Later, the New World developers revealed that around 150K players already transferred their characters, most of them without issues. However, character transfers have been paused while the aforementioned character progression bug (and its exploit) are completely fixed.
Some players among this small set transferred gold or items while their character was affected. All of these transactions are logged in our database. We are reviewing them now and any players found deliberately using this condition to gain advantage will be banned for exploiting. We will also remove items or gold received where appropriate.
Going forward, as a precautionary measure, we may prevent login temporarily on characters in this state. If you are one of the rare people who transfers and afterwards cannot log in, the condition should automatically resolve within two hours. If it persists beyond that time please contact customer service.
In related New World news, the game can now be played via cloud through NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service.
