Amazon backtracks on ‘New World’ region swapping

New World players are reporting a bug that is stopping them from gaining gold after selling their in-game items when they’re offline.A new post published to the New World forum today (October 28) finds numerous players of the MMO discussing a newly discovered bug that is stopping them from earning their gold from the in-game auction house after logging off.One player, Nunchaki, shared the issue stating that there is no issue when another player buys their item off the auction house when they’re

New World‘s patch 1.0.4 will fix “the top issues” of Amazon Game Studios‘ MMO, according to the patch notes.Posted yesterday (October 27), the New World patch notes say the update “is primarily focused on fixing the top issues our players have been hitting in recent weeks, especially those impacting wars”.Right off the bat, the patch notes mention “resolving the AoE magic effect War exploit, the issue preventing players from being able to appropriately increase their Faction token cap, and

Amazon Game Studios has said that the economy in New World is “performing within acceptable levels”, despite claims that the market is in the midst of tanking.As spotted by PC Gamer, the New World community believes the MMO is already suffering from deflation, where – according to Player Auctions – “more money is leaving circulation than can be replaced”.

Amazon-developed MMO New World are broken and overpowered as originally outlined by a user on Reddit.In a post to the subreddit r/newworldgame, a user by the name of u/Imaginary-Fun showed off the combination of perks and armour types that have caused themm to go 21-0 in the game’s Wars mode.The Resilient perk, which claims to reduce critical damage by under five per cent, in fact, reduces all damage done to the player.

New World players are literally catching bots in traps due to the game’s ongoing bot farming problem.As spotted by Dexerto, a group of New World players were successfully able to catch a bot in a trap they witnessed running back and forth in the same pattern, seemingly using the MMORPG’s farming exploit to earn fast money.On the New World Reddit, ‘TheCanabalisticBambi’ shared a video of them and their group trapping a bot by using the game’s camp mechanic.

New World has been temporarily put on hold as an exploit has been discovered that can duplicate gold in the process.Amazon Game Studios shared an update last night (October 21 – thanks, PCGamesN) informing players of the bug, explaining that a “small number” of characters moved servers and encountered a ‘Character_Persist_Failure’ error.Players who were affected by this would be able to transfer gold or items, but log back in with the same inventory as before.

New World patch 1.0.3 begins the “safe, incremental approach” to server transfers, adds free emotes, and introduces plenty of important bug fixes.The New World patch notes were posted yesterday (October 19), detailing all of the changes made with update 1.0.3.The patch notes share that Amazon Game Studios has “laid the final groundwork for the server transfer feature”, though the feature itself will not be available straight away.

Amazon Game Studios has confirmed it is “aware and investigating” an invincibility exploit in New World that is causing chaos in PvP (player versus player) content.As players continue to report a game-breaking bug that allows players to achieve invincibility in New World (thanks, PCGamesN), an Amazon Game Studios spokesperson has confirmed that “the team is aware and investigating the issue”.The invincibility bug is easy to replicate and allows players to become unkillable in PvP, at the cost of

Amazon Game Studios wants to identify the top 20 issues affecting New World players in a bid to improve the game’s quality.In a post by community manager, NW_Mugsy, on the New World forums and shared on Reddit, they explain that the team is “aware of all the issues being surfaced by the community in our forums, Discord, Reddit, in-game [and] across social media”.

Amazon Game Studios has announced that server transfers, a long-awaited feature for its new smash-hit MMORPG New World, has been delayed once again.In a post to the New World forums, Kay, a developer on New World posted a message saying: “Hi everyone. We have the final pieces of the server transfer system tested and ready to go, but we are making a difficult decision to hold it until next week.

New World players have created their own minimap to help navigate the world of Aeternum.As spotted by Gamerant, Reddit user Morbrid has – with the help of their friend – created a completely functional minimap in New World.

Amazon Game Studios‘ recently released MMO New World is clamping down on gold farmers and bots in the game, by revoking keys used for those accounts.New World players have been reporting bots for a while now, as most will gather at specific spots to fish and mine for gold, so it looks like Amazon is finally taking action.

New World is down for an estimated five hours to implement patch 1.0.2 into the game.Today (October 13), New World went down at 11AM BST for maintenance that will – according to Amazon Game Studios – take an estimated five hours. This means that while  New World servers are currently offline, they should be back online at around 4PM BST.New World servers are down so that Amazon Game Studios can implement “another swathe of bug fixes” and further setup for upcoming server transfers.

Amazon’s MMO New World may have found its footing, with the game now enjoying a “Mostly Positive” review aggregate on Steam.At time of writing (October 12), the game has 104,484 reviews on the PC gaming storefront, with a significant 72 per cent of them being positive.One player wrote that they “haven’t played an MMO this much since the mid 2000s of early World of Warcraft and Runescape“, while another praised New World’s crafting systems, an aspect of MMOs they say they “usually hate”.

New World are issuing mass reports, trying to get players banned to help them win in-game wars.As spotted by PC Gamer, players have figured out that mass reports on accounts can result in a 24-hour ban, so they’ve been reporting opposing players right before a war, which happens over a limited time.Posts across the New World subreddit and forums have been decrying the issue, with one post titled “50 people in my 100 person company are now banned,” with the user asking for a fix ASAP, saying

New World is seeing a gold scamming problem emerge just a couple of weeks after the Amazon Game Studios MMO launched.As reported by PC Gamer, the New World subreddit has been aflame with users talking about the issue, as companies (individual “guilds” under one of the game’s three factions) are struggling to keep the gold they are taking in.This has been happening for many reasons, as companies can tax players trading or using facilities in their owned territories, or in extreme cases, company

New World has arrived, fixing a variety of bugs and aiming to tackle players who are circumventing the AFK (away from keyboard) prevention system.The patch notes share that Amazon Game Studios has “implemented the groundwork for the character service transfer”, which should arrive in full “later this week”.This patch also makes it harder for AFK players to stay in the server without getting kicked.

New World, and it looks like they really love to fish. Reported by Icy Veins, players of the Amazon Game Studios title have been taking to Reddit to show videos of hoards of bots just standing around and constantly casting out their rods.

Amazon Game Studios’ New World hit the top of Steam‘s concurrent player charts, briefly overtaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.Over the past 24 hours, New World hit a peak player count of 913,634, according to SteamDB. The number was reached at about 8pm BST on Sunday, October 3.

Amazon Game Studios has updated the away from keyboard detection in New World to prevent players from staying in servers when they aren’t actually playing.New World has problems with server queue times being too long. While Amazon Game Studios work to fix the issue, some players have found a way to stay on servers when they need to take a break.