New World switched focus from PvP to PvE before it even launched

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The Season of Conquerors has begun for New World Aeternum. Instead of enjoying the new level experience, the great focus on PvP kills the fun of many heroes.

What does the season offer? Since January 21, 2025, you can jump into the Season of Conquerors with a new character, which revolves around the theme of PvP. From level 15 onwards, every hero is automatically marked for PvP. Collected raw materials and loot can also be lost if you die virtually. Events, battle passes and new loot accompany the experience.

Although you could already master the level phase of New World Aeternum quite quickly, the hunt for experience points noticeably increases its pace again in the season: On the seasonal worlds you receive 25 percent more experience and weapon mastery. From level 15 you can ride automatically. You get the first mount at a tent camp.

The gameplay trailer for the launch of New World Aeternum:

New World Aeternum: Well-staged gameplay trailer for launch

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Frustration with announcement

Where is the problem? The MMORPGs from the past decades have brought many insights to light. These include:

  • The clear majority of genre fans prefer to play PvE over PvP. Many players have absolutely no desire for constant PvP pressure.
  • When there is a PvP requirement in the open world, dominant groups quickly emerge that enjoy terrorizing other, weaker communities.

    • The latter could be seen a few years ago on various WoW Classic PvP servers, for example, when the respective majority factions had fun for months by disgusting the other side out of the game or at least onto other servers.

    Experiences so far in Season of Conquerors have been similarly frustrating for some players.

  • Interesting-Copy-657 writes on Reddit: “My experience so far on the PVP server is that 1 to 3 people who are 10 to 20 levels higher go around killing people just to brag about it as if they have some kind of skill. It’s all somehow very toxic.”
  • Accomplished_Fig8776 complains on Reddit: “For anyone who was disappointed that Amazon Games went from hardcore PVP to more PVE with some PVP in it: this is why. The sheer amount of griefing that happened on the PvP servers on day one is exactly why. Imagine if the game had gone live like this; the game would have been dead in two weeks.”
  • Super-Ad-1934 added on Reddit: “The current culture in gaming is one of players who are more than happy to ruin the entire server… and to achieve the goal… they use every exploit, every possible advantage, it doesn’t matter “How detrimental it is to the game.”
  • Crusader6972 added on Reddit: “It’s toxic but no one cares. A large portion of every PVP community constantly whines about how the game is dying and there is no one to play with, at the same time they spend all their time running away from fair fights to pick off underprivileged people for easy kills.”

    • So it’s almost a good thing that the first season of New World Aeternum may have put off many genre fans because of the PvP focus that was announced in advance. And that those responsible at Amazon Games decided during the development of the MMORPG to change the focus from sandbox survival PvP to more theme park PvE.

    It’s just a shame that this realization came so late that a lot of the PvE content ended up on the live servers in a fairly generic and mixed way. You can find more details about the season here: New World introduces the Season of Conquerors and the first season world – community argues whether it will be great

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