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MMOFTW - Dave Brevik Leaves Gazillion - Marvel Heroes 2015
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MMOFTW - Dave Brevik Leaves Gazillion - Marvel Heroes 2015
MMOFTW this week is all about Bless' Korean Open Beta plans in KR, Black Desert's CBT2 changes, Chronicles of Elyria's life-span dev journal, Shards Online's player merchants, and Dave Brevik's departure from Marvel Heroes.
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Marvel Heroes has been on a downslide for a while and I'd say they are in full blown maintenance mode. Expect minor additions over the next year with less desirable heroes and costumes sold.
paying for lives makes permadeath pointless. Terrible pricing model.
Marvel Heroes has been on a downslide for a while and I'd say they are in full blown maintenance mode. Expect minor additions over the next year with less desirable heroes and costumes sold.
Actually Marvel Heroes has been steadily gaining players, it's never been easier to find groups for raids, hubs are full, ect.
Now as far as heroes goes noone knows who's coming this year just that there will not be 12.
The people leaving Gazillion is troubling but we won't know what's happening until it does.
Still games doing very well for them and has been for over a year now, remember most players use the client not Steam so don't go by those numbers.
One major update a year (which is massively behind schedule) isn't enough to keep players interested and their schedule for new characters is woefully inadequate. Do they add characters that are appearing in current movies? Maybe some from the several TV shows that are running? How about from current comic events or from a new series that has exploded in popularity?
I think anyone could name several characters that could be added to play up mass appeal and tie into current events, but instead this year has been populated by characters like.. Iceman, War Machine and Black Cat. Occasionally adding lesser known fan favourite characters is one thing, but it's been dominated by C-list characters that have little relevancy to anything going on and no one cares to come check them out. Even Iron Fist was added and we're at least a year before the Netflix series could potentially propel him to Daredevil levels of popularity. So why add him *now* instead of waiting to capitalise?
The management of this stuff is a mess and the game continues to try and appeal to the select few super hardcore players and no one else. Unless this 2016 update seriously revamps the game, I don't expect it'll be around for 2017.
Black Desert is being worked on for outside Asia so that's fine. No energy potions in the cash shop? That's better than what we get in Western cash shops. But only believe it when you don't see it.
Chronicles of Elyria has a unique revenue system, good to see and hope it works out as we need more than "F"2P as the inevitable option.
Dave Brevik: blah blah blah, blah blah blah. Who knows, he might do a real MMO this time?
Now we can actually go back to how it used to be and "old" mmo titles are all actually "current" mmo titles. There will be no more "oh that's old now".
RIP Orc Choppa
So by release, visually, at most it would be nearly a decade old with a few button and whistle upgrades. Not saying graphics make the game, or MMO, but in the age of BDO skyforge, FFIV and a lot of next gen MMOs and AAA ones at that, coming out in the next 1-3 years, I don't see it holding up well against other competition.
With such time in development, and so much unknown, it may redeem itself with upgrades visually and a vast amount of innovations and additions as a result of such a hold up and testing which may end as a positive result. But its looking like it may hinder it rather than help once it hits a decade...
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Wow - this Shards Online Video was way outdated - graphics are clearly better now. The Uaran map is not a really good showcase for what the game is today.
Aye, I need Derek to make us a new trailer that's quick and easy to use. Chop chop!
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I'm pretty close to returning to the game I think though as I really enjoy unlocking heroes just by playing and don't have the drive to continue playing Devilian or return to D3 with the new season.
FrodoFragins said:
paying for lives makes permadeath pointless. Terrible pricing model.
Marvel Heroes has been on a downslide for a while and I'd say they are in full blown maintenance mode. Expect minor additions over the next year with less desirable heroes and costumes sold.
Actually Marvel Heroes has been steadily gaining players, it's never been easier to find groups for raids, hubs are full, ect.
Now as far as heroes goes noone knows who's coming this year just that there will not be 12.
The people leaving Gazillion is troubling but we won't know what's happening until it does.
Still games doing very well for them and has been for over a year now, remember most players use the client not Steam so don't go by those numbers.
Marvel in fact HAS been on the decline, content has been delayed, nerfed or changed from what was promised, unbalanced heroes exist, the game has lost quality staff with replacements not even knowing what to do at this point. The game has pigeon holed itself and Brevik needs to take a big portion of the blame as he went for low hanging fruit/easy $$