Amazon has temporarily disabled all New World wealth transfer once again after a new duplication exploit was found.

"We are aware of a possible duplication exploit that has been circulating the forums and social media," reads a statement on the New World forum.

"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.

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Amazon has said it will take "remediation steps" against New World players who "egregiously exploited" the recent coin duplication bug.

Players of the MMO found a coin/item dupe bug when player trading and, as you'd expect, exploited it.

Amazon then disabled trades in the short-term as it worked on a fix.

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Amazon is clamping down on gold farmers and bots in MMO New World.

Mining and fishing spots have been hoarded by bots to consistently gather new resources and then sell under the current market price. This prevents other players from accessing the spots, but also disrupts the game's economy.

Amazon Games has responded in a post on the New World forum and will remove thousands of fraudulent keys.

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Amazon has U-turned on letting New World players transfer their characters to a server in a different region.

Last week, following New World's explosive launch, Amazon asked players to join servers with low wait times as it worked on increasing the population caps of existing servers.

To reassure those who wanted to play with their friends already on high population servers, Amazon said it was working on a feature that would let you transfer your character to a new server for free.

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After a string of high-profile failures, Amazon has its first video game hit on its hands with New World.

The £35 fantasy MMO launched today and has already shot past the half a million concurrent players mark on Steam, making it the second most-played game on Valve's platform behind only Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. As you'd expect, the servers are struggling.

According to SteamDB, New World has now beaten indie hit Valheim's concurrent players peak to take the fifth spot on Steam's all-time concurrents list.

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New World's open beta runs from 9th to 12th September, Amazon Games has announced.

The MMO launches proper on 28th September.

Amazon Games also launched a new trailer, below:

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Amazon's massively multiplayer online title New World has been delayed again but this time only by around a month, with the game now expected to launch on PC on 28th September.

Announcing New World's fourth delay in a statement posted to Twitter, Amazon Game Studios wrote, "We are humbled by the support New World received from players around the world throughout closed beta. During beta, more than a million adventurers played more than 16 million total hours... The passion and enthusiasm you've shown for New World validates the work we've put in over the past year, improving the game based on your feedback". [UPDATE: Amazon has now corrected itself to say this was 25m total hours.]

"We want New World's launch to be a smooth and fun experience for all players," the studio continued, "and that means making some improvements based on what you encountered during closed beta. So we're going to take a few extra weeks to smash bugs, improve stability, and polish the game." This, it says, means a new global launch date of 28th September.

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A queue? I haven't queued to play an MMO since World of Warcraft in 2005. But earlier this week I had to wait half-an-hour to get into Amazon's New World closed beta because more than 300 people were ahead of me at 3pm. I know it's the school summer holiday but still. And that was just one European server - there are many.

I was surprised. I didn't think an MMO could create buzz like this in 2021. I thought battle royales like Fortnite had taken over for good. But there were more than 200,000 concurrent New World players last weekend. Perhaps I was wrong.

You can feel that popularity in the game, too. Queues mean full servers, which means there are lots of people in the game, so towns bustle with life, hunting spots are busy and chat is noisy. New World seems to be teeming with life, and there's an excited feeling because of it - a feeling that this could be the next big thing.

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EVGA has said it will replace all failed RTX 3090s following issues relating to Amazon's MMO, New World.

"Yes, all failed 3090s are being replaced," EVGA told PC Gamer.

Amazon's New World is a big hit on Steam, where it has seen a peak of over 190,000 concurrent players. At the time of this article's publication, 132,246 people were playing New World on Steam.

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Amazon New World creative director David Verfaillie has said the studio "definitely" heard the feedback from the community regarding potential paid in-game boosts.

New World is the imminent MMO from Amazon that's based around an Age of Discovery kind of idea. You set sail for a magical island with a powerful magical secret, and try to make a home there. Its key features are territory ownership and housing, and player versus player warfare, in addition to a large fantastical world to battle with and explore.

Verfaillie was referring to the paid quality of life and experience boosters players found evidence of during New World's concluded alpha test. These suggested you might be able to pay for things like rested experience, which can help you level up faster, as well as fast travel.

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