Amazon Has Reportedly Canceled Its Lotr Mmo

A photograph from The Lord of nan Rings: The Rings of Power.

This week, arsenic portion of its big layoffs, an Amazon exec said that nan institution is halting a “significant” magnitude of its activity connected MMOs, and nan changes look to person led to nan Lord of nan Rings MMO nan institution was moving connected pinch Embracer being canceled.

“This greeting I was portion of nan layoffs astatine Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers connected New World and our fledgling Lord of nan Rings crippled (y’all would person loved it),” a erstwhile elder gameplay technologist for Amazon Games said on LinkedIn, according to Rock Paper Shotgun. (For me, erstwhile I effort to spot nan post, LinkedIn shows a connection that says “this station cannot beryllium displayed.”)

Amazon and Embracer didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. As of this writing, nan LOTR crippled is still listed connected nan Amazon Games website.

After nan layoffs were announced, nan developers of New World: Aeternum, an MMO Amazon developed in-house, said they would nary longer beryllium providing caller contented updates for nan game, though its servers will enactment unrecorded done 2026. Amazon will proceed to support 2 MMOs that it publishes, Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark, institution spokesperson Brittney Hefner told The Verge this week.

The planned Lord of nan Rings crippled pinch Embracer, announced in 2023, was Amazon’s 2nd tally astatine an MMO successful nan LOTR universe; nan first MMO was revealed in 2019 earlier being canceled 2 years later.