I absolutely loved this article from Jason Schreier, this is the article I wish I could make but unfortunately I don’t quite have his level of investigative access. This answers so many of my questions and reinforces so many of the things I’ve been saying now for a year and a half.
Fate has summoned you to the shores of Aeternum, the Eternal Isle. Overcome the brutal legions of The Corrupted and draw battle lines with competing players in this open world MMO fraught with danger and opportunity. In a land hell-bent on your destruction, what will you do to survive?
Article here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-29/amazon-game-studios-struggles-to-find-a-hit
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#mmorpg #ags #newworld
0:00 Intro
1:03 Who Is Mike Frazzini?
2:23 Frazzini’s Early Impact on AGS
3:02 The Inception of Lumberyard
4:04 Employees as Sources for article
5:00 Amazon’s Spending on Gaming
5:16 What makes video games
5:36 Corporate stifling creativity
7:16 Amazon’s Principles
8:42 Bezos Games
9:45 Amazon’s plans for gaming
10:35 The First Amazon Game Studio
10:56 Notable hires for AGS
11:32 Working for Amazon was a “fantasy land” to begin
11:50 Sexism and bro culture
13:25 Amazon is Borg, Assimilate
13:58 Ridiculous goals
16:55 Full of yes men
17:32 Management is clueless, literally
18:05 Chasing trends
18:43 Twitch success
19:10 The Twitch Marketing Machine
21:19 Hello Fellow Kids
21:49 Steam? Who?
23:50 Lumberyard’s inception
25:13 Lumberyard is killing this company
28:37 Scaring the competition
29:06 Big hires
29:30 Bring in the fixer
30:30 Missing out on hires
31:30 Aligning media & failure
31:40 Embarrassment
32:08 Crucible reception
33:24 Changing of staff following crucible closure
34:30 Removing the controversial setting & Delays
34:50 Nobody who’s succesful starts with metrics
35:19 Frazzini is the problem
36:20 Amazon Luna
37:04 Changes to prime video staffing & content reception
38:05 Closing of article
38:40 My final thoughts
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Just to clarify I think that New World is looking much better in recent months and it looks like they may have at least that project on the straight and narrow from here on. I'm much more optimistic about the project than I was 6 months ago, they've done quite a lot of positive changes. There's still a ton of unanswered questions and ultimately all I want is for the game to be the best it can be. This was fascinating how incompetent the handling of their gaming division has been though.
Push this Video hard, people need to hear about that
I got through half of this and all you do is bash amazon and say they are bad. Nice job focusing on the bad. I have hope they can adapt and overcome. They have already made major updates just recently that directly came from player feedback and they are to say the least great changes. Get out of the mind set only a certain type of people came make a game or else we would never get anything new and fresh. I still believe new world be a great game.
An anonymous source says full loot sandbox pvp games like Fortnite and Minecraft do pretty well. Another anonymous source says if you want to play a non niche MMO, then you are stuck with WoW.
I liked the Beta. I would have paid for beta and enjoyed the game for many months. I know the final product will be as good or better. I will enjoy the final product for many months.
I really can't ask for more from a game than to enjoy playing it for several months. No game has ever been made that has held my interest for longer than a consecutive year. Or a total of two years over the life of the game.
If you play an MMO for greater than 3 months, you enjoyed the game. No matter what you remember about its flaws, it was a good game. 6 months, and it was a great game. If you quit before the first 30 days, it was absolutely f-ing awful. If you quit before 3 months, it was bad.
Thru the whole video, the only question i kept thinking was…"What's with the princess cup?" 😀
Toxic much?
If they don't listen to the experts and customers, and just give everyone at the top a lot of money, maybe it's time to look into Amazon Games as a money laundering tool lol
trying to learn how to make games from ubisoft and ea LMAO
Easily my favorite video on this subject. You are 1,000,000 percent right, I've been saying it for years and its nice to find a streamer that understands
that first game…what was it called? it was pretty good
this game is absolute trash
Amazon is good at one thing, making money. They do this by doing whatever they can get away with that won't affect their profits. Stealing tips from their Flex drivers to pay them, selling the same products to undercut their own customers, treating their employees like slaves and paying them equivalent wages, the list is long. The fact that they do this with a game should be no surprise.
Can confirm the engine is shit.
u sir just articulated yourself so well im a fan now thanks for the info
I think they should make single-player games at the start. And make others develop MMORPG and online shooters
I miss crucible. The Devs LOVED their game. I sunk 700 hours before it was removed.
Yeah i mean i think visually new world looks pretty and has potential but just saying that doesn't make a game enjoyable or playable…
Go more fantasy, less pilgrim.
New world is gonna flop so hard
The fact that little bitches without lives look for things to call "offensive", offends me.
What game is that with the squirrel
Recall a story by a published author who frequently got people (at book signings, cocktail parties etc.) say things like "Yeah, I'm going to write a book; how hard can it be?". One neuro-surgeon was dismissive of writing, claiming he was going to write a book (sounded like he was intimating "over the next weekend off" to our Author). Author replies, "Of course. And after my weekend workshop on brain surgery, I'll be taking clients for surgery next week". Failing to comprehend the amount of research, study, hard work (and money!) that goes into being successful in someone else's area of expertise is a really common problem for many people. It takes more than a few weeks.
New world looks really good after a lot of update and changes. I hope they don't fuck this one up.
Ro-Ah-Noke ..just helping out love the vidoes , steered me right on most 99/99% of titles you cover , reserve /0.01 percent for personal resons
Thank you for thr video and your passion for new world. i was as blown away by this article as well. I called this game failing for reasons outside of amazon but add this shit to the pile and its just broken beyond belief. Including having a huge happy extremely interested community after the first open beta then to only let all of that momentum die off over 8 months of practical silence from the company.
Gaming for over a decade has been filled with politics, social agendas, and shit.
Wasted potential.
First 2 minutes sounds like employees at blizzard lol
I loved New World close beta and even the half open beta after some changes was great imo.
Sadly they changed something i didnt like, going from 3 weapons on you that you can use down to 2 weapons only.
But yes as of right now Amazon dosnt have any great games out, yet!
Hopefully New World will change that and the other mmorpg "Lord of the rings" at a later date will also turn out to be great 🤷♂️
Only time will tell.