Amazon Games postpones MMO game New World by a month to September 28

Amazon Games is delaying its upcoming MMO game New World by a month to September 28. The game was initially scheduled for August 31. The company says it wants to take extra time to process feedback on the closed beta.

The New World development team late on Twitter know that it will “make some improvements” following what players encountered in the Closed Beta, which ended on Monday. We are taking a few extra weeks to fix bugs, improve stability and finalize the game.

Amazon Games writes that it was “not an easy decision” to postpone the game again. “We know this isn’t the first time we’ve changed the release date in our pursuit of quality, and it can be disappointing to wait a little longer. But we want to make sure we deliver the best game possible upon release.”

This is the fourth time New World has been postponed. The game was announced in 2019 and Amazon reported in December of that year that the game would be released in May 2020, but the release date has been pushed back several times. For example, the developer stated in those previous postponements that it wanted to process feedback from the alpha version of the game and still work on content for the mmorpg’s end-game.

Amazon Studios held one last closed beta between July 20 and August 2, which was well played. According to Amazon, more than a million people have played the test version, totaling more than 16 million hours of playtime. The beta also had some technical issues, including a notable issue that caused some players’ RTX 3090 video cards to burn out while playing the game. The developer of New World released a patch within 24 hours that limited the frame rate in the menus and would therefore solve these crashes. It concerned at least 30 RTX 3090 GPUs from EVGA that burned out, all of which will be replaced by the manufacturer.