Summary
There’s not much thatMarvel Rivalsplayers can complain about. The game is relatively well-balanced and a ton of fun to play, has a veryhealthy looking content roadmap, and the microtransactions aren’ttoopredatory. Add all that to the fact that the developers actually listen to the community, and you get a well-oiled live service hero shooter.
However, as with every live service game, the developers aren’t going to get everything right. As mentioned above, the gamewas going to have a mid-season ranked resetuntil the community spoke up. More recently, though, players are unhappy with theFantastic Love Streamer Giveaway event.
The Fantastic Furore
As a special Valentine’s Day event, Marvel Rivals invited a few streamers for a collaboration. These streamers would play the game for a set period of time in designated servers, like Dallas, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. Players who manage to join the same game as these streamers via Quickplay would be eligible to win a Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman 60th Wedding Anniversary cosmetic bundle.
However, this event created quite a ruckus for those who just wanted to play the game. The Quickplay queue was filled with players trying to join a game with the designated streamers to either get a chance at winning the cosmetics or just shooting the streamers. While that still sounds fine, it led to a lot of players leaving matches if said streamers were not in them, making it quite annoying for those who just wanted to play.
The event started on February 12 and will conclude on February 14 at 5pm PST, so that’s almost three two whole days of constant annoyance for regular players, who let their thoughts known on the Marvel Rivals subreddit.
“People just throwing on Frankfurt server to finish games quickly to try to snipe their favorite streamer for like the 100th time in 1 hour, making the experience terrible for everyone else,“said one frustrated player. “You are running games today for people that actually want to have fun. Who approved of this idea? This was obviously going to happen.”
Another said, “Everbody agree, that this is a bad event? - 2 Hours pure Gambling, no good QM matches, so much madness and disappointing, not enough streamer for 200,000 Players.”
While the event sounds like a good idea, it seems NetEase should have taken into account how it would have affected other players.
