New World is the latest offering from Amazon Games in the form of an MMORPG, and like Amazon's previous titles, it is not doing very well. On top of players exploiting the game's systems, and other players utilizing bots, they also caused Amazon to shut down New World's economy and trading posts.
This freeze came after players discovered and shared an exploit that broke a lot of rules in New World. It let players send images over chat, kick players on the sly and, most importantly, duplicate gold. That's a pretty big problem for any MMORPG to have, and now New World has that problem for the second time in a month.
That's right, New World's trading posts are disabled again, and it's once more due to a duplication glitch. This time, dupers figured out how to duplicate furniture pieces in the game. This seems harmless enough on its own, but it also lets players duplicate trophies: pieces of furniture that provide big buffs. These were duplicated both for the buffs and the immense amount of gold players got from selling the trophies. In no time at all the economy was broken again, so Amazon once more froze said economy including trading posts, sending currency to other players, guild treasuries, and player to player trading. Players are not taking it well.
The fact that this is the second time the economy has crashed due to duplication has players up in arms and calling for dupers to be permabanned. Their affirmations that players will not stop duplicating if they are not permanently banned seem to be well founded, since the first gold dupe glitch in New World was not taken as a lesson. Players were banned then too, but they're back now and still duping.
It's genuinely incredible that New World is still suffering from gold duping, and players have the right to be furious by now. The game they paid full price for is being overrun by cheaters, Amazon cannot seem to fix the problems, and those responsible are getting allowed back in with a slap on the wrist.
To be fair, there's only so much that Amazon can do in this situation. A ton of players took advantage of the duplication glitch, and tracking them all down is tricky. On top of that, New World's playerbase is falling, so Amazon likely wants to retain everyone it can, even cheaters, in order to keep up the game's numbers.
New World is now available on PC.