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Tygr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not understanding. As this is the first I’ve ever heard of this, I went to their site and it looks like freebies for games you play and games from other developers.
Did Amazon make their own games? If not, what were these 180 workers doing exactly?
scottywh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
They made New World and were supposedly working on a LOTR MMO.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 7 months ago
Didn’t New Worlds turn into a ghost town month after launch?
potterpockets@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yeah it cratered pretty hard, but they have been adding content to the game. Launch was a buggy clusterfuck.
Selmafudd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I played at launch and yeah the bugs is what drove most people away. They were exploited pretty hard, there was like a 4 or 5 day period there where 3 seperate dupes were discovered and they didn’t do any roll backs
neshura@bookwormstory.social 7 months ago
Not entirely well versed in the New World Saga but from what I’ve heard and read here’s roughly what happened:
Zikeji@programming.dev 7 months ago
To be fair, a lot of the game breaking launch bugs that hurt the game for me were with PVP (specifically, the instanced wars). I do know there were others but those PVP bugs are what I’ll always remember. The lag, the broken healing, the hatchet exploit, and a few others.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I bought new world, never actually played it, I had tried the beta and said well this seems cool and got it then never played it at launch
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Might wanna get to it eventually before Amazon shuts it down
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Cuz it was killing gpus