Marvel’s Avengers dying final patch shows how fun the game could have been from the start
Marvel’s Avengers came, went; and then somehow went again shortly after every “major” periodic content patch. No matter how much content the team added it just was never enough: namely because there was no real connection to the story, many of those content additions were reskins, and the game never truly shed its live service component. Also, dangling Spider-Man over people’s heads (as an exclusive no less!) probably wasn’t the best idea from whoever was responsible (from the top to the bottom).
The newest (and final) game-is-dead patch changes all that. And of course, while it’s too late for Avengers, we can still check out its current state for fun and use it as a case study of what not to do.
As a recap, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix announced that after two and a half years, Marvel’s Avengers live service experience was effectively dead (also known as “maintenance mode’), but would shamble on until September. That promised final patch arrived this past weekend and actually unlocked all the game’s content (read: premium stuff included) for free. That includes the entire marketplace, challenge cards, and shipment cosmetics. All free. After re-installing the game on PS5 at a whopping 115.8 GB ask (I nearly didn’t do it!) the first thing I did was look at how many skins the game had: and man, I was not prepared.
Nearly every single character had truckloads of premium skins that are now unlocked that you can just use. On the flip side, all of those skins are unlocked to use, all of the streamlined grind-curbing patches are in, and there’s some more content to peruse through. If you’re a lapsed player who dug the core story but ditched because of the microtransactions: you can safely come back in now and clean up the
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