Amazon has canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game

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Lord of the Rings game has been canceled by Amazon 

Amazon announced The game in 2019 but apparently we wiil not see it

 

 

Amazon Game Studios has canceled its Lord of the Rings online role-playing game, Bloomberg reported.
The company announced the project with Leyou-owned Athlon Games back in 2019, and planned it to be a free-to-play game for PC and consoles.
The game was planned to be at a time long before the events of The Lord of the Rings Movies, exploring lands, people and creatures never seen before by fans of the Tolkien universe,” that was said at an announcement from Athlon at the time.
But Leyou Studio was acquired by Tencent Holdings in December 2020, and An amazon member said the company was “unable to secure terms to proceed with this title at this time.”
The team from the LOTR project will work on other games for the company, the spokesperson added. “We love the Lord of the Rings IP, and are disappointed that we won’t be bringing this game to customers.”

 

Since its launch in 2014, Amazon Game Studios has yet to release a successful video game, canceling some previously announced games and delaying others. Its video game adaptation of The Grand Tour in 2019 got such bad reviews that the game was pulled from storefronts. In January, Bloomberg reported that the games studio had internal problems, including a culture that didn’t provide equal opportunities to men and women, and an in-house game engine that was “painfully slow.”

But Amazon’s incoming CEO Andy Jassy said in response that he’s committed to the video games division, which launched under outgoing CEO and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who is stepping down as CEO later this year. “I believe this team will get there if we stay focused on what matters most,”.

 

Published on Apr 17, 2021