- it abandoned hardcore dark souls combat
- it did not focus solely on open-world PVP
- it did not focus solely on arena combat
- there isn’t enough endgame PVE content
Respect Your Casuals
So this is a bit of a weird tangent, and I am not even certain where it is going to end up… but here we go. I’ve been seeing sentiments for years expressed each time a game fails or a game flounders and I think in large part they point at a larger misunderstanding by a segment of the gaming community. More recently this has been happening quite a bit in the New World community, where everyone can for the most part agree now that the game is failing or is in a failed state… but no one can agree as to why. I’ve seen lots of people point at the game’s failure because one of several reasons… here are some summary takes that I have read:
The game is failing because…