The Twitch streamer Michael “shroud” Grzesiek is by far the largest Twitch streamer for the MMORPG New World. He is now explaining which “inevitable” problem is looming for New World if the player count remains low. Because the announced merging of servers will bring significant issues.
This is shroud:
- shroud is a veteran on Twitch. He has been streaming on the platform since 2012. He was once a professional player in CS:GO but realized early on that he enjoys streaming more. He currently has 9.8 million followers – making it the fifth largest channel on Twitch overall. Even after his extremely lucrative stint on Mixer, the Canadian with Polish roots remains popular.
- shroud is known as a shooter specialist: His amazing aiming skills have earned him the nickname “human aimbot.” His passion also extends beyond shooters to MMORPGs, as he loves World of Warcraft and, for some time, Amazon’s new MMORPG, New World.
- Currently, shroud is by far the largest streamer for New World. He has about three times more viewer hours than the second place streamer on Twitch.
High player loss and many servers lead to server merges
What kind of problem is coming for New World? Amazon has already announced that servers will be merged for New World. Many servers were opened at release, but due to the free server transfers and the high player loss since launch, there are now “dying” servers, where there aren’t enough players to play New World as intended.
Thus, Amazon wants to start merging individual servers: This means that smaller servers will close and merge into larger servers.
If it were up to the players, Amazon couldn’t start merging the servers fast enough. Because they say: On a dying server, New World just isn’t fun anymore. The villages degrade, you can’t craft properly anymore, and the group features are also unplayable.
New World simply isn’t enjoyable without a certain number of players on a server.
We at MeinMMO have examined the question of whether New World can still be saved:
“Somebody is always in trouble”
What shroud says: The Twitch streamer states that merging servers will inevitably lead to major problems. Because the economy on a small server looks very different than on a medium server. On a small server, individual players dominate the market for certain items, have no competition, and hoard thousands and thousands of materials.
If such monopolists from small servers are placed on large servers, they will take over immediately.
It does not make sense to merge several small servers with a medium server. It would be more sensible to merge all small servers and then one medium-sized with another medium-sized server.
If you take a handful of small servers, and one has thousands and thousands of materials because it has no competition, then it simply comes to a server with medium or high population and takes over.
shroud
However, shroud believes that problems will arise regardless of how it is done:
“There are just too many items. No matter what they do, someone is in trouble.”
Nevertheless, shroud believes: Amazon must merge the servers. It is an “inevitable problem.” It is still better to bite the bullet and do it than to not take action at all.
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