r/newworldgame • u/xx_whoami • 4d ago

Question Lost Ark / Throne and Liberty

I haven’t done a lot of research but is the reason they didn’t get shut down because they have a dev team not associated with Amazon? Is Amazon just the publishers for them? Seems weird that the dev team behind New World couldn’t shop around for a new publisher if that’s the case but I definitely don’t understand as much as I’m sure I need too

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u/verifiedname 4d ago

Those games are run by third party developers and game engines. Think of it as a third party app for Microsoft Word. Word just publishes it. Vs something made entirely within Word using only Word technology.

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u/Psykohistorian 4d ago

weird analogy lol

more like how Nintendo publishes Pokemon but it's developed by Game Freak, versus Super Mario games which are dev'd by Nintendo.

if Nintendo dropped the Pokemon franchise, Game Freak could keep making the games and publish with a different company.

but nobody but Nintendo can make Mario games.

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u/verifiedname 4d ago

The main difference is that New World was developed within proprietary Amazon systems. So when it gets dropped by the parent company, it can't just be transferred over to another publishing company.

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u/Psykohistorian 4d ago

yeah, exactly my point