Amazon cancels another game, proving it can't be great at everything

KnowTechie writes: The recent cancellation of yet another Amazon Game Studios title has me wondering if the ecommerce giant is cut out for video games.

[Lionsguard]

This is what happens when you think you can just solve and conquer some things simply by throwing money at it. Same with Stadia.

[bradfh]

I'm glad it was canceled,
Lord of the Rings game would of been fulled with chinese censorship.
Blizzard is doing bad because how much china has on blizzard.

Still looking forward to New World game, that Amazon has.

[Vegamyster]

The game was cancelled due to negotiations not working out, if they threw more money at it they might still have been making it lol, that said i found it strange how they wanted to do a LOTR MMO when they're also doing New World.

[DarXyde]

I don't see why that's strange. Easier to make two games that are in the same genre (re-use assets where possible, same engine with tweaks) and, as 2 MMOs, imagine the monetization that can go into these games.

[lucian229]

They're making a TV show so it makes sense

[Vegamyster]

They'd essentially be competing with themselves in a market that's high risk, the last two successful games in the genre are TESO/FF and both those games are 7+ years old now.

[franwex]

Next up they are probably gonna close down their Luna streaming service.

If they truly wanna get into gaming-buy a publisher and release good hardware to go along with it while continuing to invest in new studios.

[Amplitude]

welp today i learned amazon has a game streaming service.

[Knightofelemia]

Takes a long time to establish yourself as a great game studio it doesn't happen over night unless you have a super popular game or a game that is a flavor of the month. Why net all the stars at once when you should focus one at a time.

[XbladeTeddy]

They could just do what Microsoft is doing, buy a AAA studio and let them make something. Not like they don't have the money.

[ArnoDorian]

Or its not like jeff bezos couldn't flat out buy Sony and just let them do their thing....

[metalgod88]

Maybe they should focus on making their company a better place to work, rather than attempt to make games which ..obviously they have no idea how to do.

[Spenok]

That's unfortunate, LOTRO is so old now, I was looking forward to something new.