• pory@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s preserved the same way every other off-the-market game that isn’t entirely based on a server is preserved, by pirates.

    • ClarkZuckerberg@lemmy.world
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      It’s only gone from digital purchase, no? You can still download it if you’ve bought it digitally, and can still play it physically if you own or buy the disc?

    • El Barto@lemmy.world
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      What adblocker are you using? Mine worked fine.

      Anyway, here’s the article:

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      www.thegamer.com It’s Official: Marvel’s Avengers Is Gone Rhiannon Bevan

      After just three years, Marvel’s Avengers has been delisted. Anyone who owns it can still play, but it’s a grim end for the live service. Multiple heroes from Marvel’s Avengers

      It’s happened, Marvel’s Avengers is no more. Just three years after launch, the game has been delisted from all storefronts but will remain playable for anyone who picked it up before the takedown. You should still be able to play with friends, but any issues you run into won’t be addressed, and there will be no more events.

      This makes for a pretty short lifespan, particularly for a live service with much grander aspirations. It’s also a far more dramatic move than most publishers would make, as many would just stop providing updates for the game. Instead, Crystal Dynamics owner Embracer Group has gone as far as preventing any new players from picking up the game, even though both single-player and multiplayer elements are perfectly playable.

      Marvel’s Avengers at least ended on a slightly better note than it opened on, as the price was cut by 90 percent. This netted you the Definitive Edition, which includes all of the cosmetics and DLC for free. In practice, this should help Marvel’s Avengers feel like any other single-player game, rather than a live service that just had its roadmap come to an end.

      Alas, the Steam reviews were still “mixed” by the time Embracer pulled the plug, so its chance for a comeback seems to have come and gone. Admittedly, there’s a reason support didn’t last long, as it struggled to find its audience in a sea of other live services. Met with mixed reviews from launch too, its audience quickly grew frustrated with its online elements, including controversial paid XP boosters around a year after launch. In terms of sales, it performed below expectations but continued to receive updates and expansions regardless.

      Through it all, it retained a dedicated, if often frustrated, audience. They were never afraid to make their grievances known, but they would stick with the live service through thick and thin. However, it seems that this just wasn’t enough to please Embracer Group when it acquired Crystal Dynamics in 2022.

      We’ll have to see how the future fares for Marvel’s Avengers, now that it’s been delisted. The generous 90 percent off sale is likely to have enticed a few would-be players who were on the fence throughout the game’s online run, so who knows? Maybe it will pick up a cult following through its offline offerings. Yet this probably won’t be enough to secure the sequel that some fans were after, especially with Embracer Group tightening its purse strings in recent weeks. In practice, this has led to numerous layoffs across many of the studios it owns, so hardly a time that Embracer bosses would want to take a risk on a series that’s already failed once. "

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          1 year ago

          The one on this site has a link at the bottom, saying I’ve disabled adblocking. I clicked that and it took me to the article.

          A lot of other ones I’ve come across just disabling JavaScript is enough to bypass.

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    That makes two delisted Marvel-IP games in my Steam library. I haven’t played Avengers yet, but I have a feeling that this probably isn’t as big of a loss as when Deadpool was delisted.

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    It had a decent single player campaign, although it was too short. The live service end game was extremely repetitive and should have never existed.

    All they had to do was make a solid single player game, like Insomniac is doing with Spider-Man. Oh well.