"After the layoffs were announced, the developers of New World: Aeternum, an MMO Amazon developed in-house, said they would no longer be providing new content updates for the game, though its servers will stay live through 2026. Amazon will continue to support two MMOs that it publishes, Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark, company spokesperson Brittney Hefner told The Verge this week."
"This week, as part of its big layoffs, an Amazon exec said that the company is halting a "significant" amount of its work on MMOs, and the changes appear to have led to the Lord of the Rings MMO the company was working on with Embracer being canceled. "This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y'all would have loved it)," a former senior gameplay engineer for Amazon Games said on LinkedIn, according to Rock Paper Shotgun. (For me, when I try to see the post, LinkedIn shows a message that says "this post cannot be displayed.")"
Amazon halted a significant amount of its MMO development work amid a round of layoffs, and those changes appear to have canceled the Lord of the Rings MMO being developed with Embracer. A former senior gameplay engineer said on LinkedIn that they were part of the layoffs alongside peers on New World and the fledgling Lord of the Rings game, though some LinkedIn posts now show as unavailable. Amazon and Embracer did not immediately reply to comment requests, and the LOTR title remains listed on the Amazon Games website. New World developers will stop new content updates but servers will remain live through 2026. Amazon will continue to support Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark. The Embracer collaboration was announced in 2023 and followed an earlier canceled LOTR MMO revealed in 2019.
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