This week, as part of its big layoffs, an Amazon exec said that the company is halting a “significant” amount of its work on MMOs, and the changes appear to have led to the Lord of the Rings MMO the company was working on with Embracer being canceled.

“This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y’all would have loved it),” a former senior gameplay engineer for Amazon Games said on LinkedIn, according to Rock Paper Shotgun. (For me, when I try to see the post, LinkedIn shows a message that says “this post cannot be displayed.”)

Amazon and Embracer didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. As of this writing, the LOTR game is still listed on the Amazon Games website.

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