With the impending end of New World, the developers are entering a kind of “everything must go” mode. Long-awaited features that were supposed to come with later patches are suddenly appearing on the servers. Not everyone in the community is happy about this.
What is this feature? After the developers of New World unexpectedly launched the new dagger weapons onto the servers this week, there was another surprise shortly after. On X, Amazon Games announced:
Global storage search activated
The global storage search has been activated on all servers. This provides an improved crafting and housing experience with a new global storage search function, allowing players to find items in all storage locations from any crafting station.
This is a quality-of-life improvement that many players have been wanting since the launch over 4 years ago. Back then, the various storage locations in the cities were completely separate, requiring players to travel from place to place to retrieve stored items.
At least the developers had made this more convenient in the meantime. And now there’s finally a global search that can be performed from any crafting station.
“This is absolutely malicious”
How are these surprising new features being received? With the daggers and the global crafting storage, two features have now quickly landed in the game that, according to the latest version of the roadmap were planned for after Season 10 in 2025.
Since it is well known that there will be no Season 11, but the features have been sufficiently developed, they are being introduced to the game now. Because… why not?! On one hand, this is a nice thing for all players who want to remain loyal to Aeternum until the bitter end. On the other hand, this release policy is souring some players now.
- Chris writes on X: “What is the point now? This should have been done years ago. Now that the game has an end date, let’s give the community what they need/want. Keeping the game going and not finishing it would be the better option.”
- sakis2011 also appears very frustrated on X: “It feels like the remaining 2 to 3 developers achieve more in a month than the entire studio has in 4 years.”
- japandr0id explains on Reddit: “They destroy the crafting, then they destroy the game, then they release this super useful tool that would have been amazing in Seasons 5 through 9.”
- TanethFPS is also angry on X: “The community has been asking for this QoL update for 3 YEARS!!! And now, just because the game has an expiration date, you are releasing this improvement? I’m over the nostalgia. This is absolutely malicious. I’m glad I uninstalled it.”
Whether more features from the roadmap will come is unclear. In addition to the dagger weapon and the global crafting storage, the devs had already been working on difficulty levels for raids, a new PvP mode, area upgrades, new heart runes, endgame reputation systems, and pick-up wars.
For those who are checking out the MMORPG despite the announced end (expected in 2027, maybe earlier), there is still a lot of fun to be had: New World has provided me with more fun in the last 2 weeks than any other game, but what excites me the most is the community
