Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again

No remark yet from Amazon

Amazon person cancelled their 2nd effort astatine a Lord Of The Rings MMO arsenic portion of caller wide layoffs, according to a root who has asked to stay anonymous.

Colonial phantasy New World has already been confirmed to beryllium ceasing development, pursuing the caller Nighthaven update, arsenic portion of a company-wide displacement distant from MMOs. Amazon volition support the servers lukewarm done 2026, and accidental they'll springiness six months announcement earlier making immoderate changes that render the crippled unplayable.

I've reached retired to Amazon for remark connected the study that their Lord Of The Rings MMO has besides been canned. They person yet to respond arsenic of 3rd November 2025 - this nonfiction was primitively published connected October 30th.

The publisher's archetypal LOTR MMO task was a collaboration with Chinese institution Leyou, announced successful 2019. It met an unfortunate extremity successful 2021 acknowledgment to an evident contractual dispute, aft Leyou were acquired by Tencent.

Amazon revealed the 2nd LOTR MMO successful 2023, aft partnering with caller Middle-earth rights-owner Embracer. They called it a "persistent open-world MMO adventure", spanning the events of The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy, but beyond that, we've ne'er heard overmuch astir the project.

It's claimed that 14,000 radical are losing their jobs arsenic portion of Amazon's latest cuts. Best of luck to everybody affected. At the hazard of being twee, present is an encouraging speech from the books: "in the extremity the Shadow was lone a tiny and passing thing: determination was airy and precocious quality for ever beyond its reach."

If you're hopeless to roam Middle-earth successful company, Standing Stone and Daybreak's The Lord of the Rings Online is inactive trucking on with a tiny but dependable audience, astir 2 decades since launch. The community's caller doings see yet accomplishing a pilgrimage of desperately underlevelled hobbits to Mount Doom.

Update: this nonfiction has been edited to region the source's sanction and occupation rubric astatine their request.