Report: Amazon to Conduct Layoffs to Gaming Division

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Amazon Corporation is set to announce a significant round of layoffs today, according to sources from Reuters and Bloomberg. As reported, up to 30,000 employees will lose their jobs.
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Reports indicate that the layoffs will affect several key Amazon divisions, including the gaming sector. However, the exact number of staff to be cut from the gaming teams is unknown.
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Is Luna going to be shutdown? I launched Fallout 3 on a smart tv of mine through the Luna app. It was cool for a couple minutes. That whole GOG integration didn't bring over as much of my library as I would have wanted. Is this due to their MMO, I have no idea cause I didn't play it. Aren't they making a LOTR MMO too?
 
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jm89 said:
30,000 :messenger_neutral:

My mind can't comprehand that many people being laid off.
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That undoubtedly also applies to Jeff Bezos.

""A single fired employee is a tragedy; a million firings is a statistic."
 
NO!

All hopes of my Galadriel GirlBoss game where MiddleEarth becomes an open world to teach the filthy masses about identity politics will never happen now!

I need my bloated collect-athon! I need my heavy handed messaging!

This is why we can't have good things.
 
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I don't get what 30,000 people were doing in that division. Three people approving free games are enough for me.

Oh, 30000 includes multiple divisions, sorry.
 
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30k layoffs, some of which include gaming. Key distinction.

Curious how much if any AWS is impacted. I get they just had a large scale outage, but I've loved my customer experience with AWS. Far better support than Microsoft with their Azure team and I'd hate to see any decline in service.
 
Mortisfacio said:
30k layoffs, some of which include gaming. Key distinction.

Curious how much if any AWS is impacted. I get they just had a large scale outage, but I've loved my customer experience with AWS. Far better support than Microsoft with their Azure team and I'd hate to see any decline in service.
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AWS already conducted several layoffs on their support teams. They are still better vs Azure because the latter is just terrible, but overall experience has gotten worse.

I have been working on both for years so I am intimately familiar with support issues unfortunately. AWS is still better but not sure what will happen with layoffs.

The whole thing is extremely frustrating considering profitability of these Corpos.
 
30,000??? Geez

EDIT: I had to lookup how many employees they have in total. 1.5 million with 350K corporate employees!
 
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Sorcerer said:
I seem to remember they came out with New Worlds to some acclaim, and it died off rather quickly. I believe they even developed their own engine for it
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It was on Lumberyard, which wasn't built for New Worlds, per se - it was basically Amazon's ploy to get game developers to get users on-board with AGS. At the time the engine was launching, the pitch was that it was free to use and didn't have the fees that Unreal had, but the catch was that you had to build your game on AWS (so basically, Amazon only made money if the game was online-focused). But then Unreal dropped their fees, and Amazon was left with a half-baked engine that developers couldn't actually ship a game on due to missing functionality. I don't remember if The New World actually pivoted away from Lumberyard, but a lot of people on the dev team wanted to do that because it was such a mess to build in.
 
Danny Dudekisser said:
It was on Lumberyard, which wasn't built for New Worlds, per se - it was basically Amazon's ploy to get game developers to get users on-board with AGS. At the time the engine was launching, the pitch was that it was free to use and didn't have the fees that Unreal had, but the catch was that you had to build your game on AWS (so basically, Amazon only made money if the game was online-focused). But then Unreal dropped their fees, and Amazon was left with a half-baked engine that developers couldn't actually ship a game on due to missing functionality. I don't remember if The New World actually pivoted away from Lumberyard, but a lot of people on the dev team wanted to do that because it was such a mess to build in.
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That explains a lot, probably why Amazon has never gained ground in gaming. Appreciate the response.
 
Not shocked. From 2019 to 2021 they went from 800k employees to 1.6 million. A correction was bound to happen post covid. I bet that these executives absolutely LOVE that people are blaming this completely on AI instead of incompetent leadership though.
 
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What a great loss.

They localised Lost Ark and made some random characters black also censored the game. I personally would never buy or play a game made or localised by amazon ever. Let the modern audiences buy their games.
 
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I don't remember if The New World actually pivoted away from Lumberyard, but a lot of people on the dev team wanted to do that because it was such a mess to build in.
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It was a branch of Lumberyard.
Which really is less newsworthy than it sounds when you consider every Ubi game is a custom engine branch of some sort rather than 'mainline' (eg. Watchdogs is a version of Dunia, as is FarCry 3-5 and Dunia was a Ubi rewrite of FarCry engine).
At any rate Amazon gave all the interesting tech away in O3DE (and they still actively develop it), which also deleted 95% of the code that was acquired from Crytek/DoubleHelix.
 
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New World might be cooked if these updates are true

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Yeah, New World is done. I don't know if they announced it officially, but the plan was to gut that team after the most recent expansion or season or whatever and call it a day. They've got a skeleton crew managing 3p publishing opportunities and, as far as I know, they basically dissolved the internal dev teams.
 
It's incredible how shit these ultra-wealth big tech corpos are at gaming (Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta...)
 
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They kinda are the first example of a big-ass company jumping into games to produce mostly service-based slop that fails (or gets cancelled before release).

Hopefully the lesson is learned for others.
 
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So, New Worlds is shutting down, apparently. Any news on Crystal Dynamics' new Tomb Raider? Big problem for CD if TR is canceled after Perfect Dark.
 
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