In New World, players can no longer trade with each other or use the trading post. The reason for this is an item duplication bug that allows players to multiply items. It is still unknown how long the coin transfer will remain disabled.
Update November 16: Tonight, a patch will be deployed that aims to reactivate the coin transfer.
What has been disabled? The developers have published a forum post today announcing the disabling of all “coin transfers”.
This includes sending gold, trading directly between players, depositing into the guild treasury, and using the trading post.
These features will remain disabled until the item duplication bug is fixed. When exactly this will happen is still unclear. It is likely that these features will return with the upcoming patch 1.0.6.
Community Manager Tosch wrote a post on the topic and announced penalties for players who exploit the bug:
We are aware of a possible duplication exploit that has spread in the forums and social media. While we investigate the exploit, we have temporarily disabled all forms of asset transfers between players (e.g., sending currencies, guild treasuries, trading posts, player-to-player trading). Any player who has engaged in exploiting this will be penalized accordingly.
Once the duplication exploit has been investigated and we are ready to reactivate asset transfers, we will update this post.
Thank you for your understanding.
via New World Forum
What exactly was this item duplication? In this item duplication, specific items were duplicated while housing. They were simply moved around with some tricks. In the end, one had two items of that kind in the inventory.
The bug was said to be quite simple and easy to exploit. However, it existed for several days before Amazon responded and banned trading.
Is this the first bug of its kind? No, there has already been an item duplication and even a gold duplication caused by the transfer between servers.
So far, the penalties for players who have exploited such a bug have been relatively low. Permanent bans have been rare. This has drawn criticism from the community. One user in the forum even claimed that only the dumb cheaters have been caught, not those who are laundering their gold properly:
New World permanently bans gold cheaters, but apparently only the dumb ones
