Andrew Gonzalez from Xbox Enthusiast talks about how the cancellation of Marvel Heroes Omega highlights many issues surrounding microtransactions.
Considering the genre's explosive popularity, why aren't superhero MMOs hugely successful? Shannon gets to the bottom of the matter.
Why aren't there more super hero games? You would think it would be a no brainer with all the material right there for the picking.
And yet we have really only had less than a handful become popular.
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Gazillion has announced the game and studio will cease operation shortly.
Took a while for this article to get approved? Cause they both (game and studio) shut down 2 days ago... Even the tweet is from 2 days ago.
I don't think the shutdown has to do with microtransactions. There wasn't news for an update for 3 weeks.
The CEO of Gazillion was accused of sexual misconduct by a woman a little while back. He closed his Twitter after the Harvey Weinstein news broke out. coincidence?
I reckon Disney buried everything so they won't be associated with the current controversy in Hollywood. It sucks, since i enjoyed the game. Oh well.
This is all speculation fyi.
The issue is, i paid for something, and now out of the blue i can't use it again. It would be different if the games had an expiration date, then i could make an informed decision. But i can't even play it off line, that's the biggest issue with all this. Shut down the server, but i would still be able to play. that would be at least an ok thing.
Hopefully all it will take is a few million people to get burned by something like this on a huge game and then they become a lot more weary about this type of "gaming" going forward and are more cautious with their wallets.
Funny how both microtransaction issues lead back to Disney. I wonder if they simply don't care or are unaware of the poor situation their IPs are in.