Both New World and the streaming platform Twitch are part of Amazon. Both are also supposed to interact with each other. In the currently ongoing preview event, you can see how this already works with a special feature.
How do New World and Twitch fit together? In the interview with Game Director Scot Lane, it was revealed to us by MeinMMO that New World is designed for Twitch streamers.
For this, there are special features, like PvE and PvP battles on a set schedule with pre-registrations. This allows streamers to mobilize their community and set out together with them. Additionally, there is supposed to be an in-game symbol to alert players who are currently live on Twitch.
This aligns with Twitch’s vision for the future, where streamers and viewers should interact more with each other and do so directly in games.
What feature is currently attracting attention? Even the voice chat in New World already offers a way for communication between streamers and their fans. For MMORPGs, such an open chat that is audible to the entire environment is the exception.
How cool the chat can be is already shown by early clips of streamers who are participating in the currently ongoing preview event to check out the MMO and present it to their viewers.
Streamers use voice chat for antics and go viral
What happened in Sodapoppin’s voice chat? While the streamer Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris was out and about in New World, he repeatedly activated the voice chat and entertained his entire surroundings with a pirate accent. He then encountered the player Yogg, with whom he had a longer conversation.
After some time, Yogg realized that he was talking to the well-known player and let his “fanboy” side show a bit. He loudly expressed his excitement about speaking with Sodapoppin and immediately told him about his gaming time in WoW, which is said to be 4 years.
Another player, on the other hand, was supposed to defend Sodapoppin and received a “quest” from the streamer. Many users in the chat were thrilled by the way Sodapoppin plays his role.
What happened with Asmongold? The well-known WoW streamer Asmongold, on the other hand, didn’t find friends as easily as Sodapoppin. In an inn, he chatted with a player who afterwards desperately wanted to add him as a friend.
Asmongold declined the request, whereupon the player simply ran away, leaving the streamer alone. The clip has already been viewed over 30,000 times.
Can you disable the voice chat? If you have concerns that you will be permanently disturbed by streamers or other players in the voice chat, there is good news:
You can easily disable it with a click in the options under the “Communication” tab.
New World temporarily reaches number 1 on Twitch
At the start of the Preview event for New World, things went really well for the MMO. At one point, over 330,000 people were watching simultaneously on Twitch (via Sullygnome). This even put the title at number 1 among all games on the streaming platform.
This is probably due to the fact that not all players have access to the test and that many big streamers have tried New World. Besides Asmongold and Sodapoppin, summit1g, who has been dealing with ESO and GW2 lately, shroud, and LIRIK, one of the few major streamers without a webcam, streamed the MMO.
However, the viewer numbers have since been declining after the initial hype. At the time of writing, 45,200 people were watching the MMO, placing it at number 5. It will be exciting for New World, especially when the release is slated for 2021.
After the preview event, the MMO will again go into an alpha phase, which will again be under an NDA. Then it will be a little quieter around the MMO.
