Amazon’s deliberate Lord of the Rings MMO recreation has been cancelled as a part of this week’s important layoffs throughout the corporate, it’s claimed.
That’s in keeping with a LinkedIn submit of an Amazon Video games employee who misplaced their job this week, who steered in a submit (noticed by RPS) that the deliberate Tolkien recreation has additionally fallen underneath Amazon’s axe.
“This morning I used to be a part of the layoffs at Amazon Video games, alongside my extremely gifted friends on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings recreation (y’all would have cherished it),” they wrote.
“It’s at all times powerful to see such a powerful staff undergo one thing like this – I’ve been fortunate to work with among the most expert, artistic, and sort builders I’ve ever met right here.”
If correct, the cancellation comes as little shock, contemplating Amazon Video games’ feedback this week that it’s stepping away from MMO growth and ending growth of its present on-line recreation New World.
Amazon introduced an enormous spherical of layoffs on Tuesday, that are mentioned to have affected at the least 14,000 jobs, together with a big variety of individuals at New World’s developer, Amazon Video games Orange County.
Amazon’s newest plans for a Lord of the Rings MMO had been introduced in 2023, as a part of a partnership with Center-Earth rights-owner Embracer. The sport was described as a “persistent open-world MMO journey” spanning the occasions of The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy.
