New World goes offline on 31 January 2027, and the shop closed first
New World: Aeternum is switched off on 31 January 2027, and Amazon's own notice sets out the whole wind-down rather than just the ending. The game was delisted on 15 January 2026, and in-game purchases stopped on 20 July 2026. The last season stays running until the lights go out.
The full timeline
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| 15 January 2026 | Delisted, no longer purchasable on any platform |
| 20 July 2026 | Marks of Fortune and all other in-game purchases stop |
| Through to the end | Nighthaven season extended, world bosses and bonus weeks continue |
| Through to the end | No new content, no further server merges, bugs and performance still monitored |
| 31 January 2027 | Servers taken offline on all platforms, permanently |
Owners can still download and reinstall until the shutdown. Refunds for Marks of Fortune are not available, and Amazon points anyone who bought the game recently at the storefront they bought it from.
Our take: what it means for players
This is close to the best version of a bad announcement, and the one part we would argue with is the refund line.
Start with what Amazon got right, because it is more than most. A year of notice. A shutdown date named in advance rather than trickled out. Purchases switched off six months before the end, so nobody spends money on a world with weeks left. The final season extended rather than cut short, and world bosses and bonus weeks left running so the game still has a heartbeat while it winds down. Compare that with the shutdowns that give thirty days and stop the events immediately.
Now the refund. Marks of Fortune are a purchased currency, and any balance a player is holding on 31 January 2027 buys nothing, ever. Amazon closed the shop in July, which proves it understands the problem exists, and then declined to refund the balances that closure stranded. Currency sold for real money and extinguished by the seller's own decision should come back to the person who paid for it. That is not a technicality, it is the whole argument against premium currencies: they convert money into something the publisher can end.
The wider point is one we made about the Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark handovers, and it lands harder here. A game with no developer left has an announced end date; a game handed to its developer does not. Those are genuinely different outcomes and it is worth keeping them apart.
What's next
Nothing else is dated. The shutdown sits on the sunset tracker with the day we last checked it against Amazon's own notice, alongside the two handovers Amazon announced on 12 August 2026.
Common questions
When do New World servers shut down?
31 January 2027. Amazon says the game is taken offline from all platforms on that date and will no longer be accessible anywhere afterwards. Anyone who already owns it can keep playing and reinstalling until then.
Can I still buy Marks of Fortune in New World?
No. Amazon stopped all in-game purchases on 20 July 2026, and says refunds are not available for Marks of Fortune already bought. The game itself was delisted on 15 January 2026.
Is there any more New World content before the shutdown?
No new content and no further server merges. Amazon extended the Nighthaven season to run until the servers go offline, and says world bosses and bonus weeks continue until the end while it monitors bugs and performance.
Written by 0hp from the publisher's own announcement, linked above, and every specific in it was checked against that page by a second pass before it published. Independent, and not affiliated with the publisher. Dates are announced or labelled as estimates. How this site is written, and how to correct it.
