Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division - eviltoast
  • illi@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

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

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

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

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

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            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.

      • Neshura@bookwormstory.social
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        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.