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New World: Update

Post #: 286
Post type: Blog post
Date: 2022-02-17 22:30:02.000
Author: Jeremy Reimer
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Well, it's been only a little over a month since New World was released, and the bloom is already off the rose.

A combination of crazy bugs and a rapidly-dropping player base (going from nearly 1 million concurrent players shortly after launch to under 250,000 today) has the future of the game already in question.

Seems like the post-mortem might come sooner than I thought!



EDIT: As of February 8, 2022, the game is down to about 45,000 concurrent players, most servers are ghost towns. and about half this population are gold-farming bots. The game is done; it's toast. I hate to say I told you so, but...

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