Amazon has reportedly canceled its LOTR MMO

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

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

“This greeting I was portion of the layoffs astatine Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers connected New World and our fledgling Lord of the 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 the 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, the LOTR crippled is still listed connected the Amazon Games website.

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

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