Amazon Recreation Studios could have taken the final main step in its transfer away from MMO funding, after handing again its two present MMOs to their studios.
Misplaced Ark was launched on PC in 2022, whereas Throne and Liberty was launched on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S and PC in 2024. Each video games have been revealed by Amazon Video games within the West.
Amazon has now posted messages to each video games’ gamers, nevertheless, explaining to them that it’s going to not be working the video games sooner or later.
A message posted to Throne and Liberty gamers says that Amazon “will will transition dwell operations of Throne and Liberty within the West” to developer FirstSpark Video games and the sport’s South Korean writer, NC in some unspecified time in the future in This autumn.
An identical message posted to Misplaced Ark gamers says ” Amazon Recreation Studios will finish its dwell service operations of Misplaced Ark, with Smilegate taking on going ahead” in some unspecified time in the future in early 2027.
Each statements embrace the identical paragraph, which reads: “We’re enthusiastic about the way forward for [Throne and Liberty / Lost Ark] and really feel it is a optimistic final result for the sport’s neighborhood, as we’re handing the sport again to the builders.
“This manner, their ardour for [Throne and Liberty / Lost Ark] can proceed to be realized, and gamers can proceed their adventures on the earth of ]Solisium / Arkesia].”
Whereas each statements say the handover transition will probably be dealt with as easily as attainable, FAQs have been supplied on the Throne and Liberty and Misplaced Ark websites, telling gamers precisely what is going to and gained’t be retained through the transfer.
The announcement seems to be the final notable transfer in Amazon’s resolution to step away from the MMO style.
Final yr, following an enormous spherical of layoffs throughout the whole thing of Amazon stated to have affected at the least 14,000 jobs, a major variety of folks at Amazon Video games Orange County have been laid off, ensuing within the announcement that its MMO New World would not be receiving updates however would proceed to run all through 2026.
It was later confirmed that New World will go offline completely on January 31, 2027. With the choice handy Misplaced Ark and Throne and Liberty to their builders, this now means Amazon will not have any energetic MMOs.
In October 2025 the corporate additionally stated it had “made the tough resolution to halt a major quantity of our first-party AAA recreation improvement work – particularly round MMOs – inside Amazon Recreation Studios”.
The information led to reviews that its deliberate Lord of the Rings MMO had additionally been cancelled.
