Amazon's New World MMO will no longer have player killing due to toxicity
 

“One of the problems we observed with this system was that some high level players were killing low level players, A LOT,” Amazon Game Studios explains. “Sometimes exclusively. This often led to solo or group griefing scenarios that created a toxic environment for many players. To be clear, this behavior was not shown by all PvP players, but enough to cause significant issues.”

“We set out to build a compelling world full of danger and opportunity that begs to be explored. The intended design was never to allow a small group of players to bully other players.” AGS clarifies that it’s not “[moving] away from PvP” and still wants it to have a “significant role” in New World, meaning “fair fights that are organized, skill based, and opted into by all participants” rather than “predatory behavior that relies on exploiting another player’s lack of experience, progress, readiness, or willingness.” (Source)

In other words, what happens when you (Amazon) know absolutely nothing about a 20+ year old gaming genre, and then decide to make a game in that genre with no research: you spend a lot of money to learn things any P99 player could have told you for free.

I have mixed feelings about this. I random PKed quite a bit in Lineage II, but PvP was (usually) more satisfying. Both parties have fun in fair fights. The fun in griefing is disproportionate to the suck of getting murdered randomly by someone you can't defend against. There's an appeal to antisocial behavior, but it's ultimately bad for keeping a player base.

PvP games will always be toxic. Unless you setup specific zones for PvP and other zones are completely safe for those who just want to play a damn game.

Dark Age of Camelot had its issues, but it was a great PvP (RvR) game.

Amazon Studios developers obviously never played very much Ultima Online.

Its Amazon Game Studios, not amazon, you idiot. Stupid ass clickbait title because no one will read your garbage otherwise.

Who exactly do you think owns Amazon Game Studios, irrationally angry person?

just wanted to make sure people knew who you were talking about