Disney And Marvel Have Now Reportedly Shut Down Their Planned MARVEL HEROES Video Game

Disney And Marvel Have Now Reportedly Shut Down Their Planned MARVEL HEROES Video Game

As many have suspected, Disney and Marvel have reportedly ended their relationship with developer/publisher Gazillion Entertainment and as a result has shut down its action-RPG video game, Marvel Heroes.

The signs have been there for weeks, but now Marvel (under Disney) has confirmed that Gazillion Entertainment's Marvel Heroes video game has been shut down.

In a statement to Kotaku, a Marvel representative confirmed, “We regret to inform our Marvel Heroes fans that we have ended our relationship with Gazillion Entertainment, and that the Marvel Heroes games will be shut down. We would like to sincerely thank the players who joined the Marvel Heroes community, and will provide any further updates as they become available.”

Marvel Heroes was first released for PC in 2013 as a free-to-play title in the same vein as Diablo. Earlier this year, it was ported to Xbox One and PS4.

Combining core gameplay elements of Diablo with the expansive library of characters from the Marvel Universe, players could band together and fight to take on Doctor Doom and other iconic Marvel villains. Though the game was designed to be free-to-play, players could spend real money to purchase characters and costumes for them.

This news may come as a bit of a surprise to some, but many of the game's playerbase had begun to suspect something when developer Gazillion missed four of its weekly community updates and failed to release content that tied-in to the recently released Thor: Ragnarok movie.


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UrbanTheEmcee
UrbanTheEmcee - 11/15/2017, 3:41 PM
I never played it but this sucks for those who did. Without warning too.
Cold as Ice.
BloodyBed
BloodyBed - 11/15/2017, 3:43 PM
@UrbanTheEmcee - dude, I just lost hundreds and hundreds of hours of progress, and probably about 100$ worth of characters and costumes.

That game was a grind. I worked hard for my shit. This is [frick]ed, even though I haven't played in a few months, I planned to come back eventually.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 11/15/2017, 3:58 PM
@BloodyBed -
Roodi
Roodi - 11/15/2017, 4:06 PM
@SonOfAGif - Jennifer Aniston cut her hair?
BloodyBed
BloodyBed - 11/15/2017, 4:26 PM
@SonOfAGif - ...to not spend money and time on things that give me great enjoyment?
4N6
4N6 - 11/16/2017, 3:26 AM
@BloodyBed - This is the main problem with games like this, though. Which is a bummer. As soon as the company is done supporting it, you're screwed. There are some board games that have started using smart phone apps to assist with playing the game, and I am very wary of buying those for the same reason. As soon as they're done supporting that app, my game is worthless.
BloodyBed
BloodyBed - 11/15/2017, 3:41 PM
MOTHER[frick]ER

used to be a great game, like, a year ago. Damn good game.

[frick] you gazillion. this is your fault you incompetent [frick]s. You had gold in your hands and you blew it.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 11/15/2017, 7:13 PM
@BloodyBed - Yeah they royally [frick]ed it up once Brevik left. Then they introduced the "Biggest Update Ever" that changed everything and alienated a lot of the players that had been around since the beta days.
BloodyBed
BloodyBed - 11/15/2017, 7:39 PM
@Mercwitham0uth - exactly.

I played for 4 months straight, almost every day, but left once the BUE dropped. couldn't take it.
EZBeast
EZBeast - 11/15/2017, 7:46 PM
@BloodyBed -
Raptor2442
Raptor2442 - 11/15/2017, 7:53 PM
@BloodyBed - sounds like what happened to Star Wars Galaxies when the decided to give the Combat Upgrade (make it like WoW). It spiraled downhill after that.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 11/15/2017, 8:43 PM
@BloodyBed - Also the way they made costumes available was atrocious. You had to buy probably over 50 or so fortune cards (Loot boxes) in order to get the newer costumes. That was a wallet vampire.
C38P01996
C38P01996 - 11/16/2017, 2:21 AM
@Mercwitham0uth - he should join Obsidian and They develop Ultimate Alliance 3: Secret Wars, and published by Square.
C38P01996
C38P01996 - 11/16/2017, 2:22 AM
@Raptor2442 - 2 properties Disney owns now, not saying they entirely were the problem but kinda ironic.
Kevwebsz
Kevwebsz - 11/15/2017, 3:42 PM
And DC online is still going since like 2010. They should try again but a massive mmorpg in NYC that ISNT a top down camera game.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 11/15/2017, 4:06 PM
@Kevwebsz - An MMO X-Men game set all over the world where new Sentinels are released thanks to Ultron hunting every living mutant.

You create your own mutant character and join different factions from:

The X-Men, The Brotherhood, The Avengers, The Defenders, Masters of Evil, or Hydra.

Join various heroes and villains for epic battles and missions and save the world from the Sentinels.

Call it X-Men: Mutant Extermination
DeadWade213
DeadWade213 - 11/15/2017, 3:42 PM
Call me when we get more information on that Avengers game from Square Enix.
C38P01996
C38P01996 - 11/16/2017, 2:24 AM
@DeadWade213 - makes me wonder if it affected this?
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