This would he a great end scenerio: FFXIV turned out so good.
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Amazon's Crucible Flopped So Hard It's Being Un-Released (Kotaku)
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They've genuinely built the worlds most impressive consumer goods supply chain in terms of speed and breadth of offerings (one) and they've built the best backend system for lots of small-but-too-big-for-ebay sellers to list goods on a major marketplace with a very low barrier to entry (but its still terrible, its just better then all of the other, more terrible options, so a half). I don't think anything else they've really done is that impressive (Most of the Twitch infrastructure was there when they bought it, they've just added new monetization mechanisms from what I've seen, although to be fair, I haven't interacted with AWS much, so maybe two and a half)
But its not surprising to me that they've been unable to make this video game stuff work. It requires actual consumer facing engagement that they just don't have much experience with, and that they don't seem to have bothered to build much experience with. Amazon software products, including their website, are often confusingly marketed and presented and kind of weird to use, and I think a lot of that is philosophical. They don't seem to care much about experiences, and they're trying to enter a business space that is all about experience, from the emotional engagement of the marketing and PR cycle to the actual act of playing the game
Amazon seems to think they are a studio of Nintendo or Sony Caliber that can announce a project then basically say nothing ever again until release. Crucible came out of nowhere with no sort of hyping even on twitch or anything.
New World is probably going to be the same though at least that will have a pre release Beta for people to see the game
New World is probably going to be the same though at least that will have a pre release Beta for people to see the game
For the love of god, stop making f2p battle Royale/hero shooter games or whatever the fuck crucible was supposed to be.
Well I'm hoping for a FFXIV style comeback, but I don't really believe in it at all. There was no hype or marketing, it looked really boring and the character design, while being super colorful, looked extremely bland. Even if I hate myself for saying that, 'cause art is hard.
The fact this thread is only at 2 pages kinda cements how little mindshare the game had.
In all actuality, they might just be able to turn it around ala FF14. It'll be a tall order, but would be cool to see.
In all actuality, they might just be able to turn it around ala FF14. It'll be a tall order, but would be cool to see.
to be fair looks like there may be some "there" there with New World. and imo the survival genre is more of a cash-in cottage industry than BR/hero shooters, so if that remotely piques my interest ... eh who knows
Nobody hyped up Crucible. I barely even remember hype for Artifact.
Huh? Isn't this like the first or second non-mobile game from Amazon?
I played Crucible a bit, but I can't name one unique feature of the game... It's not a bad game per se, but it's not even a novel combination of existing concepts, like for example Valorant is. Similar games have not done that well either (e.g. The Cycle). Seems like the devs have their work cut out for them.
FFXIV may've been bad, but at least people were talking about how bad it was.
Who's talking about crucible?
The operative word being "can". Amazon could make great games but has apparently chosen not to.
Five years ago: "Amazon and Google entering the gaming sphere spells trouble for current console makers."
2020:
2020:
The assets are part of the reason why people don't care about this game. You can assemble far more visually interesting characters/environments from the stock 3D models...
To be fair MMO releases tend to generate a lot of noise, and I expect the Amazon mmo will also do when it releases, good or bad.
But yeah there was no hype about Crucible at all so people aren't even disapointed it's not good, they simply don't care. I wasn't interested to begin with but I didn't even know it released. Maybe they were counting on E3 to promote the game a bunch right before it released but well, yeah.
They should turn it into a coop hero shooter. You know, what the first trailer made it look like it was gonna be in the first place.
Damn, less than two months released and it's being delisted on Steam, new players will need to sign up to get a closed beta invite to this game:
arstechnica.com
Amazon’s latest PC game to be delisted from Steam after less than two months
Crucible will still be live for its tiny playerbase of
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Sums up Amazon's efforts on this one.