Open World PvP

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Do you think New World will go the same way? Excited to try the crafting in New World and I'm hoping it's moved far enough away from full loot PVP everywhere so this doesn't happen to them

Their proposed cash shop already has me thinking to give it a pass honestly. They have said they "may" sell QoL items or boosts, which is just PR speak for once we want the boost in profits and you guys are invested enough WE WILL sell them. Not only that they have already contradicted themselves as they stated previously they would not consider selling anything but cosmetic items until 2022 but they already are considering putting them there now. They wanted to see people's reception to the idea and ofc it was negative so now it's damage control with no no, no P2W we promise!

Add on that Amazon's track records with games thus far have not been great. I would say keep hopes low and sure give it a try. But I surely would not invest heavily into that game until a couple years later and you see where they take the game and its cash shop. It was only about a year and a half or so for BDO to go from "we won't put in any KR server p2w" to them adding in a "value pack" monthly booster and just dogpiling from there till eventually it become full blown P2W with no arguments against it.

ESO now has yet another new premium currency added to it since I last played. Glad I didn't get too into that game either. Every nicer mount I like the look of is in it's cash shop and not even for crowns its those freaking Gems from loot boxes, nightmare. Unless we see New World have a high playerbase and keep it that high, I feel it only inevitable that the pressure from above for ever higher profits will push them to creep in scummier cash shop stuff. Shame the greed for ever higher profits ruins so many previously lovely games.

[Rae88]

ESO now has yet another new premium currency added to it since I last played. Glad I didn't get too into that game either. Every nicer mount I like the look of is in it's cash shop and not even for crowns its those freaking Gems from loot boxes, nightmare.

I have been playing ESO for the past few months and the cash shop is becoming pretty intrusive. And people are becoming pretty free and open at throwing pretty significant amounts of money around for loot boxes and houses. It's kinda disappointing TBH? I dropped the game a week ago, ESO feels like an unhealthy habit to really dive into imo.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I have been playing ESO for the past few months and the cash shop is becoming pretty intrusive. And people are becoming pretty free and open at throwing pretty significant amounts of money around for loot boxes and houses. It's kinda disappointing TBH? I dropped the game a week ago, ESO feels like an unhealthy habit to really dive into imo.

I redownloaded it a couple weeks ago because I previously did enjoy the questing. And I never felt the cash shop to be bad until they added loot box.. and now they added something else on top?! Pass, uninstalled it again and I won't bother buying it's expansions going forward. If ffxiv ever added a loot box it would be my last month subbed rofl
MMO's in general just feel pretty stale atm, tired of them all falling down the same path of cash grabbiness. Bless and it's zillion rereleases is laughable at this point.