New World: Aeternum (formerly just New World) launched four years ago, leaving a trail of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 GPUs in its wake , and the MMO has since grown to around 35,000 active daily players on Steam alone. Unfortunately for those players, that doesn't seem to be enough for Amazon Games, which just announced that "it is no longer sustainable to continue supporting the game with new content updates," indicating that the game would no longer receive any active development. The most recent update, Nighthaven, and the Season 10 content update will be the final update New World: Aeternum, but the game's servers will supposedly remain online "through 2026," indicating the potential complete shutdown of New World after the end of the same year.

It's not all bad news, though: seemingly in preparation for the game's gradual decommissioning, Amazon made the Rise of Angry Earth expansion free for PC players earlier in October. Curiously, Amazon will continue selling New World: Aeternum on all platforms "until further notice," and it will continue to be playable via Sony's PlayStation Plus subscription service. The studio has declined to provide refunds to those who recently purchased the game unaware of the imminent closure. Amazon has also clarified that it will continue to provide bug fixes and server maintenance for New World, presumably until, the game is taken offline completely, although the exact end date for support on that front is unclear. There are also no changes to the availability and use of premium in-game currency in New World: Aeternum.