Amazon takes New World: Aeternum offline on all platforms on January 31, 2027. It announced the date on January 15, 2026, the day it delisted the game, and since July 20, 2026, nothing can be bought in the game. Season 10, Nighthaven, released on October 13, 2025, was the last content update. Until the servers close, Amazon's own pages settle most proxy questions. No character can move to another region. A penalty lands on the account whoever was playing, and giving someone else access to an account breaks the Code of Conduct for both players.
We read five New World news articles, 37 articles of the official help center, the game's Steam page and Easy Anti-Cheat's support page on October 13, 2026, as text from our server. We also read five seller pages on New World. The Amazon Games Terms of Use, the Code of Conduct and the anti-cheat disclosure sit on amazon.com, a site we did not read. The Code of Conduct appears here only as the help center describes it. This page shows no way to reach another region's worlds, a second account or a banned account through a proxy.
New World's last year, by date
Amazon's news pages give the dates. On October 28, 2025, it wrote that "we've reached a point where it is no longer sustainable to continue supporting the game with new content updates". Season 10 and its Nighthaven update "will serve as the final content release", and Amazon then meant "to keep servers operating through 2026". The update of January 15, 2026, set the end. The game "will officially be taken offline from all platforms on January 31, 2027", and after that day "players will no longer be able to access" it. The same update ended purchases in the game from July 20, 2026. It also promised "no new content or further server merges for the remainder of the game's life".
Sep 28, 2021
Release on Steam
the PC game
Oct 19, 2021
Server transfers
to any world in your region
Oct 15, 2024
New World: Aeternum
consoles join; no more transfers across regions
Oct 13, 2025
Season 10: Nighthaven
the last content update
Oct 28, 2025
No more new content
servers to run through 2026
Jan 15, 2026
Delisted
the shutdown date announced
Jul 20, 2026
Purchases end
nothing more to buy in the game
Jan 31, 2027
Servers offline
on every platform
What New World players search
Keyword Planner counted 10 searches a month worldwide for "new world proxy" on October 13, 2026, and gave no figure for "new world vpn". The end of the game draws far more. "new world shutdown" has 8,100 searches a month, and "new world servers shutting down" another 480. Server questions follow, with 9,900 for "new world server status", 3,600 for "new world servers" and 590 for "new world queue". Transfers draw little: 140 for "new world server transfer" and 40 for "new world region transfer". Search Console showed this page once in 120 days, with no click. The table puts each search next to what Amazon says about it.
What New World players search, and what Amazon says
| What people search | What Amazon says | Does a proxy change it? |
|---|---|---|
| new world shutdown (8,100) | offline on all platforms on January 31, 2027 | no |
| new world server status (9,900) | its own server status page | no |
| new world servers (3,600) | five regions named at the 2024 launch | no |
| new world queue (590) | characters idle for 180 days lose their world | no |
| new world server transfer (140) | inside one region only, with a token | no |
| new world account (260) | no sharing and no real money trading | no |
| new world lag (70) | fixes at home, open ports, a cable | it adds a stop |
| new world proxy (10) | Steam declines anonymous proxies | no |
Google Keyword Planner, worldwide, October 13, 2026; Amazon Game Studios, New World news and help center, read October 13, 2026
Regions and transfers
New World: Aeternum opened on October 15, 2024, with worlds in Europe, AP Southeast, US West, US East and SA East. Its launch notes set the rule that still holds: "The ability to transfer regions will be disabled once New World: Aeternum launches". The help center's transfer article, last edited on August 19, 2025, repeats it: "Important: You cannot server transfer to a different region".
Inside a region, a transfer needs a token from the in-game store. "World transfers within the same region trigger a 30-day cooldown on all characters within that region", the article says. It also mentions characters elsewhere: "Characters in another region will not have a cooldown". Since July 20, 2026, nothing can be bought in the game, and we found no Amazon page on whether transfers still work.
Amazon's answer to crowded worlds was to free idle characters. "Characters who haven't logged into their game world for over 180 days will become unbound from their chosen world", the help center says. The stated aim: "This system aims to reduce queue congestion during high-peak times, prioritizing active players". Even a freed character must stay in its region, since "cross-regional world choices are not supported". We found no Amazon page that links a place in a queue to the address a player connects from.
Characters also stay on one platform. The launch notes say "your character(s) are locked to the platform you create them on". The help center adds that "New World: Aeternum doesn’t support cross progression". PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox players still share the same worlds, unless they choose a world for one console only.
Easy Anti-Cheat, penalties and accounts
Steam lists the game under "Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat", and the help center names the service, Easy Anti-Cheat. A login that fails with a message about suspicious software or a corrupted install is, in Amazon's words, "a detection and block from Easy Anti-Cheat service". Amazon keeps its findings to itself: "We do not disclose any cheats that are detected while connected to a secured server, and that result in an account ban".
Easy Anti-Cheat belongs to Epic Games, and its own support page adds three points. It blocks software "that interacts with games in ways that look identical to cheating techniques", which can include overlays, monitoring tools and automation software. It collects "hardware identifiers to prevent ban evasion". When it flags an account for cheating, "the game publisher may subsequently decide to suspend or ban the account". The page never mentions VPNs or proxies.
Penalties come in three kinds: warnings, temporary suspensions and permanent bans. "A temporary suspension ranges from 24-168 hours, but can be longer depending on the severity of the infraction and past behavior". Amazon also writes that "we may issue a permanent ban without previously issuing a warning or suspension". Each penalty can be appealed once, and the appeal guide lists excuses that will not work. One of them is "I was only doing it to avoid the queue".
The help center sorts penalties into categories. Cheating covers botting, bug exploits, real money trading, tampering with game files, known cheat programs and account sharing. Its example for the last one reads "Sharing your account with other players to help farm items". Commerce issues cover fraud, chargebacks and missing game keys. The article on scams draws the line on access: "Providing account access to another player is a violation of the Code of Conduct for both parties". The appeal guide adds that "The account holder is responsible for the account's behavior". Penalties apply, it says, whoever was playing at the time.
| What Amazon's pages say | Where | |
|---|---|---|
| Another region | no transfers across regions since October 15, 2024 | launch notes; Server Transfers |
| Queues | characters idle for 180 days lose their world | Server Transfers |
| Anti-cheat | Easy Anti-Cheat blocks suspicious software at login | Troubleshooting EAC Issues |
| Penalties | warnings, suspensions of 24 to 168 hours, bans | Account Penalty Types |
| Shared accounts | a breach for both players; the holder answers | Avoiding Scams; Appeal a Penalty |
| Proxies | Steam declines purchases through anonymous proxies | Purchasing Issues |
| The end | offline on all platforms on January 31, 2027 | news of January 15, 2026 |
Ping, ports and lag
Amazon's guide to lag starts at home. Pause downloads, close applications that use a lot of bandwidth, and restart the modem and router. Then use a cable, since "Switching to a wired connection ensures that lag isn’t being caused by wireless interference". The game's port list names TCP ports 80 and 443 and UDP ranges between 20000 and 59999. An ordinary HTTP proxy carries TCP only, and our page on TCP and UDP for proxies shows which proxies carry UDP. The help center also warns that "Some ISPs may be limiting traffic on certain ports, which can impact your ability to play our games". For Easy Anti-Cheat, it asks for ports 18887 to 18903 to be open.
We sent no game traffic through any proxy, and none of the five seller pages prints a ping measured through its own service. GearUP says its booster "is capable of radically lowering your pings, at least three times or so". LagoFast writes that its tool "ensures a significantly lower ping", and on another page that "it can be challenging to reduce ping in all circumstances". Both name a closer server among their fixes. Valve's rule on IP proxying in the Steam Subscriber Agreement is on our page about proxies for Steam. Blizzard's answers to the same questions are on our World of Warcraft page.
What sellers' pages promise
On October 13, 2026, the sitemaps of seven sellers held pages on Amazon's New World at three of them. LagoFast had 11, GearUP at least 6 and PureVPN 2. ExpressVPN, Surfshark, CyberGhost and Windscribe had none. We read five: PureVPN's New World page, three LagoFast guides and GearUP's guide to high ping. None of the five mentions the delisting, the end of purchases or the shutdown. PureVPN last updated its page on June 22, 2026, and LagoFast its guides on June 6, 2026, months after Amazon announced the end.
PureVPN offers to "Play on servers not available in your region". It claims that "New World only shows servers from the region you're in", and that a VPN server in another region opens it up. "If you want to play in a different region without using a transfer, connect through a VPN server in that location", it writes. Its FAQ answers "Yes, New World doesn’t block VPN use". We found no Amazon page that ties the list of worlds to where a player connects from.
LagoFast writes that "there is no dedicated Russian server, meaning players from Russia need to use" what it calls cross-region acceleration. Its tool, it says, lets players in Russia "experience the game by switching servers". Its server status guide still reads "As of now, the servers are generally online and active". It also offers to get past login trouble tied to "your region or ISP-related problems", "reducing the chance of being blocked". None of the five pages quotes a line of Amazon's rules.
Where HProxy fits
We sell no proxy for New World play, and none for another region's worlds, a queue, extra accounts or a banned account. Amazon's pages quoted above settle those questions, and its lag fixes need no proxy. Our proxies are built for web work, like reading public pages or seeing your own site, ads and prices as visitors abroad see them. Residential proxies cost from $0.44 per GB, and our explainer on what a residential proxy is traces where the addresses come from. The Premium plan starts at $1.00 per GB and adds targeting by state, city and ISP, plus sticky sessions that last up to 24 hours. ISP proxies cost $2.70 per IP for a static address, mobile proxies $1.50 per GB and datacenter proxies $1.58 per IP a month. Every price is on the pricing page. Our FoxyProxy guide sets a proxy up in a browser, and the proxy checker tests one you already have. The free proxy list suits a quick web test, and are free proxies safe lists what a free proxy can see.
What we could not find out
- The Amazon Games Terms of Use, the Code of Conduct and the anti-cheat disclosure. The New World legal page links all three on amazon.com, a site we did not read.
- Whether the list of worlds depends on where a player connects from. PureVPN says so, and no Amazon page we read does.
- Whether transfers still work since purchases in the game ended on July 20, 2026.
- Where the data centers stand. LagoFast names cities, and Amazon's pages name regions only.
- Whether Amazon has penalized anyone for a VPN or proxy alone. The help center does not say.
- What happens to accounts and characters after January 31, 2027, beyond Amazon's line that players will no longer be able to access the game.
We will read these sources again by January 13, 2027, before the servers close.
Sources
We read every text below from our server on October 13, 2026. The brackets hold the date each publisher shows.
- An Update on New World, Amazon Game Studios (October 28, 2025).
- The Future of New World: What to Expect, Amazon Game Studios (January 15, 2026).
- Season 10, Nighthaven Announcement, Amazon Game Studios (September 16, 2025).
- Road to New World: Aeternum, Servers, Amazon Game Studios (October 9, 2024).
- New World Update 1.0.3: Server Transfer Details, Amazon Game Studios (October 19, 2021).
- Server Transfers, New World help center (edited August 19, 2025).
- Troubleshooting EAC Issues, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Penalty Categories, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Understanding Account Penalty Types, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Appeal a Penalty, New World help center (edited July 10, 2025).
- Avoiding Scams, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Commerce Locks, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Purchasing Issues, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Troubleshooting Lag and Connectivity Issues, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Port Forwarding, New World help center (edited July 9, 2025).
- Cross-Play Features, New World help center (edited July 30, 2025).
- New World: Aeternum on Steam, Amazon Game Studios (released September 28, 2021).
- Easy Anti-Cheat player support, Epic Games.
- New World legal page, Amazon Game Studios, for the links to the terms.
- Google Keyword Planner, worldwide monthly averages for 40 phrases around New World, read October 13, 2026.
- Pages by sellers on the same questions, read October 13, 2026, and not linked here: PureVPN (updated June 22, 2026), three LagoFast guides (updated June 6, 2026) and GearUP (updated December 27, 2024).
