Anyone have info on the Amazon Games?

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  1. Ironjaw
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    https://games.amazon.com/games

    Looks like Amazon is going the Blizzard route and making one of everything.

    Anyone have any info on these? Breakaway and New World sound interesting to me
     
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    Haven't heard any information about this ~ other than the fact Amazon was hiring devs recently. I imagine they will be double AA games that we might see one of next year? I can't imagine them having a product so fast if the studio is new.
     
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    Yeah I think they are trying to cover a lot of bases at once for sure, unless they use the same engine for everything. For better or worse I heard they have hired a bunch of arenanet guys
     
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    Wouldnt surprise me if they are using the same engine, Amazon bought CryEngine for a reason.
     
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    Yeah I would think so, still they have their fingers in a lot of pies at once
     
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    When you have a lot of money, it is smart to expand. Hence the Twitch buyout.
     
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    I dont know, how did all those Sony mmos work out?
     
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    Not bad considering they made EQ/EQ2/Planetside 1/Planetside 2/SW Galaxies. Which they likely made a return on their investment. Plus anytime you can make a studio and then proceed to sell it to another company later - you likely made some amount of capital. Certainly not Blizzard amount but hey - I doubt anyone is going to touch Blizzard in a while.

    Now if only they were around in the kickstarter age. Smedley could have milked the pockets of eager people even sooner.
     
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    Lol seriously. NFC how these games keep getting $10k backers.... although wasnt Landmark basically a kickstarter game?
     
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    Basically was; non-public mind you so we couldn't see any totals. I don't know how many people bought in mind you since the MMO crowd was more interested in EQ Next rather than landmark. Landmark was more of a EQ minecraft thing.
     
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    Yeah as soon as I saw Landmark come out where they tried to basically crowdsource the world building for EQ Next I was like "either this will be awesome of vaporware"

    At least Blizzard took their Titan material and morphed into Overwatch which has become a certified hit