Italian Site Interviews New World Tester - 'It's an MMORPG Based on Territory Conquest' - MMORPG.com

SBFord · October 2018

Italian Site Interviews New World Tester - 'It's an MMORPG Based on Territory Conquest' - MMORPG.com

Italian site MMO.it has sent word of a new interview that editors conducted with a person named "Alphano" who is currently a player in the New World alpha and is willing to break the NDA to speak about his experiences. In it, they ask him about his impressions of the game and, most notably, his impressions of the type of game New World actually is. Up to now, many have viewed Amazon's upcoming (and very secretive) game as a survival title. However, Alphano has a different thought on the subject.

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Azoth · October 2018

I guess you can call it an mmorpg if you consider Conan or Ark mmorpgs

hallucigenocide · October 2018

i guess we'll find out eventually.. but from what little i've seen it seem to have more in common with the survival titles than your typical current mmos.

anxelesaxe · October 2018

Azoth said:

I guess you can call it an mmorpg if you consider Conan or Ark mmorpgs

They would be MMO's if their server size was 1000+. Amazon is saying they can expand to 10,000+ with their server tech. Most certainly an MMORPG. By definition.

Kyleran · October 2018

anxelesaxe said:

Azoth said:

I guess you can call it an mmorpg if you consider Conan or Ark mmorpgs

They would be MMO's if their server size was 1000+. Amazon is saying they can expand to 10,000+ with their server tech. Most certainly an MMORPG. By definition.

Makes it an MMO by definition, remains to be seen how much of a MMORPG it is.

mandark91 · October 2018

I have played the alpha. It looks and acts good but it is definitely 100% a survival game and not an mmorpg.

Kinring · October 2018

"First of all, in New World, you can level up doing anything, even cutting trees without ever having to deal with combat."

I'm in the alpha as well and this part about avoiding combat is 100% bullshit. I have been pk'ed many times while just trying to chop wood, mine ore, or skin animals. Although I love the open world pvp aspect of the game, I'm hoping that they put some restrictions in to protect newbies from getting pk'ed.

The game looks and plays really good though. So far I have been impressed (considering it's alpha).

Wizardry · October 2018

That picture belongs in the 60's .all black n white.That points to very cheap game/world design,a common trend in games of late.
generate a world and have players pvp,not much to it,very simple,little effort,they can make these games in a year max now instead of a HQ game taking 5-7 years.
Their investment is very low compared to a HQ game,their risk is low,all they have to do is advertise heavily to get those initial sales and turn an instant profit.

MadFrenchie · October 2018

What a dick, kissing and telling like that!

MadFrenchie · October 2018

OG_Zorvan said:

MadFrenchie said:

What a dick, kissing and telling like that!

Not really. NDA's in regards to games are only meant to protect developers either unsure of their games quality or those who know their game is shit and just want to grab as much money as possible before it tanks after release. NDA's serve to keep potential pre-order customers from being informed enough to make a decent decision on whether a game is worth a purchase or not, nothing more, regardless of what any dev or publisher may say to the contrary.

Yea, I should've added an emoji, as my post wasn't meant to be taken a serious complaint.

Aeander · October 2018

Wizardry said:

That picture belongs in the 60's .all black n white.That points to very cheap game/world design,a common trend in games of late.
generate a world and have players pvp,not much to it,very simple,little effort,they can make these games in a year max now instead of a HQ game taking 5-7 years.
Their investment is very low compared to a HQ game,their risk is low,all they have to do is advertise heavily to get those initial sales and turn an instant profit.

At least try to look at the picture before you spout bollocks.

It isn't "black and white." There are clearly red banners and a torch.

SBFord · October 2018

Aeander said:

Wizardry said:

That picture belongs in the 60's .all black n white.That points to very cheap game/world design,a common trend in games of late.
generate a world and have players pvp,not much to it,very simple,little effort,they can make these games in a year max now instead of a HQ game taking 5-7 years.
Their investment is very low compared to a HQ game,their risk is low,all they have to do is advertise heavily to get those initial sales and turn an instant profit.

At least try to look at the picture before you spout bollocks.

It isn't "black and white." There are clearly red banners and a torch.

A winter scene is rather colorless.

@wizardry Go to the New World site or our Games List entry and check out others.

https://www.mmorpg.com/new-world/screens

https://www.instagram.com/playnewworld/

gervaise1 · October 2018

SBFord said:

Aeander said:

Wizardry said:

That picture belongs in the 60's .all black n white.That points to very cheap game/world design,a common trend in games of late.
generate a world and have players pvp,not much to it,very simple,little effort,they can make these games in a year max now instead of a HQ game taking 5-7 years.
Their investment is very low compared to a HQ game,their risk is low,all they have to do is advertise heavily to get those initial sales and turn an instant profit.

At least try to look at the picture before you spout bollocks.

It isn't "black and white." There are clearly red banners and a torch.

A winter scene is rather colorless.

@wizardry Go to the New World site or our Games List entry and check out others.

https://www.mmorpg.com/new-world/screens

https://www.instagram.com/playnewworld/

On a black and white monitor though its going to look black and white!

FlyByKnight · October 2018

Dude is clearly senile or battling some sort of confusion or dementia which isn't funny. New World (from what I've seen in another persons video) is very colorful and well polished considering. Winter is black/grey/brown and white.

The only things I viewed that suck about the game and manages to ruin the good things is the combat which is pure unadulterated gutter trash. The other part that sucks is the "world". It's not what you think it would be given the game description. It's just people doing the whole H1Z1 thing but instead of zombies it's loose scatterings of bears, wolves, turkeys, wild pigs, some zombies, skeletons and spectres. Other bored players are more of a threat.

There's nothing to do but kill some mobs, chop trees, gather, craft just to go hit some other player upside the head because you out level/number them, then build a fort and hide in it. That's literally the game in a nutshell.

gervaise1 · October 2018

A key message: we don't yet know what the game will entail, its full extent, the number of players per server and so forth.

Tiller · October 2018

MMORPG.....It is a game, it may be multiplayer on a massive scale (1000+), but is it for role playing? What is the definition of role playing these days? Does being able to play as a character in a game make it a role playing game? Playing a role as yourself is role playing? Does role playing in a game require that there be quests? Does it require you talk in character to role play?

Thupli · October 2018

I have more hope that they will flesh this game out.

RoyalValor · October 2018

I got into the alpha as well. Sadly it isn't my genre, I was thinking it would be more of an mmorpg than another survival game. I played enough dark and light to be bored with it x.x (the genre)

Kajidourden · October 2018

It is %100 a survival game. Nothing more. Amazon can keep calling it an MMO based on potential number of concurrent players on a single server all they want....it's a survival game. Down to every single gameplay element.

FlyByKnight · October 2018

Kajidourden said:

It is %100 a survival game. Nothing more. Amazon can keep calling it an MMO based on potential number of concurrent players on a single server all they want....it's a survival game. Down to every single gameplay element.

I agree and the only "rpg" thing about the game are the mechanical parts. The entire atmosphere is damn near inconsequential. There's no rhyme or reason to anything. I doubt any of this will change given the direction of the game.

DrunkWolf · October 2018

looking at games these days, arnt survival games more MMORPG than anything? they are massive worlds you can role play anything you want and they are sandbox. if anything they are more MMORPG than WoW which is just a linear single player game that you group in for advanced dungeons for gear.

Cazriel · October 2018

DrunkWolf said:

looking at games these days, arnt survival games more MMORPG than anything? they are massive worlds you can role play anything you want and they are sandbox. if anything they are more MMORPG than WoW which is just a linear single player game that you group in for advanced dungeons for gear.

I suppose, if role-playing is the defining piece of MMORPG. I don't really see survival games as having much role-playing in them. They're basically build/destroy games with PKers running around "role-playing" being PKers.

There's always enough PvE players who don't mind PvP to get games like this off the ground, but even a hot PvP title needs a strong PvE base to survive. There's just too much we don't know yet about this title to have a clue what approach Amazon is taking.

Spiider · October 2018

If its eve online with hatchets and bows Im in

Galadourn · October 2018

wait, I don't know about the other games but Darkfall has NPC settlements and hubs players can use and there is some sort of PvE content in the form of rudimentary quests that NPCs give. Is New World similar?

elveone · October 2018

Galadourn said:

wait, I don't know about the other games but Darkfall has NPC settlements and hubs players can use and there is some sort of PvE content in the form of rudimentary quests that NPCs give. Is New World similar?

Not really. The closest thing you get to a quest is drops from undead that sell for semi-decent amount of money at the trading posts.

mmolou · October 2018

DrunkWolf said:

looking at games these days, arnt survival games more MMORPG than anything? they are massive worlds you can role play anything you want and they are sandbox. if anything they are more MMORPG than WoW which is just a linear single player game that you group in for advanced dungeons for gear.

Sure, anything and everything game wise is an MMORPG if you do not know what MMORPG actually means, or what it stands for.

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