Hey, Kristofer. How are you, man? Just checking in since you haven't posted in a while. Hope you're not too discouraged. Love your content and your chill vibe and how you try to maintain a positive stance. Hope to hear from you soon. Peace.
When you say "its one or two people that make these decisions..." Scot Lane is one of those people making the decisions. He's literally the game director. The rest of the Devs answer to him.
Kristofer I always check in on you occasionally - I don't play New World, but I loved your ESO content (and still like your vibe). I did have some fun with New World when it launched, and it makes me sad that the numbers have dwindled as they have. It's tough to defend publishers in any way with the tons and tons of layoffs across the business, but it does make sense for a business to look at the size of the player base and choose not to pour in more resources. Doesn't make it suck any worse, I know I hope you enjoy every scrap of time you get in the game, I can tell how much you love the combat. Please don't come back to ESO, I still have nightmares from trying to catch your Ghost build 🤣
The issue is not just communication though, it's the absurd lack of content. We're getting one Raid and one new PvP zone for waiting an entire year. No matter how they handled the communication, they're just consistently underdelivering on content and people are just at a point where they're sick of investing time into an MMO that gets little to no updates (and the few updates we're getting being low quality and riddled with bugs). The communication being hilariously bad is just the cherry on top. You can only be on the Hopium for so long before you have to accept the unfortunate reality that this game is never going to turn it around in major way. Really hope Kristofer can move on at some point and find a new home in a game that actually has a future, because the content has always been enjoyable to watch.
Nah it was mostly communication. If people had been told to not expect anything until October, the anger would be much less severe. PC players are getting the new content for free. It was just poor communication
I think they probably decided that they already failed on PC about 6 months ago, and decided to focus on porting to console, instead of making new content, and trying a second time around to see if they can do better. It's just ashame that they seemed to think that they might be able to get away with it without too much negative press. Hope they can recover from this, and i also hope that with a second studio, and maybe a fresh playerbase, they can do better. I am a little concerned that they are only going to cater to console with all future decisions, as there are so few pc gamers now, continuing the downward spiral for pc until they focus completly on console.
I have the feeling that the development of LOTRO forced NW to become a field for testing and developing technologies, trampling on the content that players would really like to see. I believe this order may have come from someone above Scott. But these are just guesses based on the new storytelling, server, and combat code technologies being released. I think now that the dust has settled, we have to accept that this is what we have and have fun until it loses its fun :) Big hug Kristofer!
This is why I'll probably never seriously play New World again. There will always be a content drought in this game because of some higher priority secret objective that's primary purpose isn't making New World better. If they put out a decent update, then I'll hop back in for a bit, but gone are the days where it's a main game for me.
I tried new world when it came out, but didnt stick with it (my 3090 died lol), this is the kind of update that will get me to give a second chance. I feel if the update does well with new players, it will help the game long term more than another expansion with current population. Seems a bit like one tamriel where it fixes some core problems the game has for new players
You cant just assume theres some phantom decision maker in the background thats not how it works Scot Lane is the game director it ultimately falls on him when things go wrong. Its lame to make excuses for him and not hold the people in charge on paper accountable.
yep scot lane controls the budget and amount of people he can hire and has decided that they dont need more people to make more content. totally agree. that said im sure he could have should have worked more hours to make sure expectations and results were better. i dont think anyone here knows whats going on at AGS so its all speculation on my part but id say its probably a combination of not enough resources and more aggressive management needed on the available resources to meet roadmap promises.🤷♂ ps there is always a phantom decision maker its the board of directors and they kill everything even disney/marvel, and even they probably have regulators that give them directions. welcome my friend, welcome, to the machine. enjoy the outliers
I'm on copium pretty severely but even this blew me away. The fact is they repeatedly lied about waiting until June for the big news and that their would be a road map. That is leading on because I refuse to believe they didn't know that releasing the game on console as the big news would mean little to PC players. And if they had somehow convinced themselves of that then this is proof they are incompetent. They lied repeatedly too so the intent was obviously there. I don't care about the devs or the managers or whatever. I completely agree and have been in business meetings myself where you might really be pushing for one thing but if the directors want it another way you just have to do it. But I think saying lets focus our anger towards the devs or AGS or the business managers is irrelevant. We direct our anger at the people making New World as the game. It doesn't matter who it is because that is up to them to sort out the public meltdown internally. I hope they can turn it around in October but they've messed up so many times now my copium has run dry. And I had quite the resovoir.
This whole thing was a huge fuck you to the loyal PC players. They admitted as much when they said there is no season 6 or anything until Oct 15th. That would be almost an entire year with zero content lmao. They did give us half of the shit that was promised with the ROTAE Expansion. So basically they stole our money and then laughed at us as they did.
@@Der_Wolvenfang You arent fighting for anything, lol. You are commenting on RUclips. Quite the tough guy. Way to stand up to the man and how you have been wronged, lol. Again, its a silly video game. Time to grow up.
@JazzyChef "more frequent updates", "aggressive balancing", a 10man trial (it came out over half a year after release) when updates first got stopped it was under the presence that they Wanted more time to work on bug fixes to make sure s5 comes out in a good state. (We all know how that turned out) there were hints b4 release of expansion that we were gonna get a raid with in like half a year. I don't think the expansion content was bad, just was promised a whole lot more and got a whole lot less
@JazzyChef ohh yea, they said to pvp player base b4 release of the expansion that they were working on something for us, mayhaps it was cross world opr but a que system? Usually that should be baseline in a game, not hyped up as content/expansion selling point. Should just come with launch or other updates, not just that
@@kludriel2157 the game was rushed to be completed. It was a pvp game that added pve in the 9th hour. By then the game was already in grave condition. Stuff that "should come with launch" simply didn't. They told us they would give us stuff, albeit it's a year later.. but at least it's something. I'm not defending their actions, the lead guy needs to be fired and the team needs to be beefed up to fix the issues. It's sad because new world has squandered such good potential
I’m just not enjoying the game like I did before season 5 combat code change. Something is just off, and FS, SnS, Spear feel brutally oppressive. I used to 1vX like crazy and now it feels like I get rubberbanded back, or certain weapons/abilities just hit me while visually nowhere near me. And healers seem just so tanky lately (abusing Gearscore bug with featherweight?) Add on to that, the lackluster “announcement” is super frustrating and my mojo is dwindling
I also try to stay positive about the game in general, but this announcement has been pretty rough. I actually do agree that there’s plenty of content coming, but essentially skipping season 6 for PC players is pretty disrespectful. There are really 2 things they need to do to show the PC player base (particularly PvP players) that they are working in good faith: 1) Roll back slayer script. It has been AWFUL for PvP, and that’s pretty universally agreed upon by PvPers. So much rubberbanding and weapon swap/stam are bugging out all the time. 2) A new OPR map. I don’t even necessarily think this would be as good as the new PvP zone, but it will be evidence that they are listening. As usual, good stuff in the video! Keep the content coming!
Ignoring the horrible state the game has been in since inception by "not saying negative things" anymore doesnt change the fact that its in a horrible state and has been since launch
I feel sorry for the content creators that were making a living making new world content. I’ve heard some say they’re living off savings and others trying to move to other games just not working out well.
It's simple, they know they cant make a proper release and fix the game. Got bugs from S1. Stop the copium aahahah its wild. They dont care about their player base AT ALL. They lie, they only want money and provide false hope over and over. Anyone who actually still plays this everyday is just giving them a reason why they can get away with everything. Leave a bad steam review and move onto another game. If someone cant tell that they are in it JUST for the money and game ISNT IN maintenance mode already, u need serious help or are just so beyond bored its wild.
kristofer i absolutely agree with you but listen i am playing this game from when i am 13 i am 16 in 3 days and i feel every time nw dont know what they are doing for every good thing 3 bad ones pop out and pvp is so good and so bad like man wtf buff open world make it give better loot maybe the pvp zone will buff open world pvp but even then then need to update faster like they are fucking amazon they can afford to do that well on october i give nw a last chance coming from a player with 1500 hours much love everybody
Don't care if you don't want to focus on the negative. People are annoyed, what good is burying your head in the sand? Move on to a game that is worth your effort as a content creator.
This was the most balanced take I’ve seen so far. Thank you for not being negative. You were literally the only one. I got back into it this week and bought the expansion today. The console update was enough for me to finally purchase it. Everyone telling console players not to buy it or that they’re stepping away after thousands of hours is just odd to me. For people that played the game for that amount of time you would think they would want the game to succeed but instead they’re scaring potential new players away. It’s sad. The game is phenomenal.
I appreciate this perspective. Assuming the best in individuals is a much better way to live your life than thinking everyone is out to get you. There was definitely poor communication, but I highly doubt Scot Lane or Dave or some of the other devs are doing thing to purposely piss off PC players. They either made mistakes or simply just don’t have the resources to supply everything players are demanding. If NW players just chilled out and showed a little more support for the game/devs, it would t have nearly as negative of a stigma in the gaming community. As much as PC players want to blame the devs, they are just as much to blame for lack of new players and disinterest in the game amongst the MMO community.
It is a big LOL that you defend the developers while thy trolled the players x3 times already recently... Game is broken, look at the rapier and hatched gameplay. I am asking you now, where are the muskets especially in the open world pvp? you ppl complain so much about musket which is mainly ruined by aimbot users that AGS does not ban or add a good anti-cheat engine; and of course these melee players that think that OPR is the only pvp area to ruin a weapon. You tried to use musket but using mainly rapier mainly but then go back your original build showcase again. Musket is not a ranged weapon anymore but a closed ranged weapon now; it is even not effective on medium range on mobile targets... The new PVP Zone, I see ppl complain about musket to gang everyone but it is not realistic at all where there is no zoom, and bullet fall down really hard that it is hard to estimate the projectile with %100 to make your every shot hit for medium and long range and you need to do headshot to give most damage in musket which is so rare for ranged gameplay... Thy should be more worried and cry about the premade groups with healers and of course the dominating mega p2w zerg territory owning companies' members.
The slow ass development team that doesn’t listen to players..saw this in LotRO with Turbine. We’ll take y’all back in ESO, its only gotten better with time.
Hey, Kristofer. How are you, man? Just checking in since you haven't posted in a while. Hope you're not too discouraged. Love your content and your chill vibe and how you try to maintain a positive stance. Hope to hear from you soon. Peace.
When you say "its one or two people that make these decisions..." Scot Lane is one of those people making the decisions. He's literally the game director. The rest of the Devs answer to him.
Kristofer I always check in on you occasionally - I don't play New World, but I loved your ESO content (and still like your vibe). I did have some fun with New World when it launched, and it makes me sad that the numbers have dwindled as they have. It's tough to defend publishers in any way with the tons and tons of layoffs across the business, but it does make sense for a business to look at the size of the player base and choose not to pour in more resources. Doesn't make it suck any worse, I know
I hope you enjoy every scrap of time you get in the game, I can tell how much you love the combat. Please don't come back to ESO, I still have nightmares from trying to catch your Ghost build 🤣
Man I took a break. Come back and I can't even farm artifacts as there's no one around. Really sucks
The issue is not just communication though, it's the absurd lack of content. We're getting one Raid and one new PvP zone for waiting an entire year. No matter how they handled the communication, they're just consistently underdelivering on content and people are just at a point where they're sick of investing time into an MMO that gets little to no updates (and the few updates we're getting being low quality and riddled with bugs). The communication being hilariously bad is just the cherry on top. You can only be on the Hopium for so long before you have to accept the unfortunate reality that this game is never going to turn it around in major way.
Really hope Kristofer can move on at some point and find a new home in a game that actually has a future, because the content has always been enjoyable to watch.
Nah it was mostly communication. If people had been told to not expect anything until October, the anger would be much less severe. PC players are getting the new content for free. It was just poor communication
I think they probably decided that they already failed on PC about 6 months ago, and decided to focus on porting to console, instead of making new content, and trying a second time around to see if they can do better.
It's just ashame that they seemed to think that they might be able to get away with it without too much negative press. Hope they can recover from this, and i also hope that with a second studio, and maybe a fresh playerbase, they can do better. I am a little concerned that they are only going to cater to console with all future decisions, as there are so few pc gamers now, continuing the downward spiral for pc until they focus completly on console.
I have the feeling that the development of LOTRO forced NW to become a field for testing and developing technologies, trampling on the content that players would really like to see. I believe this order may have come from someone above Scott. But these are just guesses based on the new storytelling, server, and combat code technologies being released. I think now that the dust has settled, we have to accept that this is what we have and have fun until it loses its fun :) Big hug Kristofer!
This is why I'll probably never seriously play New World again. There will always be a content drought in this game because of some higher priority secret objective that's primary purpose isn't making New World better. If they put out a decent update, then I'll hop back in for a bit, but gone are the days where it's a main game for me.
@@cranknnutz I totally agree
I tried new world when it came out, but didnt stick with it (my 3090 died lol), this is the kind of update that will get me to give a second chance. I feel if the update does well with new players, it will help the game long term more than another expansion with current population. Seems a bit like one tamriel where it fixes some core problems the game has for new players
You cant just assume theres some phantom decision maker in the background thats not how it works Scot Lane is the game director it ultimately falls on him when things go wrong. Its lame to make excuses for him and not hold the people in charge on paper accountable.
yep scot lane controls the budget and amount of people he can hire and has decided that they dont need more people to make more content. totally agree. that said im sure he could have should have worked more hours to make sure expectations and results were better. i dont think anyone here knows whats going on at AGS so its all speculation on my part but id say its probably a combination of not enough resources and more aggressive management needed on the available resources to meet roadmap promises.🤷♂ ps there is always a phantom decision maker its the board of directors and they kill everything even disney/marvel, and even they probably have regulators that give them directions. welcome my friend, welcome, to the machine. enjoy the outliers
I'm on copium pretty severely but even this blew me away. The fact is they repeatedly lied about waiting until June for the big news and that their would be a road map. That is leading on because I refuse to believe they didn't know that releasing the game on console as the big news would mean little to PC players. And if they had somehow convinced themselves of that then this is proof they are incompetent. They lied repeatedly too so the intent was obviously there.
I don't care about the devs or the managers or whatever. I completely agree and have been in business meetings myself where you might really be pushing for one thing but if the directors want it another way you just have to do it. But I think saying lets focus our anger towards the devs or AGS or the business managers is irrelevant. We direct our anger at the people making New World as the game. It doesn't matter who it is because that is up to them to sort out the public meltdown internally.
I hope they can turn it around in October but they've messed up so many times now my copium has run dry. And I had quite the resovoir.
the funny part is AGS and the Dev's know exactly what they're doing. Scot said it himself, he said it was the exact message they wanted to portray.
Your that shallow enough to believe they don't read from scipts?
@@GraphicGamingHQ ok
This whole thing was a huge fuck you to the loyal PC players. They admitted as much when they said there is no season 6 or anything until Oct 15th. That would be almost an entire year with zero content lmao. They did give us half of the shit that was promised with the ROTAE Expansion. So basically they stole our money and then laughed at us as they did.
Its a video game. You arent a victim. It might be time to grow up a bit.
@EK-rr2md you the kind of guy that gets wrongfully convicted, simply accepts it and goes to jail rather than fight.
@@Der_Wolvenfang really bad analogy. This is a silly video game. Its not a big deal. You arent fighting anything, lol. Again, just a video game.
@EK-rr2md bad analogy? You won't fight for something simple. Why would you be trusted to fight for anything at all?
@@Der_Wolvenfang You arent fighting for anything, lol. You are commenting on RUclips. Quite the tough guy. Way to stand up to the man and how you have been wronged, lol. Again, its a silly video game. Time to grow up.
We were promised a lot of stuff for buying the expansion that we just did not get.
What else were we promised?
@JazzyChef "more frequent updates", "aggressive balancing", a 10man trial (it came out over half a year after release) when updates first got stopped it was under the presence that they Wanted more time to work on bug fixes to make sure s5 comes out in a good state. (We all know how that turned out) there were hints b4 release of expansion that we were gonna get a raid with in like half a year. I don't think the expansion content was bad, just was promised a whole lot more and got a whole lot less
@JazzyChef ohh yea, they said to pvp player base b4 release of the expansion that they were working on something for us, mayhaps it was cross world opr but a que system? Usually that should be baseline in a game, not hyped up as content/expansion selling point. Should just come with launch or other updates, not just that
@@kludriel2157 the game was rushed to be completed. It was a pvp game that added pve in the 9th hour. By then the game was already in grave condition. Stuff that "should come with launch" simply didn't. They told us they would give us stuff, albeit it's a year later.. but at least it's something. I'm not defending their actions, the lead guy needs to be fired and the team needs to be beefed up to fix the issues. It's sad because new world has squandered such good potential
I’m just not enjoying the game like I did before season 5 combat code change. Something is just off, and FS, SnS, Spear feel brutally oppressive. I used to 1vX like crazy and now it feels like I get rubberbanded back, or certain weapons/abilities just hit me while visually nowhere near me. And healers seem just so tanky lately (abusing Gearscore bug with featherweight?)
Add on to that, the lackluster “announcement” is super frustrating and my mojo is dwindling
So is their new model to half ass and lazilly reowork old zones every year? Cuz thats not going to last very long
I also try to stay positive about the game in general, but this announcement has been pretty rough. I actually do agree that there’s plenty of content coming, but essentially skipping season 6 for PC players is pretty disrespectful. There are really 2 things they need to do to show the PC player base (particularly PvP players) that they are working in good faith: 1) Roll back slayer script. It has been AWFUL for PvP, and that’s pretty universally agreed upon by PvPers. So much rubberbanding and weapon swap/stam are bugging out all the time. 2) A new OPR map. I don’t even necessarily think this would be as good as the new PvP zone, but it will be evidence that they are listening. As usual, good stuff in the video! Keep the content coming!
I appreciate you supporting the game my guy. I freaking love this game.
Thx for the video
Ignoring the horrible state the game has been in since inception by "not saying negative things" anymore doesnt change the fact that its in a horrible state and has been since launch
I feel sorry for the content creators that were making a living making new world content. I’ve heard some say they’re living off savings and others trying to move to other games just not working out well.
They did ban hunderts of people from Discord, they are muting people on YT.. sorry dont belife they are the " good " guys in this,....
bro the commentary so good
they dont care you are nothing to them just pay piggy
It's simple, they know they cant make a proper release and fix the game. Got bugs from S1. Stop the copium aahahah its wild. They dont care about their player base AT ALL. They lie, they only want money and provide false hope over and over. Anyone who actually still plays this everyday is just giving them a reason why they can get away with everything. Leave a bad steam review and move onto another game. If someone cant tell that they are in it JUST for the money and game ISNT IN maintenance mode already, u need serious help or are just so beyond bored its wild.
kristofer i absolutely agree with you but listen i am playing this game from when i am 13 i am 16 in 3 days and i feel every time nw dont know what they are doing for every good thing 3 bad ones pop out and pvp is so good and so bad like man wtf buff open world make it give better loot maybe the pvp zone will buff open world pvp but even then then need to update faster like they are fucking amazon they can afford to do that well on october i give nw a last chance coming from a player with 1500 hours much love everybody
Fellow ESO content creator here. Is it even worth diving into New World at this point for PvP? Be honest haha
No I'm probably going back to ESO.
Don't care if you don't want to focus on the negative. People are annoyed, what good is burying your head in the sand?
Move on to a game that is worth your effort as a content creator.
This was the most balanced take I’ve seen so far. Thank you for not being negative. You were literally the only one.
I got back into it this week and bought the expansion today. The console update was enough for me to finally purchase it. Everyone telling console players not to buy it or that they’re stepping away after thousands of hours is just odd to me. For people that played the game for that amount of time you would think they would want the game to succeed but instead they’re scaring potential new players away. It’s sad. The game is phenomenal.
Please tell me you are jumping back into the fresh start servers?
#firescotlane
new dead
I appreciate this perspective. Assuming the best in individuals is a much better way to live your life than thinking everyone is out to get you.
There was definitely poor communication, but I highly doubt Scot Lane or Dave or some of the other devs are doing thing to purposely piss off PC players. They either made mistakes or simply just don’t have the resources to supply everything players are demanding.
If NW players just chilled out and showed a little more support for the game/devs, it would t have nearly as negative of a stigma in the gaming community. As much as PC players want to blame the devs, they are just as much to blame for lack of new players and disinterest in the game amongst the MMO community.
It is a big LOL that you defend the developers while thy trolled the players x3 times already recently...
Game is broken, look at the rapier and hatched gameplay. I am asking you now, where are the muskets especially in the open world pvp? you ppl complain so much about musket which is mainly ruined by aimbot users that AGS does not ban or add a good anti-cheat engine; and of course these melee players that think that OPR is the only pvp area to ruin a weapon. You tried to use musket but using mainly rapier mainly but then go back your original build showcase again. Musket is not a ranged weapon anymore but a closed ranged weapon now; it is even not effective on medium range on mobile targets... The new PVP Zone, I see ppl complain about musket to gang everyone but it is not realistic at all where there is no zoom, and bullet fall down really hard that it is hard to estimate the projectile with %100 to make your every shot hit for medium and long range and you need to do headshot to give most damage in musket which is so rare for ranged gameplay... Thy should be more worried and cry about the premade groups with healers and of course the dominating mega p2w zerg territory owning companies' members.
another game ruined by the devs lmao, thank god NW is dead.
See, Not the DEVS but higher up in Amazon. Sue Amazon for hiring a Stupid CEO.
The slow ass development team that doesn’t listen to players..saw this in LotRO with Turbine. We’ll take y’all back in ESO, its only gotten better with time.
ppl still play pvp in this game? xDDD