Marvel's Avengers goes on sale one last time before being delisted forever
Get it while you can.
Kind of mixed on this one for me. On one hand it's a win against microtransactions, since a big name like Marvel isn't enough for people to buy it, so much that it has to be delisted. I think that's a huge win and I think it's worth mentioning.
On the other, preservation is a thing and I'm wondering if this game could somehow still be played if it's taken off the store. Granted I'm not familiar with this game so I don't know if physical copies work, or if they're just codes with a plastic shell. Or even if this game would be playable once the servers go down. I know it's not the best game to keep around, but history deserves preservation, etc
preservation is a thing
so is piracy
also, not everything is worth preserving
What is and isn't worth preserving is not something that can be known at the time of preserving. The point of preservation is so things can be accessed later if and when they're needed. Even shitty games like Avengers may be relevant in many ways in the future, even if just to reference as 'a shitty game'.
I disagree. I think games are definitely worth preserving, even if they aren't that fun. Regardless, this game has historical significance and should at the very least be playable after it's delisted.
I recently saw this video about the British Library. They collect everything that's published in the UK (books, magazines, papers, leaflets, flyers, ...). One of the librarians makes a pretty good case about the use of collecting and preserving everything. Even (or especially) the things you don't think are worth preserving.
"Good" is not the metric for preserving things. "Important" is. Marvel's Avengers is important to preserve because this failure is a major historical milestone.
Like, imagine if somehow every copy of ET for the Atari 2600 vanished. Would anything fun be lost? Of course not. But would we lose some critical context in an important historical event? Yes. Very much so.
Fortunately, Atari games aren't the kind of ephemeral media where we have to worry about that like cloud-service games or pre-code cellulite films.
Physical and digital copies will still work, they’ve made that explicitly clear.
Is preservation of GaaS actually important though? We're not talking about niche shovelware that somebody is nostalgic for, we're talking about preserving a thing that wasn't meant to ever be preserved, that hurt the gaming industry and represented gaming's modern backsliding into corporate greed.
Not a problem, fitgirl to the rescue!
This game was mocked when it was announced as late to the party, mocked when it was demoed as looking like some wish.com avengers characters, mocked upon release as being a shallow experience, and now it's being delisted. My backlog remains resilient. Thank God I put on my Himalayan Walking Shoes!
I’ll probably never play it but for that price it’s worth the risk.
There's a social cost associated with buying it, namely, that you support live service games. So please don't buy it.
I don't know about that. The game has now removed all of the live service elements, so I would say it's showing that there is interest in this type of game without the live service.
I do support live service games though. I prefer them and that’s pretty much all I ever play.
What they’ve done with handling this game in delisting it is quite frankly fantastic - get rid of all micro transactions and bundle every single one with the game and basically give the game away for free at its end of life. Now anyone what wants to play it like a regular single player offline game can for a few bucks, and I believe are least in pc it uses steam for online play so it will still be playable multiplayer. Everyone wins.
You probably wont' be able to play it soon. Servers will get shut down sooner or later if they're delisting the game.
They’ve explicitly talked about this, the game is entirely playable offline after the delisting.