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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Other than New World, i cannot think of any Amazon games.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are also working on a LotR MMO. Other than that... I got nothing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Two mmos seems like an odd decision, why make competing products, especially in a field that requires player time dedication like mmos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For one, New World is almost dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably because the field is already saturated and dominated. New world was big for a minute tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was, I played it while I had Covid. My company was so large it split twice. Last time I logged in no one else had been online in over six months and there were only like half of the members still in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would expect a lot of the greenlighting comes from people not too deeply involved in gaming so market saturation probably was not even a factor in their decision making. New World also suffered heavily from that (plus all the bugs and other issues at launch).

They probably would have fared better had they built a name in a Genre first instead of diving head first into one of the most competitive niches in gaming with 2 projects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did not realize that was Amazon, I think I played it for 5 or 10 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think they're just the Western publisher for it; they didn't actually have a hand in developing it as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Crucible was another one. A battle royale turned hero shooter that came and went in the same year.

[–] merc 11 points 1 year ago

On the one hand, it's surprising that Amazon has a games division. On the other hand, if it's surprising that Amazon has a games division, it really can't be a surprise that they're laying people off.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a game's division?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yup and every thing they produced was hot garbage.

Time to shut it the fuck down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ask me how surprised I am.

[–] Neeen 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am not surprised.

[–] MomoTimeToDie 8 points 1 year ago

Didn't they just make one game, that had an error that occasionally burned out Nvidia cards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing I've ever done on Amazon Games was link it to PSN so I would get periodic cash in GTAV online.