Amazon Video games has announced that the MMO New World: Aeternum will go offline on the finish of January 2027. The announcement is not a complete shock, although, as some theorized this could be the case after the developer introduced that the MMO would get no extra new content material after the Nighthaven seasonal replace final 12 months. In October 2025, Amazon lower extra jobs at its gaming division that particularly impacted the MMO groups.
Aeternum’s closing day on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X|S is January 31, 2027. As of at the moment, January 15, the sport is being delisted. Everybody who has the sport can hold taking part in, and Amazon introduced that the Nighthaven occasion is being prolonged till the eventual shutdown.
“We wish to thank the gamers in your dedication and keenness. We’re grateful for the time spent crafting the world of Aeternum with you. Collectively we constructed one thing particular. Whereas we’re saddened to say goodbye, we’re honored that we had been in a position to share a lot with the neighborhood,” the developer wrote within the announcement.
New World launched in September 2021 for PC and got here to consoles in October 2024. The sport had a powerful begin, reaching a peak of greater than 900,000 concurrent customers. The sport’s playerbase on Steam ticked up with new updates, however has fallen all the way down to about 1,100 concurrent players on Steam.
Amazon additionally clarified that it’ll hold promoting microtransactions for New World till July 19, 2026, after which the Marks of Fortune forex might be faraway from sale, together with all different objects. Refunds won’t be offered to individuals who have a steadiness of Marks of Fortune.
Whereas New World won’t get any extra new content material, Amazon mentioned it should monitor the sport for “bugs and efficiency to make sure the sport runs easily as issues wind down.”
Amazon has struggled with video games in recent times. Amazon’s free-to-play shooter Crucible stalled and was ultimately canceled, whereas the corporate was making a Lord of the Rings MMO till a supposed contract dispute ended issues. Amazon additionally had a recreation within the works known as Breakaway that was canceled.
A report from Bloomberg documented an obvious sample of mismanagement at Amazon’s online game division. In 2021, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy pledged a dedication to gaming, however that was years in the past. The corporate is not abandoning video games altogether, after all, because it’s publishing Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Tomb Raider: Catalyst.
