Marvel Heroes ?Come pay with me!?

[Nimzabaat]

Marvel Heroes has come out with two new advanced packs for 12 additional characters. The Deluxe Edition for $129.99 (estimated value $425) and the Regular Edition for $99.99 (estimated value $215). Now if you bought the Mega Pack (and I seriously hope nobody did) that?s $199.99 (estimated value isn?t listed on the site anymore but comparing it to the Deluxe Edition Advanced Pack, possibly $500-600?). So Gazillion are basically putting the value of the full game, with all characters at almost $1,000. Though you can get all that for $329.98 if you act fast!

To be fair, you can pay as little as $9.99 if you want (for Daredevil, Black Widow or one other character). They also have ?Infinity Shards? that you can collect while playing and buy content with those. I?ve had the game since launch and I have almost enough Infinity Shards to buy 1/10 of a new character, though I don?t play as excessively as some.

Still $330 for a game that?s not quite as polished as Diablo III feels a little bit excessive. Having Gazillion tell you it's worth $1,000 doesn't really help either. I understand that each character has to have unique (ish) animations and power sets and additional costumes require resources to make as well.

I'm really hoping this doesn't become a trend.

 

[Fappy]

I don't know anyone playing this. I tried it in beta and it was incredibly meh. Just feels like a giant micro-transaction machine if you ask me.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Hey man it's the next gen innovation sweeping through the land, micro-transaction are the only way to do games from now on (except the word micro has long since gone unnoticed).

 

[Nimzabaat]

Hey man it's the next gen innovation sweeping through the land, micro-transaction are the only way to do games from now on (except the word micro has long since gone unnoticed).

Well micro-transactions usually use the "99 cents" philiosophy. Where it's only 99 cents as opposed to a dollar just to make it sound more reasonable. Gazillion is outright telling gamers that their game is "worth" $1000 and that's pretty ridiculous in my opinion.

 

[Something Amyss]

I don't know anyone playing this. I tried it in beta and it was incredibly meh. Just feels like a giant micro-transaction machine if you ask me.

It seems like every Marvel game I've tried recently falls under that umbrella.

Except Lego Marvel.

 

[Savagezion]

I have played it a decent amount. I think it has some really good potential honestly. I will agree they overcharge on everything but apparently people are spending the money. You do know that a new random character is only 175 Infinite Shards right? You can pull in 10+ shards an hour if you use that hour to hack n' slash. If you want a specific hero it will cost you anywhere from 4-900 shards based on that character's popularity. However, I have noticed in the community way too many people want everything to be dirt cheap on shards even though the game is free. I have spent 50 bucks on the game getting bank slots, I bought a couple costumes and a couple characters as well. I now have 6 characters (Cyclops, Daredevil, Colossus, Thor, Captain America, and Wolverine. **Got Thor when they gave him away for free though) I have bought a costume for Daredevil and Capt. America. (Wolvie and Capt were my two randoms I rolled and I will soon be rolling another random)

The main problem I see is that they keep adding more and more characters to the roster, which is cool. However, story progression sucks, map layouts are bland, managing loot is tedious, etc. You pretty much have to be a marvel nut to really get anything out of the game. That is to say this game will let you play as your favorite characters no matter how obscure they may be in the marvel universe. Unfortunately, it is in a bland and tedious game. However, as I said before, people keep buying the characters and the character bundles so you can't really blame them for continuing to shove them out. It's just a shame to see the actual GAME sit stagnant and unevolving because all efforts are being shoved into placing more characters into the game like collectables you buy.

 

[Barbas]

I think I'd rather spend that money on baked beans or bath salts. Something practical that I'd use and get value out of, you know? Charging that amount of money for a game should require the brain behind the idea to walk around in public wearing a sandwich board with "I AM A TOSSER" printed on it.

 

[Zakarath]

Warframe kinda has the same problem, they have offers to buy their premium currency at prices $100+; and every time I see something like that I'm just reminded of the fact that the most I would contemplate paying for an entire game is $60-70, and usually much less than that.

 

[cthulhuspawn82]

Between this game and Marvel Puzzle Quest, I am really disgusted with Marvel, at least as far as their gaming market goes. I think micro-transactions are abhorrent in general. They are charging money and giving you literally nothing in return. I don't mean like, "I payed $60 for a digital game, and got no physical items". I'm talking about crap like "I payed my DM $5 so I could write down '+5 sword' on my character sheet." A lot of transactions give you literally nothing, physical or digital, and expect you to pay.