Yesterday, Amazon Games halted all sales of New World: Aeternum, with the game officially being taken offline on January 31, next year. It came after, in October, Amazon laid off 14,000 employees, and said that development on the MMO would be ceasing.
It's clear the game still has a fan base, with its player count jumping by 200 percent following October's news, but that wasn't enough to save the title.
However, while player power might not have been able to save New World: Aeternum, one fan of video games, Facepunch Studios' COO Alistair McFarlane, has offered an obscene sum of money to keep the game alive.
At one point in time, Amazon Games' New World was a titan. It peaked at 913,634 concurrent players a little over four years ago, and sold an estimated 8.8 million units, but Amazon's neglect ultimately killed the title, leaving us in the situation we're in today: an impending shutdown in a year's time. This is despite the best efforts of fans, who created a petition that garnered over 32,000 verified signatures. The game has been thrown a small, yet unlikely lifeline, though.
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