Amazon Ending Development On Crucible, Team Will Shift To Other Projects

Jason Winter
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Less than half a year after its launch -- and three months after its un-launch and removal to closed beta -- Amazon Game Studios has announced that it is pulling the plug on Crucible. The news broke late Friday on the Crucible website, where the developers said that after "evaluat[ing] the feedback we've heard from you, paired with the data we've collected," they "didn’t see a healthy, sustainable future ahead of Crucible."

The game's final update, the addition of custom games, will be shipped soon. At an unspecified later date "in the next few weeks," matchmaking will be disabled, and only custom games will be available. The servers for those will be shut down at noon Pacific on Monday, Nov. 9. You can obtain a full refund for your purchases in Crucible via the support section of the website.

The Crucible development team will be transitioning over to New World "and other upcoming projects." The prospects for that game are also somewhat in doubt, given its shift in scope during its long gestation period and its launch delay from August into next year. Amazon Game Studios previously cancelled PvP game Breakaway, making the company 0-for-2 in its attempts to produce a game.

So what else does Amazon have cooking? Former Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company CEO John Smedley is working on an unannounced project for the company and Amazon also has a hand in the development of Leyou Technologies and Athlon Games upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO game. Still, at this point, it's hard to feel optimistic about anything coming out of the company, which seemed to have such promise after its big reveal four years ago.

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Jason Winter
Jason Winter, News Editor
Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.

Discussion (4)

rickshaw 2 years ago
rehash the game into a better one but dump the name and never mention it again. lol

Cloak 2 years ago
Game was too woke for me anyways. Glad it's gone.

Jeremy Barnes 2 years ago
We're all shocked. Really. Just shocked.

Wh0leMilk 2 years ago
Goes to prove that paying a bunch of popular twitch streamers to play your game in front of thousands of people does not always result in success.

As a side note: I watched one popular streamer making lots of sarcastic implications on their stream that they were just playing Crucible because they were being paid to do so...


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