According to a Bloomberg news article released yesterday, it appears that contract negotiations between Amazon and China-based Leyou Tech (owned by Tencent) didn’t end well as both parties couldn’t reach an agreement. That means, since the project’s announcement in 2019, essentially nothing has moved since.

Amazon still has its upcoming New World MMORPG, which releases world wide this coming August.

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Is Crucible Region Blocked?

While it wasn’t mentioned in press releases and previews prior to today, the game is currently only available to download on Steam for players in North America. That means, folks in EU, Asia and other regions of the world are being intentionally left out from joining their NA allies in the head start. 

This is a huge oversight from Amazon, who failed to communicate this fact that opening access to other regions will be rolling out much later. This could potentially be an issue due to how the level up progression of your heroes work, as they take many completed matches in which you’ll require Essence as a resource to upgrade things. By the time the rest of the world gets in, NA players will be quite some ways ahead. This can be avoided if there are separate servers for matchmaking for the rest of the regions.

Will Crucible Be Playable In EU and Asia?

The short answer is yes. Amazon has posted on their website and on Twitter that they will be opening up the game for download in other regions.

The real question is, when will that happen. Soon is not going to cut it for many of its players, and one might feel let down by the studio for being omitted on launch day.

Remind Me: What is Crucible?

Crucible is a team-based action shooter driven by the choices you make. Pick a hunter and join a match: you’ll need to coordinate with your teammates, take advantage of new upgrades as you level up, and adapt to ever-changing battle conditions to emerge victorious. Each of the hunters has their own fighting style, but they all share a common goal: collecting Essence. Competition on the planet’s surface is fierce, and each hunter has a different approach to coming out ahead in any of the three game modes.

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Amazon is a retail monster with a value of 250 Billion dollars. They offer services and products in almost every possible field. However, lately they have increased their focus on gaming. As you can see in their job posts, there are currently 136 open positions for Amazon Game Studios. In the studio’s website, Amazon reveal their moto: “Amazon is all in on games.”. Because of that, I want to explain what Amazon are trying to accomplish.

Amazon claim that gaming has become the largest entertainment industry in thr world. Blizzard’s games have generated 43 billion hours of play time, compared to 45 billion hours of play time in Netflix. People are neglecting the traditional TV entertainment and moving on to different channels. Gaming is huge. Just think of the stat i have mentioned above. Netflix have a lot more users then Blizzard but Blizzard are generating almost the same interest. Therefore, Amazon want to put their eggs in the gaming basket. They understand that gaming is about to become even bigger.

Amazon are working on three fronts here.

1. Selling games on Twitch
2. Developing a game engine for developers
3. Increasing AWS usage.

As for the first front, we have explained it in details a week ago, here is a link to the article. Amazon have purchased Twitch for almost a billion dollar and now we understand why. Twitch is growing rapidly, it has 100 million users and 10 million active daily users. With the rise in popularity of e-Sports and online games streaming Twitch is going to be the social platform of the future.

Amazon Game Studio are trying to build game engines for game developers to use. For that mission they have recruited the top minds of the field with engineers who worked for Microsoft, Riot Games, Blizzard and more. The game engines will already be integrated with AWS (Amazon Web Service Platform) and Twitch. Hence, allowing game developers to cut costs on R&D and jump head straight to the market.

From my experience AWS are probably the best hosting provider in the world. They offer packages and usage rates that no other competitor can. A lot of game developer are already hosting their games on dedicated AWS servers. With the development of the game engine, the gaming developers would be able to concentrate on the game itself and not the technical aspect of how to build a game and how to host a game. Therefore, this is amazing news

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