Amazon’s New World MMO may have hit the ground running, but it’s struggling to retain the player base and losing an average of 135,000 concurrent players a week.
When New World launched, it enjoyed a large pool of players for the first few days and quickly reached a peak of over 900,000 concurrent players on Oct. 2, according to Steamcharts’ tracking data. Since then, rather than gaining in popularity, New World has been losing a considerable amount of players every week, according to Forbes. In the past week, it hasn’t managed to break half a million users online at one time.
The game’s lack of group questing, inclusion of very few instanced dungeons, and small map may be contributing to the exodus of players. Negative publicity around the game bricking graphics cards likely hasn’t helped either. It’s not all doom and gloom for New World yet, though. Despite the downward trend, the game is still ranking among Steam’s most-played games.
Amazon Games has struggled with its push into gaming. New World itself had been delayed multiple times, and Amazon’s attempt at a free-to-play shooter/MOBA hybrid with Crucible had a crash landing that saw the game pulled.
