New World’s journey since launch has been far from smooth, and a mix of glitches and design issues caused a bit of turmoil within the community over the past six weeks. One of the most game-breaking issues was the glitch that allowed players to infinitelydupe Gold and materials, from which the community is still suffering because of the inflated economy. However, Amazon Game Studios has been trying its best to keep the community up to date with future plans and things that are changing in the short term, as the PTR patch shows.
In the first few weeks, there were little to no comments from Amazon regarding thestate ofNew World, and players took that as another sign that the developer was not going to do anything about the game. This was proven wrong very early, though, as servers were at capacity whenNew Worldwas released, and so Amazon introduced more servers to deal with the issue in just two days. Then, the developer talked a lot about the impact of the Gold duplication glitch and what the plan was to deal with cheaters and exploiters, who ended up being handed permanent bans in many cases.
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A Reddit user by the name of chr1s003 shared a post on the platform stating how happy they are about Amazon Game Studios being so communicative with players, including a link that takes to the Dev Tracker part of theNew Worldforums. This shows just how many messages the developer sends regularly in response to player concerns regarding anything, including other unidentified glitches, or even what the plans for the coming weeks are. This sort of communication is what can keepNew Worldalive through the coming months as things adjust and the game’s current issues are resolved.
Amazon communicating withNew Worldplayersand fans is great because it means the developer cares, and the Community Managers have been doing a good job at tracking issues and reporting back to developers for them to be fixed. However, there is still a lot of negativity within the community at the moment, and that’s because some players believe any change made now is too little, too late.
An example comes from the fact that severalNew Worldplayers are asking for servers to be merged immediatelyafter the player numbers decreased. Some servers are indeed much less populated than others, and this is quite troublesome for a game that is designed to excel when played by many. Still, there is hope, and Amazon has proven that time and time again now.
