Jeff Bezos on New World: “After many failures and setbacks in gaming we have a success”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has praised the success of its just lately launched MMO New World, which is getting a lot of praise regardless of gamers having some major launch issues with the game. Nonetheless, Bezos has harsh phrases for earlier Amazon video games corresponding to Crucible – labelling them “failures and setbacks”.

Amazon Sport Studios’ first MMO New World launched earlier this week and has been an instantaneous success, breaking player count records everywhere however struggling consequently – gamers are nonetheless dealing with lengthy queueing instances, however thankfully Amazon promises to sort those out soon by including additional servers. It’s the exact opposite to Amazon’s earlier sport Crucible, which was shut down for having too few players not lengthy after launch.

Entrepreneur and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos took to Twitter to reward the group at Amazon Sport Studios and New World’s launch, saying “after many failures and setbacks in gaming we now have successful” and “so pleased with the group for the persistence.”

Bezos went on to hyperlink to 2 articles – one from CNBC reporting the “smash hit” of New World, and one other from earlier this yr by Bloomberg that means that Amazon can’t make “a very good online game”. As Bezos notes, “the two articles are solely eight months aside”.

After many failures and setbacks in gaming we now have successful. So pleased with the group for the persistence. View setbacks as useful obstacles that drive studying. No matter your objectives are, don’t quit irrespective of how laborious it will get. @playnewworld (1/2) https://t.co/LK0VUdCSS9

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) October 1, 2021

It’s good news for the New World group and Amazon as a sport developer, but it surely have to be unhappy for the builders of Crucible – a sport that suffered from a bit of an identity problem and failed to draw gamers. New World also suffers from some flaws however it’s in a far healthy place right now by way of participant numbers.

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