In New World, maintenance is currently taking place. The servers are down for a few hours. However, no new patch is being implemented with this maintenance; instead, an issue with character creation is being fixed.
Update 11:02 AM: The servers are back online and character creation is working again.
What kind of maintenance is this? In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, community manager Luxendra announced that character creation would be disabled in all regions and on all servers.
Greetings adventurers,
We are now pausing character creation on all servers/regions. We will provide further information as soon as it is available.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Via New World
However, Luxendra did not provide a specific reason for the deactivation.
This morning at 8:00 AM German time, the servers were then shut down for maintenance.
How long will the server be down? The maintenance is expected to last about three hours. Therefore, the servers should be back online around 11:00 AM, and character creation should be possible again.
What about the next patch? New updates in New World usually appear on a Wednesday or Thursday. However, with the current maintenance, the new patch 1.2.3 is not being implemented. It is possible that there will be maintenance again tomorrow, and then a new patch will come.
Additionally, the next major update 1.3 is expected next week. This will bring the dungeon mutators and some other changes:
New World: Preliminary patch notes for the big 1.3 update in January
