New World has received a new update today, on November 24th. However, this led to problems right after the servers came back online: Players had too much money. As a result, there were far greater issues. Now the servers are in maintenance again.
Update 18:10: It is now confirmed that rollbacks are coming and players will not keep their gold.
This is the situation:
- An update went live in New World today that was supposed to fix various bugs.
- The maintenance took place from 8 AM to 11 AM German time.
- The servers came back online on time, but had to be taken offline shortly after again. A bug gave players massive amounts of coins.
- This led to entire auction houses being emptied in a short time.
What is the problem? After the servers came back online around 11 AM German time, many players of New World suddenly found massive amounts of coins in their inventory. The amount reached into the hundreds of thousands.
Due to the update, players were supposed to receive money back for paid housing taxes and companies for war declaration fees. Apparently, a bug occurred that pushed way too many coins into the players’ inventories. This led to chaos.
The consequence was that the auction house on many European servers was almost completely sold out, as a user reported in the forum. Many used the money to buy massive amounts of items.
Servers down after server downtime – New maintenance is supposed to fix the bug
What happens now: The fans asked for something to be done as quickly as possible. New World has previously suffered from an economic crisis and a second one could completely destroy the player economy.
Now the servers in Europe are temporarily offline again (via Twitter.com). However, there is still no specific time for the downtime. The new maintenance apparently aims to fix the bug and possibly return the excess gold.
A similar problem occurred when the highly anticipated server transfers were rolled out. These were also deactivated after just a few hours because a bug caused infinite coins to be generated.
New World has already lost players in the past who did not want to stay long after the release. Many criticize what they see as a lack of endgame content. However, the developers have already provided a solution:
There is currently much criticism of the endgame in New World – developers explain their master plan
