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Marvel Rivals' Success and Mike Ybarra's Hypocrisy: A Turning Point for the Gaming Industry | MMORPG
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Marvel Rivals' Success and Mike Ybarra's Hypocrisy: A Turning Point for the Gaming Industry | MMORPG.com
Marvel Rivals, NetEase's new hero shooter, has been making waves. Released on December 6th, it quickly peaked at nearly 450,000 concurrent players on Steam over opening weekend. It's a historic moment for Chinese game developers in the worldwide industry.
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As to Ybarra's point, yes the characters design and skills are a direct copy in some cases and directly influenced in others from overwatch. My 14 year old son who plays both and I had a long discussion and experimenting with both games and we are not industry experts. Its so obvious.
Netease is copying and re-skinning and Ybarra's right. Hypocritical or not does not matter to me but he is right. The similarities are so very close. But we cannot use the popularity of a game to say it will be successful, not yet. I think more importantly Rivals may change how gamers view seasons and battlepasses. Thats my hope.
It's better received early on than some recent hero shooters were, that's for sure. That alone suggests it may be more promising. If Ybarra thinks some sort of legitimate complaint can be brought forth they'd best get on it. Bitching about it won't do anything.
Then there's the part where the game was co-developed by an American studio based in Seattle under the direction of Thaddeus Sasser who has a 20 year long history of developing AAA shooters.
A fun game is a fun game, and most games take ideas from other games and iterate on them. that's just the way things go.
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What are you blathering about? Does ripping their break out title World of Warcraft off lock stock and barrel from Game Workshop's Warhammer make them shameless copycats? Oh wait, yeah it sure as fuck does. Carry on.
Also it's pretty popular here in the West to accuse any product made by the Chinese to be derivative and of lower quality, even though that isn't necessarily the case these days.
This new entry may just be another flash in the pan or eventually dethrone the current champion and take the title, only time will tell.
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