Crucible, the F2P competitive team-based shooter game coming next week to PC from Amazon Games, has had its core game modes showcased today.
From NME: "Crucible developer Stephen Dewhurst shared that “Amazon is not a great place to make games” and revealed that it “was pretty apparent at the time” that Crucible would fail.
Speaking to NME, Dewhurst reflected on his seven years working at Amazon."
Yeah.
I mean, this is coming off of Lost Ark, which is doing great.
It doesn't seem like Amazon is the ideal publisher to go through. They're definitely out of their element, and have failed projects to show for it; but it just sounds like a dev blaming anyone but themselves for releasing a shoddy product.
lol No kidding. Every major company ruins everything.
Microsoft obliterated Mixer. Amazon destroyed Twitch. Stay indie please. It's not easy but corporations are why everything is f***ed.
Yummy gaming talkThis week on the Link Cable Gaming Podcast, Alex, Zahi and Kevin discuss Crucible’s cancellation, the PS5 UI and the Series X|S launch games lineup (or lack thereof). We also give our thoughts on fast food joints. You can watch the full episode below!
COGconnected Writes: Crucible's untimely demise marks another Amazon Game Studios project consigned to the waste bin of gaming history! Are these guys cursed? Was there an angry witch involved? Because I know a good cursebreaker, Amazon. Hit me up.
Amazon might need to be broken up as a monopoly. As having too many hats - shopping, music and video distribution, audio distribution, book distribution, credit and debt services, online and information services, now game publishing - under one roof.
Amazon has all the money in the world and they somehow cannot build a decent games studio.
And it would behoove them to have one standard game in their multi-game pipeline - a single-player game that they mold after something successful - to get a solid release under their belt and start building a modicum of cachet. The others can be experimental live-service genre-mashers, but those have high chances of failure. It seems shocking they didn't hedge their bets by putting at least one studio on something stable. Or by buying a studio with a good track record that could put out their new games under the Amazon banner.
The closest they came was buying Double Helix - decent buy - but then effectively destroying their value by taking their unique flavor & then merging it into the vat of vanilla pudding that is Amazon Gaming Studios. None of the games Amazon ended up pursuing were in DH's wheelhouse, so I'm not sure what the thought process was in that acquisition.
Not to mention that going for their own engine was also a questionable choice. Lumberyard, being based around CryEngine, limits the pool of developers/tools/documentation they have at their disposal. Not obviously the biggest stumbling block for them, but it certainly had to hinder (prototyping/iteration/buildin g tools from scratch/et al).
Lots of poor choices going around over there. They should give me a chance at management. After this many failures, what do they have to lose! With a more realistic and reasonable understanding of gaming trends, as well as a healthier appreciation for the value of money, I think I could do wonders for them :-p.
I see no reason why not, anyone is welcome to make a game as long as they make it right.
