After a very successful first few days where the game was being played so much that servers were full, Amazon Game Studios' New World was affected by a few glitches and issues that were ruining the experience of some players. More glitches arose in the coming weeks, even after Amazon started patching most of them consistently, which fostered sentiment of discontent with the game. Despite this, New World players managed to find ways to counterbalance the aforementioned sentiment with some positivity, like starting a trend of sharing creative methods to reach level 60.
Over the past few days, Amazon also ended up disabling all forms of trading to prevent Gold duping in New World, which affected one-on-one trades and trading posts as well. After issuing a fix, the developer was finally able to start sending out lots of bans to all players who cheated, be it by duplicating Gold and materials or exploiting other known issues for profit. Interestingly enough, this ban wave removed over 1,000 players from New World, according to Amazon.
Of course, there were several bans that were appealed by players who didn't really cheat, but Amazon was thorough enough to also ban a few New World streamers who did break the ToS and cheated. A Reddit user by the name of GyroMachinist shared a post showing a clip of Twitch Partner Omnikevfka ignoring New World moderators' words and keeping on doing the so-called Genesis Exploit to farm a dungeon boss on repeat. The streamer was eventually banned for 7 days for the offense, and on-stream refused to pay attention to anyone in the chat advising not to exploit the dungeon because it was a bannable course of action.
Omnikevfka ignores moderators and continues Genesis Exploit. Ends up with 7 day ban. from newworldgame
Another ban was issued against SOLIDFPS, who went and abused the same exploit as Omnikevfka, but then also exploited the animation cancel glitch to deal insane damage with a Life Staff and a Fire Staff. After purposefully ignoring all messages meant to advise against exploiting, the New World streamer was banned and proceeded to share an apology on Twitter.
After the whole ordeal, Amazon also brought back New World's trading posts, and the developer further explained that any offense against the game will not be tolerated. The developer's actions made several players happy to know that Amazon is not shying away from banning anyone involved with exploits and cheats, including popular streamers.
New World is available now on PC.