New World turns off all the money
Amazon’s MMORPG New World has seen more than one instance of just shutting down the game’s entire economy due to cheaters and exploits. Soon after its 2021 launch, the game had a glitch that allowed users to duplicate items. In order to stop players from doing so, New World shut down all in-game instances of trading items and sending money while its team investigated the matter. Games shut down features to fix bugs all the time, but it’s not often that so fundamental a structure of a game as the economy gets entirely turned off. A new world indeed.
