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Jeff Bezos Praises Amazon Video games for Its First Success with New World

Written by Jeff Lampkin

Jeff Bezos himself took to Twitter to reward the Amazon Video games division for its first success with New World, the MMORPG launched on September twenty eighth for PC (Steam).

Jeff Bezos talked about the earlier failures and setbacks encountered by Amazon in its gaming efforts. As a reminder, the MOBA recreation Breakaway was canceled whereas nonetheless in improvement, and the Battle Royale-like title Crucible flopped so soundly that it needed to be sunsetted only a few months after its debut.

New World Had Over 1 Million Gamers on Day One; Character Transfers Coming Subsequent Week

New World had loads to show, then, and to date it appears to be succeeding. We reported yesterday that over one million gamers accessed the sport on its first day of operation, and the recognition continues to develop with a brand new concurrent participant peak of 801K set simply ten hours in the past according to SteamDB.

This degree of success stunned even Amazon, which was pressured to spin up many new servers as the present ones have been swarmed by gamers, inflicting lengthy queues to enter the sport world. Speaking to PC Gamer, Wealthy Lawrence highlighted this as the most important downside throughout this launch week:

Completely it was the size of demand. Which on the one hand, nice! We’re enthused by participant curiosity within the recreation. However we did not have wherever close to this sturdy a sign from pre-orders or beta—we have been proud of each, to be clear, however the numbers grew so shortly and so near launch it caught us unexpectedly, I’ve to confess.

Amazon Video games has the complete backing of the brand new general CEO Andy Jassy, who changed Jeff Bezos earlier this 12 months. Jassy stated on the time success would come if the division saved working exhausting, and New World could be proving him proper already.

The division has huge plans going ahead, together with publishing Misplaced Ark early subsequent 12 months and the primary recreation by Glowmade sooner or later, along with its personal unannounced initiatives.

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Jeff Lampkin

Jeff Lampkin was the first writer to have joined gamepolar.com. He has since then inculcated very effective writing and reviewing culture at GamePolar which rivals have found impossible to imitate. His approach has been to work on the basics while the whole world was focusing on the superstructures.