Recently I stumbled across a Reddit thread in which the OP laments that New World will be remembered as a failure, despite all the progress it made over the years. This struck a chord for me as it echoes thoughts that have been increasingly in my mind as the game marches towards oblivion. MMORPGs are [...]
The publicly known dupe exploit that they allowed to exist for weeks is what killed it for me.
400+ hours in the game. Gave up after we lost a city to a cityless guild decked out in the best armor and jewelry.
We owned the highest income city and so I had unlimited funds to spend and I had barely reached the level required to make the highest tier jewelry because there’s only so many jewels available. I knew of one other person (the jewelcrafter of the #2 guild) who was at that level and neither of us were able to equip our entire defense team with good jewelry.
A guy in our guild was really into PvP and spent 12+ hours a day fighting over/farming the 3-4 ore nodes that could drop the rare ore required to make the best crafted armor. He had 4 pieces completed.
We had so many people that we had to run 3 full guilds and we were pooling resources so our city defense team had the best gear possible. We were attacked by some nobody guild who somehow had tens of full sets of the best crafted gear and they also abused the exploit where you could make your character ignore damage (window dragging exploit) to make it impossible to kill their people sitting on the capture points.
None of the exploiting guild were banned and it was literally impossible to take the city back because they could just pile on the capture point and drag their window around to ignore damage and there was a bug with healing that would cause the server to lag to the point of being unplayable.
I quit shortly after. The game had promise and did some thing really well but they were horrible at actually running the game and ensuring a fair and level playing field.