Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division - Aftermath
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    • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

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

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        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

          • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

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

            • nocturne213@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              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.socialEnglish
          1·
          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.

        • loobkoob@kbin.social
          4·
          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.

    • Kazzius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

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

  • mercEnglish
    11·
    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.

    • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      Yup and every thing they produced was hot garbage.

      Time to shut it the fuck down.

  • MomoTimeToDieEnglish
    102·
    1 year ago

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

  • redeyejedi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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.