New World Criticized for Global Reservation of Names and Nicknames
Amazon Games stated that New World will enable us to reserve a name for a character by creating it on a different server than the one we intend to play on. The community criticized the idea, deeming it unfair and fearing that the game's European server, which is to launch first, might not hold the flood of players.
New World, the MMORPG from Amazon Games, will launch in just two days - on September 28, 8 AM local time. If you're going to play it and have some free time on Tuesday, it might be a good idea to create a character and name it. The sooner you do this, the better, because your nickname can only appear once on all servers. What's more, the name given to a virtual avatar will be tied to the player's account for a short period of time, even if the character is deleted.
If you don't see this as a problem, let me explain. New World's European servers will launch first (see box below), at a time when most of the inhabitants of the Old Continent will be at work, school or university. As a result, they may not have the opportunity to create and name a character.
It doesn't mean, however, that local servers will be empty. The virtual space can be used by people from other regions of the world, such as North America, where the debut of New World is scheduled for a few hours later. This means players from, e.g. Los Angeles, will be able to enter the European server, create a character (thus reserving the name), and when the North American servers launches - remove the avatar and create another of the same nickname "at home".
NEW WORLD SERVER LAUNCH HOURS ACROSS THE WORLD
- Europe - 8:00 a.m.
- South America - EU launch +5 hours
- Australia - EU launch +5 hours
- North America (East Coast) - EU launch +6 hours
- North America (West Coast) - EU launch +9 hours
Not surprisingly, the community has raised an uproar and demands changes. The solution proposed by Amazon Games is, after all, quite unusual - most MMORPGs restrict the use of a given character name to one server, rather than to all of them. Fans also point out that in other such games, e.g. World of Warcraft Classic, it was possible to create avatars and give them names two weeks before the game's launch.
The same problem applies to guilds, but its scale is much smaller, because the names can not be reserved - in case of deleting a guild its name becomes available for other players right away. However, the whole situation seems to be quite bizarre. What's more, it does not look like Amazon Games is going to do anything about it - especially since the debut of New World is less than forty-eight hours away.
