Amazon Game Studios is slowly running out of games to manage as the company continues downsizing its scope by cutting off MMOs altogether. Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark, to whom Amazon served as a publisher and helped bring them over to Western countries, will no longer be part of its portfolio. And neither will any other MMO, since its own, New World: Aeternum, is going offline on January 31st, 2027. As Polygon writes, Amazon Game Studios is cutting ties with Throne and Liberty by the end of this year’s fourth quarter, with publishers FirstSpark Games and NC to take over the game from one of America’s largest corporations. Things should all remain the same as they were for most players, though it appears players will have to opt into transferring their data so they could keep it. Lost Ark, on the other hand, will go back to its own developer, Smilegate, who is going to be publishing it overseas for the foreseeable future. Amazon stopped development on its first-party MMO, New World, last year. Image via Amazon Destructoid is headed to gamescom 2026. Subscribe to the Destructoid Checkpoint newsletter for daily live updates from the biggest gaming show outside the US. This move will not take place before early 2027, though, so Amazon will remain at the head of publishing for the time being. Unlike Throne and Liberty, players stand to lose messages, friend lists, blacklists, and other data but will not lose their characters and progression, unless they opt out of the deal to transfer data from Amazon to Smilegate. Once that game reverts to its original devs, Amazon will officially be out of the MMO business, since it should somewhat coincide with the shutdown of New World: Aeternum, Amazon’s first-party MMO that stopped active development in the fall of last year. With New World gone and its publishing deals cut, the company will have significantly reduced its scope and the number of games under its umbrella. So far, Amazon’s foray into video games hasn’t been met with a lot of success. In truth, it’s faring a lot better whenever it lets others handle its licenses, such as in the case of 007 First Light and Tomb Raider. I’m not a business executive, and the infinite mysteries of late-stage capitalism aren’t all too clear to me, but I think Amazon should just continue licensing out its endless IPs it now owns through mergers and acquisitions and give up on trying to micromanage its gaming branch. It hasn’t done well, and since past performance is the best indicator of future success, I’d say it won’t get too far down the line either. The post Amazon has just ghosted its MMOs in its latest move to give up on gaming appeared first on Destructoid.