New World has been released and thousands of players want to play it. However, many of them are anything but satisfied and vent their frustration through negative Steam reviews of the game. But what are the reasons for this? Find out here on MeinMMO.
What are the reviews of New World? Amazon’s new MMORPG New World has recently launched and has mobilized a huge number of players. Even now, thousands of reviews for the game can be found on Steam. However, these are anything but positive. Rather, of the current 19,672 reviews (as of September 29, 2021), 49 percent are clearly negative.
This is mainly due to a problem that surely no one could foresee.
Players blame the servers
What are the reasons for the poor reviews? If you look at the negative reviews from players, one overwhelming theme clearly dominates: the inadequate server capacity!
Because at the launch on September 28, 2021 nothing worked for many players for hours and they were stuck in various queues for a long time. The frustration of players can be represented in this German Steam review:
I was really looking forward to the game. I understand that there can be bottlenecks at release and that not everything runs at 100% yet.
But when a world company like Amazon can’t manage to deliver a somewhat stable launch for European players / primarily players living in Germany, considering pre-sale numbers / experience from the beta / experience from other releases, then I’m out of ideas.
Some servers already had a queue of 10,000 players at the start = 80h waiting time.
Very disappointing.
User Walle on Steam
A similar opinion on the launch of New World is also held by MeinMMO editor Alexander Leitsch.
How is the situation developing? The poor server capacity frustrates fans, especially since the developers actually knew about these problems after the betas and wanted to improve these issues before the launch.
However, the developers are at least planning a prompt solution. Because according to Amazon, soon players will be able to freely choose their servers again and transfer their characters to the realms of their choice. This should distribute players more effectively in the coming days and hopefully smooth things over.
What is your opinion on the launch of New World? Is such chaos just normal for MMORPG releases or could Amazon have handled it more effectively? Let us know in the comments.
