Amazon ends embarrassing gaming lean period

Amazon ends embarrassing gaming lean period. Films, music, streaming - Amazon can actually point to success in all areas. The online retailer is even represented in the gaming sector with the Twitch platform, but the development of its own video games has been the black sheep in the investment family for the internet giant since 2012. With the online role-playing game "New World", the in-house production studio is now experiencing a boom for the first time and senses the huge potential of the games market. The genre of massive multiplayer online games (MMO) is not reinventing "New World". The PC title for around 40 euros is set on the fictional island of Aeternum in the 17th century. Every player becomes shipwrecked and washed ashore with nothing. From here you have to explore the new world and take territories. The central resource is the coveted stone Azoth, which at the same time ensures that the flora and fauna are transformed into monsters and the dead into zombies - a good dose of fantasy. The online players then come together in the world to complete certain tasks (quests) together or solo and to improve their own character as in a role-playing game in his skills. These are all MMO basics, but the game's combat system is a little more responsive. Timing properly in hitting, dodging, and blocking is critical in fights. There are also big battles against other online gamblers. The hype surrounding the game is enormous. On the release day at the end of September, the influx was so great that only half of the approximately 600,000 players on the Steam platform came to one of the servers. For the rest of them, that meant pulling a virtual waiting number, some of which were in the five-digit range. That meant waiting up to eight hours. But those who have made it usually draw a positive conclusion. There are hardly any lags, the areas are not flooded with other online players and the quests can be completed in the game without any stumbling blocks. For an MMO game, this is probably the best possible start, apart from the waiting time on the servers, which has now been fixed.