Asmongold Reacts To "The Next BIG MMO...?" - Nixxiom

"Remember when every new MMO was meant to be the WoW killer?" Nixxiom opens his video on Amazon's New World by recalling the old cycle: a new AAA MMO gets announced, the world declares World of Warcraft dead, players abandon WoW for a month, get bored, and come back to Azeroth. Then Amazon — a company with no gaming experience and "more money than God himself" — decided to take a swing at the genre. Asmongold watches Nixxiom's breakdown and reacts in real time, and the conversation that emerges is less about hype and more about skepticism: what actually makes an MMO work, and whether New World has the substance to last longer than a week.

The Territory System and the Problem of Consensual Sieges

The most interesting design choice in New World is its territory control system. Players organize into "companies" — which Nixxiom insists should just be called guilds — that can claim and govern regions of the island of Aeternum. Companies tax players in their territory, build and upgrade structures, and attach defensive cannons to walls. But they also have to defend their land from rival companies in scheduled large-scale battles, where even random players who don't belong to either faction can participate.