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Marvel Heroes Online/Omega is shutting down 31/12
Seelinnikoi
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Welp, Marvel Heroes Online / Omega is shutting down next month.
RIP. 
I personally have hundreds of hours on it and put some serious dough on the game. It was fun while it lasted.
Official sources:
https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/330038/official-statement-from-gazillion
https://marvelheroes.com/news/news-articles/marvel-heroes-omega-shutting-down
https://www.facebook.com/marvelheroes/
Other articles about this:
https://www.polygon.com/2017/11/15/16656948/marvel-heroes-shuts-down-gazillion-entertainment
https://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-marvel-heroes-1820475273
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/11/16/marvel-heroes-shutting-down-on-december-31/
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/11/15/marvel-heroes-shut-down-by-disney
https://www.vg247.com/2017/11/16/marvel-heroes-is-shutting-down/
http://www.pcgamer.com/marvel-heroes-is-closing-down/
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I am hoping someone else will make another good action RPG marvel game. But if not, i will just do something else.
http://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/comment/7247337/#Comment_7247337
Its funny that you have all those links from all those sites except this one lol
Because if it's "just" about a disgusting d-bag who liked to sexually harass employees, then the "lesson" is pretty damn terrible.
"If I report this POS for the crap he's pulling, ALL OF US will lose our jobs, and everything we created will be gone."
Thanks, Mickey.
I think it had not been profitable enough for some time, the CEO allegations simply made them wrap it up earlier.
Only silver lining here, maybe we will get a proper Marvel MMO now.
While it wasn't making enough money, the company didn't shut down because of it. It was Disney that pulled the string here not Gazillion.
https://www.mmorpg.com/marvel-heroes-omega/news/marvel-and-disney-cut-ties-with-gazillion-entertainment-mho-to-shut-down-1000046406
https://www.mmorpg.com/marvel-heroes-omega/news/updated-statement-from-the-mho-team-operations-to-cease-on-december-31st-1000046413
https://www.mmorpg.com/marvel-heroes-omega/news/refund-requests-piling-up-gazillion-remains-silent-1000046448
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Boo
One of the few games my whole family would play together.
I do suspect Disney had a hand in this. And potential changes coming as far as Marvel/Disney in the not too distant future with the bid to buy 21st Century media departments (Everything but news and sports) which gives them back the X-Men. Something games like this should have.
That said, I'm hopeful for a large budget Marvel game in the future.
The fact of the matter is, that isn't why the licenses were pulled.
It was pulled the week of a huge console update with heavy monetization plans, the work was already done, the release was already planned to coincide with the Thor: Ragnarok release.
No official announcement from Gazillion or Disney explains why this was pulled.
It also happened to coincide with several allegations of sexual harassment from the CEO, and also a shift of priorities to several new Marvel Games slated to release in early 2018.
Not to mention Gazillion had just signed the new contract not but 4 months prior for a 5 year extension... no, it's not just that they weren't making enough money. They were making far less money when it was only the PC version.
Star Wars is a big IP. Huge, actually. When SWG was shut down, it wasn't due to them not making enough money, although that was one of the issues, but it ceased future development because BioWare acquired the license for The Old Republic.
For huge IPs like Star Wars or Marvel being profitable is not enough. The game needs to make more money than giving the license to another game would make.
The question is in the contract that was signed nary a few months prior. Had Marvel worried that Gazillion wouldn't hit particular monetary benchmarks, they wouldn't have extended the license for as long as they did. especially after such low performance on the PC version leading up to the console release which undoubtedly garnered an influx of money.
No, the contract was likely absolved for other reasons aside from monetary benchmarks, and I wouldn't put it past Disney to have an opt out clause regarding the sexual harassment allegations the CEO was accused of, especially if he refused to leave the company.
But unfortunately we may never know. Gazillion would still be in business today had the license not have been pulled. If it was purely based around money and only money, they would have never renewed the contract, as Gazillion was doing much worse before.
Case in point, several months back when Gazillion went to loot boxes, they posted the purchase rate of them, which was quite a lot more than they expected. The new monetization scheme they setup was actually working in comparison to the PC version, hence why the Omega plans involved rolling out the Console changes to PC in the near future. Money wise, they were doing better now than they likely had been for months, yet Marvel still renewed the license.. so.. :shrug: it's a strange outcome.
The long-term profit of console port might be up for fair debate, but we clearly didn't get to see those projections before the signed and dotted contract was actually voided. This doesn't happen based on finances, particularly not finances that have yet to be fully realized beyond what had proven to be, in the immediate future, at least as good as projected if not much better. Considering legal fees, contract penalties, etc., that Disney would be ready to litigate through, their actions were extreme and justified only by the threat Gazillion's CEO posed to Disney's name, particularly given the extent of his predatory behavior and the current focus of sexual harrasment in socio-political discourse.
Were Gazillion able to distance themselves from CEbrO, the game would very likely continue for at least another year before their console income inevitably waned (once players had the opportunity to see what bullshit they were being fed about the game from its makers) and THEN the game would have been moved towards its sunset. But the CEO is not only difficult to remove in the best of circumstances, he was also placed in the seat of power by the bank that was funding Gazillion in the first place. For all intents and purposes, Disney's contract wasn't with Gazillion, it was with ROTH Capital Partners given how much Gazillion used Marvel Heroes as assets/collateral for their many MANY millions in bank loans (all public knowledge and google-able). There was no way for Gazillion to distance itself from their CEO, especially given that said-CEO also hired more people just like him in similar seats of power to solidify his power base (COO and others among those accused of the same behavior, one of which was fired for that behavior by Brevik then RE-HIRED once Von Dohrmann took over), and so Disney's only choice was to terminate the contract.
You're not entirely wrong, it is about money, but not the money the game was or wasn't making; rather, the money that would be lost due to the hit their company (Disney) and its IP (Marvel) would take by canoodling with someone very likely to be in dragged into a courtroom soon for an ass-load of criminal, sexual charges.
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