I’ve always had a soft spot forNew World, but it’s hard to be positive about the game when player numbers continue to fall after a momentary return due to last year’s New World: Aeternum launch. Due to falling player numbers, Amazon Games announced that it was going to shut down its AP Southeast and SA servers.
Loyal players would have had to play on NA West servers, or the next nearest available server to their location, and face the likelihood of playing on at least 200 ping and in a different time zone. It’s all a bit sad, really, so some players turned up to protest.
A Small Protest Goes A Long Way
We Actually Counted The Players On Screen…39 In Total
This image is from reddit user Quiet_GSD taken during an event in the last couple of days when players on the AP Southeast server gathered to protest Amazon Games shutting the server down.
At first glance, the image is a little sad. This is the last loyal remnant of players on a dying server. There aren’t many of them. But it’s also quietly powerful, and it turns out, Amazon Games actually saw this response to the news…and they listened.
For some reason,I don’t think the same is going to happen for the Anthem fans.
As a result of the protest and other feedback online, Amazon Games has instead decided to merge the existing four servers into one last world in the AP Southeast region - which will keep the game in a decent, playable state for those loyal fans for just a bit longer.
It’s been great to see the news received positively by the small but robust community on the AP Southeast server in particular. With some positivity building around New World’s future in Season 9 and Season 10 of the game, it’s this sort of response from Amazon Games that can easily build some goodwill to try and keep the MMO alive.
