Next week, the Springtide Bloom event returns to New World: Aeternum across all platforms offering up a new in-game event and tons of seasonal rewards to earn. The event runs from May 13 until June 2 and is designed for characters level 20 or higher.
New World: Aeternum Springtide Bloom Event
In this event, players will harvest dangerous blooms known as Wispyblooms as they hunt down Wispy Wasp enemies. As you collect and deliver the event’s unique resources to local Bloom Heralds, you can exchange them for Event Reputation ranks and tokens.
And then using those tokens, you can unlock seasonal cosmetics, housing items, and more. You’ll just have to make sure you spend all your tokens by the time the event ends on June 2, because they’re only good for that specific purpose.
If you’ve ever played an MMO or any live service game for that matter, then you’re probably familiar with how these sorts of seasonal events work. They’re not reinventing the wheel here, but the designs for everything look very pretty in that key art at least. You can see a big list of all the rewards on the official blog page.
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Admittedly, I have not tried New World again since it relaunched last year. Around the time the relaunch happened is also when Throne and Liberty came out, and I was knee-deep in running a guild for the first few months of that game’s life. When New World first debuted on PC a few years ago, I was in there heavily for a couple of months as well and had a good time, but fell off like I usually do after a while.
On paper, this new version of New World sounds and looks great, especially since it’s also on consoles now. Plus, the game supports cross-play features as well between PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. This event isn’t for a player like me who would likely be starting fresh since I wouldn’t even have a character high enough level, but re-engaging fans consistently is always the recipe for success with MMOs so it’s good to see strong effort from the development team here.
