New World: CEO Has A Message For People Who Doubted Amazon

I mean cmon, all Amazon did was put the money up for the game. Basically, they are the investors of the winning horse at the derby. Did they raise, train, clean its stall. They threw money at some decent developers until ... it stuck. Well that is one way, I guess.

But since they are the money men, they get to take their ride around the track, enjoying the limelight of a good game and of course the games popularity.

"It takes a few before you find a hit, or several, but they didn't lose their resolve."

- Andy Jassy

"It takes only one if you know what the hell your doing. And picking a market helps as well."

- Peanut

It might have sold a lot but it remains to be seen whether its really going to be a long term success story. I myself gave the game a try since I have caught up with FFXIV and am waiting for its new expansion. I watched much of the beta and none of what I saw convinced me the game would be any good, but regardless, I figured I might as well try it out myself because I could and after a week or so, I can honestly say that once I've moved onto many of the new games coming out over the next couple months and when Endwalker finally launches, I won't even think twice about New World, it just does nothing really unique, nor does it stand out and everything it does do somewhat well is mediocre at best compared to better MMOs. I'd be surprised if this has anything but a small dedicated playerbase in 6-12 months time.

I never doubted whether or not they'd be able to build a competent game. They have unlimited resources... hire all the experienced people you want to put that together. It's the motive of the company that I question. I don't particularly want to see another greedy megacorp in games that's going to further normalize the way games are monetized... nor do I want to see one that runs cloud solutions like AWS, Prime Video, etc get into gaming because I'm sure there's going to be an eventual game streaming service from them if they get into the business enough.

Not gona buy anythign that comes from Amazon.

MMORPG might launch strong but they almost always crash pretty hard the exceptions are wow and ff14 the old republic has a big fanbase too but this game is gonna die off in a few months

They still haven't made a good game.

thing is, the reviews for this game are terrible. Guess if lots of people playing their game for a short period is a success, the bar is quite low. We will see in a year if people are still playing...

Again, right now means nothing. Your numbers in 3 months mean everything.

If Jassy knew more about the kind of game Amazon has made they'd know you need to see whether there's a massive drop off of players before you can call it a bonafide hit.

Beyond Bezos and the richest company in the world, there is a lesson here: with enough help and money to get up after a failure nearly everyone could succeed at one point. That's why easy credit and state incentives should be given to starting companies.

Won't ever play this. I'd rather not have my GPU burn up because of poor programing.

Wow the richest company in the world almost made a passable game *sarcastic golf clap*
36% user score on metacritic and mixed reviews on steam though, so I wouldn't call that a success.

Jassy shouldn't get too far ahead of himself here. When it comes to MMO's, it is not at all uncommon to see a sharp drop-off in players after the initial novelty wears off, (and people get a grasp of what the long game content looks like).

Not saying that will happen here, but it's something to be aware of. I hope it stays successful and relevant.

Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good.

But Amazon doesn't care about good, they care they've made something people are willing to engage in that delicious recurrent user spending the games industry loves so much.

How about providing the servers required for an MMO?

Ok but, the game has mixed reviews. The number of players and the user review averages don't line up at all.

The balls to say anything after the massive twitch leak, lmao.

I wish he was equally brave to respond to the fact that New World continues to break GPUs.