F2P Hero Shooter Marvel Rivals Shatters Expectations With Over 400,000 Concurrent Players Less Than 24 Hours After Launch

[Guwapo77]

Overwatch actually cost $50 to play.

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).

Overwatch is completely free... If you choose to pay for the season, that is up to you and that does not cost $50.

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.

 

[AcE]

But its not about watching it being played or being 'as Esports capable as possible' is it.

My "watching" remark was a side remark and not my main argument, my main argument is about my own experience with it, playing it myself. And it is a "esport" whether you watch it or not, so you're contradicting yourself when you say "it's not about making it esports capable", also "esports" not "Esports".

As to all other arguments I'll leave it at that, everyone has their own taste in games, it's fine. Still, has a reason Valorant is way more popular than OW. And no, I don't think "making it watchable esport" was the reason OW went down, the numerous reasons were plainly because of mismanagement of Blizzard towards OW itself, not gameplay mechanics - or people simply moved on from the game, which is also entirely possible.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'm not generally a fan of this kind of game, but it looks good, seem well done(control & physics and whatnot).

 

[TechLurker]

I feel the game has staying power; not only in the massive potential roster, but in the simple fact that it has plenty of existing Marvel content to pull from. Hell, if they're able to get in a proper PvE mode as well as a PvPvE mode that Overwatch was once aiming for, they could build out short story missions and content to fluff up the variety of gameplay options, as well as do bigger arenas and battlezones to accommodate such modes. They can also pull from a variety of legacy game formats, such as capture the flag, last man standing, zombie rush, and so forth for both PvP and PvE modes.

Yeah, it has some imbalanced characters, but so did Overwatch, and as Overwatch progressed, they gradually nerfed or outright overhauled the gameplay of various characters, before releasing a new hero that was slightly better-than-average for a bit before tuning them back down.

The only issue I have really is that the healer roster is very thin vs the rest, and right now there's no convenient Mercy-esque healer who can at least focus on one teammate to artificially prop them up as long as they're in range to help out an attacker like the Hulk, or no tanky Paladin-esque Healer who is more focused on self healing and slightly healing those near them. I'm sure in due time we'll get such characters, but right now it's heavily biased towards the general-purpose attackers.

 

[Onasi]

no tanky Paladin-esque Healer who is more focused on self healing and slightly healing those near them.

To be fair, OW also doesn’t have such a character anymore and I am saying this as a Brig main. She is solely a second support bodyguard now, anything else and she struggles - precisely because they took away the “tanky” and “self healing” aspects massively. You aren’t frontlining anything on Brig, not above absolute bottom ranks. Reason was that when she actually worked like she was originally intended to she broke the game in half. Now, this partially was because that was just kinda what the character meant to counter the strongest character in the game (Tracer) kinda had to be, but the domino effect was staggering.

 

[kapone32]

What I’ve been looking for is something to fill in for Destiny 2. In don’t like PVP or PVE. I like PV…CPU? Destiny 2 has the Vanguard stuff, where you do 3 players versus an onslaught of baddies. It actually feels more team-centered, where you have to use some strategy to survive, and your teammates can revive you instead of just waiting 20-30 seconds for a respawn. I know you can get that with PVP teams, but whatever game I try, I seem to run into the same issues of imbalanced teams or little team strategy and support. I guess it probably exists out there, but I feel like Bungie actually got that concept right. It’s just buried in a sea of other playing options, unfortunately.

Aliens Fire Team

 

[R-T-B]

No I wouldn't say so. I already explained it, more realism is more than just "subjectively better". It's objectively better and more realistic.

If you like realistic games... not everyone does and thus its subjective.

 

[Konyalee]

I like the game, it feels like cs2 with marvel characters. Overall its been a fun expericence when playing with friends. (Note: if you play iron man you are part of the problem)

 

[Icon Charlie]

Well,...
People have made comments about Overwatch and this and that.

I'll place this here. There is a lot more going on than what people think.

 

[Colddecked]

Well,...
People have made comments about Overwatch and this and that.

I'll place this here. There is a lot more going on than what people think.

I'm sorry there is nothing more fragile than the ego of people who complain about Sweet Baby Inc.

 

[AcE]

Well,...
People have made comments about Overwatch and this and that.

I'll place this here. There is a lot more going on than what people think.

Meanwhile I have tried MR, it's way more fun than OW. So either i'm a way better player now, or the game is just easier and more suited to me, OW was unbearably hard to play, aside from tanks (for me).