Indie game ‘Potion Craft’ chases ‘New World’ to be Steam’s top-selling title

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

Amazon Game Studios has announced that players will not be able to change region in New World, despite previously saying otherwise.Next week New World will receive the free server swaps that Amazon Game Studios had promised. The free server swap option was announced when the game launched.

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

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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.

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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.

Amazon Game Studios has announced that players will no longer be able to create new characters in servers designated as full.In an announcement posted yesterday (October 2), the New World Twitter account has said that it is “implementing a system to prevent new players from creating new characters in full servers”.Servers marked as full will be greyed out, and players will receive an error message stating, “character creation temporarily disabled on this server to prevent overpopulation”.We are

Amazon Game Studios title New World has some very interesting terms and conditions.As spotted by this Reddit post, Amazon Games terms of use section 5.1 highlights who can play the companies’ games, be they live human, alien, robot, ape, or other.“To enter this agreement and use the games, you must be a live human (e.g., not a corporation, organisation, artificial intelligence (good or evil), extraterrestrial, sentient non-human primate, etc.),” outlines the agreement.“However, this restriction

New World developers have released a statement, explaining how the team are working “around the clock” to reduce queue times.Following on from a message on launch day that acknowledged lengthy wait times and promised work was being done to fix that, the New World team has explained what work has been done since.“Since our launch on Tuesday, we have more than doubled the number of servers and we are working to increase the capacity of all available servers to support a higher population cap,”

Amazon Game Studios has released a statement rounding up the first day of New World, which launched yesterday (September 28) to high demand and long queue times.Yesterday evening, a statement on the launch of New World stressed that “it has been an unbelievable 24 hours” for the MMO’s first day, though it acknowledges that “players are experiencing lengthy queue times” when trying to play the game.Outlining plans to fix it, the statement notes that the studio is “continuing to stand up

Amazon Game Studios looks like it has enjoyed a successful first day of New World, as streaming viewership and playercount stats suggest that the MMO’s launch has been incredibly popular.In statistics provided by Twitch analytics site SullyGnome, New World reached a peak concurrent viewership of just under 1million viewers yesterday (September 28).

PC MMO New World from Amazon Game Studios doesn’t let players name their character after the company, or its founder Jeff Bezos.We have PC Gamer to thank for the discovery, as one of the first things they did was see what character names they could get away with in the game.

Amazon Game Studios‘ MMO New World has been a hit at launch, immediately rocketing up Steam’s most-played lists.According to SteamDB, at time of writing New World has 599,267 concurrent players (up from 512k during the course of writing this article).

Steam global best selling charts for the week ending September 26 include the upcoming MMO New World and the latest CS:GO DLC.As reported by PCGamesN, the updated SteamDB best sellers list shows that CS:GO – Operation Riptide has claimed the number one spot for the past week after launching on September 22.