Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO canned because “it just got very complicated”

Amazon was set to release a free-to-play MMO based on Tolkien’s Lord the Rings works sometime this year. However, in April 2021, the project was cancelled, with reports claiming a dispute with mega-games company Tencent was the catalyst for this decision.

Now, speaking to GameSpot, Amazon Games president Christoph Hartmann confirmed this was indeed the case.

“We had a deal with a Hong Kong-based company, Leyou; I think it would have been great to work with them. But they later got sold to Tencent and it just got very complicated,” Hartmann explained.

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