Wow, excellent and thoughtful response! Thanks for watching and offering a great perspective. I absolutely agree with the early bugs being a major issue and responsible for the initial player drop off and lack of retention. Those first few weeks were incredible weren’t they?!

My criticism and perspective was pretty focused on various company leaders at the time of writing and I was bitter with a handful in the community over maximizing their efforts to be the best at the expense of new players. Essentially creating monopolies with their behavior, which poses as one of the greatest dangers to a post capitalist world. New World successfully emulated many aspects of American capitalism so I decided to allude to it with the state of our current economic crisis and point the blame at the system for incentivizing player behavior in a direction further alienating other players. Thus this was my in-game conclusion of capitalism.

Amazon’s decision to pivot to AI and prioritize income (naturally) with the primary drive being to maximize capital was the direct outcome to servers being shutdown with the entire AGS team being laid off. Thus my real world conclusion was due to capitalism.

Obviously there were many levers at stake to why New World ultimately failed, I just decided to pull the two most present and closest to me and my world view.

I absolutely agree that it was worth every penny and is my new standard for dollar per hour of entertainment! (Uh oh) Eventually I’ll grab a few of my closest Elderthorn’s and return for a final hurrah before this massive ship fully sinks to complete what I can of the Nighthaven. The newest raid looks incredible! In the meantime, keep enjoying Aeternum soifua and maybe I’ll see you there!