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Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO Production Schedule Slates Open Beta For 2023 | MMORPG.com
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Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO Production Schedule Slates Open Beta For 2023 | MMORPG.com
Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO might not be ready for players to dive into the open beta till early 2023, if a recently dug up production schedule is any indication.
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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Nothing even makes sense about Amazon and gaming.All the money is in cash shops/mobile and yet Amazon is not even aiming for the money.So i have no idea what the yare TRYING to accomplish,are they simply trying to be a legit gaming business and failing bad?
I just can't believe a business used to making high end money is willing to risk gaming that might lose before you profit and even it you find some success it might only be a mild success.
The best part and should make ANY and EVERY American angry is Jeff Bezos will pay no taxes so i guess he sees this as an easy opportunity to take a risk on gaming since he is just using tax payers money to do it.
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Maybe the same scenario will repeat, or maybe things will not. The reasons for the failures of the previous Amazon games is that they were developed and supervised by people who had zero clue what they were doing. Yes, they had coding and other designing skills related to game design, but they lacked vision and it was doomed from the start.
Amazon had a game called Breakaway that was cancelled in development, it never saw the light of day. It tried to be a hybrid of Rocket League and a 3rd person MOBA. The moment I saw a trailer, I immediately knew I would NEVER touch a game like that.
Crucible was a mixture between Battle Royale (something I deeply hate) and MOBA. I was cautiously interested, because they described RPG elements and objectives, but as soon as I got my hands on it, I literally played it for 15 minutes and immediately uninstalled it. The problem was that the product simply lacked vision - they did not know what they wanted their game to be and that's why it failed.
There was a similar game to Crucible in the sense that the developers did not know what they wanted the game to be. It was called Disintegration and it launched this summer on Steam. It was a mixture between a Mecha game, an FPS and something tactical like XCOM. It was a huge mess and that's why it failed. Now they shut down the online servers, but still sell the game for $35, probably in hopes someone unaware buys it.
I think that with Amazon's LOTR MMORPG being an MMORPG, this risk is greatly diminished.
LOL! That's exactly what I thought when I read what @Kyleran posted.
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I agree with this.
As far as them wanting to risk the money, it's called diversifying. Remember, Amazon was just a book seller way back when. Now they are not only an online marketplace for various stores across the world, they also rent/sell movies, music and have also purchased grocery stores for food delivery.
Not sure why you think megacorporations just do "one thing."
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But I am still excited for another LOTR game.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
But I was really hoping they would aquire a studio to do the Middle Earth MMO... I have little faith in Amazon Game Studios. They have yet to make a successful game, and New World's flip flopping and year+ delay... and unknown/questionable staying power as an engaging MMORPG... serious doubts.
We know throwing $$ at an Mmorpg means nothing.
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If you're just going to sit around and grind mindless mobs to level up and then do tedious dungeon runs for gear to do harder dungeons for better gear to do harder dungeons for better gear then I am not interested.
Do something special and unheard of before.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Actually, Anthlon games studio seems sketchy... like a chinese shell/dummy corp. Go to their site, no information on past games or studio heads or job applications or really anything of substance.
I googled past games, I could only find an obscure reference to Samurai Showdown (2019) on a third party sight.
This is boding well...
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http://leyoutech.com.hk/development-history
So not Amazon but this other company out of Hong Kong. So it seems that the Middle Earth mmorpg is their first game.
Here's my worry ...
While I have no issues with Asian games (I take things for what they are) I do wonder if ew are going to see the "high heeled warriors" like in that new Pearl Abyss Viking game?
or will they really be nervous about screwing it up and be extremely reverent with the IP?
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Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Again, Leyoutech are going be the ecommerce/monetization company... I believe, not the actual developers of the core game. Remember, I think I read this is F2P, so it's going to have one hell of a cash shop.
In an press release about Anthlon on this project: "We believe in Athlon Games’ model to collaborate closely with Western developers to implement incredibly successful live services, while also giving its partners the autonomy they need to develop outstanding game experiences,” said Alex Xu, CEO of Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited
"Live Services" = Cash Shop and Monetization.
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