"Games Should Never Die" Rust Director Offers Amazon Millions of Dollars to Buy New World: Aeternum

"Games Should Never Die" Rust Director Offers Amazon Millions of Dollars to Buy New World: Aeternum

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New World: Aeternum may shut down forever, but the director of Rust is trying to stop that with a multi-million dollar offer to Amazon. The Rust director recently made the offer in light of recent news regarding the MMORPG ending, and fans are hoping that it might be enough to save New World: Aeternum.

Initially announced in 2016 and released in 2021, New World: Aeternum is an MMORPG produced by Amazon Games. The game only arrived on consoles in 2024, and even received a TV adaptation episode in the Secret Level series the same year, which had much of the playerbase expecting that the game had a solid future ahead of it. However, things started to look concerning for the game when Amazon announced that it was cutting jobs across Amazon Games. It didn't take long for New World: Aeternum's shutdown to be announced, with Amazon revealing that Season 10 would mark the end of New World: Aeternum content, and that the game would be completely shut down by 2027.

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