Amazon is reportedly spending nearly $500 million a year on its games development division, but despite having all the money in the world they have been struggling to produce a successful title.
They aren't making games for players to enjoy. That's the biggest problem. All their releases so far have been uninteresting, copycat stuff that isn't worth spending time on.
Another problem is that they didn't really bother marketing their games at all. ANYONE saw any ads for Crucible? Heck, I saw more ads for Battlerite than I did Crucible...that says a lot. And the only reason I've heard of New World is because I follow MMO news hoping to find a good one.
It’s because amazon doesn’t care about good games, just profits. They do market research and see what people like then make a knock off of other popular games and wonder why people don’t like it.
I feel like the time my girlfriend cut her hair. I found her beautiful beforehand, and somehow that blinded me from the changes. I see no difference in the editing style, but the videos are amazing as always 😂
It wasn't that bad tbh, it was just « eh, alright it's kinda cool » but nothing to keep me coming regularly. A week or two after it's release me and some friends wanted to play it and already couldn't find a match so yeah. It wasn't awful but putting so much money just to have an « okay » game isn't satisfying
There were so many problems with Crucible, Even the name of the game was problematic. Ask any serious gamer what they think of when they hear the word Crucible. Any FPS gamer will immediately say Destiny as Crucible was the name of its PvP mode. This plus the genres they were chasing were so oversaturated that Amazon had a hard time defining exactly what Crucible was about.
@@typhir5911 Not to mention that the gameplay itself didn't even work when the modes themselves occasionally did. Ajonah, for example, had her grappling hook ability. Compare ANY grappling hook ability in like, any game on the planet, and it's usually fast, fluid, and intuitive. Ajonah's hook was LUDICROUSLY clunky. Felt like swinging through syrup. I can appreciate it being used to swing, and being able to change the tether length, but in reality they should've made that movement way faster and simpler. Removing a player's options is sometimes a good thing if the options inhibit gameplay.
The gameplay looks 'ok' but honestly they should have just chosen to make it a hero shooter, with a more team based mode as an extra. That way it could actually gain some traction
Amazon and Google only got into Gaming because they knew Microsoft's xCloud will be the future in a couple decades and wanted a slice of that pie figuring they could do it too since they are the only two other companies capable of that kind of that level of cloud infrastructure. Nobody had any actual passion for games though so it's failed miserably. Obviously Microsoft is driven by money too as it's still a company, but they have a shit load of employees that do genuinely care about delivering to consumers (and have plenty of experience in the industry) hence why they see so much success.
Soulless work environments creates soulless games. Infrastructure and sales might be brought from a listless heart but art can never come from an uncaring source, and good games are nothing but art.
"Buff armored dude with big weapon" was such a revolutionary concept when Blizzard invented it in 2016 that everybody just had to jump on the bandwagon. All jokes aside, that game was totally ripping on overwatch.
@@nate2946 yeah I unsubcribed from them. Honestly out of all these kind of channels I think Akshon is easily the best, I have no complaints overall. Always good subjects, the voice overs are perfect, I love the fact that there's no facecam, it gives their voices more weight imo and even for someone like me for which english is not his mother language, they are easily understandable. It's just the best. Also their Overwatch content is top notch, unbeatable. Nobody is doing something as good as they are.
It's sad because crucible was kinda fun, it was heading in the right direction, but it was too late by that point and no one wanted to play it. I played it for a while right before the shut down.
Videos like this are gonna be funny in a couple years when Amazon releases a barely decent game and then pays every single streamer, influencer and youtube channel to shill it endlessly.
I'll always hold something against Amazon for buying Double Helix during Killer Instinct's development. Iron Galaxy did a great job with the game after, but I really liked where DH started, and would've liked to seen where they took the game from there.
Sounds like standard corporate mismanagement and incompetence. All you can expect when you put some grubby techbro or business major at the head of something they have no idea about.
Bruh why does that one guy from Breakaway looks *EXACTLY* like Reinhardt. They legit have the exact same design and weapon animation. He even swings his harmer vertically onto the ground that one time, like an Earthshatter.
New World launched strong but has since seen its playercount drop to below 20k average, which is horrendous for an MMO. Looks like Amazon Games has another dud on its hands, thank goodness.
The sad part is that all the games from Amazon have decent bones to build on but where just so mismanaged. It's clear that Amazon's corporate data and interests pushed development. Breakaway was not put on Steam because it would cost Amazon money. When it could have been a really fun alternative game in the shooter heavy landscape, similar to Rocket League. Crucible could have been a great hero shooter with a tighter focus on its actual gameplay and moba gametype, but instead they put a battle royal on the back because it was the hip thing. Then they shoved it out the door way too early. Yeah both of them had issues, but there are some decent ideas to start from. Its a shame.
Great video! It's interesting to hear that Crucible likely failed due to inherent problems with hero design and hostile development environments. I always assumed it was a lack of focus and that maybe if all the development effort had been put into one of their three wildly different gamemodes it would've been more successful. Part of me respected some of the "kitchen-sink" game design: Introduce a bunch of concepts and game modes and then follow up with development on what players are actually interested in. Team Fortress 2 did something to a smaller degree by starting a bunch of different map types and basing future maps on whichever maps were popular. But of course, if you can't get your heroes to synergize and feel like a team then really what's the point of even having a team vs. team mode? It sounds like an inherent problem with the framework of the game, which probably could've been caught and corrected if higher-ups actually listened to their developers.
Great video as always. I honestly think your Overwatch videos are the best of all Overwatch content creators and it's always great to see this channel talking about other subjects. Honestly an underrated channel that needs more recognition because the work put into this is wonderful. Keep going guys !!
I played Crucible for a bit! It was fun, but the map was so huge you could lose the game without even seeing the enemy once. And because people felt like they can do anything on their own, they would tend to run into groups of enemies and die very quickly. As a 3rd Person Hero Shooter, there's nothing like it and it felt really cool to chase people down in a world that felt alive, vs in a typical moba where pve camps span in the same location every few min, this game had wildlife everywhere. The map was just too big and some characters were also op like the alexa voiced bot. I do remember they had a massssive pvp mode when it first launched that got me hitting up all my friends to download and play. Was like a moba but up to 32 players i think, so intense and for the weeks that mode was around, i got my fill.
Holy cow how are you guys so small? Amazing quality content like 1-2 times a week, easy to follow, and they’re perfect to just listen to while doing homework or something. It’s a crime.
With paragon probably coming back soon, it could be a good video idea to see it’s timeline from where it began, when it got shutdown and maybe the potential comeback of the game
it's scary to think that (given all of the resources at their disposal) if they ever do get it right, that game will be almost guaranteed to be massive
Breakaway is still to this day my favorite game I've ever played, and this hurt a bit more than it should have. Gosh I miss it. Great community, show matches with the devs, great stuff on the horizon only to never see the light of day. As a sports fan gaming nerd, it hit that rocket league itch from a moba angle just perfectly.
Bro I couldnt agree more, I wish they just left the servers open or something cause it will always hold a special place in my heart. I still have it downloaded to this day, I cant bring myself to delete it.
Crucible was really the most painful video game fail ever for me. The game had SO MUCH potential, like it was insane how much you could see what the game could be like ! Contrary to popular beliefs, there were so many unique features and elements, and even though the characters were all "self sufficient" you still needed your team for the big teamfights and every character has its own thing ! There even was a counter system that worked pretty well where some heroes are much better against some than others and the ability enhancement was also really cool. The main issue was just that the higher ups pushed the game to be released when it was not ready, and you could clearly see that because for the first month or so the devs fixed way more bugs than I had ever seen in a video game, they were listening and they knew what their game needed : they always said that the voice chat was a feature they wanted to implemant but didn't have time to, they always said that they wanted to bring more diversity in the mobs depending on where on the map you are, and so many things like that. It's really tragic to see how, just because someone high up didn't want to wait, the devs had to see their project, which you could really see they loved so much, be dragged in the mud: they just could not meet the time constraints. I still hope that the game comes back someday, but more polished and released when the devs actually think it is ready to be launched. At the very least, Crucible became an example of what not to do : push a release when a game isn't ready, and I am so glad that New World has been delayed so much because it's much better to wait for another year than to push something unfinished.
Yes exactly, if i could say just two words to summarize the game it would be "great potential", i played the beta of the game and you could clearly see that the game was not good the way it was, but you could also see the big potential it had, if the team could still work in that game im pretty sure it could be a really awesome game
The thing that aggravates me the most about all of it, is that Crucible not only did it have potential, but it could've filled in a space in the gaming sphere that we currently are lacking in. Many people saw it, and thought it would be the game to pick up where Gigantic dropped the mantle. Gigantic was a great game, but not enough people knew about it, and due to money issues it died. Crucible could've picked up the mantle, it just needed more time to cook...but Amazon took it out the oven, people said it was aight but still a little doughy, and instead of putting it back in the oven, they just throw it in the trash and start cooking a new dish.
i remember playing crucible and having a bit of a fun time after that i went on the games discord and met the community and i was suprised it was very friendly people were nice to eachother it was like a dream come true when the game was anounced it was going to get closed i was actualy quite sad but all things had to end
I believe the journalist's last name is pronounced Schry-er (with the same intonation as "higher"), and the word is amalgamation (amalgam + ation). I know it comes off as nitpicky, but I really like this channel and want to to see it reach more viewers, and making sure the video has all the polish it can goes a long way. Keep up the good work!
This whole video could have been summed up on a sigle word: PROFIT. Amazon never wanted to make games, only the profit from games, so inevitably they would fail. Games are art, and you cant just do art for a profit, that wil never work.
The reason they fail is because they don't stick with their games. When a game isn't instantly successful they just drop it. They could have had a story like no man's sky when the devs grit their teeth and fixed the game, but that would take money and time and their determination to see it through is as short lived as my attention span. I actually quite enjoyed crucible and was excited when they explained how they are going to fix it, but then they just deleted it. It's money first with them and i won't trust another game of theirs again
BreakAway was downright fire. They did a super light closed beta release, got light reception on the sponsored twitch streams, and then dumped it for seemingly no reason. I'd be playing that game off and on for years if they released it.
It's too obvious. They're chasing money and trends here. They're not trying to make good games, but online games that a mass audience will play and spend money on (WoW, Fortnite, Overwatch). They should have created some solid single player experience games before even thinking about dwelling into arena based, MMO, hero shooter, blah blah. So many of those type of games fail, only a few float to the top. Not all games can be Fortnite.
Performance Improvement Plan. They put their employees in stack ranking and then target them to a hunger game every single year, so they are trying to survive the plan with paperwork and quit before they get fired. How will you get them to work toward a good game if you run them like this? Wall Streets think it is better to place 10 $1 bet than 1 $10 bet but games do not work that way.
i would love for you guys to cover New World some more when the next batch of infos drops. Given the changes they made, people are suspecting Amazon to take a safe route instead of innovating the genre.
Amazon is reportedly spending nearly $500 million a year on its games development division, but despite having all the money in the world they have been struggling to produce a successful title.
They aren't making games for players to enjoy.
That's the biggest problem.
All their releases so far have been uninteresting, copycat stuff that isn't worth spending time on.
Unfortunately, all the money in the world can't buy creativity and taste.
Another problem is that they didn't really bother marketing their games at all.
ANYONE saw any ads for Crucible?
Heck, I saw more ads for Battlerite than I did Crucible...that says a lot.
And the only reason I've heard of New World is because I follow MMO news hoping to find a good one.
Amazon had good developers but let a corporate clown lead the game dev department
They might just be doing that for tax right offs
Amazon makes games?
Lmao same
That's exactly what I thought
Jeff bezos was trying to make a esports
Apparently so
mood lol
It’s because amazon doesn’t care about good games, just profits. They do market research and see what people like then make a knock off of other popular games and wonder why people don’t like it.
While I agree, that description suits Hi-Rez more than Amazon
@@primalinea682 too true
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@@moralesmarcos68 tbf it has started going on it's own way now
Tencent: lol
New editing style, pretty cool
Glad you like it!
@@Akshonesports I didn't notice the change but I liked the editing. Interesting whoosh sound effect with the transitions.
I feel like the time my girlfriend cut her hair. I found her beautiful beforehand, and somehow that blinded me from the changes. I see no difference in the editing style, but the videos are amazing as always 😂
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Crucible was such a bad game that they had to "unrelease" it
It wasn't that bad tbh, it was just « eh, alright it's kinda cool » but nothing to keep me coming regularly. A week or two after it's release me and some friends wanted to play it and already couldn't find a match so yeah. It wasn't awful but putting so much money just to have an « okay » game isn't satisfying
Can't stand all the generic online shooters being pooped out. All just chasing the "online community", more specifically their parents' wallets.
There were so many problems with Crucible, Even the name of the game was problematic. Ask any serious gamer what they think of when they hear the word Crucible. Any FPS gamer will immediately say Destiny as Crucible was the name of its PvP mode. This plus the genres they were chasing were so oversaturated that Amazon had a hard time defining exactly what Crucible was about.
@@typhir5911 Not to mention that the gameplay itself didn't even work when the modes themselves occasionally did. Ajonah, for example, had her grappling hook ability. Compare ANY grappling hook ability in like, any game on the planet, and it's usually fast, fluid, and intuitive. Ajonah's hook was LUDICROUSLY clunky. Felt like swinging through syrup. I can appreciate it being used to swing, and being able to change the tether length, but in reality they should've made that movement way faster and simpler. Removing a player's options is sometimes a good thing if the options inhibit gameplay.
The gameplay looks 'ok' but honestly they should have just chosen to make it a hero shooter, with a more team based mode as an extra. That way it could actually gain some traction
It all comes down to the fact that they didn't take the chance by hiring me, and now they gotta live with those consequences
True
Who tf are you?
@@calmgoodfire4662 Chase Trent lol.
@@calmgoodfire4662 Chase Trent, the guy Amazon refused to hire.
@@calmgoodfire4662 its the guy that amazon didnt hire
“If it’s not fun, why bother?”
My favorite quote in the gaming world.
I hate how the game ideas they had could actually be fun, but poor execution brought it down.
Gatekeeping
Reggie is a smart man
Yet Dota exists
You can't just make a game. There should be an idea behind it.
Their idea is “let’s make a game that makes us money”
Not really a strong enough idea to succeed
Tell that to EA, they make tons of bad games every single year only to make money.
@@fossforever512 It's like asking for writing advice and getting "Write stuff that people will read" in response.
Amazon and Google only got into Gaming because they knew Microsoft's xCloud will be the future in a couple decades and wanted a slice of that pie figuring they could do it too since they are the only two other companies capable of that kind of that level of cloud infrastructure. Nobody had any actual passion for games though so it's failed miserably. Obviously Microsoft is driven by money too as it's still a company, but they have a shit load of employees that do genuinely care about delivering to consumers (and have plenty of experience in the industry) hence why they see so much success.
Nice. Good comment
good take
Microsoft is smart because it acquires actual game studios and lets those studios make games ... as themselves.
And their CEO isn't bill gates, i mean, LOOK AT BILL GATES, HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HIM? and he's also a pretty smart guy I guess
New World just failed
"Why Can't Amazon Make A Good Video Game?" => cause they only think about money
Apparently they hired a guy called Mike Frazzini to lead everything, but he has almost 0 experience making video games.
they throw money at their problems; they don't understand that game development is an art form, just like television, film, etc.
It worked when we let other people sell products on our platform, surely it'll work when we do it ourselves. Anyway, how do you work this thing?
Soulless work environments creates soulless games. Infrastructure and sales might be brought from a listless heart but art can never come from an uncaring source, and good games are nothing but art.
4:25 is literally just Reinhardt
"Buff armored dude with big weapon" was such a revolutionary concept when Blizzard invented it in 2016 that everybody just had to jump on the bandwagon. All jokes aside, that game was totally ripping on overwatch.
@@WannaComment2 I agree, but he does look like Rein lol
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT TOO
My friend's dad worked on Crucible and I kind of feel bad for the guy.
But hey, he probably gets a lot of money working at Amazon
@@lyrisio but still there is no game, there is no creation, if he really is passionate for game, he will probably think that he did nothing
@@khawarparvez7679 just thinking positive brah
Getting money from working at Amazon hahahahaha good joke
When players actually say “please delay the game more”, you know it’s going downhill
Another example of profit-minded businesses failing. I love to see it.
i guess it just feels a little too corporate but then again ea does earn a lot of money
EA doesnt make good games anymore, the companies they own make good games, DICE, Respawn, etc
Ea has a better experience and management
@@amuro9624 ever heard of EA sports?
@@tcideh4929 yes what's your point?
@@amuro9624 oof that's a critical hit
This channel gonna be HUGE on day. Just wait. You'll see...
Constant great looking videos with constant great content.
Thanks for the support!
@@Akshonesports Anytime
This channel deserves more hype than theScore tbh. the other one feels like i’m watching SJW twitch drama
@@nate2946 yeah I unsubcribed from them. Honestly out of all these kind of channels I think Akshon is easily the best, I have no complaints overall. Always good subjects, the voice overs are perfect, I love the fact that there's no facecam, it gives their voices more weight imo and even for someone like me for which english is not his mother language, they are easily understandable. It's just the best.
Also their Overwatch content is top notch, unbeatable. Nobody is doing something as good as they are.
It's sad because crucible was kinda fun, it was heading in the right direction, but it was too late by that point and no one wanted to play it. I played it for a while right before the shut down.
Videos like this are gonna be funny in a couple years when Amazon releases a barely decent game and then pays every single streamer, influencer and youtube channel to shill it endlessly.
They just need to make a delivery service simulator
*cough* Death Stranding *cough*
@@Ezichim lmaooo
They don’t care about them/ don’t invest as much as they should in them
Damn I'm really liking these fancy edits. Makes the video so polished and all documentary-like lol
Thanks!
This video reminded me that it’s been about a year since I’ve bought anything on Amazon. Feels good.
Their store is terribly designed. There are regional alternatives much better than Amazon.
What about now?
I'll always hold something against Amazon for buying Double Helix during Killer Instinct's development. Iron Galaxy did a great job with the game after, but I really liked where DH started, and would've liked to seen where they took the game from there.
Sounds like standard corporate mismanagement and incompetence. All you can expect when you put some grubby techbro or business major at the head of something they have no idea about.
Anyone notice that at 4:18 it's just straight up Reinhardt from Overwatch?
It's Reinhardt wearing the Lich King's helmet. Talk about lazy character design.
The editing was really great, man. Keep up the good work. 👍
I won't lie, The New World looks stunning so far
lmao it looks like the generic fantasy trash you see on screens in CBS police shows
Been here since 50k you're on the comeup
Thank you so much for supporting us! We want to keep on making more content and growing to new heights.
They tried to make an mmo about colonialism where you play as European colonists lmao
And?
@@jihokim788 missed history class?
I mean, there is a damn show about it called Hernán, so it wouldn´t be bad as if.
@@SpeedKing.. I don't see whats so funny.
@@jihokim788 when did I laugh?
Yall know Lost Ark, that new Mmo thats popping up everywhere? Amazon Game Studios made that too.
Bruh why does that one guy from Breakaway looks *EXACTLY* like Reinhardt. They legit have the exact same design and weapon animation. He even swings his harmer vertically onto the ground that one time, like an Earthshatter.
Magic is everything?
What
They have experience in failure. And instead of learning from it, they just find another way to fail.
How many times we have to teach this lesson Amazon.
New World launched strong but has since seen its playercount drop to below 20k average, which is horrendous for an MMO. Looks like Amazon Games has another dud on its hands, thank goodness.
I'll be honest Akshon, I subbed for Overwatch League highlights - but this is the type of content I LOVE on RUclips, so this is fab!
The sad part is that all the games from Amazon have decent bones to build on but where just so mismanaged. It's clear that Amazon's corporate data and interests pushed development. Breakaway was not put on Steam because it would cost Amazon money. When it could have been a really fun alternative game in the shooter heavy landscape, similar to Rocket League. Crucible could have been a great hero shooter with a tighter focus on its actual gameplay and moba gametype, but instead they put a battle royal on the back because it was the hip thing. Then they shoved it out the door way too early. Yeah both of them had issues, but there are some decent ideas to start from. Its a shame.
Great video! It's interesting to hear that Crucible likely failed due to inherent problems with hero design and hostile development environments. I always assumed it was a lack of focus and that maybe if all the development effort had been put into one of their three wildly different gamemodes it would've been more successful.
Part of me respected some of the "kitchen-sink" game design: Introduce a bunch of concepts and game modes and then follow up with development on what players are actually interested in. Team Fortress 2 did something to a smaller degree by starting a bunch of different map types and basing future maps on whichever maps were popular. But of course, if you can't get your heroes to synergize and feel like a team then really what's the point of even having a team vs. team mode? It sounds like an inherent problem with the framework of the game, which probably could've been caught and corrected if higher-ups actually listened to their developers.
"How do you do, fellow AAA game devs?"
This video was so well done. I learned so much - I wish some of these games were more successful.
New Worlds Sounds perfect for me, lets see how it turns out
It's a good thing Amazon doesn't know Gacha Games.
They won't pay the artist for it to be enough item to obtain.
Great video as always. I honestly think your Overwatch videos are the best of all Overwatch content creators and it's always great to see this channel talking about other subjects. Honestly an underrated channel that needs more recognition because the work put into this is wonderful. Keep going guys !!
Seriously, how do you guys make such high quality videos in such a short span. its honestly amazing
I played Crucible for a bit! It was fun, but the map was so huge you could lose the game without even seeing the enemy once. And because people felt like they can do anything on their own, they would tend to run into groups of enemies and die very quickly. As a 3rd Person Hero Shooter, there's nothing like it and it felt really cool to chase people down in a world that felt alive, vs in a typical moba where pve camps span in the same location every few min, this game had wildlife everywhere. The map was just too big and some characters were also op like the alexa voiced bot. I do remember they had a massssive pvp mode when it first launched that got me hitting up all my friends to download and play. Was like a moba but up to 32 players i think, so intense and for the weeks that mode was around, i got my fill.
Holy cow how are you guys so small? Amazing quality content like 1-2 times a week, easy to follow, and they’re perfect to just listen to while doing homework or something. It’s a crime.
With paragon probably coming back soon, it could be a good video idea to see it’s timeline from where it began, when it got shutdown and maybe the potential comeback of the game
I really hope the Lord of the Rings MMO doesn’t flop like it’s other games, it would be so nice to have a good LOTR mmo other than LOTRO
Great job as always
it's scary to think that (given all of the resources at their disposal) if they ever do get it right, that game will be almost guaranteed to be massive
So that why it never happens like whenever there's is a plan for a massive multi media franchise it almost (minus like 3 exceptions) never happens.
Breakaway is still to this day my favorite game I've ever played, and this hurt a bit more than it should have. Gosh I miss it. Great community, show matches with the devs, great stuff on the horizon only to never see the light of day. As a sports fan gaming nerd, it hit that rocket league itch from a moba angle just perfectly.
ouch. im sorry for your loss.
Bro I couldnt agree more, I wish they just left the servers open or something cause it will always hold a special place in my heart. I still have it downloaded to this day, I cant bring myself to delete it.
Yo this editing is cleaner than soap itself
love watching giant companies like Amazon and Google lose money trying to buy their way into gaming
Hey from the future, New World tumbled and fell into a ditch unfortunately
Has been looking forwards to videos lately. The quality is astonishing!
Crucible was really the most painful video game fail ever for me. The game had SO MUCH potential, like it was insane how much you could see what the game could be like ! Contrary to popular beliefs, there were so many unique features and elements, and even though the characters were all "self sufficient" you still needed your team for the big teamfights and every character has its own thing ! There even was a counter system that worked pretty well where some heroes are much better against some than others and the ability enhancement was also really cool. The main issue was just that the higher ups pushed the game to be released when it was not ready, and you could clearly see that because for the first month or so the devs fixed way more bugs than I had ever seen in a video game, they were listening and they knew what their game needed : they always said that the voice chat was a feature they wanted to implemant but didn't have time to, they always said that they wanted to bring more diversity in the mobs depending on where on the map you are, and so many things like that.
It's really tragic to see how, just because someone high up didn't want to wait, the devs had to see their project, which you could really see they loved so much, be dragged in the mud: they just could not meet the time constraints. I still hope that the game comes back someday, but more polished and released when the devs actually think it is ready to be launched.
At the very least, Crucible became an example of what not to do : push a release when a game isn't ready, and I am so glad that New World has been delayed so much because it's much better to wait for another year than to push something unfinished.
Yes exactly, if i could say just two words to summarize the game it would be "great potential", i played the beta of the game and you could clearly see that the game was not good the way it was, but you could also see the big potential it had, if the team could still work in that game im pretty sure it could be a really awesome game
The thing that aggravates me the most about all of it, is that Crucible not only did it have potential, but it could've filled in a space in the gaming sphere that we currently are lacking in. Many people saw it, and thought it would be the game to pick up where Gigantic dropped the mantle. Gigantic was a great game, but not enough people knew about it, and due to money issues it died.
Crucible could've picked up the mantle, it just needed more time to cook...but Amazon took it out the oven, people said it was aight but still a little doughy, and instead of putting it back in the oven, they just throw it in the trash and start cooking a new dish.
Amazon: _we want some of that sweet, sweet gamer money_
Also Amazon: _this is too hard, nevermind_
if you look at the recent updates on New World, it's actually shaping up to be pretty damn sick.
lol
you are the greatest esports documentary channel on youtube. i wish this would be how normal sports would be portrayed as well.
I'm not buying a game from Jeff Bezos, plain and simple.
i remember playing crucible and having a bit of a fun time after that i went on the games discord and met the community and i was suprised it was very friendly people were nice to eachother it was like a dream come true when the game was anounced it was going to get closed i was actualy quite sad but all things had to end
Great production quality on this video, nice work
Actually, I'm hearing of breakaway for the first fucking time. Very good marketing they did there.
The game looks actually pretty fucking awesome.
This hits harder now that Amazon announced its abandoning the policy of making games after work hours claiming ownership of them.
This is the first I've heard of Crucible in a while, it's a shame it fell off.
This is such an underrated channel. Keep up the good work
I won't shed a tear for Amazon doesn't rake in the big bucks but I feel bad for the devs
It's crazy they let their Prime Video exclusive studios have so much freedom but not their game studios
I believe the journalist's last name is pronounced Schry-er (with the same intonation as "higher"), and the word is amalgamation (amalgam + ation).
I know it comes off as nitpicky, but I really like this channel and want to to see it reach more viewers, and making sure the video has all the polish it can goes a long way.
Keep up the good work!
This whole video could have been summed up on a sigle word: PROFIT. Amazon never wanted to make games, only the profit from games, so inevitably they would fail. Games are art, and you cant just do art for a profit, that wil never work.
Love the editing. Keep up the great content
Good video! Thanks
Who remembers their best game, Tofu fury?
come on New world. as a ESo player im so rooting for you!!!!!
The first telltale sign that Amazon would fail at making games is they treated it as product first rather than entertainment first.
Always love these quality videos, keep up the great work
The failed games kinda looked fun
Like there was something there but they got in their own way
I miss breakaway so much, i got to play in the alpha and it was such a promising game, I hope they someday continue development of this amazing game.
The reason they fail is because they don't stick with their games. When a game isn't instantly successful they just drop it. They could have had a story like no man's sky when the devs grit their teeth and fixed the game, but that would take money and time and their determination to see it through is as short lived as my attention span. I actually quite enjoyed crucible and was excited when they explained how they are going to fix it, but then they just deleted it. It's money first with them and i won't trust another game of theirs again
BreakAway was downright fire. They did a super light closed beta release, got light reception on the sponsored twitch streams, and then dumped it for seemingly no reason. I'd be playing that game off and on for years if they released it.
It's too obvious. They're chasing money and trends here. They're not trying to make good games, but online games that a mass audience will play and spend money on (WoW, Fortnite, Overwatch). They should have created some solid single player experience games before even thinking about dwelling into arena based, MMO, hero shooter, blah blah. So many of those type of games fail, only a few float to the top. Not all games can be Fortnite.
The editing feels so fresh! Love it
Thank you 🙌
2:11 Why Richard Hilleman's photo is shaking? lmao
Imagine the work environment, the process, the big corpo culture and you have your answer
Well... When they ask for $500.00 usd to test their newest "not a game yet"... I wonder fucking why...
the irony with amazon having the best servers in the gaming landscape and crucibl being released with issues regarding them is so ironic
They have no artistic vision, like what are those character designs? those graphics? this gameplay? it's all so BLAND.
I played crucible when it launched on steam. Played one match and then stopped playing because it took forever to find a match.
Performance Improvement Plan. They put their employees in stack ranking and then target them to a hunger game every single year, so they are trying to survive the plan with paperwork and quit before they get fired. How will you get them to work toward a good game if you run them like this? Wall Streets think it is better to place 10 $1 bet than 1 $10 bet but games do not work that way.
I wanted crucible to do well because bug was so cute 😭😭😭
"nicheness of the genre" says that while its the biggest multiplayer gamemode of minecraft on a single server
your edition skills are pure art!
i would love for you guys to cover New World some more when the next batch of infos drops. Given the changes they made, people are suspecting Amazon to take a safe route instead of innovating the genre.
The repetition of the cadence of this dude's voice makes me want to jab an ice pick in my ear.
Its because they decided to make games as a service, instead of just coming out with a good single player game.
they don't take risks
don't care about art
they just want streamable games
they just want money
New World was meant to be sandbox survival type MMO. I'm actually glad they changed it to regular MMORPG
Imagine if they just gave a few teams a big budget and went "go crazy, make something". they'd actually make something decent