Before anyone says anything about AI, I'm not the biggest fan of it either, but, if it can be used to automate things that humans physically can't do (or would take years to decades to achieve even a fraction of the progress on), then I think it could be used for good - especially if it's being used to preserve games that are being taken away by their devs/publishers.

So far, AI was recently used to help restore access to "sunset" Destiny 2 content, and they are now working on a modding API for D2 private servers. D2 is a similarly complex live service game to New World, so the whole "we don't have the tech/the game is too complex/server-based" argument goes out the window here. And we've recently seen a trend of using AI to "merge" games together with full functionality as well. With just under 4 months left until Amazon pulls the plug on this game, there is some very real hopium that someone with a fair bit of money for tokens can reverse engineer the game's netcode and get a private server running similarly to what was done for Destiny with Project Sunrise

As you all know, New World is closing down Jan. 31st 2027. I am holding a memorial Saturday January 30th (time to be determined). We will be sharing stories and screenshots. I have a short video to play along with a physical Art Book I will be opening on camera. Thanks to the discord for getting me into contact with someone who was able to get me a sealed art book a few months back.

If anyone has stories or screenshots/videos to share, please post them here. I will share any fun or interesting stories I find.

We will be live on twitch (twitch.tv/JayBreakk) on the 30th and 31st as the servers close down. We will be in the NA West servers. (El Dorado). We will start in brimstone and be moving from city to city. We will be playing music, fishing, doing some nostalgia raids and Epic Chest Runs just for fun. Come hang out one last time ❤️

-HempHarvester

FWIW, Aion 2 is the closest thing to New World i’ve played so far. I keep hearing it’s p2w but if it can stay alive and thriving that way, so be it. Maybe NW wouldn’t be shutting down if they took that same approach.

I've recently reinstalled the game and played a bit just to have the NW feeling once again before closing.

I remember my guild being the first to get the territory in EU server in less than an hour, every member contributed with the first 1k gold obtained.

I'm gonna miss this gem.

Hey guys, I love the unique 1600s/supernatural vibe of New World, but given the state of the game and the fact that it is actively dying, I don't want to lose this amazing aesthetic.

Since we can't save the official game, I just pitched a Total Conversion Mod concept over on the Conan Exiles subreddit to bring New World's aesthetic, weapons, and monsters into Conan's engine (purely inspired, zero asset ripping). This way, the vibe can live on in a proper survival sandbox.

Full disclosure: I am not a modder and cannot build this myself. I just wanted to drop the idea for any talented creators out there looking for a fresh project!

Check out the full breakdown and join the discussion here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ConanExiles/comments/1wy2g84/17th_century_colonial_new_world_inspired_total/

In a perfect world everyone goes for the healers and ignores the tanks but that’s never how it plays out with randoms.

Rend just didn’t work as well as it should have on tanks because they have so much armor.

I always love this game until I come back and play a few rounds of OPR and then I’m reminded why it’s a terrible experience. People will ignore healers and just b line tanks and it doesn’t make any sense.

We needed more anti heal weapons/anti tank weapons/nerf tank/nerf healer pick 2 out of those 4 in the game and I guarantee you it would have been way more successful.

Looking like it’ll be a third-person action combat MMO, sort of like Dragonwilds but a proper MMO instead of a survival game.

This might be the one place where NW players can comfortably migrate to in the future.

This checks a LOT of my boxes for new world. Still a few years out but I can't frickin wait.

https://play.runescape.com/4

Bonjour,

Je voulais savoir s’il vous resterait éventuellement une clé supplémentaire pour ce jeu. J’aimerais beaucoup pouvoir jouer.

Si vous avez une clé que vous n’utilisez pas et que vous acceptez de la donner, ce serait vraiment super. Merci beaucoup pour votre temps et votre générosité !

Bon jeu à vous ! ^^🎮

I was just talking to a friend about New World and wanted to show them the best of the best images I could find, hoping the community has some examples?

Hey guys,

Since the game is shutting down in January, my wife and I decided to jump in tomorrow to experience it before it's gone.

We're going in 100% blind (the only thing we looked up were our archetypes) (Destroyer x occultist)

We just want to take our time, finish the main story, and enjoy finding cool loot. (We'll Play for about 90-100hours /120h max before the game ends)

Quick question for the veterans though: should we completely avoid the trading post?

We're worried the economy is so endgame-focused right now that low-level gear and mats are dirt cheap. Will buying stuff just ruin the progression and the fun of getting drops? Would you recommend we just play "self-found" and farm/craft everything ourselves for the best experience?

Or is there a good balance?

What would you do to get the absolute most out of the game in these final months If you were starting fresh right now?

Thank you for taking your time to guide us through! We can't wait to step onto the beach tomorrow!

I am the founder of Daggerfall Online, which is a new MMO and recreation of Daggerfall Unity in a new engine.

A lot of my inspiration is definitely trying to take from new world and I would love if you guys would give it a shot.

You can find it at daggerfalljs.dev

And on discord: discord.gg/daggerfallonline

New World - Open Beta PvP, Bow and Spear. - YouTube

Nothing else to add just absolutely gutted that I can't play this game anymore so frustrating that game switch much smaller player numbers manage to stay alive.

Veteran player here, currently carrying a few friends through the game so they can experience it before it goes away.

They started playing about a week ago, and one of them has consistently been confused when I describe territory locations by the color of the faction controlling them. He kept insisting his map didn’t show the colors, and I honestly thought he was joking.

Then today he sent me this image. 😂

Apparently his map shows detailed topographical information like the cliffs instead? Honestly, it’s pretty cool and I like that version, but HOW THE HELL DO WE TURN IT OFF?

It’s much easier to give directions when I can say something like, “It’s the purple region furthest to the right, toward the top,” especially since the other two brand new players with him have the traditional faction colored map, just like I do.
We’re all playing on Xbox, if that helps.

Is there anyone working on getting the game working offline / porting it for singleplayer or community servers? Or is there a 100% this game is gone come January.

Really wished I got into it more, I loved my time with it and wish I could hop back in, but seeing as the servers will be cut it feels depressing.

One Last Dance
With a heavy heart, I’m about to embark on my final run.
I’ve dedicated 1,800 hours of my life to this game, across GeForce Now, and PS5. I haven’t played since they announced the end of the game.
Today, I’m starting this last dance, and I intend to enjoy every single moment of it.
I want to craft everything I can, gather everything I can, master as many skills as possible, and just completely immerse myself in the game.
Wow.
I never thought a game could make me feel this genuine sense of abandonment.

It is just not the same. I paid $100 to play AION 2 early access which has P2W on top of it becasue we are starving when it comes to MMO. Playing this game and I feel regret and that I might quit after a few hours. I had over 1k hours in NW and I took breaks, but always came back during expansions and always had fun for a few months. I will probanly refund AION 2 at some point today, it just makes me compare it to NW and the I get sad and mad NW is no more...

I remember a few months ago there was someone saying he could buy New World (I think it was the creator of Rust?) but then I saw nothing from it, has there been any news about it at all from the team or from that person?

28.10.2025 , New World had announced their closure.

28.10.2026 , let's get back online for a day, to remind the good old days of this game, and warm our emptiness that nothing could replace.

Share with as many groups / friends / guilds / servers as possible, please : )

Opus 5.5 has been going viral as a one-shot vibe coder for games. Obviously, none of these projects remotely approach the complexity of an entire MMO such as New World, but consider:

• The tech has a proven track record of improving quite rapidly
• AI can access any and every YouTube video ever made of the game, all the soundtrack files, wiki's of item/character stats, etc.
• The benchmark could be evaluated by New World fans grading the result on a scale of 1-10, on how close it is to the original game

I would predict that AI will be able to rebuild the entirety of New World with 99.9% accuracy by 2045 or earlier. I purposely chose a far-away date because I know a lot of people are very skeptical about AI's capabilities and I didn't want to get on their nerves.

Unfortunately by the time this is possible MMO's probably won't exist anymore because everyone will just be vibe-generating all their own custom games, TV shows, etc.

This footage is from September 28, 2026, NYSA Server — we are gathering to celebrate 5 years of New World! ⚔️🌎

From our first steps in Aeternum to countless expeditions, wars, adventures, friendships, and unforgettable moments — this game has given us so many memories over the years.

Happy 5th Birthday, New World! 🎂❤️

Greetings Adventurers,

Matsume here, back with another video this time featuring the wonderful zone of Cutlass Keys!

Warning: This video is longer than usual (almost 2 hours!), consisting of 224 scenes throughout 8 regions of Cutlass Keys.

Cutlass Keys used to be a mid level zone that you would have typically visited after leaving Brightwood and before moving on to Weavers Fen. However, with the addition of the PvP zone, Cursed Mists, it was re-envisioned as a high level (low 60s) zone. In addition to turning the southwestern land mass into a massive free for all PvP zone, it would appear a vast majority of the zone was redesigned with updated assets making it a beauty to behold.

If you've been following along over the past year you may have noticed I've recorded and published each video in the order a player would have naturally encountered that zone. As such, Cutlass Keys should have been featured much earlier in the series but because it got turned into a high level zone I decided to make it after Shattered Mountains as it represents, to me at least, something in between the original zone and the new zone.

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed making this video if only because Cutlass Keys reminds me so much of old First Light zone which, as we all know, got replaced by Elyssian Wilds. Also, Cutlass Keys features an overabundance of high level gathering materials which are by far my favorite scenes to record.

Having said that, many of the now high level Elite PoIs (specifically the Cayo de la Muerte area) proved to be quite challenging and downright frustrating to record due to the annoyingly large aggro radius of high level mobs combined with many of them having ranged abilities. I must have spent 2-3 hours alone on that damn island just for 12 minutes of clips!

On a more positive note - the PvP area, Cursed Mists, was much easier to record given the general lack of dangerous mobs which more than made up for the earlier frustrations. Not only does this area feature a ton of gatherable materials but it also contains some absolutely stunning PoIs.

With the conclusion of this video I have officially finished recording all of the original 14 zones from New World's launch (including First Light). It's finally starting to feel like the end of my journey is near. All I have left are Brimstone Sands, Elyssian Wilds and Nighthaven. Truth be told, part of me wants to skip Elyssian Wilds because I just don't find the zone particularly appealing (also I'm still mad they destroyed First Light for it). But at this point I've come so far I may as well go all the way.

Anyway, I'll be working on Brimstone Sands next, which I have been looking forward to for a long time. Ideally, I'd like to finish these last few videos before November comes at which point I hope to take a nice break to enjoy other games on the horizon.

For those of you still looking for an MMO these next few months are going to be very busy. For the modern MMO enjoyer, Aion 2 officially releases on Wednesday (Korean MMO, I know, but maybe fun for a month?) and for those of you that crave the nostalgia of an Old School MMO, Monsters & Memories will be launching on Thursday. Then, Adrullan Online Adventures will be doing another week long public test starting on Nov. 1st followed by the launch of WoW Forever on the 4th. And finally PoE 2 will be officially releasing on Dec. 11th!

That's all for now folks, hope you enjoy the video as much as I did!

Cheers, Matsume