'New World: Aeternum' May Be Saved By Rust's Creative Director Alistair McFarlane
Image Source: IGN
Amazon, the company that likes to dip its hand into everything, waded into the video game world about a decade ago. The titan the company is surely figured that throwing money at something would instill enough confidence to help it produce games and compete with the other publishers and devs in the video game sphere.
That hasn’t turned out to be the case.
When Amazon seemed to get serious about game development, it announced three titles in 2016 to release on PC: Breakaway, Crucible, and New World. Breakaway was cancelled, Crucible took 6 years to develop, and after returning to closed beta after one month available for download, it was announced that it would cease to be developed four months after that. The only one of those three to survive was New World, even though it too had to undergo a massive overhaul and is now titled New World: Aeternum.
However, New World is now slated to be taken offline on January 31, 2027.
Not if Alistair McFarlane has anything to say about it.
The director of Rust, an open world sandbox survival game, and COO of Facepunch Studios, made a public offer to pay $25 million. The offer was made on X with Amazon Games Studios tagged. He followed up the post with another that said “Games should never die.”
How likely this is to happen is yet to be seen. McFarlane commented when asked about it that if it were to be, he would empower players by making servers publicly hostable (meaning the game continues service on servers paid for by players). As long as the community that enjoys the game wishes and can afford to keep the servers running, the game will live on.
RELATED:
Simon Collins-Laflamme, co-founder of the game Hytale, commented to McFarlane that if he needs advice on reviving dead games, to let him know. Collins-Laflamme is referring to how he re-purchased the game after it was taken down, and the game is apparently thriving.
This is the latest in a growing movement to preserve video games and open server hosting to allow fans to continue the games they love, as the industry has gone increasingly into the digital-only space and relies on DRM to manage games.
CultureSlate: Made by humans, for humans
Please consider supporting our AI-free content via our Patreon page
READ NEXT:
Source: PC Games N
Latest News
Featured
