Other endgame changes, alongside new seasonal content, are currently being tested on the game's public test realm. That will no longer be the case, though some elements of the upcoming system, called Expertise, will still be coming in a future patch. That throws a wrinkle in the game's PvP-focused faction war, of which the goal is to own as many territories as possible, but beats the alternative of playing on a nearly empty server with little to no competition.Īmazon recently walked back a controversial change it had proposed for New World's endgame, one that would have made gear acquired from crafting or quests less effective if players failed to participate in certain endgame activities. The only thing that doesn't transfer is owned territories, which are left in the control of those playing on the host server that will be accepting new players from the merge. Progress is not lost upon a server being merged into another, with gold, items, companies, homes, and more all transferring. That investigation includes comparing things like the faction balance, language, and gameplay style between the various servers in question before coming to a decision. According to, the total of players currently on EU Central numbers around 11k, a very low number compared to the 43k we last reported. Like previous months, the majority of players are on EU Central severs. Once it's determined that a server merge is needed, Amazon starts to look for a host server to merge other servers into. Current New World Server Populations The New World Server Population is split across several servers.
To determine if a server might be "unhealthy," Amazon states that it looks at population size, overall player engagement, and more. While the game is still popular, as of writing it's the fourth most played game on Steam with a peak concurrent player count of more than 114,000, there are simply more servers than there are players to fill them.Īmazon recently released a FAQ explaining how and why a server might be merged into another, stating that if the studio's data shows the experience on a world has become "suboptimal" that it will begin looking for servers it could be merged into.
Fast forward to now, and the end result of server transfers and a decreasing active playerbase is that many of the game's servers created to ease login woes are now ghost towns with only a few hundred active players.
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In response, Amazon rapidly created new servers for players to create characters on, promising free server transfers later. New World saw more than 900,000 concurrent players shortly after launch, leading to long login queue times. Those merges are likely to just be the beginning. Now Playing: New World Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
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