New World is up and off to the reaces, and players are readily becoming acquainted with its ins and outs. For the most part this means discovering which New World armor sets are best, which areas are death traps, and how not to get conned.

That last part, however, is becoming somewhat difficult to escape throughout the New World experience. Players are coming in contact with multiple problems with New World, from lack of visual polish, to server issues, to bots hogging all the best resource farming spots. But what few could have accounted for is a major problem in the design of the game itself.

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The problem lies with Companies, New World's equivalent of guilds. A Company is a player owned and operated outfit which can control territories, tax the players there, and go to war with other companies over territory. Each Company is under one of New World's three Factions. The Company's money is put in its treasury, which only the Company's leader (Governor) can access. So access it they are: they are taking all the money out of the Company, pocketing it, and running. One player reported it happening on Reddit, and similar stories poured in like a flood.

The original post describes this occuring in the weakest guild in a server, where the Governor and his closest friends took the money and ran, transferring it to secondary game accounts under the banner of a different Faction. No one could find them or the money they stole. Identical stories were reported immediately, with one group of thieves taking it a step further. The ex-Governor set up a new company, then declared war on his old company, while his friends (still Consuls in the old Company) chose its weakest members for defense. Needless to say, the thieves won. This issue has suddenly become one of the most necessary fixes in New World.

Obviously players want something done about this, with the most common thought being that a multitude of bans are heading for the perpetrators. But seeing as how the New World server transfers are pushed back and Amazon is already reneging on promises about the game, those bans may not be coming soon. Amazon might just have bigger fish to fry.

While players express sympathy for the scammed, many are also finding the situation hilarious, and it's hard to blame them. It's such a simple exploit that it's amazing no one saw it coming. New World, it seems, is very accurate to the experience of being a colonizer: players are exploiting resources (with bots) and each other as much as possible, then running when there's nothing left to take.

New World is out now for PC.

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Source: Reddit