Gotta say... the Avengers game died pretty fast.

[I KILL PXLS]

Obviously not the first to say this, but they could have had a franchise-starter here if they didn't go the GaaS route. If they did a solid 15-20 hr story campaign with optional co-op people would have loved it and would be clamoring for a sequel already. But, alas.

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Really don't think that's the problem here. If it was single player focused (even with optional co-op) it probably would have sold just as well (and it did sell well), and people wouldn't be talking about it or playing it any more than they would be today since they'd be done with the campaign by now. Again, the problem is that regular players have exhausted the content that's there which would be exactly the same case if not more so if it wasn't GaaS focused.

 

[Dodgerfan74]

There's lots of good and bad in the game as well as a lot of potential, but yeah, it's Marvel's Anthem in the end. The game launched completely on fire, the post launch content is in perpetual delay mode, and much better, more exciting stuff will be out soon. Two weeks from now, it won't even be the best Marvel game of the holidays after Miles Morales blows it straight to hell.

A trainwreck from start to finish. Games need better management.

 

[My Cow Phelps]

I saw more discussion about Spider-Man being only in the PS4 version than about the game itself on ResetERA. lol

 

[TubaZef]

Too much money was spent on this game, S-E won't let it just die. They're probably planning some sort of revival for when the next gen versions come out.

 

[Wolf]

I still think hype for the game would have been way higher had they used the looks of the movies instead of the comics.

 

[Cloud-Strife]

I'e been playing the campaing for a few hours and looks pretty good on PC. Load times are not a problem with an SSD of course.

 

[Y2Kev]

I thought this game sold super well.

 

[Kawngi]

The game has a ton of issues, but I did find the campaign itself enjoyable.

 

[AlexBasch]

The current season of Fortnite is where you go for the real Marvel action.

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I think I saw a player with a Wolverine skin shooting an assault rifle and thought it looked funny.

 

[ReginaldXIV]

I enjoyed the grind, but the bugs and especially the broken matchmaking killed it for me. It was not ready for launch at all.

 

[Lobster Roll]

I've said it once and I'll say it again, if you aren't given the IP for The Avengers in 2020 and you can't draw in a crowd, your project is an abject failure. The game just had to be decent and have a semblance of staying power and people would be playing it.

 

[black070]

The concept of a GAAS Avengers game always sounded like an absolute waste of the property.

 

[AnimeJesus]

Pretty sure it sold decently, it just got mixed reviews and did not have a lot of variety once you finished the campaign. It's got a very good combat system and story\presentations. It was also one of the buggiest games ever launched.

Im planning to jump back in on PS5 once new content is released.

 

[PanzerKraken]

Game is also clearly not dead on consoles, get matchmaking now very quick without issue all the time since the last couple patches.

 

[Maximo]

Who could've guessed

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No way anyone could see this coming....

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

Please look forward to it's revival a year from now when they fixed everything and added a bunch of new characters and game mode.

 

[Ploid 6.0]

They are spending so much time fixing it and giving quality of life changes that it's clear they needed a long beta for this. The fixing mode they are in prevents them from releasing content that keeps people playing, also the loot is boring so there's no motivation to grind.

A real beta during development was needed, not the test servers/demo beta that was put out. There was no amount of time available to make changes that were needed given the feedback from that beta.

That said, on PC I hope they let us disable or easily skip the travel to mission load masks chat the characters do, and the mission intro video. That long loading discourage me from even grinding for loot.

 

[Snake Eater]

Should've been a single player game, making it a destiny copy was a failure from the start

 

[Software Update]

Okay now let's put it behind us and set our our sights on the next tomb raider.

 

[Hikari]

The game will be very good soon. I trust the devs since they seem super passion about marvel and I'm willing to stay for all my heroes and the massive story. We aren't going to be fighting robots the entire time or clones.

 

[Deleted member 15395]

I played a bit of this at a friend's house and I agree the core combat is fun and has potential, its just....everything else around it is rotten and bugged. For what I've read, there's a Wakanda update that's supposed to be a bit of an overhaul of the entire thing.

I still think they should've made a massive budget single player game a-la Spiderman. Avengers as a brand certainly deserved better than what we got.

 

[ShinJohnpv]

It's been said but it died out cause there's nothing to fucking do. After a few weekends you've seen every single mission, which are mostly just repeating the same shit. All of the interesting stuff is Single Player only. There needs to be some heavy inflow of content, like ASAP or this one is super dead Jim.

 

[Sax]

I'll play through the campaign one day when it's on a deep sale. Other than that not even a passing interest in the online part of it.

 

[Mirage]

I still think hype for the game would have been way higher had they used the looks of the movies instead of the comics.

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Yep the characters that weren't really the ones that people are fans of mixed with a game that only had a decent reception didn't really help it.

 

[Altair]

The game never looked good.

 

[Deleted member 5621]

again tho. thats PC. That is the norm for PC. A new game comes out. It is popular for a week. Then everyone on PC goes back to playing some game from last decade.

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Your last sentence contradicts the previous one and is proven wrong by the top ten (Among Us, Rocket League, Destiny 2, PUBG, Phasmophobia) in the top 100 listed, but okay.

You can also go to to the Xbox Marketplace and sort all games by most played currently:

Xbox Games Catalog: All Games | Xbox

Shop our extensive collection of video games in the Xbox game catalog.

www.xbox.com

Avengers is in the top 40.But we don't know how many people are playing it (unless that's what 1k means on the banner, which would be comparable to Steam, idk I don't use Live)

According to the estimates from gamstat: https://gamstat.com/games/xbox/ccu/
It peaks at 9k daily
Lagging behind "games from the last decade" like DayZ, PUBG, Ark, GTAV and Fallout 4 just like Steam.

 

[Adamska]

Why is it 'dead' exactly? Is the game no longer getting updates or support? Personally, I'm waiting for it to drop its price a bit, but I'm looking forward to playing it on the PS5, even before the actual PS5 version comes out.

 

[LilZippa]

Story seems good. Gameplay is questionable.

 

[Hikari]

Why is it 'dead' exactly? Is the game no longer getting updates or support? Personally, I'm waiting for it to drop its price a bit, but I'm looking forward to playing it on the PS5, even before the actual PS5 version comes out.

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complete opposite. Crystal Dynamics already has a ton of stuff coming we saw in the datamine. The game is just barren now so people think it's dead.

 

[Ploid 6.0]

Why is it 'dead' exactly? Is the game no longer getting updates or support? Personally, I'm waiting for it to drop its price a bit, but I'm looking forward to playing it on the PS5, even before the actual PS5 version comes out.

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Just nothing to do if you played through everything. There's updates to fix and make things better for the player, and a few content stuff that give you new stuff to do, but it's not much to keep you glued once you played it once or twice. The gear/loot not being exciting enough to chase is something else that makes me want to wait. Having a new character will give me something to do though.

Then Genshin Impact released. A game that has similar combat (melee, special abilities, ultimate ability, aim to shoot), where you can quick swap between characters, looks very colorful, runs awesomely on PC, and has a ton of exploration. Thank goodness for this game to make the wait on content in Avengers easier.

 

[Adamska]

I see. And further perusal of the thread just show a bunch of concern trolling, too (plus people STILL salty about Spider-Man). Anyway, it seems the game enjoyed a pretty successful launch, and these kinds of games, when given compelling content, can still be appealing to old and new players, so I guess saying it's dead is just hyperbole.

 

[Maedhros]

Game looks like ass. Seriously, watched 1 stream and didn't even understood the appeal at all.

 

[King Kingo]

Shocker.

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Wrong Marvel game.

 

[GamerDude]

I think it would have been way more successful as a big single player game like Spider-Man.

 

[Riversands]

I thought the game hadnt even released yet 😅😅

 

[RivalGT]

The game looked terrible since the 1st trailer, so this really isn't surprising.

 

[Hovahtsug]

Should've been a single player game, making it a destiny copy was a failure from the start

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That was the first thing i felt when i played the beta: this is a Destiny copy. But i still want to play, maybe next year on a sale.

 

[Forkball]

Aren't they selling season passes per character? I don't see how anyone can be excited about that idea.

 

[AndyVirus]

I played it for a couple of weeks but the post-story content was bland and repetitive. I might jump back into it at the end of 2021 for better load times + new characters but if there's still not enough worthwhile content I doubt I'd stick around then either.

 

[shaneo632]

I was waiting for the ps5 version...lmao

 

[SeeingeyeDug]

Obviously not the first to say this, but they could have had a franchise-starter here if they didn't go the GaaS route. If they did a solid 15-20 hr story campaign with optional co-op people would have loved it and would be clamoring for a sequel already. But, alas.

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You mean like Ghost of Tsushima? Let people chew on a fun single player campaign for a month or two, then release a free multiplayer game that feels more feature rich, fun, and balanced than many games designed around that as a GaaS.

 

[BossLackey]

I'm a huge comic book fan, and I had zero interest. Honestly, I don't know why anyone did.

 

[Legacy]

Who could've guessed

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Precisely, this should come as a surprise to no one. Glad I skipped this crap, my friends stopped playing after 2 weeks.

 

[DreamRunner]

The game looked awful, so I'm not surprised.

 

[ThatMeanScene]

I expect a few content updates and if the game is still struggling to keep players and have players spending money on skins then I can see them tossing it to a small sustain team before eventually moving on.

 

[elyetis]

You don't release a multiplayer gaas looter, with a shity loot system ( which simply encourage/force you to equipe the highest lvl drop you get rather than care about it's stats ) and a broken matchmaking ( also not helped with the lack of crossplay ).
Add to that a lack of content/variety, and the delay of post release content and the end result is all but surprising.

 

[IIFloodyII]

I remember watching some of the co-op mode and it just looked really boring and from what I heard the end game is pretty bad. Was a game I was always going to wait for a sale for, as a "looter shooter" Avengers game set off some red flags immediately, but I'm surprised it seeming just face-planted almost straight away.

Hopefully the Guardians of The Galaxy team and taking notes and looking at Insomniac.

 

[Emperor_El]

Still can't get over the lack of villains and iconic locales.

 

[CaptainKashup]

The initial reveal was already extremely underwhelming.
Then they announced it would be a GAAS. That's how it happened.
That's how the Avengers game died.

 

[Alek]

Just gotta say it's hard to take criticism seriously when it's based on the beta lol.

Your criticism might be valid, but you should use footage from the actual game

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Why would I buy the game after such a terrible experience? I know it isn't much different because I've seen my friends play it. That footage I linked wasn't even my gameplay, it was a friends.

Commercial betas like the one released for Marvel's Avengers are released primarily to advertise the game, to serve as a demo. They're labelled beta and attached to pre-order incentives so that folks feel priveledged to have the opportunity to play them. Take it from me, someone who has seen these conversations internally.

From what I've seen of the full game, the game is trivial in difficulty and very repetitive. Perhaps not so bad as the example I linked (which is not my video, but a friends) but pretty damn repetitive. I think the bulk of the problems stem from designing a game for a very diverse roster of characters with different capabilities. So rather than being all that threatening, the easy solution to that balancing problem is to just make the game rather simplistic on the AI side of things.

In any case, it's just not for me based on what I have played/seen.