Amazon Reportedly Cancels Its Lord Of The Rings MMO

There's still a LotR MMO game still around. Used to play it years ago. Fun stuff. Why would they do another MMO that still an MMO?

It was all thanks to Tencent screwing things up on the contract. I'm sure Amazon was still ready to do it.

Honestly, has Amazon ever released a good game?

DAMN IT! COME ON!!! I was really looking forward to this ...ugh well I hope ashes of creation lives up to the hype. This really kills me, I have been waiting for another Lotro

Sad, I was kind of excited for this. Hopefully it is picked up again eventually.

I suggest people read Jason article as well, Yes it was Tencent who ended the deal. Though Amazon corporate side was to involved in the creative decision were nothing getting done by the developer of the game and things were getting change on the lasted trends because the guy on charge did not know anything about game design

Tencent probably wanted to monetize it even more and also wanted to install some kind of backbone for personal data collecting in their MMO software. Amazon said no, probably. I think it's the latter.

Now taking bets on new world's cancellation.

Amazon need to stop teasing us, they don't know how to do games.

Just don't like how these Chinese companies are getting their fingers in everything.

amazon should just create a whole bunch of shitty mobile games and see what sticks

Tencent? GROSS. It's like working with the devil.

good decision tencent is a cancer that must be excised from the world.

no matter what they say the game was crap or it would went ahead and been made, the only other " disagreement " would been loot boxes and how to make more $$$ and they only would been fighting on who got the larger % . I say they got low balled on money they would get then asked why are we even making the game and left.

Cancel New World since we're at it. That beta was the clunkiest shitfest i've seen in a while.

Amazon has no business in games. And Tencent meddling again.

Some guy actually argued with me that the old ass LOTR MMO from almost a decade ago would have ate up all the potential players for the new game. That's like saying no one would play FF14 because people still play FF11.

The bigger issue would have been Amazon putting out two MMOs at the same time. They would have cannibalized each other. It's better this way, we can now see if New World can get and maintain an audience without the variable of another new MMO being released.

It wouldn't surprise me if it cancelled the show as well!

There's already a LotR MMO anyway, we didn't need another one

So at this point hasn't Amazon canned more games than it's released?

...the MMO New World has been delayed repeatedly. It's now arriving in August..

That was supposed to have arrived, last August, I have doubts.