Less than one month before launch, New World is delayed again

Less than one calendar month before launch, New World is delayed again

One New World character charges at another with an axe

(Envision quotation: Amazon Game Studios)

To a lesser degree one month before it was set to go live, the fantasy MMO New Ma has been delayed so far again. Virago announced now that based along feedback received during the recent union beta, it has decided to take a bit more clock to tighten things up, and push the launch back until the destruction of September.

"We want Untested Cosmos's launch to be a uncreased and merriment experience for all players, and that means making some improvements based on what you encountered during Closed Beta," the Hot World team tweeted. "So we're going away to take a few additive weeks to smash bugs, ameliorate stableness, and polish the game. New World's new global launch date is September 28, 2021.

"This was not an easy decision to make. We experience this International Relations and Security Network't the offse time we've denatured our launch date in following of lineament, and that it send away be disappointing to wait a bit thirster. But we want to make up sure we deliver you the highest superior game at set in motion. Thank you for your support and feedback."

A message from the New World team. pic.twitter.com/oAZdK7dxTnAugust 4, 2021

New World was initially regular for set in motion in May 2020, simply it has indeed been delayed ninefold times previously, last (until now) in February, when the August 31 date was hard. The Covid-19 pandemic took a toll, only reaction to the halt has also been an issue: In July 2020, Amazon pushed New World into spring 2021 and suggested that alpha testers were discontented with a want of deep-game contentedness.

"We want to ensure that the about dedicated players have plenty of middle and endgame experiences as they venture through Aeternum," studio director Rich Lawrence aforesaid at the metre. "We want our players to feel completely immersed in the game, and know that our studio stands for quality and lasting gameplay you pot trust—and that means added meter to get things where we want them earlier we fully button."

The closed beta quiz has also struggled to impress. Masses are clearly interested in what it has to volunteer—the test surpassed 200,000 concurrent players on Steam at one point—but our online editor in chief Fraser Brown described it as "an graceless MMO" with "cookie-cutter quests and threadbare communicatory" (although helium did enjoy the survival game aspects), while guidesmith and MMO devotee Sarah James said in a separate preview that it felt "incredibly grindy and frustrating" after just few hours of play.