Friday, December 6th 2024
F2P Hero Shooter Marvel Rivals Shatters Expectations With Over 400,000 Concurrent Players Less Than 24 Hours After Launch
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 game already at "Mostly Positive" in terms of Steam reviews, the free-to-play hero shooter also managed to draw in massive amounts of players in its first week on Steam. According to SteamDB, Marvel Rivals peaked at 444,286 concurrent players a mere two and a half hours after its launch on Friday, December 6.
The game launched on the same day as Path of Exile 2, which had an equally successful launch, despite its Early Access fee and some serious technical hiccups along the way. These two games have not been the norm, although Marvel Rivals signals that gaming properties based on Marvel characters may have finally found their audience. In previous years, both Marvel's Midnight Suns and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy made their own impacts, scoring big with both reviewers and audiences. Of course, neither of the aforementioned games garnered quite the player count as Marvel Rivals, but that's likely simply due to the free-to-play nature of Rivals.
Marvel Rivals is a free-to-play, team-based PVP hero shooter that puts players into various Marvel heroes and pits them against each other in destructible environments. It's currently available for PC on Steam and on the PS5 and Xbox storefronts.
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The game launched on the same day as Path of Exile 2, which had an equally successful launch, despite its Early Access fee and some serious technical hiccups along the way. These two games have not been the norm, although Marvel Rivals signals that gaming properties based on Marvel characters may have finally found their audience. In previous years, both Marvel's Midnight Suns and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy made their own impacts, scoring big with both reviewers and audiences. Of course, neither of the aforementioned games garnered quite the player count as Marvel Rivals, but that's likely simply due to the free-to-play nature of Rivals.
35 Comments on F2P Hero Shooter Marvel Rivals Shatters Expectations With Over 400,000 Concurrent Players Less Than 24 Hours After Launch
>no chance to succeed
Top KEK.
www.techpowerup.com/329464/ubisoft-shuts-down-xdefiant-after-f2p-fpss-disappointing-short-run
There are times I want to have movement+aim and there are times when I want a slow-paced game and just aim.
EDIT: +game
Marvel Rivals is free to play, so the number of people playing it is a bit misleading. Hard to say how successful it will be. But with Overwatch 2 and Concord sucking, there is an opening.
Also I thought Concord failed because the hero shooter is played out (which was hilariously false but people that hate introspection needed an excuse).
Its about being fun. I played a wide range of shooters and honestly, there's a place for the team based, higher TTK styled games. They have their own perks. In multiplayer there isn't a thing as 'objectively better' its simply about where the crowds converge and where they desire to stay. That was OW for a long long time for a lot of people, same as it was for UT99, Doom, Quake etc. A huge part of multiplayer gaming is also the community vibe, it can make or break games, and the best communities also have good social tools in the games themselves. I'd say that's almost as important as everything else.
There are no clear cut groups of players liking the realism over the fun factor. They all just move back and forth between games and things go in and out of fashion all the time.One needs just 30 seconds of trailer to figure that out :D Its almost a shameless copy.
And no, the fact that CS/Val have movement penalties to spread doesn’t automatically a better/harder experience make. Comparing tac shooters to OW or Quake/UT in this case is wild.Fucking bingo. That was what actually semi-killed OW in the long term - they actively tried too hard making it “e-sports viable” because of OWL even though everyone was telling them it wasn’t and fundamentally couldn’t be. E-sports FPS have to be very simple for viewing purposes. Watching OW is incomprehensible even for someone who actually knows the game.
Saying it's a bad game because it's not realistic is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I guess Minecraft or Fortnite or WoW or Rocket League are bad games too then? Popular doesn't always mean good, but games are usually popular because people find them fun.
As Vayra86 said above, the clue is really in the name: "game". Its purpose is to be entertaining (& make the creators money). Sometimes people want a tense realistic game, sometimes people want some fun fast-paced chaos.
Anyway, OW but Marvel sounds like the perfect game for me so I'm very interested in trying it out!
Vermintide 2 / DarkTide? Killing Floor? CoD Zombies? Sounds like something you are looking for.
Several of the DPS characters appear to be unbalanced and have roll face on keyboard to win as mechanics, no one wants to play support unless its Loki because Loki is ""cool"" or the sharkdog because of the piss easy playstyle, cookie cutter game modes, UE5 albatross causing random halving of frame rates and weird stutters in menus, the game launcher needs admin permissions on startup, pretty much zero team coordination in a team game o_O, reminds me HEAVILY of other hero shooters who will remain unnamed.
Got very big "roll or stomp" feelings from the game, not good.
I am not feeling enthusiastic at all about playing further, so I won't.
I kind of wish this game was a clone of Overwatch; however, its not but it is pretty cool. This game is more complex than Overwatch for sure.