I’ve got good experience of doing things other people didn’t want to do. The reason we made an MMO is because everyone went away from it. I don’t want to use the word ‘old,’ but things are also coming back. “There are years no one uses a piano, and then all of a sudden the piano’s back. “The music industry is much older, but it also comes in circles, you know,” says Hartmann. And it’s taking cues from the musical world. Things couldn’t be more different for New World, meanwhile it’s a game that’s had its teething pains, sure, but it represents everything Hartmann thinks Amazon Games can do well. Many people had the same idea at the same time.”
The decision had already been taken, and also when, there was no Fortnite. It’s exactly the wrong thing we did there. “Don’t go and do what everyone else does because everyone else went for battle royale shooters, because there was Fortnite, there was PUBG. “That’s one of the lessons out of Crucible,” says Hartmann. For Hartmann, this doomed 12-month dance between release and testing was a valuable lesson. In June 2020, it got pulled back into closed beta. Amazon’s Crucible was released in May 2020. Or what’s behind you, when it comes to Crucible. “It’s more like, ‘oh my god, I’m glad it works’ but ‘oh my god, what’s next for us?’” “I’ve had some hits and I’ve had some failures and you get – over the years – you get very humble if something works,” says Hartmann. In spite of this, and with 25 years of development under his belt, Hartmann – with credits on just about everything – is feeling humble. For its first week, New World was the top title on Steam and, at the time of writing, it’s the fifth most-played game of all time on the platform by concurrent users. And then… nothing.Įventually – after a few false starts – Amazon has come good with New World, and for Amazon’s vice president of games studios, Christoph Hartmann, the success feels good.
It made a supergroup of developers, and the world’s eyes were trained on the studio. READ MORE: Yes, I’m still playing Animal Crossing New Horizons – here’s whyĪmazon’s first big announcement that it was barrelling into the games indstry had all of the right stuff: the megacompany brought in Clint Hocking ( Splinter Cell), Kim Swift ( Portal), and even Eric Nylund (best known for several Halo novels and writing the first Gears of War game).Ever since it announced its intention to move from mobile and Facebook games into more traditional triple-A releases back in 2014, there was a sense of mystery around its first big release. Amazon has had a rocky ride in video games.
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