Amazon Games (Yes, Bezos) developed some swordshit MMORPG called New World that just released today and did pretty much everything they could to piss off g*mers.
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Staggered global release but global usernames, causing hundreds of thousands of burgers to login at the EU launch time to lock their usernames, eternally cucking EU players.
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Despite being hosted on AWS, only enough servers for like 10% of the playerbase. People waiting in queues now for 8+ hours.
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Unstable connections causing players to disconnect and get sent right back to the cuck queue.
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Priority queuing for popular streamers.
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Extremely repetitive grinding gameplay, so exactly what was expected, but people are still mad about it I guess.
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Zero servers for SEA (asia), Asian hordes logging in to kangaroo servers making them unplayable.
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Zero balance changes from an open beta they had.
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Promised new weapons or some shit on launch, literally no new content from open beta.
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Broken partying system, so the actual social aspects with friends are unplayable.
Bonus seethe:
Steam reviews feat. screaming manchildren and angry europoors:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1063730/reviews/?browsefilter=mostrecent&snr=1_5_100010_&p=1
Make sure you guys post some comments about how much you love playing the game and how quick the queue was for you, maybe suggest people upgrade their computers. Talking about how much you love Bezos is also a good idea.
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G*mers will never learn to not buy before release.
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I thought it was going to be a Free 2 play thing, lmao it costs money!?
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$40, which is a lot to these people tbh.
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G*mers deserve the chair what the frick
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How poor do you have to be for 40 dollarinos to matter to you?
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40 dollars can get you four top-notch 100%-teeth-free roadside bjs in Europoorlandia.
Plus, Babushkas are smoother to the touch than Bezos' scaly scalp.
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No idea, I spent $80 at a bar a last night and that's mid range pricing where I live now. G*mers really do complain about spending $40 on something they'll spend 8 hours playing the first day alone.
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That's a whole day's wage at the coal mine/bissexual coffee shop for Eur*s.
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I guess we learn from our mistakes in order to ensure we don't die prematurely, but if you've already renounced your life for a computer screen then why even bother?
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I promise g*mers 2000 drama coins tomorrow for 50 today and they always accept
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Imagine owning the largest cloud service provider in the world and being unable to host enough servers.
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Most likely intentional.
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Ah the runescape style 2000 players per server cap in 2021.
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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Runescape is pretty impressive honestly. Like the game executed on fricking web integrated java running on single core Celeron/Pentium processor systems with 512MB of ram, and managed to both perform better and have exponentially more content than any MMO made since. And it was free.
What the frick happened to game devs since then?
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I remember an article or something quite a while ago, that argued that games are now much worse optimised than back in the day because performance of computers advanced so quickly that you could get away with horrible efficiency because there was just so much computing power that the game would run smooth anyways, so the time spent on optimisation was literally just lost money.
Being able to just show out patches through the Internet probably did the rest. Why test if everything works properly in all circumstances, when you can just half-butt it and wait for the paypigs to find the bugs for you.
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And games are still one of the most optimized pieces of software that exist today. If you take a look at most of enterprise software it's like basically throwing piles of cash in a fire, because you can. The website takes 5 minutes to load? just throw more servers at it! The database is starting to respond slowly? Just buy a more expensive server.
Optimize code? Refactor code that has been untouched for 5 years and is causing a bottleneck? just add another if, it needs to be delivered tomorrow. To be fair, developers are probably more expensive than better servers, so in the short/medium term makes sense to throw money at it.
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Thats why glowing is the perfect job. Everything is half a decade out of date, and when a website doesn't load fast enough you just take a smoke/coffee break for 5 minutes
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This is not exclusive to games lol, the entire software industry operates on this mentality
I'm genuinely glad I work in a low-level / hardware sector because it's practically the only place where optimization still matters
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This is basically all software now. If you dare even ask for advice on optimizing a section of code most help/advice forums will shit on you.
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I honestly blame graphics. Now a game needs to look pretty and have cinematic moments to sell, but those visual improvements often gloss over (lol) lacking investment in gameplay and backend features that improve experience.
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All the good devs either retired or went on to become spectacularly wealthy in other IT fields, eg Demis Hassabis, the guy who founded DeepMind, started off in game development.
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The business model is to hastily throw some shit together and then move on to the next thing.
Developers are now too expensive to let them polish something that people are going to buy anyway.
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They got old and moved on with their lives.
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The 90s to early 00s was an optimistic time for technology.
Now we're in a cynical time, where it's all about the cash grab
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So CS programs have just been so shit that no new decent devs have been produced or what?
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Kids these days waste their youth on Tik Tok and other entertainment. The old devs were born during a time when messing around with code and modding was widespread. They were driven by passion and interest. Take Valve, all of the original devs were hired from the modding community by Gabe. Back then you could find studio devs on forums. Call of Duty 1 devs used to help people and share map source code and editor files so modders could learn how to make new stuff. None of those people still work there, they all left after the lawsuit with Activision 12 years ago.
Today everything is locked/closed, modding culture is dead for most games and the powerful GPU's required for cutting edge development have become too expensive for young kids. The old passion is gone too, and internet culture today is nothing like it was back then.
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Budgets have changed. What used to be AAA is now the indie game market. I mean, take Factorio as a counter-example. Not only is modding the whole point of the game, but the developers (Wube) are actively recruiting popular/active modders to work for them.
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Turns out nobody lrnd2code efficiently after all these years.
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I can't stand MMOs because I hate grinding, which most people should but apparently the promise of a shiny sword is enough for goomers to slave away on their computer, and pay for it.
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g*mers will spend 8 hours a day sitting on a sweaty chair grinding for +3 damage to their sword
but can't go to the gym 3 hours a week
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so basicially any RPG
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Yeah I say MMO because that's what all the kids are playing nowadays but really that shit goes back all the way to Diablo
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MMOs have been a dead genre for a long time now.
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I play an old MMO that was shut down in 2012 then brought back by a code leak in 2019 and somehow has a huge active boomercore population. I think it's technically illegal!
Thus proving that games are better when there are no game devs involved
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I love watching g*mers in pain.
Has there even been a single good game released passed 2010????
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Among Us.
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The last game I ever paid full price for was Halo 4, luckily I have more than 10 brain cells so I learned my lesson early in life.
Now I'm just too old to enjoy anything longer than an hour so I never buy games. Or maybe its not me, its just that games genuinely do fricking suck now. Idk.
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I have the same issue. Games genuinely do just suck nowadays.
I spend more time going back and playing old classics than new titles.
https://i.ibb.co/2gSK4fb/a756afdceb65.webp
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Do you want an ironic or unironic answer?
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I want Dramacoin.
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Le Witcher 3, but even that caused some seethe because of downgraded graphics (literally who cares)
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RDR2
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I’m playing Hades right now, and it’s pretty darn great.
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Even if the devs are insufferable Californians, they're talented Californians for a change.
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Factorio
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Gris and Child of Light. Two cool little artistic games
I stopped playing AAA games (except Forza Horizon) I just focus now on small indie devs with ideas that seem interesting
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Rain World.
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Path of exile
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How could something made by commies be so based
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I always thought that game was anti commi. After all the commie villain was ultimately motivated by sexual inadequacy if I remember right
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Thank you Daddy Bezo for keep making these trash games! Gaymers deserve getting cucked eternally with load times and chinese hackers
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The g*mers are paypigs for amazon shareholders.
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Anyone who paid money for an amazon developed game deserves this. Here I thought redditors hated bezos and capitalism
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They're literally forced to partake in capitalism. They have no choice but to buy the game and its associated funko pop.
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Imagine being upset at common sense
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Don't forget the BETAAA release was bricking GPU's https://old.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/comments/oobi56/did_the_new_world_beta_brick_your_gpu/?sort=controversial
It's more of a GPU fault - I think the menus running at like 1000fps damaged one of the components - but still it happened with this game so I'm gonna blame it.
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There are few things more pathetic than the eternal manchild g*mer still chasing the high of their first mmo
Like if you didn't take one look at that game, as with every new mmo that has come out in the past 10 years, and say "wow that's gonna die in 6 months" then you're an idiot
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Imma chase that dragon and you can't stop me
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Imagine caring about fricking video games past like 2010, they're all awful
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Smh you should have put greater emphasis on this.
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Why is everyone hyped for a generic outdated mmorpg anyway? It always looked shit.
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No idea, I wouldn't even know it existed if it wasn't for a group of friends who pre-ordered it and say its like, the next thing. The next big thing everyone is gonna play, for like forever.
Looking forward them them all never playing it again after a month when they remember that they are still too old to have fun playing games anymore.
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I have a bunch of friends that really like these rust/ark/ survival-whatever games who were vaguely excited about this
Dunno what would have been the pull otherwise
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Hm but it's not that type of game.
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Wasnt that the Game that melted the 2000$ GPUs?
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It's running fine for me so today I get to be that annoying guy that goes around saying things like "Working for me and my computer is worse than yours." while offering no other advice and making people seethe more.
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I thought MMORPGs were dying off since F2P games were doing a better job hooking g*mers into a cheaper Skinner Box
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The genre has been dead for years, the only people I know who play WoW still basically just use it like a Groomercord server for socializing with people.
Wagies just don't have the free time to play shit like this and no one with a real job cares. Younger people get a bigger dopamine fix just scrolling social media. I'm not sure why game devs bother anymore.
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No surprise its dead in the water. When will MMO devs learn?
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Reminds me of when The Division came out years back and there were long queues in the intro room you first spawn into because people could only access the computer in the room one at a time. This was necessary to start the first cut scene and actually play the real game. Goomers actually lined up in the game for up to an hour just to get out of the first room. Still managed to somehow not be as bad as this shit though.
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I don't understand how developers keep making this same mistake. Warlords of Draenor had it too, the starter area had a thing you had to interact with to continue so tons of people crowded around it all trying to click on it.
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Raubahn (Savage)
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Newly released games are just beta versions these days.
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I dont know what makes me happier, g*mers getting fleeced for the n+1 time, or a tech giant getting fricked. All I know is that it's a good day to go outside and touch grass, and to be a disciple of Saint Ted.
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Nips finally getting their revenge against us for pooping up FF14
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This is par for the course for MMO launches lmfao what did they expect
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How have people not figured out that "beta" nowadays is just a marketing demo?
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Has there ever been a "good" streamer game?
Grounded
New World
Vallheim
All shitty "survival" games with less depth than fricking Minecraft.
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Amogus
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the game has been out for a day right? why are there people with 20+ hours on steam?
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Sitting in EU queues to namelock, apparently.
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Is this the game that fried users GPUs during beta?
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Oh shit I love MMO launches. I'll have to check this out. They're always a clusterfrick but they're the only time worth playing an MMO imho
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Only a g*mer would try this hard to play something that would've bricked their $1500 gpu 2 months ago
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Has any MMORPG post-WoW ever survived long-term? I don't count FF14 as long term yet. I remember there were so many MMORPGs released to compete with WoW, like Aion, and they all just faded into obscurity. Yet all this time, WoW has always managed to draw the suckers back in every expansion release only for the sub count to drop off a cliff half a year later. The model just works I guess.
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It released in burgerland at like 8am while it released in europe at 2pm.
Burger g*mers sleep all day and woke up to see all of their names locked.
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This was also the game that fired high end GPUs. Fricking r-slurs. What did they expect? All MMOs had shit launches.
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Wouldn't it be awful if Kamala became president, put all the pot heads in labor camps, and then accidentally tripped, fell out of all her clothes, and landed in my bubble bath? Haha that sure would be a problem
Snapshots:
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Would this be worse than SWTOR?
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give me the tl;dr, how did they possibly manage to frick this up?
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Just connection issues from what I can gather from screeching redditors and steam reviews.
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