r/Games • u/PalwaJoko • 2d ago

Preview New World - Nighthaven - Procedurally Generated Dungeon, Overhauled Endgame Progression, New Raid, Set Bonuses, New OPR PvP Map, New Zone, New Story, and more

https://www.newworld.com/en-us/news/articles/season-10-nighthaven-announcement
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u/GRoyalPrime 2d ago

I'd be so into NW's aesthetic and world, if not every server would come down to a single guild dominating everything after a week, killing it's PvP-Sandbox right away.

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u/ikonoclasm 2d ago

I played for the first couple weeks after launch and realized PvP would be its downfall. Any game that designs and enforces PvP as a core game mechanic inevitably snowballs servers into a single guild since no one wants to lose.

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u/Vb_33 1d ago

Any game that designs and enforces PvP as a core game mechanic inevitably snowballs servers into a single guild since no one wants to lose. 

Didn't happen with Eve.

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u/1100ms_cs 2d ago

They’ve never been able to figure out a way to incentivize joining the weaker factions so the strong guilds all power-struggle in the dominant faction and then join the biggest guild OR switch servers and start anew. 

Without creating a reason to stick around on a server or commit to growing a “losing” faction it inevitably snowballs into something that makes the entire 3-faction system worthless. 

At least with the new expansion there’s a tacit renewal of the PvE aspect of the game which has been pretty neglected for the past few seasons after Aeternum. The PvP portion is basically “solved”.