To say thatNew World, Amazon’s flagship MMO, has had a tumultous start would be an understatement. Even though it has seen a very successful launch, drawing over 900,000 concurrent players on Steam, gamebreaking issues and glitches have plagued the game ever since – and this time, an exploit to the game’s coin transfer system hasforced Amazon to closeNew World’strading posts, as well as the coin transfer system itself, for the third time.
The exploit allowed players to creatively manipulate game mechanics for the purpose of duplicating (or duping) hard-to-craft items to sell on the game’s trading post for exorbitant prices, and in this case in specific, dupers have used it to duplicate trophies.
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In Aeternum, the fictional colonial-era setting ofNew World, trophies are furnishing items tied to the game’s housing system that provide the player with powerful passive bonuses that remain active in every zone of the game. Players can have up to five different trophies displayed in each of their houses and they are generally considered to be an expensive and valuable boon to have.
TheNew Worldplayers who discovered the exploitclaim that they initially shared it with Amazon’s developer team, but were forced to go public after their previous attempts to do so fell on deaf ears. Unsurprisingly, this sparked an uproar among the game’s passionate fanbase on the official forums of the game and the developers took swift action by temporarily closing downNew World’sentire economy until the problem was fixed.
In the wake of the decision to disableNew World’strading post system, the playerbase has either lamented the volatile state of the game or condemned Amazon Game Studios' leniency towards the burgeoning duping community inNew World. In previous incidents of this nature, Amazon’s punishment doled out to the players responsible amounted to little more than a 24-hour ban. Considering how swiftly unchecked duping can throw an MMO’s economy into disarray, it is not an unreasonable stance to hope that the developers take a firmer stance on punishing dupers – such as permanently baning them from the game, or at the very least, taking away their ill-gotten items.
To Amazon Game Studios' credit, they have hadopen and frequent communication withNew World’splayerbaseand it’s become apparent that they share a passion and a desire to helpNew Worldreach its true potential.
