Amazon confirm New World: Aeternum will go permanently offline next year and is being delisted

Back in October 2025, Amazon announced that their MMO game New World would no longer see updates - and now they've confirmed the full shutdown.

In their original announcement, they said they were not sunsetting the game "at this time" but that wording of course left it quite open. At the time the purchase option on Steam vanished too, but it seems some still saw it. Now they've gone a step further and officially confirmed that the game will be fully shut down on January 31, 2027 and it will be delisted from stores today.

Cheekily, they will still allow people to purchase in-game currency until July 20th, and no refunds for anyone who does.

A real shame, even if you weren't a player it's just sad to see games completely vanish like this. Game preservation means nothing to some companies. It's a reminder that putting hours and hours into MMOs like it can just be ripped away from you with no chance to host a game yourself.