For game projects, sometimes just a small change can lead to unexpected reactions immediately afterward. The most obvious example can be Diablo 4. From the peak of popularity, breaking a series of records and being extremely admired by gamers, this game suddenly plummeted, even falling. considered a “dead game” after just one unsatisfactory updated version. However, there are also completely opposite cases, typically New World – a name that has been receiving a lot of attention recently.
Specifically, although it has been released for two years and is also one of the notable blockbusters at that time, for a long time, the name New World has not been mentioned by gamers. However, just recently, after the first major update, this game suddenly improved strongly. Globally, New World is currently ranked second on Steam’s rankings, behind only Counter-Strike 2. The number of players of the game also unexpectedly doubled during most of the time. Every year, the number of gamers participating in New World is only 20,000, the highest at the same time. But after the new update was released, this number increased to 50,000.
Of course, there must be a reason why the new updated version of New World contributes to making this game change so much. It is known that the new update of New World has brought an extremely useful feature, which is adding mounts for players. Many MMOs have been released without mounts, New World is the same and this is something that many gamers have been lamenting for the past two years. There is no denying that the open world of New World is very beautiful and large, but having to “walk” through forests and fields with nothing to do. Of course, nothing is free and for $30 you can get a new mount in New World.
In fact, the number of players above is still not the peak of New World. Remember that when launched, this game attracted up to 140,000 players at the same time and currently, although the price has been reduced by up to 60%, the number of gamers has not yet been able to return to the old milestone. But nonetheless, this is still a positive sign for this two-year-old blockbuster.