Amazon’s Crucible is most likely the biggest flop of 2020. Crucible was a free to play sci-fi PvP shooter that came out in May 2020. In July 2020, after a disappointing launch, the team decided to move the game into closed beta. And yesterday, Amazon announced that it will discontinue the game’s development.
As Amazon stated:
“That evaluation led us to a difficult decision: we’ll be discontinuing development on Crucible. We very much appreciate the way that our fans have rallied around our efforts, and we’ve loved seeing your responses to the changes we’ve made over the last few months, but ultimately we didn’t see a healthy, sustainable future ahead of Crucible. We’ll be transitioning our team to focus on New World and other upcoming projects from Amazon Games.”
This is easily the biggest flop of 2020, surpassing everything we’ve seen so far. And, even though Marvel’s Avengers has disappointed a lot of gamers, it’s nowhere close to Crucible.
In the next few weeks Amazon will be hosting a final playtest and community celebration. After that point, the team will be disabling matchmaking, although players will still be able to play Crucible through the custom games feature until November 9th.
Lastly, Amazon is offering a full refund for any purchases made.
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haha, beautiful
hmm have i heard of this game? Nope.
From what i played of it Crucible felt like something thrown together in a few months using free assets.
Its honestly kinda surprising to see all these rough pet projects coming from such a large entity like Amazon.
Breakaway, The Grand Tour Game, Crucible…
next up: New World
We’ve reached an age of gaming, where you can be a rich af company, doing no prior research on your target market, and just throwing out whatever game sticks to the wall. Game doesn’t stick to the wall?, just make a few months back off some poor saps not doing research of their own.
This is why I’ve little faith in today’s PVP/F2P markets, as they are far, far too dime a dozen, far too safe played and the market in general is volatile.
what’s crucible? lmao. probably some online battle royale trash
Haven’t heard a single thing about this game. The name certainly doesn’t help.
Full refund? Thats honestly amazing.. But, we all know why they’re doing a full refund….
Why?
When will they learn that there are just far too many of these types of games already out there.
Aside from how utter dogs**t this game was, man, I sure love that service future, so we can have more events like this happen.
I can’t be trusted to tell myself when I’m done with a game, I need a corporation to tell me I’m done with a game.
What an exciting time to be alive!
I shop Amazon every day it seems and Ive never seen an advertisement for this game even once – anywhere.
Never even heard of it.
Same thing will happen to their new “MMO”
Many of f2p multiplayer games failed but some company didnt want to learn from other dev mistakes….
F*ck Amazon, f*ck bezos, cancer