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What's fascinating to me is how this got past that open beta they did. Surely someone should have caught the issues with client-side checks back then?

That's true. I'm amazed that got past any amount of testing, let alone the extensive testing New World had.
And yet... that's nothing compared to the newest kerfuffle: anything entered in chat is treated like code.
Yes, you can use the chat box to inject custom code straight into the game.
So far people have mainly been using it to create huge images that fill other players screens, blinding them during PVP, and they're also writing code to make text that simply mousing over will cause your game to crash. But that's just so far. As I understand it this was discovered, like, today. While it sounds like the chat box only gives you enough room to write a few lines of code, my god that is a volatile discovery.