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Lost Ark has begun its final Amazon merge down to just five total servers today
The western Lost Ark playerbase is in for some tumult over the next few months: Not only is Amazon exiting the publishing business and dispatching Lost Ark back to developer Smilegate, but the global version itself is undertaking another major server merge that will reduce the total count to just 5...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 576: Peering into the future of MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR 8.0, World of Warcraft Curse of Ula'tek, Amazon sending Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty home, Soul's Remnant, and quarterly financials for NCsoft, Nexon, Kakao, Pearl Abyss, and Roblox, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, SWG Legends, and Stars Reach, plus a...
MMO Week in Review: Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty are going home
This week’s big news is just a fresh way for Amazon to disappoint gamers: As we’ve long anticipated, the studio finally announced that it’s ending its publishing duties for Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty, sending them (and their playerbases) back to the waiting arms of their studios, Smilegate and...
Lost Ark & Throne and Liberty Publisher Exits the MMORPG Market
After recent cuts to their gaming division, Amazon Game Studios will be reverting their publishing rights back to popular MMORPGs.
Amazon to give live service operations of Lost Ark to Smilegate
Smilegate will also take over operations of Throne and Liberty in the West.
Amazon Will Soon Be Out Of The MMO Business Entirely
Amazon Game Studios looks to be getting out of the MMO business entirely, handing Western operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark back to their respective developers. In two blog posts, Amazon Game Studios outlined its plans to transition both games to their South Korean creators in the...
Amazon Further Abandons Gaming, Dropping MMOs Lost Ark & Throne And Liberty
Amazon Game Studios will no longer publish Lost Ark or Throne and Liberty as it shifts focus to games like Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.
Amazon to rescind its publisher role on Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty by early 2027
Amazon Games is returning the MMOs to their respective developers.
Amazon drops Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty
Both MMOs will continue to operate, but new publishers are taking over in the West.
Amazon are getting out of the MMO game, handing control of Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to developers, but it won't all be smooth for players
Smilegate, the developer of South Korean MMO Lost Ark will be taking control of the Western servers that were previously run by Amazon Game Studios. Likewise, FireSpark will be taking control of Throne and Liberty's servers. Though, the transition will cause some disruption and data loss for...
Amazon Game Studios gives Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty back to their studios to run, ending its MMO presence
Amazon Game Studios may have taken the last major step in its move away from MMO investment, after handing back its two existing MMOs to their studios. Lost Ark was released on PC in 2022, while Throne and Liberty was released on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC in 2024. Both games were published by...
Amazon Game Studios gives Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty back to their studios to run, ending its MMO presence
Amazon is handing over each game's operational duties to their developers
Amazon gives up on MMOs, hands Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to the original devs instead of shutting them down like New World
Big changes are coming to the MMOs Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark because Amazon's actually stepping away from handling them. In a welcome change from the norm for these kinds of announcements, it's been revealed the original devs will have more control over both projects going forward. The news...
Amazon gives up on MMOs, hands Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to the original devs instead of shutting them down like New World
The two MMOs will change hands in the coming months
Lost Ark’s The Bitter Cold update is live with a new extreme raid and a hat-wearing panda rickshaw
As of this morning, there are two big pieces of news for Lost Ark players. The first is that Amazon is unhooking its claws from the game and sending it back to Smilegate, which as we pointed out in our report this morning is not really a big surprise. Lost Ark players expected it was […]
Amazon will cease publishing Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty, sending them back to Smilegate and NCsoft
Nobody’s going to be surprised to hear any of this, least of all the people who’ve been watching Amazon lay off all the community teams here in the west following the maintenance moding of New World, but before America could even wake up today, Amazon announced that it’s pulling out of Throne and...
Amazon Game Studios Exits MMO Genre for Good After Several Years of Operating Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty
Amazon Game Studios is stepping away from direct operation of two of its biggest MMO investments in the West: Throne and Liberty will return to developer NC and its subsidiary FirstSpark Games in the fourth quarter of 2026, while Lost Ark will transition from Amazon to its original developer,...
Smilegate will rescue Lost Ark's western servers, as Amazon ditches support while retreating from MMO development
Amazon Game Studios has announced it will no longer support the Western game servers for massively-multiplayer online action role-playing game Lost Ark, from 2027 onwards. Read more
Lost Ark will merge 12 western servers down to five later this month
The next wave of Lost Ark merges are almost upon us. Last night, Amazon announced that North American servers and European servers are due for some ensquishening, though obviously not together. “Starting on August 26, we will be conducting a server merge in both NA East and EU Central,” the studio...
Indiana Jones returns with new series set after Raiders of the Lost Ark
Marvel Comics' The Sword of Pandemonium will take place after Raiders of the Lost Ark and is penned by Thor legend Jason Aaron.
Some Lost Ark player are facing an account issue so bad that Amazon told them to stay logged out
Apparently there’s something very wrong happening over in Lost Ark, as some player accounts are apparently having issues bad enough that Amazon Games is telling fans within the Discord to not touch the MMOARPG whatsoever. Reports of these problems first started cropping up this past Wednesday...
Lost Ark’s Summer of Extremes patch arrives today with Paradise Season 4 and raid update
So let me tell you about the summer of extremes we’re having here. So far it’s been a new multi-day heat record, thunderstorms that caused an emergency declaration in the city, and smoke courtesy of Canada. It’s real hot here, and… I’m being told that is not the type of extremes Lost Ark meant when...
Lost Ark Summer Update: Aegir Extreme Mode and Solo Mode Adjustments
Lost Ark's latest update brings Aegir Extreme, Solo Mode additions and Paradise Season 4.
PSA: Lost Ark is purging guilds with no active members over the last year
Amazon’s latest Lost Ark team update taketh away without giving much, I’m afraid, because the studio is about to purge all your abandoned guilds and guild names. “As part of ongoing server health improvements, we will be removing inactive guilds from the game beginning the week of July 22,” the...
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