New World from Amazon came with a lot of promises and hope. After the initial hype though, the game slowly faded. There are probably a lot of reasons in different sizes for it, which is totally another discussion, but developers are apparently trying to solve the problems one at a time.

One of those serious issues have been “shell companies”. Just like in real world, shell companies in New World are founded just to abuse the system, which means taking over more territories without effort and prevent others from having a chance. They also cause market prices to skyrocket and ruin the fun for everyone else. Developers noticed this and they are now bringing a few initial measures to prevent this small group of people from controlling and owning everything on the server.

Measures include ‘company leave cooldown’, limit on the mercenary hiring and limit of one offensive and one defensive war per day per game world for all accounts. Creative Director David Verfaillie says that if these are not enough, they are ready to push further.

As a small extra, developers shared the content roadmap for 2023 which you can see below.