Amazon is once again delaying New World. The company now plans to release its upcoming MMO, which was slated to come out this spring after its previous delay, on August 31st, 2021. Since pushing back the title in July, Game Director Scot Lane said Amazon Game Studios “identified a few very compelling features that just wouldn’t make” the release timeframe the developer announced last year. The team believes those features are "transformative," and so it’s taking the extra time it needs to make sure they’re ready for launch. In the meantime, it plans to continue alpha testing the game, with an open beta scheduled to start on July 20th.

That additional development time has so far, according to Amazon's latest New World development update, resulted in improvements to crafting and combat, as well as increased quest, weapon, and armour variety. Fishing has also been added, the map has been expanded to include the new Reekwater region, and work has been done to increase the amount of mid-game and end-game content.

In the post today, New World’s developer said that “with this extra time we’ll be able to add these substantial improvements while polishing and fine tuning the whole game before we open Aeternum’s shores to the world.” The developer plans to continue its alpha testing and expand to European servers on March 20th. A closed beta is planned for July 20th.

It’s also safe to say there’s a lot of pressure on Amazon Game Studios to deliver a title that’s both a commercial and critical success. New World’s previous delay came one week after Amazon took the unusual step of rolling back the availability of its first AAA title, hero-based shooter Crucible. Three months later, it announced it was stopping development on the game. Despite those setbacks, incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told employees he was committed to the studio. “Some businesses take off in the first year, and others take many years,” he said. “Though we haven’t consistently succeeded yet in Amazon Game Studios, I believe we will if we hang in there.”

"We’ve been hard at work on compelling end-game features we believe are important to include at launch. These features won’t be ready for the Spring timeframe that we had communicated," Amazon explained in a blog post. "With this extra time we’ll be able to add these substantial improvements while polishing and fine tuning the whole game before we open Aeternum’s shores to the world."

A few additional beta details can be found in Amazon's blog post, and for more insight into the troubles plaguing Amazon's early forays into the world of video games - which also saw its hero shooter Crucible cancelled less than five months after launch - it's well worth checking out a recent report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.

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