New World Adding Free and Paid Season Passes in Major Update

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Amazon Games has just announced that it will be implementing a Season Pass system in an upcoming update toNew World, with both a Free Track and a Premium Track that players progress through gameplay and seasonal challenges. New World's Season Pass reward tracks will offer a variety of items from seasonal equipment to skins, pets, material caches, and plenty of other goodies.

As Amazon Games' debut title, the initial hype at the 2021 release led to massive server queue times in New World with thousands of players waiting to get their chance to step into Aeternum. The honeymoon phase quickly wore off, however, and populations declined rapidly as players found little to do in the endgame and were worn down by grinding and bugs. In the time since its release, Amazon Games has been constantly updating New World with reworks of entire systems, all new regions to explore, and even some new weapon classes. The game has changed significantly since those early days, and it's about to see another major shift.

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Whether it's a symptom of the game's struggles to monetize and retain players or just following the footsteps of virtually all modern games like Destiny 2, Overwatch 2, Fortnite, and Call of Duty, Amazon Games has announced that New World will be implementing a Season Pass system with both paid and free reward tracks. Once players reach level 25, they'll be able to make progress on the reward track by working on the Season Journey. The Season Journey is divided into chapters each with a set of tasks such as «Complete 3 Faction Missions» or «Obtain level 60.» Each task earns Seasonal XP while completing an entire chapter yields a substantial reward and large seasonal XP