Amazon's Breakaway no longer in active development
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https://www.reddit.com/r/breakaway/comments/88e4ck/update_on_breakaways_development_status/
This was one of the 3 games they announced more than a year ago. A sports - hero shooter hybrid. The other two have yet to be properly unveiled. The survival MMO New World and the 3rd person 12 player Battle Royale Crucible.
That sucks, this was the only one of the three projects that sounded interesting. I love me some bloodsports.
This is very odd to me, considering that there was this faux tournament gameplay that came out almost two years ago now, and it looked very close to be finished even back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcAf4kXaMYA
I wonder what went so wrong internally to lead to this all being scrapped so late in development. Hopefully if they don't pick it back up, they'll publically release the ingame content/source code in the way that Epic Games did with Paragon recently. Would be a massive shame for all that talent to go to waste for nothing.
It probably wasn't doing well enough. It was in closed alpha, then it had open weekends but just didn't get the numbers. Similarly to Digital's Extremes the Amazing Eternals. It didn't help that despite them saying in the announcement trailer they want to approach competitive play and esports organically, to see if the community has any interest in those at all, they pushed those things from the beginning. Without a big, dedicated audience that's going to be hard.
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