Amazon Games' New World has gotten a lot of attention over the past few months, both positive and negative including a gold duplication exploit. While Amazon worked to fix the issue the first time around, a new gold duplication exploit has reared its head.
In New World, this new exploit involves the wealth transfer function between players. Reportedly, this exploit allows players to duplicate their trophies, which are valuable end-game items that can be sold for a lot of gold. As the supply of trophies around New World increased, the average price of them in the game's economy tanked.
"We are aware of a possible duplication exploit that has been circulating the forums and social media," wrote Amazon Games in a statement. "We are disabling all forms of wealth transfer between players (ie. sending currency, guild treasury, trading post, player to player trading) while we investigate. Any player that has engaged in the use of this exploit will be actioned against.
Once the duplication exploit has been investigated and we are ready to turn on wealth transfer again, we will update this post. Thank you for your understanding."
This isn't the first time New World had a duplication exploit. Last month, players were able to duplicate their gold and items by sending them to another player and then logging off, and then logging back in again. Amazon dished out bans to players who were discovered to be using this exploit, and it looks like the company is doing it again for this new one.
Amazon addressed a series of bugs and issues already, but as with other live-service titles, just because you put out one fire means the job is done.
New World is available on PC. In IGN's New World review, Gabriel Moss said, "New World asks for the same quantity of time investment as any other traditional-style MMO, which means it desperately needs far, far more story content and gameplay variety to fill the gaps in its massive and visually gorgeous yet otherwise unremarkable world."
George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey