New World
Auto attacks
https://youtu.be/IUHt0cnOnKY?t=115
Magic
Fire Ball:
https://youtu.be/uvYKcuqtRkA?t=454
Do you see where the Fireball comes from? That entire staff and spell animation is just bad.
Fire Field:
https://youtu.be/uvYKcuqtRkA?t=191
"Healing":
https://youtu.be/iy9pwdsexQI?t=585
Look at those healing animations. They look worse than the ones in WoW. They look like Asian F2P grinder animations.
All weapon animations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKHB...nel=Liltenhead
You basically can just watch that entire video and see how bad the animations are in reality. But I guess they look fine for you?
PvP footage of combat:
https://youtu.be/t9UPArR2j6c?t=49
Maybe some PvP for you? There you can experience in real time how bad the animations are and how bad the sound effects are on top of that.
And just for a comparison of an Alpha game vs. a game that will launch in two days:
Ashes of Creation
Auto attacks
https://youtu.be/U3WrvtnSMiM?t=1790
Magic
Fire Field:
https://youtu.be/S_7Od_OdXnU?t=240
And you're telling me Ashes of Creation looks worse than New World? Ashes of Creation magic effects from pre-Alpha look better than the latest beta (aka release) footage of New World. Don't get me wrong, AoC still looks rough, but it's ALPHA. New World is going to launch in 2 days.
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Black Desert is 100% player made end game because there are incentives to do that. Something New World is lacking. And that's my point.
Even if New World is a B2P game, it still competes with sub-model MMORPGs. If not, then just make it compete with ESO or GW2, in both cases it's losing in almost every aspect, just due to the amount of content both games have to offer in comparison.
As a B2P game you have to generate revenue one way or another - and New World doesn't have that model implemented yet, which I tried to explain. As a B2P game you need something to generate cash, e.g. your shop. Then you can decide between being P2W or not. ESO has a heavily monetized shop (which relies on lootboxes, but is not P2W), GW2 has a very fair cash shop overall - and both offer you stuff you want / think you need (mounts, good looking skins, houses etc.) - New World is lacking that. Mounts are not in game and skins are pointless because you look not good anyway. So, how are they going to support the game in the future? Good question.