It's no secret that 2024 hasn't been kind to live-service games, with recent months seeing games like XDefiant and Concord shut down—although not always without reason—so it's a bit refreshing to see the recently released Marvel Rivals hit what can only be described as a home run. Not only is the ga...
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I‘m happy for the devs, but I shudder at the signal this sends to publishers regarding liveservice, „we just gotta keep trying, guys!“
Mwah, the game is apparently fairly lenient on microtransactions. I hope the signal is: “maybe out liveservice game shouldn’t be utter crap”.
That didn’t save plenty of other games either. So everyone is going to keep chasing this dragon to their own demise.
Concord also happened this year. The message will be “we gotta be careful”.