New Lord of the Rings MMO

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Warrik said:
LOTRO was good for its day, but this, Star Wars, and Star Trek have been vast missed opportunities that should have been MMO juggernaugts with its wealth of history and lore, but thus far have failed to be more than a niche success in the space.
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Well the studio that makes Division got awarded with a SW license. So let's see what they can make out of it. Any SW license that does not make a shooter of some sort, instead of the mmo tab targeting BS is missing the point imo.

I thought Battlefront 2 was decent for what it was. Too bad it was EA and they wanted to cash in with the crates and shit which pretty much ruined their launch with the outrage crowd shitting on it hardcore. But in the end it ended being a decent game I thought.
 
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Smed was very hyped about this project, they'll just move him to whatever new game comes next, but feel bad for him none the less. Tencent completely shit in their mouths. Probably wanted a share of Prime revenue the show will create to continue to publish the game. Must have Amazon by the balls with that publisher contract if Amazon chose to shutter the game instead of agreeing to a new deal or buyout. Wonder if this is all next level bluffing, and they'll hammer something out over the next few weeks or months. Amazon has 500 million invested in that Prime LoTRO show, and they wanted this game to piggy back off the expected success. I'm fairly shocked this happened. Amazon game studios totally cursed at this point. When New World flops, might just shut the entire thing down for good.
 
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Mat'hir Uth Gan said:
Smed was very hyped about this project, they'll just move him to whatever new game comes next, but feel bad for him none the less. Tencent completely shit in their mouths. Probably wanted a share of Prime revenue the show will create to continue to publish the game. Must have Amazon by the balls with that publisher contract if Amazon chose to shutter the game instead of agreeing to a new deal or buyout. Wonder if this is all next level bluffing, and they'll hammer something out over the next few weeks or months. Amazon has 500 million invested in that Prime LoTRO show, and they wanted this game to piggy back off the expected success. I'm fairly shocked this happened. Amazon game studios totally cursed at this point. When New World flops, might just shut the entire thing down for good.
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So this was confirmed what Smed was working on? I thought it was an unnamed project and not this or New World
 
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Warrik

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Mat'hir Uth Gan said:
Smed was very hyped about this project, they'll just move him to whatever new game comes next, but feel bad for him none the less. Tencent completely shit in their mouths. Probably wanted a share of Prime revenue the show will create to continue to publish the game. Must have Amazon by the balls with that publisher contract if Amazon chose to shutter the game instead of agreeing to a new deal or buyout. Wonder if this is all next level bluffing, and they'll hammer something out over the next few weeks or months. Amazon has 500 million invested in that Prime LoTRO show, and they wanted this game to piggy back off the expected success. I'm fairly shocked this happened. Amazon game studios totally cursed at this point. When New World flops, might just shut the entire thing down for good.
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Smed wasn't working on or managing this title. At all. I built the pipeline for the LOTR project. Smed is working on something entirely different.
 
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maybe they can take the assets and make a gatcha waifu collector game with elves!
 
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Mat'hir Uth Gan

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Smed wasn't working on or managing this title. At all. I built the pipeline for the LOTR project. Smed is working on something entirely different.
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Stand corrected then. Any insight into whether a deal with Tencent can still be reached or is this thing truly dead? And if this thing falling through impacted your job status, very sorry to hear that.
 
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Warrik said:
Smed wasn't working on or managing this title. At all. I built the pipeline for the LOTR project. Smed is working on something entirely different.
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Was this going to be a Lumberyard title, out of curiosity?

Or was it in the preprod stages?
 
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Warrik said:
Smed wasn't working on or managing this title. At all. I built the pipeline for the LOTR project. Smed is working on something entirely different.
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any opinions as to why this may have been canceled? New World progress seems to be positive
 
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Xerge said:
any opinions as to why this may have been canceled? New World progress seems to be positive
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Based on articles, it was a dispute between Amazon and Tencent. So Amazon just cancelled the whole thing.
 
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