The developers of New world, Amazon Games’ flagship project announced on Thursday that it has banned thousands of accounts from performing automated collection, or “botting.”
In New world, As with many other multiplayer online games, players are encouraged to gather resources from the environment such as herbs, ores, skins, fish, and meat, which can be crafted into useful in-game items. such as armor, weapons, food and medicine. . In addition, resources can be and are often sold to other players for profit.
That often leads to the creation of third-party programs that automate the process, which the community calls “botting”. These shows are specifically banned under most games’ terms of service, but they still tend to pop up in any MMO that’s popular enough. It allows the player to set up a scenario so that their character, the “bot”, will go in circles gathering resources while the player does other things.
Unlike many other MMOs, New world allowing players to pursue all forms of resource gathering at the same time, created the only deflation problem. On top of that, its players reported a large amount of hits to multiple servers, which further increased the value of in-game merchandise.
After a report of the epidemic ran on PC Gamer on Monday, Amazon Games took action. Its representatives issued the following statement to GeekWire:
“We are aware of player reports of increased bot activity in New world. Bots pose a nagging challenge to MMOs, and our team has deployed dedicated tools and resources to identify and combat them. We are committed to continuous improvement in the fight against bots and yesterday [Dec. 1] We alone have banned more than 7,700 accounts from using bots. Our goal is to make sure New world is fun and fair for all players. ”
Before Amazon itself took action, the players of New world enjoyed themselves finding their own way of dealing with the bot problem. Since bots’ scenarios are usually not particularly complex, players can circumvent their pattern by placing obstacles in their path or sending them into combat.
This latest wave of bans from Amazon comes in over two weeks discovered a “rogue” exploit, which allows players to freely clone items in their inventory, including coins, which is truly an infinite money cheat. NS New world The development team has permanently banned “more than 1,200 players” for fraud since November 15, which also requires a temporary shutdown entire in-game economy.
After several delays throughout the year, Amazon released New world at the end of September with average reviews but surprisingly positive fan reactions. It peaked shortly with over 913,000 concurrent players on Steam at launch, a record-setting number, but like any MMO, that number dwindles over the next few weeks.
As of Thursday morning, New world the number of players seems to have stabilized in about 130,000 to 140,000 yen, peaking in the middle of the week. Its final main content update, Into the void, Coming on November 18, there’s a new weapon, a new class of enemies in the Invading Varangian Knights, and new game-vs-player modes.
New world is only Amazon Game Studios’ third original video game, despite years of effort and false starts, and its launch has been seen by many as a worthy moment for Amazon’s ambitions with as a mainstream game developer.
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