Marvel’s Avengers Going On Incredible Sale Before Delisting

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Marvel’s Avengers, the video game made by Crystal Dynamics, is having its last run with an incredible mega-sale.

Marvel’s Avengers was originally launched in 2020 and came to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Windows on Steam, and even on Google Stadia, which itself was discontinued before this game.

Square Enix’s bold play to license Marvel for Disney was intended to expand the company’s reach beyond their hardcore fanbase, that religiously follows their releases of Final Fantasy games. With that goal in mind, they delegated the task to Crystal Dynamics, the California based game company that was making Tomb Raider games at this point.

While Square Enix’s logic that a US based studio would make a better Avengers game than they could was sound, many of their other choices turned out to be huge mistakes, that ultimately doomed the project.

For example, the choice to not make this a simple single player experience, and instead turn it into a live service game, was received very badly. The fact that that also included microtransactions made it worse in the eyes of fans and reviewers.

There was also a seeming rush to release the game, given that it had so many bugs and glitches at launch. To a certain degree, there was also controversy over the offputting likenesses of MCU actors, because Crystal Dynamics couldn’t license their actual faces.

Unfortunately, the most damning problem with Marvel’s Avengers was its poor game design, that proved to not be compelling enough to get gamers who already paid full price to keep playing.

The consequences for the critical and commercial failure of Marvel’s Avengers were literally industry changing. Crystal Dynamics is now owned by Embracer, and their property