Marvel's new card game is scrapping its unpopular monetization scheme

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Marvel Snap(opens in new tab) studio Second Dinner says it will refund all gold spent by players during the game's contentious Nexus Events, and will also give the Jane Foster base card to all players, regardless of whether or not they participated in Nexus Events.  The announcement comes a week after the removal of Nexus Events, which were heavily criticized by players for over-aggressive monetization and misrepresenting the likelihood of higher tier rewards dropping. The game is currently in closed beta on Android devices, but will be coming to PC down the line.  

Second Dinner, co-founded in 2018 by former Hearthstone game director Ben Brode, introduced Nexus Events to the new Marvel CCG in July, and they did not go over well with players. The problem, as we explained here(opens in new tab), is that the best rewards, including that Jane Foster card, had a very low drop rate, meaning players could end up spending hundreds of dollars to acquire them, while the common rewards weren't cards at all—just in-game currency and resources that can be used to upgrade your existing cards. 

It didn't help that the marketing materials promoting the events did, if we're being charitable, a poor job of describing the actual rewards.

«My biggest gripe is that a 'nexus event' is not an event at all,» redditor EmeraldWeapon56(opens in new tab) wrote. «You don't participate in this event, just dump your wallet into it.»

The situation seemed especially egregious in light of Second Dinner's promise earlier this year that players «can get every card in the game over time, without paying anything(opens in new tab).» Obviously games need to make money, but if you promise that everyone can get every card, and then two months later restrict a