I'm not surprised. I tried it out around the time it first came out, and it was awful. Everything about it felt very corporate, like what a suit would expect an MMO would be. The game was well built and the graphics were nice; but the story was so bland - "Go fight this bad guy because they're bad".

keep corporations out of gaming

Best thing about new world was the secret level short: "AND YET AELSTROM LIVES"

Contrary to others I liked this game quite a bit. The life skills were fun, if sometimes tedious, and the sound design of gathering materials out in the world was intoxicating.

I spent hours mining rocks and cutting down trees. I still hear the sounds of it sometimes.

Didn't enjoy the combat that much but others seemed to have at the time. The game didn't have much to keep it relevant long term but I'll miss that flash in the pan that hooked me for a month or two way back when.

This game was one of the driving forces behind the development of the Lumberyard engine, which eventually became o3de.

The game might suck but it spawned a new, free, open sourced game engine based on CryEngine, so at least something potentially useful came from it.

This game fucking sucks. Fuck Amazon.

I got this at launch because I was so desperate for a new PvE MMO. It was okay, but I lost interest pretty quick.

I actually really like it. I can't remember if I got the game for free or relatively cheap. But it scratched the itch that Elder Scrolls Online had. In other words, it fulfills the itch I used to have when I played WoW nonstop as a kid, while also being more "action-y", and you can play it solo with hundreds of other people playing it solo.

I don't remember if there was a subscription or microtransactions were aggressive. But I do remember spending 2 months straight just going around chopping wood.

I remember quitting it because there was nothing to really DO with that wood.