I haven't picked up the game yet just because been busy with work. Was thinking about picking it up and playing it during the holidays.
Been trying to keep up with the thread just to get a gauge of what's going on with the game and to maybe learn some stuff prior to purchasing. I don't know much about what the patch changes mean, but is it advisable to maybe hold off and wait?
I know it's been said over and over for 40 bucks you'll get hours of entertainment and that's the only reason I'm still interested, but I'd like to be able to do multiplayer dungeons and maybe some pvp with other folks.
I know server merges are supposed to be in the future, or at least some of you guys have stated that. I don't want to land on a shit server and be totally screwed. I just wonder if it's going to be more of a final fantasy 14 type situation were they revamp stuff and it turns out awesome, or will the game be truly dead at this point. It's not like I don't have the other games to play, or other shit to do with my free time. Was just excited for an MMO experience like The Secret World, what's the game reminds me of the most.
Maybe I answered my own question just now. Just wondering what some of you guys that have been playing it since beta and launch would suggest.
Personally id wait 6 months to a year for the re-release ala FF14...shit is that bad.
I had zero expectations going in to this game and wont shill for or against any company or game...simply state reasons I like / hate it and move on.
Most people love new shineys. New World was the new shiney for a few weeks. I would be lying if i didnt say I got $40 of entertainment out of it, but that was while there were 100s of people running around and exploring the world and systems. Now, you log on and guilds that had 90+ peeps all show 1 or 2 online only.
There is no carrot on the stick to grind for. The pvp is god fucking awful, the exploits are a dime a dozen, 99% of all quests are " bear ass " quests. Literally start in one corner of a zone and get a quest to go to the complete opposite side of the zone to kill 3 mobs and run back. The crafting is fucking awful....make 500k items with 2 million mats to make shit you will never need / use to go to lvl to max and hope maybe you can make a max lvl item that is worthwhile....all while on a dead empty server.
Or take pvp...every server will have a top heavy faction and roflstomp the other 2. Instead of the other 2 factions ganging up...they just transfer off to another server to join the winning zerg, if they dont outright quit.
The combat was fun, the zones looked good, and it was fun for a few weeks until you realized every single fucking system in the game was broken in some sort or another.
Literally is zero carrot at the end of the stick to waste your time with this abortion of a game.
When they do a re-release next year with all this shit fixed and fresh servers, maybe it would be worth revisiting....now....hell no.