The Amazon Game Studios MMO New World's launch was a massive success. Steam charts showed a record of over 700,000 concurrent New World players on day one, leading to huge server queues. Its all-time peak came just a few days later, at over 910,000 players. If New World's numbers and community engagement had frozen right then and there, things would have likely been different for the Amazon release.
However, players were quick to find design issues that prevented them from truly playing the game
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