Amazon's New World soared to popularity as soon as it launched. The MMO 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:rose up the Steam charts to become one of the most played games on the platform, only behind CS:GO. We may not know the true extent of its popularity at launch as the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:limited servers kept a lot of people waiting in queue for hours. However, if you do💝 manage to get in, you might have to be vigilant as players have reported getting scammed out of all their gold.
In New World, players will eventually have to choose between three factions to join, Syndicate, Covenant, or Marauders. These three are perpetually at war with each other and have to scrap for control over various territories. You can also create companies—New World's version of guilds— and fight other companies for control of land, resources, and tax.
However, it seems that company leaders aren't the most trustworthy lot according to Redditor Paradoggs, who of deceit and betrayal (thanks, PC Gamer). Paradoggs' post talks about how a company leader on the Heracleion server scammed the company members by convincing them to pool in their gold before absconding with it all.
Their guild decisively lost a particular battle and failed to collect enough gold to purchase Reekwater, the only unclaimed settlement left. The guild leader then put all the members on blast for performing poorly. "He started going absolutely mad on faction chat blaming eꦬveryone and everything besides himself, asked people to donate more money "to the cause", then IMMEDIATELY EMPTIED ALL 60k GOLD FROM THE TREASURY. All the donations from more than 200 people."
The guild leader and one of their friends apparently took turns transferring all the gold and then deleted their characters before creating new ones and joining the Marauders faction. While this is a scumbag move, it's something that would only take place in an MMO.
Paradoggs wasn't the only one scammed out of their money. This tactic is apparently being used quite often as others also shared similar stories in the comments. "We had a similar thing! Purple company leader (and governor of brightwood) emptied their treasury and yeeted himself into covenant," said Viryuous_Redemption. "His new covenant company declared war on Brightwood, and his syndicate friends selected the weakest people for the war. They took brightwood in like 2 minutes."