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I'll be honest, I am quite surprised they had 180 workers left there after the continuous stream of tepid stuff they've put out over time.
Still, sucks for the people working there, becuase I bet a lot of them at least started really driven and motivated before corporate ground their will down.
Another example of under funded giant corporate projects and then shocked Pikachu that they aren't wildly profitable. They'll never understand you can make a wildly profitable game, but it requires investment
Or just y'know: provide a service, make a profit, provide people with stable jobs, keep on going. I know it sounds crazy, but you don't have to have all the money...
It does require some actual inspiration as well. Companies are setting up production lines and wondering why solid gold doesn't just plop out the end when they switch it on.
It is an honest shame, there was a lot of talent brought in, but honestly not surprised it ended this way.
Talent that was wasted and discarded.
Is this your first experience with corporate america?
No, it was just especially egregious with Amazon in this scenario (and often in general with them ...)
They had some promising technology and talent, but focused on what creativity they could cram into the flywheel instead of coming up with something good that could then later feed back into the ecosystem. The latter process can yield surprise successes like the Amazon Echo.
Amazon has a games division?
For only $20, the new Amazon Basics Grand Theft Auto.
I would play that.
Had. Briefly.
Amazon has an everything division.
Most of them running straight into the ground.
I’m not understanding. As this is the first I’ve ever heard of this, I went to their site and it looks like freebies for games you play and games from other developers.
Did Amazon make their own games? If not, what were these 180 workers doing exactly?
They made New World and were supposedly working on a LOTR MMO.
Didn't New Worlds turn into a ghost town month after launch?
Yeah it cratered pretty hard, but they have been adding content to the game. Launch was a buggy clusterfuck.
I played at launch and yeah the bugs is what drove most people away. They were exploited pretty hard, there was like a 4 or 5 day period there where 3 seperate dupes were discovered and they didn't do any roll backs
Not entirely well versed in the New World Saga but from what I've heard and read here's roughly what happened:
To be fair, a lot of the game breaking launch bugs that hurt the game for me were with PVP (specifically, the instanced wars). I do know there were others but those PVP bugs are what I'll always remember. The lag, the broken healing, the hatchet exploit, and a few others.
I bought new world, never actually played it, I had tried the beta and said well this seems cool and got it then never played it at launch
Might wanna get to it eventually before Amazon shuts it down
Cuz it was killing gpus
The article has the answers.
That didn't last long