Is Amazon still working on LOTR Mmo?
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings MMO appears to have been canceled as part of sweeping layoffs that hit the company’s gaming business hard. This week, Amazon confirmed it was walking away from making new content for its MMO, New World, amid huge layoffs affecting 14,000 roles at the company. Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO has been cancelled. It’s 2021.A viewer asks if The Lord of the Rings Online is still active or being updated. My answer: yes — I’m literally doing endgame content right now, and a brand-new expansion, Kingdoms of Harad, is releasing this December. Middle-earth isn’t dead just yet.
What happened to Amazon Mmo?
Amazon is ending active development on New World. The team says it has reached a point where ‘it is no longer sustainable to continue supporting the game with new content updates. Amazon Games is ending active development on MMO New World: Aeternum four years after release. Amazon has reportedly canceled its LOTR MMO. The company is halting a ‘significant’ amount of work on MMOs, and those changes have apparently affected its Lord of the Rings game.Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings MMO appears to have been canceled as part of sweeping layoffs that hit the company’s gaming business hard. This week, Amazon confirmed it was walking away from making new content for its MMO, New World, amid huge layoffs affecting 14,000 roles at the company.The Lord of the Rings Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows and previously for OS X, set in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, taking place during the time period of The Lord of the Rings.