Amazon MMO New World Has Just a Year to Live, Rust Dev Offers to Buy It

Amazon has announced that its MMO, New World, volition beryllium officially taken offline from each platforms connected January 31, 2027.

The crippled is present delisted, which means it is nary longer disposable for purchase. You tin inactive play New World until January adjacent year, with the Nighthaven play extended until the servers are taken offline.

“We privation to convey the players for your dedication and passion,” a connection connected the New World website reads. “We are grateful for the clip spent crafting the satellite of Aeternum with you. Together we built thing special. While we are saddened to accidental goodbye, we’re honored that we were capable to stock truthful overmuch with the community.

“It has been our pleasance to enactment connected New World: Aeternum and germinate this unforgettable escapade with you all. We look guardant to 1 much twelvemonth together, and giving this fantastic escapade a sendoff worthy of a legendary hero. From the bottommost of each our hearts, convey you for sharing this satellite with us.”

Amazon announced plans to enactment New World into attraction mode backmost successful October, arsenic portion of a circular of layoffs affecting an eye-watering 14,000 roles. At the time, Amazon said New World would stay online during 2026.

New World was a uncommon deed for Amazon successful the video crippled space, and followed aggregate flops that resulted successful crippled and workplace closures. The MMO acceptable successful an alternate 1600s America saw immense subordinate numbers connected Steam, with a whopping 913,634 highest concurrents connected Valve's level backmost successful 2021. Player numbers importantly declined pursuing that peak, however.

Bloomberg had reported that Amazon was cutting backmost particularly connected MMOs, but would proceed to make Amazon Games Montreal’s March of Giants, its caller Tomb Raider crippled successful the works astatine Crystal Dynamics, and "casual and AI-focused games" for its unreality gaming work Luna. UK workplace Maverick Games were said to beryllium continuing to enactment connected its racing game, too. Following the quality astir New World, determination was interest implicit the presumption of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings MMO. Amazon has yet to supply an update connected it.

But is determination anticipation for New World yet? Alistair McFarlane, COO and institution manager astatine Rust developer Facepunch Studios, tweeted to connection Amazon $25 cardinal for New World, adding: “Games should ne'er die.” “If you request tips astir buying cancelled games, lmk,” Hypixel Studios laminitis Simon Collins-Laflamme, who rescued Hytale aft years spent successful the doldrums astatine League of Legends shaper Riot Games, replied.

25m, last connection @amazongames

It sounds similar McFarlane has thought astir this, explaining what should hap to New World alternatively than closure: “As with everything we bash astatine Facepunch, empower the community. Give them control, marque servers publically hostable. A crippled volition unrecorded everlastingly successful the hands of a dedicated community.”

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