American company Amazon Game Studios decided to cancel the development of an ambitious MMO based on “Lord of the rings” J.R.R.Tolkien… This is reported by the edition Bloomberg…
Project The lord of the rings was officially announced back in 2019. A Chinese holding company was responsible for its development. Leyou Technologies, part. which is the studio Digital extremeswhich created Warframe.
According to the plan, Amazon was planning to release a shareware role-playing game with an online component. It could complement the ambitious Lord of the Rings TV series, for which the company has donated nearly $ 500 million for its first season.
However, in early 2023, a problem arose: Leyou Technologies became part of the Chinese IT giant Tencent… According to Bloomberg, negotiations between Amazon and the new management of the contractor fell through, causing the project to be canceled.
Amazon’s internal MMO team will now focus on other projects.
“We love the Lord of the Rings franchise, so we are saddened that we will not be able to please users with the game,” the company said.
The cancellation of The Lords of the Rings MMO is yet another failure for the management of Amazon Game Studios, which since 2014 has not been able to release a single successful product, despite the enormous financial injections. In particular, games such as Breakaway and Crucible…
Now in development is an MMO New world, the release of which has already been postponed several times, and the fan community has criticized the developers for the decision to shift the focus from the PvP component in order to fight “toxic gamers”.
Thus, the studio’s creation remains the only Lord of the Rings MMO. Turbine (current Wb games boston) The Lord of the Rings Online… The company is now responsible for supporting the project Daybreak Games (former Sony Online Entertainment).
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