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Marvel's Avengers dearth of content and recently announced delays have left its live service running on fumes. Mike offers his thoughts on the game's difficult situation.
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not the whole playerbase , since u can play it outside steam but they lost 93% if im not mistaken ,of the playerbase
But you only get to do that when a genre is young. Once you have established competition, you have to actually be able to compete with said competition out the gate. And just having a big name IP isn't good enough by itself.
Steam multiplayer isn´t cross with other online platforms, so if it´ s bad on steam, imagine everywhere else.
This game is a pathetic failure no matter where you play
I say this because no matter what it is still the best super hero game on the market,WAY better than that Spiderman crap that recently sold an d yet here we are ,it gained a non popular vote so people are not playing.If on the flip side Tue Fue or Ninja were endorsing this game,millions would should up to play.
This sheds some light on how bad the gaming market is right now,quality of game no longer matters,offer something up financially and all of a sudden your crappy game is popular.
To put it in perspective,you couldn't pay me to play any other Hero game,not a chance in hell they are THAT bad,this game I could ponder some play time on my own but I am too busy with other games.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I witnessed the same thing with SOT,an awful release,pure garbage then DrD and his buddy showed up to play and all of a sudden SOT was popular .../sad.
Cohh Carnage is anotehr one,i was surprised to recently see him endorsing several games/apps it becomes more obvious than ever that you succeed through dirty methods.
This stems to an even bigger problem,devs now a days THRIVE on rehashing the same old game with part 2..3..4..5 etc etc,it is EASY for them to cash in on lazy rehashed work ,well future renditions of this game might now be on hold.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
It's the seventh best seller for the year so it wasn't a sales failure. but good luck to them in continuing to sell new heroes and MTX.
I'm very curious to see how much people complain about matchmaking when they just release Hawkeye and EVERYONE wants to matchmake with the same hero.
Crossplay could really help them but then the elephant in the room is those that get grouped with Spidey when they can't even play as him.
2013 Marvel Heroes Online - Released with details of all future plans including payment model, planned characters, number of yearly character releases, as much detail into the game's development that Gazillion was legally able to provide waaay before official release date. Sometimes in private tells or streams both Brevik & Doomsaw may have divulged too much info but they were honest people and wanted to be honest with their customers/fans.
Fast forward to 2020...
Marvel Avengers - Details of everything kept close to the chest until right before launch, no solid timeline for future characters, exclusives for certain platforms, content that's released is made known to public only when it's released, no info on future gameplay additions, completely clueless to what heroes/villains people actually want/lack of willingness to even communicate and find out...
@Wizardry - It's pretty clear why gaming companies were and still back streamers so much and that's to pick up the mess when they provide a less than satisfactory game experience. They just pull out that briefcase of cash and call Johnny Streamer whenever they need that extra boost. Who wouldn't accept that payola just for saying "this game is good" cause if they don't someone else sure as heck will.
Gawd I miss Marvel Heroes!
As a non-fan of superhero stuff (movies, games, comic books), actually I outgrew them when I was 12-13 and just stopped caring about them afterwards, this game looks really, really mediocre and bad. It's like they used minimal effort to create some generic game about superheroes and implemented a lot of microtransactions and expected to milk it because of people's love for superheroes. And I just can't see myself even giving it a try if it turned F2P (or had a free test period) one day.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
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Yeah I don't know about that. I've never watched a single streamer because I'm not a sheep that needs someone else to tell me what to play. I honestly don't know anyone over the age of 18 that really cares either what streamers think and the median gamer age is 35 so I think you are vastly overestimating the power of "streamers".
My biggest issue with the game was that the "main" character is laughable at best and I had no interested playing a game that centered around that character. If I could have just selected one of the real Avengers and played as them I may have tried it out, but the "i have giant hands" character was of absolutely zero interest to me and that's why I didn't buy the game and completely wrote it off when i learned that was the case. Had they made the game about a relatable Avenger I think they may have had a bit better luck.
So I think that they will A. Change their methods and make season passes, characters etc. purchasable, or B. Will stop investing in the game.
In case A. I’ll get my GOTY version for 30 bucks. In case B. the game will go on sale very soon and I’ll grab the regular version for 20.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
That said, every big new character is a potential new jumping in point. Anthem adding a random Javelin wouldn't have the same appeal as Avengers adding in Daredevil, Black Panther, or Wolverine.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer