Amazon New World Bots Are Stealing Resources From Players
Just sic a bear on the bots and boom, problem solved.Screenshot: Amazon Game Studios
Amazon Game Studios’ New World has been plagued by a number of issues since the MMORPG launched in September, from incredibly simple exploits to repeated pauses in its economy due to cheaters. The game’s latest confounding issue comes in a deluge of high-level farming bots that are stripping the natural world bare and sending resource prices plummeting.
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From the official New World forums to the game’s subreddit, numerous players are complaining about bots endlessly mining for supplies like some sort of mindless colonizers. This includes things like fish, with some bots apparently camping hotspots in Restless for weeks. Meanwhile, other bots are apparently farming azoth water, leather, and other materials, which players report is tanking the prices of in-game resources and causing…
