I've never thought in 13 years on Steam that I would spend the time to write a review, but this piece of #**** annoyed me in ways I couldn't imagine.

Set aside the numerous push backs of the release due to the unbelievable number of bugs and exploits, the game's current state is a bad joke and I can't say whether the devs are actually making fun of everyone in a form of a lost bet, or it's pure utter incompetence. (I really hope it's the first, because the amount of shame that falls on the devs is beyond words).

I am not even going to comment about the gameplay, because at its core, every single aspect of this game is broken (from combat, to inventory, to chat system, to game code, to ...you name it - check internet for hilarious and pathetic exploits of the game due to poor development and errors that should not even be possible in this gaming era; hint: new world sausage)

Take this for example:
You have a limit amount of carrying capacity, say 800 units; if you are overweight beyond a point, say 1.000, you can't move.
You place in AH items for sale of say 500 units and wait for them to be sold. Obviously, they are stored in the AH and no longer in your inventory.
Then the game breaks, some wonderful exploits allow people to dupe, and multiply gold etc.
AGS police steps in: HOLD, and what do they do: disable trading between users, disable AH, i.e. buying/selling but it does not freeze the AH.
So say you posted the Sell Order for 3 days, that stuff doesn't sell anymore because..it's disabled, period expires and all the unsold items are transferred to your inventory and guess what: you are overweight.
For short, you can't do anything, you can't move, you can't trade, you can't transfer... only solution, destroy your items to remove the weight.

(google "New World Player Becomes a 'Statue' in Windsward" for details)

So basically, you can't play the game until they turn on trading again .
Now imagine this scenario happening 3 times already, for 1 week each.

And of course they couldn't re-balance the economy as they couldn't catch all exploiters, in spite of their "98% cleaned" statement, so again, another great decision, make the game harder and s***w the 90% of the population over those 10% exploiters (which was their own fault to begin with)

I thought I was angry about EA's Anthem but oh boy, New World is at another level. At least they cashed out, admitted and went away.

Shame on you AGS.

I've never thought in 13 years on Steam that I would spend the time to write a review, but this piece of #**** annoyed me in ways I couldn't imagine. Set aside the numerous push backs of the release due to the unbelievable number of bugs and exploits, the game's current state is a bad joke and I can't say whether the devs are actually making fun of everyone in a form of a lost bet, or it's pure utter incompetence. (I really hope it's the first, because the amount of shame that falls on the devs is beyond words). I am not even going to comment about the gameplay, because at its core, every single aspect of this game is broken (from combat, to inventory, to chat system, to game code, to ...you name it - check internet for hilarious and pathetic exploits of the game due to poor development and errors that should not even be possible in this gaming era; hint: new world sausage) Take this for example: You have a limit amount of carrying capacity, say 800 units; if you are overweight beyond a point, say 1.000, you can't move. You place in AH items for sale of say 500 units and wait for them to be sold. Obviously, they are stored in the AH and no longer in your inventory. Then the game breaks, some wonderful exploits allow people to dupe, and multiply gold etc. AGS police steps in: HOLD, and what do they do: disable trading between users, disable AH, i.e. buying/selling but it does not freeze the AH. So say you posted the Sell Order for 3 days, that stuff doesn't sell anymore because..it's disabled, period expires and all the unsold items are transferred to your inventory and guess what: you are overweight. For short, you can't do anything, you can't move, you can't trade, you can't transfer... only solution, destroy your items to remove the weight. (google "New World Player Becomes a 'Statue' in Windsward" for details) So basically, you can't play the game until they turn on trading again . Now imagine this scenario happening 3 times already, for 1 week each. And of course they couldn't re-balance the economy as they couldn't catch all exploiters, in spite of their "98% cleaned" statement, so again, another great decision, make the game harder and s***w the 90% of the population over those 10% exploiters (which was their own fault to begin with) I thought I was angry about EA's Anthem but oh boy, New World is at another level. At least they cashed out, admitted and went away. Shame on you AGS.