It's fitting then that New World in many ways feels like it originated from that particular period of gaming history. But back in the mid-to-late 2000s, new MMOs felt like they were a dime a dozen, with game publishers all looking for a piece of the massive pie that Blizzard had carved out for itself starting with vanilla World of Warcraft in 2004. In recent years, the MMO genre has largely been forgotten, with only new expansions for the biggest names in the genre to satisfy fans.
It's not everyday a new, big-budget MMORPG arrives, much less one developed by Amazon.