Aeternum before it shuts down forever

New World: Aeternum can be turned off forever, but the director for Rust is trying to stop it with a multi-million dollar offer for Amazon. The Rust the director recently made the offer amid recent news about the MMORPG ending, and fans are hoping it might be enough to save New World: Aeternum.

Originally announced in 2016 and released in 2021, New World: Aeternum is an MMORPG produced by Amazon Games. The game didn't come to consoles until 2024, and even got a TV adaptation episode in Secret level series that same year, which had a large portion of the player base expecting the game to have a solid future ahead of it. But things started looking worrisome for the game when Amazon announced it was cutting jobs across Amazon Games. It didn't take long New World: Aeternums cancellation will be announced, with Amazon revealing that season 10 would mark the end of New World: Aeternum content and that the game would be completely shut down in 2027.

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Rust Director steps forward to save new world: Aeternum

Following the announcement that revealed the exact shutdown date of January 31, 2027, Alistair McFarlane, head of survival game developer Facepunch Studios Rusthas made an offer to Amazon in an attempt to save the game. He sent a tweet to Amazon Games offering to buy the game for $25 million, with a follow-up tweet saying “games should never die.” Alistair has yet to say whether Amazon has responded to the offer in any way, so for now, New World: Aeternums fate remains hanging in the balance.

In addition to the offer, McFarlane also suggested that instead of selling the game, Amazon should consider giving control of the title to the players by allowing public servers. He said that “a game will live forever in the hands of a dedicated community”, pointing to his own development studio and how it makes things. A number of players and fans have expressed their own hopes that the game can somehow be saved, expressing frustration with the situation and some sharing hesitation about ever playing another Amazon game for fear of this happening again.

Game suspensions are controversial

With the recent trend of layoffs and game development studios being axed altogether, a number of games have recently been shut down or had their releases canceled. For example, there was a stir when it was announced that MultiVersus would shut down just a year after its full release, not only taking the game completely offline but removing it, so new players can't try it at all. While it's obviously not financially viable for a company to host servers for a dead game forever, players have often asked for the ability to continue playing their favorites on private servers, or in an offline mode where possible.

Unfortunately, some games never even got the chance to reach gamers in recent years, with upcoming titles like EA's Black Panther game that axed, the Perfectly dark Reboot is scrapped, or Riot Games kills Hytale after it spent a decade in development. In most cases there is nothing to do about it, but McFarlane's chances to save New World: Aeternum may not be as far-fetched as it seems. In the case of Hytalethe developer managed to regain the rights to the game from Riot Games, and has since released Hytale to early access.

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New World: Aeternum It's also not the only game that has recently seen developers try to save it from a total shutdown. A former BioWare executive has proposed a plan to save Anthem by converting it into a single-player RPG, which they estimate would cost $10 million to make. At this time, it is not known about the efforts to save New world or Anthem will succeed, but players remain hopeful.