The slew of MMOs on today’s market is dominated by the three Clans of Nerdom - sci-fi (EVE, Star Wars), fantasy (WoW, Guild Wars 2) and comic book (DC Online, Champions Online). Enter Marvel Heroes, a potential leviathan of the genre with the backing of (perhaps) the greatest comic industry player of all time. Who wouldn’t want to play as Wolverine, Hulk or Iron Man? The bevy of hugely successful Marvel films in the past decade has helped introduce Marvel lore to new a generation, and better yet the entire game - bar some features as we’ll see later - are free to play (F2P). The result is a solid game which is free to try and, if you like, buy
A non-profit educational group is looking to buy the Marvel Heroes license to either maintain the MMOARPG as-is or use it to build an entirely new game.
Why campaign is set to "Flexible goal"? Like "We desperately need $450 000, but hey, we'll settle for any amount of money you'll give to us. And we won't have to do a damn thing.".
They say in Indiegogo campaign: "To achieve our plan, we are currently seeking a minimum of $450k – $900k". MINIMUM of $450k, so why "flexible"?
Next, they say that currently, "creditors claims totaling at $900K" and "The closer our offer is to those claims, the greater our chances of success". A chance costs $450 000.
They're also saying that "One downside is that Gazillion has spent millions to license the use of characters and story lines over the years", where will they get millions for a license? Another campaign? Aggressive microtransactions? Oh, right, "Unless millions are raised to fund this campaign, the odds of this option being successful are very limited."
Even their Paragon university website has "Coming Soon" on it and "Elder mage" have only one "news" and copy-pasted content from Indiegogo campaign. Sounds like a scam to me.
Chris and Colby are back with Episode 2 of the Gaming Historia podcast. In this episode, we use the imminent closure of Paragon as a jumping off point to discuss Digital Gaming and how it affects gaming as a whole. In addition, we get a little off topic about questionable things that are done with amiibos.
There's not a lot of closure when free-to-play games go away.
I almost spent 50 bucks on this game. It's sad for the people that spent all that money.