Amazon is developing an MMO

Amazon is developing an MMO.

games.amazon.com/games

>Carve your own destiny in New World, a massively multiplayer, open-ended sandbox game set in a living, cursed land. Choose how you play, what you do, and whom you work with or against in an evolving world that transforms with the seasons, weather, and time of day. Band together to reclaim monster-haunted wilds and build thriving civilizations, or strike out on your own, surviving in the face of supernatural terrors and murderous player bandits. Focused on emergent gameplay and rich social features – including deep Twitch integration with broadcaster-led events, achievements, and rewards – your only limit in the New World is your ambition

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this game looks like garbage

>Rocket MOBA
>Another not gonna work MMO
>Hunger Games
What the fuck.
>ALL WITH TWITCH INTEGRATION
WHAT THE FUCK.

The pitch reminds me of that guy who won a lottery and tried to make his own mmo

>U CAN DO ANYTHING
>Montezuma's Revenge is just a status debuff instead of violently ripping your intestines to shreds because its an MMO

fucking dropped. Why are games squandering their unique settings with bad gameplay? First Horizon, now this?

>MMO
sorry what?

>MMO
that's a bummer, they had such a cool setting

witcher style game set in colonial era fantasy North America when?

but mmos are dead

Wow

buzzword muh buzzword buzzword

synergy. shared experiences

Hooker robots

>it's another but what can you do in it "DUDE ANYTHING LMAO" episode

Amazon is going full blown Spirits Within

Chances are, it'll be something dumb like Chronicles of Elyria with some changes.
>That Twitch thing
This is not a good thing.

Will the creatures in this game have large talons? So far, the best MMO for impressive talons is still World of Warcraft.

The talons of the griffins are very razor sharp and amazing looking. I find myself just flying nowhere in particular on my mount to stare at the talons.

Will only play if there is at least a few creatures with impressive talons.

It'll be Chronicles of Elyria but with actual fucking funding and developers.

If it's a genuine sandbox, with a real economy, maybe it can be as good as Runescape.

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>spoiler
You know that's not possible. It'll be shinier, that's it.

Why are they trying to make games? Aren't there much more profitable ventures? At least do a mobile game and milk those normies

>multiplayer
>open world
>sandbox
>survival

Oh hey, yet another one of these.

gotta say

positively excited just because

>big budget
>sandbox
>conquistadors

They're already in most non-game ventures, so they decided 'Why not use something else we own (Twitch) and make a variety of popular games for everyone around them!"

>maybe it can be as good as Runescape

I doubt it, because even Runescape went to shit. G.E. was a mistake.

This sandbox has one thing other sandboxes don't have. Boat loads of money and reputable devs.

Is there any footage of the games?

>reputable devs

Who are the developers?

Thanks for sharing napoleon dynamite

>twitch integration
>broadcaster-led events

>reputable devs
who?

Didn't know they owned twitch
>nearly 1bil to buy it
Don't feel twitch is worth that much

They poached devs from every major MMO and online game studio.

oh shit, somehow I missed that

hype ded

Breakaway just had a whole live match on twitch, New World just has a trailer showing off concept art and assets

>devs from every major MMO

But every major MMO sucks dick. Who would want more of what is going to undoubtedly be the same shit from these hacks?

>ew World just has a trailer showing off concept art and assets
link?

twitch is basically the second coming of youtube dude.

I missed them, thanks. I guess I'll watch it tomorrow on jewtube.

That actually sounds pretty good. They take something popular and mostly stagnant and promise something interesting and concrete added to the experience.
Since amazon is not a big name developer, it is not entirely impossible that they actually happen to make good games and save the industry.
On the other hand, since amazon is known to slave-drive their employees and don't really have any game making experience, they could also turn out to be the worst new party in the game industry in decades.
Both outcomes should prove interesting.

>slave-drive their employees

To be fair a lot of the people bitching about working for Amazon can't handle corporate pressure or hate walking (the warehouses. Mostly old fucks). Some people are cut out for it. Other's not so much.

pretty sure it was implied he meant Runescape when it was good.

Amazon is developing it? Amazon. Who do they have in their game division? I didn't even know they had one. Are we sure they aren't just publishing it?

I don't know about their warehouse workers, I was talking about their programmers and IT staff actually.

They literally have a game studio named Amazon Game Studio

The very same

try around 8:46 for the sizzle reel thing they showed
twitch playbreakaway/v/92134477

>including deep Twitch integration with broadcaster-led events

They paid developers from big name games like portal and farcry to make them a game. The game they just livestreamed was basically Rocket League of Legends, and as long as it controls well I could see it being popular.

Ah. yeah the warehouse jobs have an INSANE amount of walking. They're also very strict with times, down to seconds. Also you have to get checked by security before you leave due to theft.

A lot of people complain about that. If you're young and healthy the warehouse job is fucking cake.

They make shitty mobile games

This game is being developed directly by amazon. They hired a shit ton of MMO devs to work on it.

if i preorder can i play as one of the amazon drones and avoid being destroyed for loot

>evolving world that transforms with the seasons, weather, and time of day

How many times have I heard that before?

>Everyone on a development team is bad just because a game is a failure
That's what you're implying.

Can they make some amazon basics games. I'd like a racing game for cheap

Well shit son I guess I'm behind the times.

>try around 8:46 for the sizzle reel thing they showed
>twitch playbreakaway/v/92134477
cheers bro

Amazon will make a drone game and your player data will be used to train the neural net.

They weren't vocal about it. They quietly hired a shit ton of people. The last one was Colin Johanson.

DESU Amazon doesn't have a game developing history so they don't have a profit pattern to follow and jew to the last shekel. They have to take chances and have to allow for creative freedom. It might be ok, for an MMO that is

>Pandering to Twitch streamers
>"You can be a streamer too!"
Besides that, the last 2 look "passable if done right," which for a HG clone isn't too hard, just be better than the Culling, but for an MMO, they're climbing Mt. Everest here.

>the guy that directed guild wars 2

>every player just crashes into walls intentionally over and over
>amazon drones across the world start knocking themselves out of the sky like automatic pinatas

>The last one was Colin Johanson.
that's it, game's gonna be shit

It'd only take successful runs i assume, and thus any super skilled runs would result in the drones doing some dmc shit to send you your letter from your twin brother

>Carve your own destiny
Stop. using. that. cliche.

Crucible will be shit because a "last man standing" shit doesn't work with unique customizeable heroes. You just pick the same broken shit and ruin the game by balance changes constantly to break the meta aka exactly what happened to the Culling

Arma 3 BR and H1Z1 are still the only options if you want a battle royale game, and one of them is dead and the other is buggy and pretty shitty in general

ah so thats where all those arenanet and blizzard devs went

wow killer inbound

Well, my point was, Culling was good for like a month. So you just gotta make a game better than modern Culling for a while and rake in.
As for "balance," assuming they go the route of "everyone is overpowered!" it could be good, something many Developers don't because whiners everywhere. My hopes aren't high, but I'll keep a curious eye on it, especially if free.

Here's the video of the MMO

I ripped it from the stream

a.pomf.cat/rjuykn.mp4

If they deliver, might be cool. Time will tell.

titty fucking christ this is like if Gamestop became a game publisher.

Its not "everyone is overpowered" because that would be the Culling route with perks. This is "pick a unique hero" aka there will always be some broken character with dumb ass abilities and in general making a hunger game/battle royale game without the aspect of looting and minor survival elements takes almost all of the game away.

Why the fuck would you play a hunger game hero brawler thing when you could just play their shitty hero ball brawler or something else?

Amazon has actual devs and money. Oh and one of the biggest cloud and hosting infrastructures in the world. AWS is huge

GameStop is a publisher and developer now.

Uh user, they released their first game a while back.

>Gamestop publishing games
I have some bad news

>This is "pick a unique hero" aka there will always be some broken character with dumb ass abilities
isn't the fact that it's 13 players in a match gonna balance itself out?

If 1 dude is more broken than the others you can bet your ass that the rest of the players are gonna gang up on him first

>see that mountain range over there in the distance?
>you can climb it

:^)

I hope amazon sends its robots to fuck you in the ass drone style.

Had me until
>including deep Twitch integration with broadcaster-led events, achievements, and rewards

It's part of my Prime Membership. Every month they come in and fuck me.


Get with the times, grandpa

these kind of games are empty promises. Because it gives you emphasis you can "DO ANYTHING!" when in reality the game is still on rails.
It'll have success in the betas and take a huge dump on release

Personally I fucking hate it. The pay is great but like you said they're incredibly anal about time and productivity rates. You're supposed to work at 100% productivity all the time based on units processed per hour (honestly not hard), but they'll give you a write-up if you're even at 99.5% for one week when it was entirely their fault. I got written up a couple months ago because the warehouse was being renovated and there was literally no work, so naturally it was my fault that I couldn't make rate that week when they didn't have any work for me to even do.

The rest of the stuff like security checks I can understand but they literally get people down to the second on shit. If I could find a job that payed as much with similar benefits though, I'd leave immediately.

>become one of the strongest players in the game
>say fuck you to the streamer culture
>have to deal with dozens of paparazzi trying to stream your every move in the game world
mite be cool

>if Gamestop became a game publisher.

THEY ALREADY ARE.

>he doesn't shell out more for extradited ass fucking
shouldn't you be doing some light cardio in a shallow pool?

>He doesn't want BALLZDEEP™ Twitch™ integration

>It'll have success in the betas and take a huge dump on release
mmorpgs are always most fun to play during beta

I fucking hate the warehouse because now I have to pay sales tax here. It's fucking 10.25%.

No I've never worked there. I just know from others who have. They are so anal about productivity like you said.

Depends on how dropping in works.
Since its heroes, you could just drop in next to someone who counters you and die. This isn't a respawn game, you could just die to bullshit.
This doesn't sound like a good idea at all to make. They could have just made a normal BR game but not shitty and still be better than any other option.

Like in a no respawn scenario, someone who can stun/slow is just going to not be fun to play against. Anyone with high mobility will just be very easy to play and get to the last stages of the game, and obviously this game will have some shitty hook hero because they all need one

and by that I mean expedited because you aren't being kicked out of a country so you can get arrested in another. Fuck.

Oh, and also - I'm an Amazon employee and I never even heard of this until just now. They usually air all of their big projects on the TVs in the break rooms but this is the first I've seen of this MMO. Honestly it looks pretty fucking cool and I'm hoping it'll turn out good.

Watch me not even get a bonus or a beta invite despite being an employee.

Well what's the point of calling them "reputable" and being optimistic? They're only reputation is for working on a dick & balls game.

You can't have it both ways.

to be fair none of the ones out are good

That's what he's getting at.

Which good ones? Most of those are all PvP gankboxes.

That wouldn't be too bad, what bothers me is the "you have to watch streams to get ingame points to buy ingame shit" i.e. you have to not-play games in order to p2w at the game.

this is going to be

AMAZonING

Have you never heard of eve online, runescape, mabinogi, or haven & hearth?

So do the streamers have to also watch streams? Who streams the streamers?

More interestingly, the streamer person can create events to fuck up someone who's too strong and makes the game unfun. That part, I think, is probably going to greatly help game health.

Who watches the watchers?

>h&h
>eve
>not good

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As an employee of Amazon I can say it will rape you off your time, money, and self respect.

Why does the last one sound kinda fun.

So a standard MMO, then.

I feel your pain though. Fuck this job.

desu the 3 sound pretty fun if done right. It's a big if, especially in 2016.

>games.amazon.com/games

seems a little redundant.

Its Arma 3 BR/H1Z1/Culling/Rust BR but with heroes which ruins everything about it. That type of no respawn game literally will not work with heroes because its going to be in a constant flux of meta heroes and people being unpickable.

can we lead a Cred Forums raid group and kill all streamers?

Cha1 fag reporting in.

I'm down. I miss the good ol days where we'd all invade games anyway

>MOBA
>sandbox MMO
>a sci-fi MMO
>all this live streaming shit

They're too ambitious. They need to start with a shitty mobile game first. These are all going to flop hard.

ABE2fag reporting for duty.

My peenus

too bad nu/v/ doesn't play games

"""""games"""" are literally for numales and cucks

Any vto today?

>New World
>clealy a conquistador
Let me convert those fucking monkeys to civilization, that's all I'm asking.

I'm front half so it's my weekend. Mandatory overtime got cancelled though.

>spanish
>civilized

>TwitchCon, the annual convention dedicated to its namesake's popular game-streaming service, kicked off on Thursday evening with an event hosted by Amazon Game Studios. There, the game publisher announced that Twitch will begin doling out a form of currency called "Stream+," which will debut in the upcoming sports-brawling multiplayer game Breakaway.
>An Amazon Game Studios rep mentioned the currency while describing various ways the new game will "integrate directly" with Twitch (which makes a certain level of sense, since Amazon acquired Twitch in 2014). The reveal included a brief snippet of Breakaway action that confirmed viewers' ability to wager on matches and "earn Stream+ Coins by watching."

I have a very bad feeling about this.

say that to my face heathen not online see what happens

future is lookin' bright baby!

So it's just like that Bet On Soldier game but semi-IRL?

wait would that count as gambling?

I'll translate what I meant to say for your perfidious pirate mind: I want to be able to burn mesoamericans alive.

> your only limit in the New World is your ambition

why does that just scream "this is gonna be boring"?

>Amazon ushering in another video game microtransaction gimmick.

Who would've thought??

> set in a living, cursed land.

getting a MMO Dark souls feel here.

>Focused on emergent gameplay
but what the fuck is this supposed to mean

Amazon should've just flushed the money down the toilet. The era of MMORPGs is done and over; WoW ONLY maintains a high subscribe base thanks to turning itself into Facebook. Plus, the EverCrack addiction situation, where players who actively despise the game still refuse to let go because they've invested too many years into it.

The hot new genre is ASSFAGGOTs, but of the TF2 ripoff variety. You know, not DOTA2 or LeL, but Overwatch and Paladins.

You obviously aren't ambitious enough

Is this mmo have any gameplay shown

People are always making MMOs wow clones but I just want to play a good mmo that isn't a wow clone

try not to lose all your ships to a little rain, catholic

it means "make your own fun, who cares"

>sandbox

awesome

>twitch integration

and dropped

HEY that rain was sent by the devil and you know it

>le CoD is my favorite MMO XD meme
>>>/tumblr/

meme-spouting retard kys.

Wakfu (too late), dofus, eve, runescape, tricksters online (pserb is still OK), swgemu, h&h, mabinogi, tibia/uo/ro pserbs, etc.
Now fuck off to underageb&.

>giving players a world has always been the unfulfilled promise of the genre
>fucking Amazon has the best chance of doing this first
I don't understand this world of ours at all.

amazon owns twitch, what do you expect?

but youtube doesn't make any money
>the second coming of worthless
wow awesome

The only one that ever was was the DayZ mod when only arma players knew about it. This genre cannot survive success. "Will this guy I met try to kill me or will we work together?" is an interesting question to ask of your players. We're going to kill everyone we see and the zombies don't even factor into anything isn't even a question.

What doesn't amazon have their hands in these days? Pretty soon they'll be an Amazon porn studio. Prime video exclusives, I can see it now.

What will it take for you to play?
>free sub to anyone with a Prime Account

I'd be down for that. They practically beg me to try prime every couple of months.

>play game and get other shit
>don't feel bad about taking a break and keeping sub running

Free employee membership or beta access.

I know I won't get either but still, it'd be nice.

As long as it's not a theme park and you can actually have proper player opposition I'm all for it.

>sub
Auto-dropped
>box fee
OK
>free with cosmetics-only microtransactions (PoE, dota2, etc.)
Even better

This actually will showcase many of Amazon's verticals...

Twitch
AWS
Amazon payments
Prime
And more

>no sub
Auto dropped
>box fee
Okay but don't get greedy and charge full AAA msrp
>free with cosmetics-only microtransactions (PoE, dota2, etc.)
Those are they only two games that have ever done f2p correctly. Out of fucking many.

You get what you pay for user. F2P games are universally shit.

Too bad only 2 of the top 15 MMOs have been non-f2p. Otherwise, maybe you could have had an argument!

amazon...

more failures to the list.

They own twitch, which is also the most popular vidya streaming service, of course they're gonna use it, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Using != forcing.

new world = rust
breakaway = overwatch
crucible = ???

>but youtube doesn't make any money
it actually does. Partnership makes some stupid money on the bigger channels.

Crucible is H1Z1/Arma 3 BR/Culling etc

Its not going to be good because of hero bullshit

Not top for fucking quality, just the ability to squeeze money out of suckers, retard.

amazon studios said "lets take popular twitch games, mash them together and make our own"

Yeah, I'm definitely sure they force you to use twitch, because that's a smart idea, just like I'm sure you can see the future.

What a fucking imbecile. Stop posting and reassess your life.

that's fucking genius

>Focused on emergent gameplay and rich social features – including deep Twitch integration with broadcaster-led events, achievements, and rewards
So basically they're going to dump a bunch of money into trying to force artificial interest in the game through Twitch, and then when it doesn't catch on they'll make it F2P and let it slowly fizzle out

That sounds disgusting and inhuman, but hey, thank you Ford for efficiency.

Well the only thing that looks cool is weather and seasons. That's about it. Otherwise I don't have enough info to pass judgement.

Seems like they're announcing it too early really. A lot of games can get canned at this stage.

why can't anyone do a decent MMO? that WH40K MMO looked interesting and had potential, but most people say it's filled with problems and dead. Why do these companies dump millions into a game only for it to die shortly? why not just make a decent game?

Executive meddling is the major reason.

Because they're made to make money, not to be fun. The mobile game principle of only fun enough to keep playing is the driving one nowadays because of that investment. If you don't get your money back, it's not worth the dev time.

>people are willing to do it
>they volunteer to do it and receive compensation
>this is bad

Well for someone without a college education (and a lot of people with one), what else is there? Flipping burgers? You literally cannot live in the US on minimum wage. You can meme all you want but the way things are in the US is fucked. No other first world country has people working as many hours as we do for such little pay and compensation.

>meddling

If you mean last crusade that game was developed by a company who's only major games were snack food promotionals and went from promising the world to making a buggy mutliplayer arena of the space marine game.

>Well for someone without a college education (and a lot of people with one), what else is there?
lmgtfy.com/?q=trade apprenticeships

>why can't anyone do a decent MMO?

TERA and WOW already exist user

>No other first world country has people working as many hours as we do for such little pay and compensation.
>but let's keep importing brown people to flood the labor market and depress wages so CEOs can get bigger bonuses

You know how game systems evolve over time? Like if you play SSI's Gold Box games now, they're still fucking great but it's a pain in the ass to heal your party by having your clerics cast heal light wounds via essentially tabbing in one direction through your spell list, pressing a button, tabbing through your party list to the target and then pressing another button. Then you have to memorize your spells again and rest through 20 different key strokes because you only have 5 spell sots and it may take 20 casts to heal your party up.

Well, there's a lot of moving pieces in an MMO and many of them haven't evolved for shit in a decade and a half. Threat table based enemy AI is fucking stale. Hotbar combat is fucking stale, at it's core, but games like Blade & Soul can do well with it. They're the fucking exceptions to the rule, though. Kill X/fetch X/fedex quests are so stale they'd be fucking mummies if they were NPCs and everyone still feels comfortable adding that shit to their games, again there's a quest writing exception in Elder Scrolls online. Because there are so many moving parts, ESO and B&S each got one thing right and then failed in five other areas.

The short answer is devs use tired old game design tropes when they should be putting more resources into systems like enemy behavior, because people keep buying and playing games with the same old bullshit.

Programmers also have it shit, their first 6 months are unpaid

Can't forget Runescape in the quest department. Actually feels like you're doing something. But people want rewards all the time, and there's a certain amount of blame to also be put on the players for supporting this shit.

I'm conflicted here
>Those hands
>That overly shiny skin
against
>Those hips
>Dat ass
Not sure if should be disgusted or horny

Can we please get an mmo with a political system and military ranks? I want some fucking delegation in my games. I want guards hired to protect these politicians and bounties on their heads, greed and corruption. What is so hard about that? I want to collect boar asses for my favorite candidate and fight pvp battles with the opposing side. Please in my life time, please make this a reality.

why not both?

Real talk, Runescape has the absolute best questing of any MMO. No matter which one it is they all feel like real quests and they're all fun as fuck with cool rewards. Even if you can't use the rewards due to outgearing them you still get unique items, spells or access to new areas and abilities. It's all so good and it's a shame such a good system is tied to such a mediocre game.

EVE would be the best thing for you right now then. If a modern MMO would be made with that sort of thing I guarantee it would not work out how you'd like it to.

I'll be honest, in recent years Runescape's become a better singleplayer RPG than most fantasy themed RPG's I know of. Granted, I still don't like a lot of decisions they make to keep the game alive, but I guess that's a sad reality of why MMO's are somewhat crappy.

>Move to a state with a large state school with reasonable ~5k per semester in-state tuition
>talk to admissions, tell them you plan on working and saving for school, find out if they would accept you if you applied now and what you can do in community college to get to that point if it's close
>there are 50 states, these big schools have upwards of 50k undergrads, there is a place for you
>work like a dog while living in a shared house
>cook for yourself
>no stupid phone plans and smart phones, a flip phone is what you need because you only need it for your employers
>don't fucking buy bullshit like starbucks coffee
>don't buy fast food for lunch
>your lunch is a pb&j and some pieces of fruit and raw vegetables
>get /fit/ while doing this because why not?
>quit drugs (this is important later)
>keep working like a dog
>get cheap hobbies you enjoy that have high learning curves, i.e. drawfagging, pawn shop guitar, vidya backlog (if you ration your time on this one, you'll be tired and will need sleep)
>do this for two or three years and be shocked by the money you've saved
>enter school
>chem and bio undergrad or program designed to get you into pharma D
>schoolwork is your priority now, but you will still have to work
>yours is not the college life of partying and blowing studies off, deal with it
>get bachelors
>pharma D program
>keep at it
>be pharmacist (this is why no drugs)
I'm not even joking, user. You can live off of minimum wage while saving mad geldt if you work 80 hours a week and DON'T consume like you're not on minmum wage. You come out of 8 years of school and practicum (less depending on what you did at community college) and you are looking at starting wages of 115k and you get to live wherever the fuck you want to. You can do this, the other guy can do this. Anyone can do this. It takes discipline, but it is reachable. I don't care how old you are either. Are you 40? Go back to school, young man.

>New World is a massively multiplayer, open-ended sandbox game that allows you to carve your own destiny with other players in a living, hostile, cursed land.
>How you play, what you do, and whom you work with or against is up to you.
>Live on your own amidst the supernatural terrors or join with others to build thriving civilizations.
>In this evolving world that transforms with the changing of the seasons, weather, and time of day, the only limit is your own ambition.
>A release date for New World has not been set.

Fuck this sounds ambitious as hell.

Why can't MMOs start simple to test things out with players and build from there?

Nah EVE is garbage space bullshit

You dont understand you could be traveling to 18 quadrillion different worlds

I guess the only one that's coming out is Chronicles of Elyria, but I'm very skeptical of that one. Way too ambitious.

>Why can't MMOs start simple to test things out with players and build from there
Nobody wants to be CCP and make EVE, clutching on tight to your initial fanbase and growing the game together with them by putting your profits back into the game.
Everybody wants to be Blizzard, because they're literally retarded when it comes to expectations.
I think you're kind of forced into sandbox with the ccp business model, but I don't think that's awful.

Because simple doesn't lure people in, irrelevant of quality. Ambitious, extreme, absurd, seemingly impossible, and literally impossible draw people in.
They want exciting, amazing, wow!
And they'll slog through terrible grinds and sometimes paywalls for that excitement.

Most people don't care about a job well done, they just want big numbers, flashy effects, and a "You win!" sign at the end, even if they fail.

Oh is that the one where they promised in-game dungeon masters that create tailored quests for you and shit? There's no way that's gonna be a thing

Sounds like Wurm but with actual graphics and quite possibly less grind but with microtransactions.

I'm hype already, I don't think any company the size of Amazon has ever made an MMO or an actual game for that matter.

Eve isn't good.

How in the fuck can you say you're hyped for a game you have MAYBE one minute of info about? How?

Yeah, I think they also said player government as well.

Is this another one of those "YOU CAN DO ANYTHING" games?

Remember that time when someone made lofty promises with great amounts of scope and then made good in their promises? Of course you don't because it's never happened and there's no reason to think it ever will. I would be overjoyed to have them prove me wrong, but they won't.

Any source to back that up? They must be getting the shittest programmers in the industry if that's the case because I would never do that considering my job and perks I currently have.

NMS proves you wrong

Because it's being made by a company that has over $100 billion in revenues that is known for disrupting markets. Maybe hyped was an overstatement but I'm definitely excited to see what they can do with all the resources they have.

That's some shaky evidence to be basing your excitement on, but whatever. I still don't know enough to say whether the game will be good or not and a company's revenue isn't really a good indicator when a majority of it is in an entirely different business of online market.

Precisely why it needs to be good, they don't have a reputation in the video game industry and if they want to create one they need to make something good that will get people talking. They probably learned this lesson when they tried to make a phone, it was shit so it didn't sell and they weren't able to enter the phone industry. And again other than the phone every product that Amazon makes is good and actually manage to offer something for everybody which is what I feel they want to do with this game. Look no further than their tablets, Cred Forums absolutely loves them because they are cheap and good, but they also appeal to normies who want a facebook machine.

>GameStop isn't like the 5th most valued company in the world though.

Why is this green text?

But again, your evidence isn't necessarily proving that it is going to be good. All you have are hopes based on tangential evidence. All I'm asking for is some skepticism from you. You gave one example of them failing in an established market, and one of them not. That's 50%. Not great odds.

Why should I be skeptic? If the game turns out to be shit I'll just not play it and move on.

I followed No Man's Sky from announcement all the way to release, I think I saw every single interview Sean made. When it released it seemed like shit so I didn't buy it and moved on

Star Citizen is a good example of a game with resources well above and beyond what the developers intended.

The more resources they have > the more content and features they want to implement > the longer it takes for this mmo to be released.

and the longer it takes for it to release means the more likely it is to become vaporware.

I'm not really feeling comfortable with the whole colonizing North America angle of New World.

What were they thinking

A lot of triple A games coming out recently aren't living up to the hype that people like you make for them. That's why I was a bit concerned. I suppose though if you didn't buy NMS after learning it was crap is alright so long as you didn't try and sell it to other people. I hope you understand where I'm coming from, especially knowing that Cred Forums is full of people paid to do this sort of thing.

While it certainly may turn out to be complete shit, it's pretty neat that a big studio is going to gamble on a sandbox mmo.
This is what sandbox fags have been wanting for ages instead of indy early access garbage. It's way too early to shit on this and for once a project has MONEY and decent devs at the start.
Again, who fucking knows and it could be horrible, but it sounds neat so far. If nothing else this could be a AAA answer to the boring themepark style mmos we've been stuck with.

>>don't feel bad about taking a break and keeping sub running
this is why I've never played an MMO before

Be easier just to join the military. But sure user, flip burgers 80 hours a week while going to school.

Oh shit this must be why they kept poaching gw2 staff.

Which begs the question as to why. Because GW2 was dogshit

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Who cares if it was shit. Did it turn a substantial profit? If yes, then there's your answer.

But gw2 is a success and lots of people still play it.

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Legion is such utter garbage, i'll play it
t b h
If there was ever a good time to try and take the crown from WoW, it's now

>cartoony
DROPPED

hes still not done spreading his tainted smile to the world huh?

>I'm not even joking, user. You can live off of minimum wage while saving mad geldt if you work 80 hours a week and DON'T consume like you're not on minmum wage. You come out of 8 years of school and practicum (less depending on what you did at community college) and you are looking at starting wages of 115k and you get to live wherever the fuck you want to. You can do this, the other guy can do this. Anyone can do this. It takes discipline, but it is reachable. I don't care how old you are either. Are you 40? Go back to school, young man.
Wonderful to know you no know nothing useless fucks are getting replaced by robots in 5 years.
Fucking useless morons.

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While I agree with this generally, when it comes to mmos a return to sandbox is perhaps the last thing that could revive the genre. We've not had anything great since pre-cu SWG and EVE is still a brilliant game, albeit very niche.

This is what I was thinking. I'm not super excited since the description is just "You can do ANYTHING with your favorite twitch streamers!", but with a budget from Amazon I would guess that it's going to be better than the Korean cash grabs that have been thrown at us.

No. You flip the burgers while saving up for the college which only charges 10k a year in tuition because you're in state. You'd have to work under 40 hours once you start school.

>robot pharmacists
You are not a smart man, user.

you are now aware that this is literally the reason why their seattle branch for years has been hiring hundreds of "game programmers" from india

>"competitve" multiplayer e-sports bait with an expanding roster of playable heroes and heavy emphasis on live streaming
>overly ambitious "you can do anything" MMO with "emergent gameplay" and heavy emphasis on live streaming
>hunger-games style multiplayer survival deathmatch with heavy emphasis on live streaming

They looked at what PC players are willing to spend money on, snatched up resources and made their own versions of what's out there, and then tacked Twitch integration onto each one.
This is the biggest, most shameless cashgrab I have ever seen and people are going to eat it right up.

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you guys sperg out about it being a bad game but amazon will probably nail all of their IP's and all of you will weeb out about it either way

So New World won't compete with WoW or FF14, its competing with Ark and Rust? It sounds more like survival+base building games than MMOs

Might have bigger servers but the game would run like total shit for 95% of players just like Rust and Ark

I've seen worse attempts at a cash grab after Star Citizen's success.

It failed tremendously though.

This is much bigger, though.
Three games at once with all of Amazon's assets behind them are going to have a much bigger impact than a single startup project by some literally whos.

>Real talk, Runescape has the absolute best questing of any MMO.
No, it doesn't. DDO has the best questing. Each quest is a mini-adventure in its own comfy dungeon filled with puzzles and traps, that requires a balanced party to finish on the hardest difficulty.

Do they always have to show a nigger to present their games?

Is that shit in english yet or do I still have to try my best at guessing moonrunes

DDO = Dungeons&Dragons Online, not Dragon's Dogma, kek.

So this is the game those guys from double helix were working on all these years.

well I feel silly now. Never mind then.

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Kek.

Sorry you can't make it past the casual filter that is EVE ONLINE, bitch.

>work 80 hours
like that isn't fucking ridiculous to have to work that many hours a week just to get a degree
>like that isn't fucking ridiculous to have to work that many hours a week just to become a pharmacist
>Anyone can do this. It takes discipline, but it is reachable.
Spotted the slave-driver. Go back to your pyramids.

damn didnt notice, havent slept for 24 hours

name me a sandbox mmo that's successful

This will either be in development hell forever or be utterly disappointing.

The MMO genre is fucked.

> DDO has the best questing
Yeah, the first few times. I quit after launch because all you did was endlessly repeat the same quests until you moved to a new area where you had to endlessly repeat the same quests.

I'm not saying the modules were bad because they really are the best questing. I am saying that they did not match the game. As good as they are, they don't stand up to what is required of them.

Enemy behavior was fucking sweet though. Having to keep a proper formation so the mobs didn't bypass the tank and run straight for the squishies kept me diamonds

The whole point we started with was minimum wage wasn't enough to live on, user. Now you want it to magically allow you to save up enough to start school after three years without working your ass off?

i'd trust amazon to deliver more than anyone else

Wait.
I can play as a spaniard?

It better have rape mechanics.

Tell me that to my good side and see what happens cowardly pirate. I'll take all of your "royal" "fleet" with some indians and spaniards.

so this is why they built lumberyard

interesting

working your ass off?
Not to sound like a nigger, but working 12 hours a day 7 days a week. or 16 hours 5 days a week, shouldn't even be a fucking thing. Hell, that's nearly Chinese sweatshop level. An education shouldn't be so god damn hard to get all of a sudden.

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The funny part is I'm directing you to go to a big state school on cheap instate tuition. UT in Austin is 5k a semester in-state and 17k out of state. It's not possible out of state.
Yes, user. I'd be easier if your folks paid for school for eight years. The whole point of what I wrote was in response to user's comment on having no college and working shit jobs. I'll let you in on a little secret though, If becoming a pharmacist were easy, you wouldn't get paid 115k a yr in your first job out of school

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EVE online did well enough to allow CCP to throw a bunch of money into a big pile shaped like a complicated shooter for a console at the end of its lifespan in a market where CoD ruled as well as a failed second MMO directed by a complete and utter moron and then set it on fire. The first part is pretty successful.

>sandbox MMO with an actually decent budget

Will I finally have a reason to move on from playing private servers of old sandbox MMOs?

Amazon has their own game engine based on CryEngine as well.
Amazon Lumberyard, it's free

>free high-end game engine
>no subscription fees
>no requirement to share revenue

why aren't more people talking about it?

it's a buggy piece of shit, for now anyway

Is it because nobody talks about Amazon in reference to games beyond buying them there if sale?

Because when it was released everyone knew it was an old CryTek engine and nobody wants to use old engines when newer stuff came out.

>free
>License: Proprietary
It ain't free, it ain't free, it ain't no libre software, son

so this is why they recruited all those guys from arena net?

I like the idea, games like Wurm and Haven and Hearth are fun but not really backed by a large budget.

The problem here is streaming, you can't stream a game like that unless it's entirely PVE or it's going to basically be a shitshow of the streamer getting attacked constantly. You can't even stream games like Rust without it being stupid as fuck.

>no playable asian grills

pass

(((YOU CAN TAKE OFF)))
(((THEN YOU CAN LAND)))
(((THEN YOU CAN TAKE OFF AGAIN)))

>sandbox MMO
>most likely pvp one
>most likely with humans only
Sounds like a big fail already. Unless they are fine with developing this game for total population less than one wow server, lol.

humans only are fine. you can have race, factions, groups or nations.

>open-ended sandbox game
>rich social features – including deep Twitch integration
Are they trying to beat some flop record?

Its 2016 now, not 2005. I can remember only TSW being moderately successful with humans only.

I SWUNG A SWORD
I SWUNG A SWORD AGAIN

never again

>sandbox MMO
>most likely pvp one
>most likely with humans only
imagine soulsborne in a horrific version of new world colonization