New World’s new free trial on console comes with a bunch of caveats

26 Nov 2024Source: MassivelyOp
Buried in the big roadmap and season servers announcement from New World yesterday was the revelation that Amazon is also preparing a free trial to rope in new players for Aeternum – on console, anyhow. It’s not available to PC players on Steam.


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