In A New World, players have long discovered tricks and traps that allow them accumulate even more wealth. However, Amazon's New World recently took things to a whole new level by inadvertently handing out a large amount of cheap New World gold to a small group of fortunate players.

Since its release in September of this year, New World has been plagued by a sense of foreboding, and it's not difficult to see why. According to Amazon, a new disaster appears to strike the company's servers almost every week, with the company estimating that the number of times this occurs is increasing. When it comes to the complicated economy of the game, and the cunning players who figure out how to take advantage of the game's numerous teething problems, these are the most common causes. The publisher, on the other hand, is solely to blame for the catastrophe that has befallen the company this week, according to the publisher. According to PC Gamer, several hundred thousand gold pieces were given out to players on the EU server as a thank you for their participation.

In a statement posted on the official New World website, a developer by the name of Lane provided an explanation for what had gone wrong with the game. When the game attempted to recover lost taxes for players who had been affected by previous outages, the problem occurred, which was handled graciously at the time of the game's inception. In his explanation, Lane stated that this was due to a database error, which resulted in extremely large sums of money being awarded that were not representative of the amounts originally intended. Therefore, many players took advantage of the situation and splurged their funds on items from the trading post, frequently purchasing large quantities of items. Upon first glance, this appears to be a logical conclusion.

Given that the economy of New World appears to be in such peril, they did not want this recent profligacy to have a negative impact on their lands, and they determined that the only option was to shut down the servers and then turn the clocks back.

Due to the widespread nature of the secondary effects and the large number of additional players and computer systems involved, it became clear that there was no straightforward way to reverse the effects of only the players who had received money after careful consideration. Consequently, we decided to roll back all characters, companies, and the trading post to 12:45 p. m. Central European Time (CET), which was immediately before the database modification went into effect.

Unfortunately, things did not go quite as smoothly as they could have, which was to be expected. In the following paragraph, the note continues,

Players who transferred between 12:45 PM and 3:00 PM CET are currently stuck in the character_restore_failure state, which is being worked on to get them out as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We are aware of the specific players who have been harmed and are working to rectify the situation as soon as possible,As soon as the situation has been resolved, we will post an update on this page to inform you of the outcome.

According to the most recent update, which was released yesterday, players would wake up with a three-hour amnesia (as well as significantly smaller bank accounts). According to the most recent update, which was also released yesterday, the trading posts, on the other hand, were still not operational at the time of writing.

I'm guessing that New World's developers aren't having a particularly enjoyable Thanksgiving break as a result of these issues, which appear to have only affected the EU Central Region servers.