Amazon has U-turned on letting New World players transfer their characters to a server in a different region.
Last week, following New World’s explosive launch, Amazon asked players to join servers with low wait times as it worked on increasing the population caps of existing servers.
To reassure those who wanted to play with their friends already on high population servers, Amazon said it was working on a feature that would let you transfer your character to a new server for free.
“So if you choose one [a low wait time server] now just to get up and playing, you can make a different choice later to play on a server with your friends,” Amazon said at the time.
“We know how important it is to be able to play with friends, so we’re putting this feature at the top of our priority list.”
Then, the official New World Twitter account said players would be able to move between regions, for example switching from a US server to an EU one. This tweet is still live, at the time of this article’s publication.
Yes, you can move between regions if you want.
— New World: Aeternum (@playnewworld) September 28, 2021
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And so, sufficiently reassured, players went for pretty much any server they could join – even those in another region – in a bid to avoid New World’s incredibly long queue times. Why not, when they were told it would be fine to do so?