New World: Eternum May be closed forever, but the director the rust is trying to fend off Amazon with a multi-million dollar offer. The the rust The director recently offered this in light of the recent news regarding the MMORPG ending, and fans are hoping that it might be enough to save it. New World: Eternum.
Initially announced in 2016 and released in 2021, New World: Eternum is an MMORPG produced by Amazon Games. The game only arrived on consoles in 2024, and it also received a TV adaptation episode. secret level series in the same year, in which many of the playerbase hoped that the game had a solid future ahead of it. However, things started looking up when Amazon announced that it was cutting jobs at Amazon Games. It didn't take long New World: EternumThe shutdown will be announced, with Amazon revealing that Season 10 will end New World: Eternum content, and that game will be shut down completely by 2027.
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Director Rust steps up to save the new world: Eternum
Following the announcement revealing the exact closing date of January 31, 2027, Alistair McFarlane, director of Facepunch Studios, which developed the survival game. the rustAmazon has offered to try to save the game. He sent a tweet to Amazon Games saying he was offering to buy the game for $25 million, with a follow-up tweet saying “games should never die”. Alistair has yet to say whether Amazon has responded to the proposal in any way, so for now, New World: EternumFate hangs in the balance.
In addition to the offer, McFarlane also suggested that instead of selling the game, Amazon should consider giving players control of the title by allowing public servers. He said that “the game will live forever in the hands of a dedicated community,” pointing to its own development studio and the way it does things. Many players and fans have chimed in with their own hopes that the game can somehow be saved, expressing frustration at the situation and some sharing their reluctance to play another Amazon game again.
Game closures are controversial
With the recent trend of layoffs and game development studios being completely eliminated, many games have recently been discontinued or their releases canceled. For example, there was an uproar when it was announced MultiVersus Only a year after its full release it will be shut down, not only taking the game completely offline but also delisting it, so new players can't use it. Although it's obviously not financially viable for a company to host servers for a dead game forever, players often ask for the opportunity to play their favorites on private servers, or in offline mode wherever possible.
Unfortunately, some games haven't even had a chance to reach players in recent years, with upcoming titles like EA's Black Panther Closing the game, the Perfect Dark Reboot being scrapped, or killing riot games Hytale After spending a decade in development. In most cases, there is nothing that can be done about it, but McFarlane's chances of saving New World: Eternum It may not be as far as it seems. In the case of HytaleThe developer was successfully able to regain the rights to the game from Riot Games, and has since released it. Hytale In early access.
New World: Eternum It's not the only game the devs have tried to save from a complete shutdown recently. A former BioWare executive has proposed a saving plan song By converting it into a single-player RPG, which they estimate will cost $10 million to do. At this point, it is not known if the rescue attempts new world or song will succeed, but the players are optimistic.
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October 15, 2024
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T for Teens // Blood, violence
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Amazon Games
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Amazon Games
