Amazon Games has postponed its upcoming mmo game New World by a month until 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.
New World’s development team lets on Twitter know it’s “going to make some improvements” based on what players encountered in the closed beta, which ended on Monday. “We’re taking a few extra weeks to fix bugs, improve stability and finish the game,” the developer said.
Amazon Games said 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 do want to make sure we deliver the best possible game upon release.”
This is the fourth time New World has been delayed. 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. The developer stated in those previous postponements, for example, that it wanted to process feedback from the alpha version of the game and still wanted to work on content for the end-game of the mmorpg.
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, which together accounted for more than 16 million hours of playtime. The beta version also suffered from 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 would limit the framerate in the menus and thus fix these crashes. It concerned at least 30 burned out RTX 3090 GPUs from EVGA, all of which are being replaced by the manufacturer.