Mr. Roboto
Despite some shortcomings, we’ve really been enjoying our time with Amazon Games’ New World and overall, it’s a massive, detailed, and gorgeous world waiting to be explored alone or with some buddies. Like most online games nowadays, there are always people out there looking to ruin the experience for others and I’ve definitely watched trading post prices crash as of late which not only ruins the fun of gathering and selling items in-game, the bots crowd out popular fishing and ore gathering spots as well. It sucks all around but at least Amazon has acknowledged the problem and has already banned over 7,000 accounts as of writing. Do I think this will fix all the issues with bots? Nope, but at least it’s a start and we can only hope that underpriced mats will disappear alongside those nasty bots.
The full press release is as follows:
“We’re aware of player reports about increased bot activity in New World. Bots pose a persistent challenge for MMOs, and our team has deployed dedicated resources and tooling to identify and combat them. We are committed to continuous improvement in our fight against bots, and yesterday alone, we banned over 7,700 accounts for using bots. Our goal is to ensure New World is fun and fair for all players. We’ll post updates to the New World forums and Twitter as we have them.”
