Key things
- The director of Marvel Rivals believes in the success of the game, he is not afraid of a failure similar to Concord.
- Chen highlights the Marvel IP's ability to create unique gameplay and access to a vast library of characters as something that will attract players.
- Player survey results show a high recommendation rate for Marvel Rivals and positive feedback.
Concord will forever be regarded as one of gaming's greatest failures. A reported toxic work environment saw the game fail to attract any sort of audience, leading to its termination after two weeks and its director leaving Firewalk Studios.
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With Marvel Rivals soon to enter a similar space in the gaming environment, I got to chat with the game's director, Guangyun Chen, at this year's Tokyo Game Show. During our interview, we talked about everything from Marvel IPs to comparisons to Concorde.
Marvel Rivals will not be the next Concord
When I asked Chen if he had any concerns about what happened to Concord in his game, he simply said, “No. We're confident in our game.”
“Our design ideology is to make it fun for people, for players,” Chen added, citing the Marvel brand as something that “allows us to have unique gameplay and really makes us stand out from a shooter perspective.”
Our design ideology is to make it fun for people, for players.
Chen reaffirmed that NetEase games have full access to Marvel's extensive library of characters, including those in the comics, MCU and past video games, and feels that this alone is enough to attract players. “We want to show that is our specialty. We have Marvel IP. We are under the Marvel story. We have over 85 years of Marvel history and we have countless heroes and maps,” he said.
NetEase's confidence in Marvel Rivals doesn't seem misplaced either. According to Chen, a recent player survey released after one of the beta games “received about 100,000 player feedbacks”. The survey reportedly determined that 70 percent of players would recommend the game to a friend, averaging 4.5/5.
You can read our full interview with Marvel Rivals right now on TheGamer.
Marvel Rivals is a 6v6 third-person shooter with teams of comic book heroes and villains. It features a variety of destructible maps from across the Marvel universe and adds new content regularly.
