New World mit Freunden – Ein Problem wurde beseitigt

The new MMO New World had some difficulties at the beginning, especially when you wanted to play with your friends. One of the main disruptions has now disappeared.

Why couldn’t you play with friends? At the launch of New World, almost all servers were massively overloaded. People waited for hours in line just to finally log in.

This quickly led to Amazon locking most German servers for new characters, as they simply became too full. This meant that for a long time it was not possible to create a character on 43 of the total 45 German servers.

If you started a little later than your friends, you couldn’t log into the same server as them. And even if you were already on the right server, you had to queue around the same time. This was often associated with very long wait times.

This led to players not logging out at all and cities being full of people running against walls. Amazon responded by implementing measures to find and boot such players.

What has changed? Most European servers of New World are now available for character creation again. So the chances that you can play with your friends have massively increased. 

But one more thing has quietly disappeared, although it was one of the biggest problems of New World, at least at the start. The queues are mostly a thing of the past.

This was particularly noticeable on Friday evening, when we were able to log in without a queue in the editorial office. The same happened on Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening, during peak times. 

The player numbers have hardly changed overall. During the mentioned times, there were occasionally over 670,000 people in New World (via steamcharts.com)

Nevertheless, we have not encountered any or only very low wait times of less than 10 minutes on the servers Ravenal, Asgard, Vimur, and Vyrij. This status has been stable for almost a whole week now. This greatly facilitates playing with friends.

Hopefully, such images belong to the past now

Now is a good time to start with New World

Why right now? The island Aeternum has been open for just over two weeks now, for all who want to take a closer look at New World. With the elimination of the queues and limited servers, it is no longer a problem to play together with your friends.

Even if they have been playing since the release, it is not too late to catch up and experience the higher expeditions together. You are still on time to witness how the cities slowly build up and players discover more and more things.

However, you do not have to figure everything out on your own anymore, as the New World community has been busy creating various guides over the past two weeks that can help you if you want.

You can still experience the feeling of something new and be part of the launch of a major MMORPG, but you are no longer dependent on figuring everything out yourself or being separated from your friends. 

The perfect time to start New World and explore Aeternum.

What is New World actually? New World is the new MMO from Amazon, which has made a huge impact in a short time. At times, over 900,000 people played New World simultaneously on Steam, and it quickly reached number one on Twitch.

The game sends you to the island Aeternum. It’s about uncovering the secrets of the magical Azoth, which makes you immortal. In doing so, you join one of three factions and fight for dominance on the island.

New World features:

• PvE content focusing on exploration and life skills as well as dungeons and world events
• PvP in the open world and in separate game modes and in the large 50vs50 battles
• Housing and the ability to have the prettiest house of all to show off to everyone
• A classless character system where you are what you wear. You have 11 different weapons to choose from
• An elaborate guild system where you can even govern a city as a guild
• An outstanding sound design that actually offers you real benefits in the game

How can you participate? New World is available on Amazon and via Steam for €39.99. All you need then is a Steam account. 

It is important to mention that the purchase on Amazon only provides a Steam code and a Steam account is required to play New World.

What do you think of New World? Have you been there from the beginning or are you now considering taking a look? Have you, as an active player, also noticed that the queues have been significantly reduced? Or is your server still very crowded? Feel free to let us know in the comments.

Our editor Alexander Leitsch is annoyed by more than just the queues while playing together: New World wants to be a social MMO, but it’s doing too much wrong for that.

This is an AI-powered translation. Some inaccuracies might exist.