Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 Amazon vs Tencent - hmmmmmmm...my reaction is: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 What happened? It’s behind a paywall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleG Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 1 minute ago, ManUtdRedDevils said: What happened? It’s behind a paywall Incognito mode will fix that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 4 hours ago, SimpleG said: Incognito mode will fix that Also if you turn off javascript Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Amazon + gaming = fiasco and failure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 15 hours ago, ManUtdRedDevils said: What happened? It’s behind a paywall Quote The game had been in development at Amazon Game Studios alongside the China-based Leyou Technologies Holdings Ltd., which was purchased by conglomerate Tencent Holdings Ltd. in December. The resulting contract negotiations led to a dispute between Amazon and Tencent that eventually caused the game’s cancellation, said people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the issue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 Amazon Games and Embracer Group’s Middle-earth Enterprises Strike Deal for New 'The Lord of the Rings' Game WWW.AMAZONGAMES.COM Studio behind 'New World' developing AAA open-world multiplayer adventure set in Middle-earth. Bezos really wants a LotR MMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 So far Amazon is the biggest customer of the Embracer Group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 16, 2023 Author Share Posted May 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Brian said: Amazon Games and Embracer Group’s Middle-earth Enterprises Strike Deal for New 'The Lord of the Rings' Game WWW.AMAZONGAMES.COM Studio behind 'New World' developing AAA open-world multiplayer adventure set in Middle-earth. Bezos really wants a LotR MMO. May we all find someone who cares about us as much as Lord Bezos cares about the Lord of the Rings IP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 They spent so much money on the license that allowed them to make more than just the TV show, it makes sense they'd try hard to actually use it. Still, until Amazon can actually make a good game, I don't think there's much reason to expect anything worthwhile to come of this. Amazon probably should be the one buying all these big studios. They clearly want to be in games, they have Luna, and they're the leading cloud service provider. If there's a trillion dollar company that should be trying to buy Activision/Blizzard or Ubisoft or EA, there's a good case for it to be Amazon. Not that I'm confident that it would work out for them, but they keep pouring money into these ventures that they built from scratch and it keeps failing. Buying something whole and functional seems like the way to go. If they treat it like Ring and allow it to operate mostly independently while still utilizing some of Amazon's resources, they might actually have a chance. Then again, any of those would be multiple times the size of Amazon's largest acquisition to date (Whole Foods for $13.7B). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 Amazon boss expects fans to just "move over" from previous Lord of the Rings MMO T.CO Amazon's Christoph Hartmann believes Amazon's game will be "worlds apart" from Lord of the Rings Online in terms of the technology available now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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