Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has praised the success of its recently released MMO Crucible – labelling them "failures and setbacks".
Amazon Game Studios' first MMO New World released earlier this week and has been an immediate success, which was shut down for having too few players not long after launch.
Entrepreneur and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos took to Twitter to praise the team at Amazon Game Studios and New World's release, saying "after many failures and setbacks in gaming we have a success" and "so proud of the team for the persistence."
Bezos went on to link to two articles – one from CNBC reporting the "smash hit" of New World, and another from earlier this year by Bloomberg that suggests that Amazon can't make "a good video game". As Bezos notes, "the two articles are only eight months apart".
https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1443924211282571264
It's excellent news for the New World team and Amazon as a game developer, but it must be sad for the developers of Crucible – a game that it's in a far healthy place right now in of player numbers.