Game News New World: Amazon’s massively multiplayer role-playing game celebrates its first anniversary with astonishing numbers!
A real phenomenon upon its release, New World is celebrating its first anniversary today. For the occasion, the developers are revealing an infographic showing some figures that are both interesting and completely unusual. We tell you everything.
Summary
- New World: a look back at a phenomenon
- Mind-boggling numbers
New World: a look back at a phenomenon
Released September 28, 2021 on PCi.e. just a year ago today, New World is the first game created by Amazon Game Studios. Playing in the most fashionable category of MMORPGs, the project already aroused many curiosities before its release, until it caused a real phenomenon when it was released. Rated 16/20 in our columnswe must admit that the bet was met and that Amazon was able to release a high quality game that did not have much to envy to other monsters of the genre. With a particularly enchanting world of Aeternum and a more than satisfying diversity of activities, weapons and professions, New World quickly found its audience and its launch was a real success, as evidenced by the more than 700,000 players who knew how to attract from his first day.
Since its release, the game has even had the luxury of adding a lot of content, both in its PVE mode and for its PVP mode. Thus, it is now possible to play in 3v3 arenas, to equip new weapons such as the Void Gauntlets or the Blunderbuss, and to participate in new expeditions such as the Mutant Expeditions and Heart of Madness. In addition, the leveling system has changed a lot so that this phase seems less redundant.
Mind-boggling numbers
As a birthday present to their players, the developers at Amazon Game Studios reveal an infographic revealing particularly impressive figures.
We learn for example that, cumulatively of course, players have spent no less than 569.1 million hours on New World! If you prefer to calculate in somewhat larger measures, then this amounts to 23.7 million days or 64,965 years. In case you still have a little trouble getting an idea of the value of this figure, we remind you that the invention of agriculture and writing date back to around 11,000 and 5,300 years ago respectively. . A very nice figure, even if we remember once again that it is a cumulative count of all players.
In a slightly more concrete way, the infographic also tells us that the average duration of a game session is about 110 minutes, which is still respectable. The document is also an opportunity to learn that 41.9% of players chose to join the Shadow Faction, while 37.1% preferred the Marauders, and 21% the Engaged. We also discover that the Gré-du-Vent is the most popular colony to buy a lodge there, and that the most contested are the Marais des Trames and the colony of Haute-Chute.
At a time when ecology is becoming more and more central, you should also know that 6.3 billion virtual trees have been razed by New World players, but don’t panic, the developers assure us that they have all been replanted. On the other hand, they do not seem to want to reassure those who would worry about the 42,893,637 fish caught during the summer Mélégies, nor the 17.3 billion enemies killed in JCE…
We’ll let you see the rest of the information revealed by the infographic above for yourself, or even head back to New World for Amazon Game Studios to give us even more awesome news next year when it celebrates its second anniversary. .