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Marvel's Avengers Dev Acknowledges Lackluster Launch, Outlines Pandemic Hurdles | MMORPG.com
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Marvel's Avengers Dev Acknowledges Lackluster Launch, Outlines Pandemic Hurdles | MMORPG.com
Most people that have played Marvel's Avengers at launch, are probably sitting around, twiddling their thumbs while they await an iota of new content worth playing to hit the game. In a few lengthy developer responses on reddit by war zone director Phil Therien, details emerged about what is being worked on, and some challenges the team faced
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So true but it doesnt stop with them. Bad customer service? Covid, delays in anything? Covid. Prices high? Covid! Its sad
What they should be saying is, we have a lack of content, no clear direction and a plan of rehashing content and pretending its new! Lets face it when a 6yo is complaining that everything is the same over and over.. something is wrong!
I don't think it's bullcrap. What's bullcrap is that Square Enix announce a launch date long before they should have. I'm not saying the devs didn't mess up as well, but honestly that team wasn't experienced in a GAAS. Marvel also is very hands on with their games and definitely can cause developers issues.
In the end it's up to the publisher to make the right decision in terms of releasing a game. Releasing it when they did guaranteed there would be tons of issues. Publishers usually do this when they don't have faith in the game to delay it any further and incur more development costs.
Square should know better after their experiences with FF14. I don't think they can save this game without adding tons of new enemy/boss types and zones. New heroes won't fix anything until that is done.
They won't be for long.
Those with your hands up, I am sorry for the pressure and stress you are under. I am sorry for all the increased stress the community has put on you over the last few months.
The game indisputably wasn't fully cooked on release. That sucks. What sucks worse is this toxic, entitled community thinks that stomping their feet and waving their fists at people instead of even making an effort to understand what they have gone and are still going through, is the real tragedy.
Those of you having nothing better to do than bitch and whine, consider yourselves lucky you have that luxury.
The problem is that they tried to market this as something other than that, and it’s left a lot of players feeling cheated and robbed.
Without those toxic, entitled customers (the ones who actually expect a quality product for their money), those industry members wouldn't have an industry to begin with. They wouldn't have jobs. So yes, it is in their best interests to put out a great product, without excuses. Worst case, delay the game a bit longer. That's the norm now, anyway, and is far preferable to releasing an unfinished product. First impressions and all that.
But to counter your point, the ones complaining about content... you should be thanking them.
Not because they are whining, or complaining, but they are the ones watching the game. Wanting to come back. Wanting to play.
Everyone has gone through this pandemic, no industry is safe, and whether you're dealing with it in california along with wildfires, or louisiana and dealing with it in conjunction with hurricanes, or in minnesota dealing with a pandemic and snowstorms, we're all there.
What is inexcusable is knowing the state the game was in... and launching it anyway.
Cyberpunk pushed back. World of Warcraft pushed their game back. Most games pushed back releases in some form.
Crystal Dynamics charged ahead with a half baked end game, and an expectation that the players will geek so hard over Avengers being playable they will look past it.
96% drop in players and 50 million in losses is a tough lesson to learn. Those whining and wanting more content should be praised for even keeping track of the game and wanting to return.
Yeah, holy shit, this is brutal.
https://steamcharts.com/app/997070#7d
Sounds like someone who shouldn't have a job. Un-employment in CA should cover your rent for about... 36 hours
Welcome to the forums!
I am sure you realise we are not the official forum for MA, and I doubt the MA staff all come on here every morning. So I see where you are coming from but I doubt we are sending much stress their way.
It is unusual to attack the entire forum community in a first post, but we want passionate and opinionated, so look forward to hearing more from you.
Except it was not made by Crystal Dynamics but Eidos-Montréal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Tomb_Raider
I also was wondering what the heck they do with the series after 1 and 2 were good. And after reading wikipedia it all made clear ^_^...
we TOLD em this wont work out, they decided to not care. THAT was the only reason this game failed as hard as it did.
we bloody told ya you need loot with actual visual changes to make a looter shooter interesting. they knew exactly we would not like it, and decided the avengers hype has to be sold. nao.
#endofstory.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Separating cosmetics from stats is good. Their selection of cosmetics is not good.
Even Anthem was better than this game.
Is it a great game...no of course not.
The problem i have is that all prior super hero games,MAYBE Batman has an argument but most were absolutely horrible,far worse than Avengers and did not take the same criticism,matter of fact i have seen some kissy kissy threads on this site towards s older piles of crap hero games.
So then i had to cringe listen to some obvious shill streamer rave about Spiderman,i was like wtf are looking at the game at all?A pile of VERY cheap looking 2d buildings make up the landscape.Then ht lighting was all the same color for obvious reasons,to lessen the load.None the less ,watching Spidey fling through the air in between dead 2d building structures with very little to see is not exactly an exciting moment.
Point being if people think Avengers is trash,Spiderman and the rest of them are like a 2/10.
Avengers is like a 5/10 but wtf if you liked all the prior super hero games you should be used to mediocre game design.It just seems like the COOL thing to do to vent all the years of crappy super hero games on one game.
The dev coming clean,well what else is he going to do,start arguing,they already tried that and landed them in more trouble.So now the dev are being humble and just accepting defeat in a market that seems to have no clue what game is better than the other.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Exactly! Delay it 5 times if you have to but release something good. Look at CDPR, delayed for the 3rd, 4th time and 99% of the people are cool with it. Sucks waiting but we want something good.