win within the community.
