Vitae Aeternum: How to fix New World Aeternum’s endgame, starting with rewards and content relevance
New World is currently enjoying an influx of new players following the Aeternum update, but historically New World‘s struggle has not been attracting players – it’s keeping them. In my last Vitae Aeternum column, I expressed concern that the recent changes to endgame will make this problem worse, not better.23 Dec 2024Wisdom of Nym: The highs – and lows – of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 7.15 storiesMassivelyOp ︎21 Dec 2024Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac betaMassivelyOp ︎20 Dec 2024Executive Producer Letter - Q4 2024Steam ︎20 Dec 2024World of Warcraft previews the features of its Undermined update as Winter Veil brings the Christmas spiritMassivelyOp ︎19 Dec 2024Season 7 “Season of Conquerors” AnnouncementSteam ︎19 Dec 2024New World’s PvP seasonal worlds and season 7 launch January 21MassivelyOp ︎19 Dec 2024Amazon already greenlit a second season of its videogame-themed Secret Level seriesMassivelyOp ︎19 Dec 2024Fallout 76 begins player testing for playable ghouls tomorrowdayMassivelyOp ︎18 Dec 2024Game Update 7.6c Patch NotesSteam ︎18 Dec 2024Game Update 7.6c coming December 19Steam ︎18 Dec 2024Vitae Aeternum: New World’s Secret Level episode and Amazon’s odd prioritiesMassivelyOp ︎18 Dec 2024Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this yearMassivelyOp ︎17 Dec 2024World of Warcraft’s Siren Isle update goes live this evening with a new zone and PlunderstormMassivelyOp ︎17 Dec 2024World of Warcraft is surveying players on removing the Mythic+ timer and replacing it with a death counterMassivelyOp ︎17 Dec 2024Studio Director’s Letter: 2025 & BeyondSteam ︎17 Dec 2024Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025MassivelyOp ︎17 Dec 2024Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s 2025 ‘living roadmap’MassivelyOp ︎17 Dec 2024Celebrate a Year Gone by with the New Life Festival’s Special Quests & RewardsSteam ︎16 Dec 2024Game Update 7.6b Patch NotesSteam ︎16 Dec 2024Game Update 7.6b coming December 17thSteam ︎16 Dec 2024Elder Scrolls Online compensates players for server outages and toasts an in-game playMassivelyOp ︎15 Dec 2024Elder Scrolls Online’s winter event, the New Life Festival, returns next weekMassivelyOp ︎14 Dec 2024Hotfixes: December 13, 2024Official ︎13 Dec 2024Happy holidays: 461 Elder Scrolls Online studio developers just unionizedMassivelyOp ︎13 Dec 2024World of Warcraft steels itself for next week’s Siren Isle while WoW Classic Classic gets into raidin’MassivelyOp ︎13 Dec 2024While CEOs got dressed up for the Game Awards, 461 workers at Zenimax Online Studios unionisedRPS ︎13 Dec 2024Guild Wars 2 shows off all of the things players have created with HomesteadsMassivelyOp ︎13 Dec 202420th Anniversary Realms: Molten Core and Onyxia's Lair Now LiveOfficial ︎13 Dec 2024Siren Isle Update NotesOfficial ︎12 Dec 2024Elder Scrolls Online could be offline as long as 12 hours today thanks to a datacenter power failureMassivelyOp ︎12 Dec 2024Game Update 7.6a Patch NotesSteam ︎12 Dec 2024Hotfixes: December 11, 2024Official ︎12 Dec 2024World of Warcraft shows off the new zone, story, and activities of patch 11.0.7MassivelyOp ︎11 Dec 2024New World’s Winter Convergence Festival is live with needed nerfs for mounts and the blunderbussMassivelyOp ︎11 Dec 2024Hotfixes: December 10, 2024Official ︎