The head of Crystal Dynamics claims in an interview that there are still many content players from Marvel’s Avengers who have yet to experience them.
The studio behind Marvel’s Avengers claims that there is a lot of content that players have yet to experience. With the launch of Crystal Dynamics’ video games against the famous superhero team, there was a positive reception during the launch, but the title faltered shortly thereafter, Marvel’s Avengers significantly underestimated expectations.
Problems began to appear before Crystal Dynamics before the game was launched in the form of a controversial marketing campaign. From dubious character designs to an unpopular pre-order policy, Marvel’s Avengers it seems to be facing an uphill battle early on. After the release of the game, more problems arose as games completed the main story and the content of live services was not enough to use in the long run. By the time the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S hit the shelves in November 2020, Marvel’s Avengers lost 96% of its player base and still did not make a profit.
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In a recent interview with Game Informer, The head of the Crystal Dynamics studio, Scot Amos, has the difficult launch of Marvel’s Avengers and what the studio learned from the experience. Amos also took the opportunity to express his pride in what the Crystal Dynamics team created and acknowledged that the communication errors had led to players not becoming addicted from the start. While Amos says that the studio let the player down, he is committed to it. Marvel’s Avengers forward, because the development team knows what the game is really capable of and there is a lot of content that gamers have yet to experience.
“We love what we did with this game, and we’ve desperate to see everyone else after the cool stuff and scrape away anything that blocks or obscures all the pleasures. There are just so many games that people just have not seen, or that we have not done an excellent communication job. For our part, we are disappointed in what we did not send to people correctly, because at the beginning we did not become as addicted to them as we would like. […] We know we’re letting some fans down from where we want to be, but what we achieved in that game is why we’re committed to it from above because we know what’s here.. “
Amos attributes Crystal Dynamics’ lack of communication with its players to the studio’s commitment to fix the game after its launch as Marvel’s Avengers required some significant patches after release. Focusing on making the base game fit the studio vision, the studio was less confident in announcing Marvel’s Avengers’ long-term plan for additional content. According to Amos, this mistake has changed the mentality of Crystal Dynamics, and the studio will refocus on its communication efforts.
While it’s refreshing to hear a studio manager admit mistakes in releasing a game, at the same time it feels like damage control in an attempt to bring some players back to Marvel’s Avengers. Thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the popularity of these comic heroes is an all-time high, and it should translate well into a successful gameplay installment. Players will have to wait to see what Crystal Dynamics has to offer before it can be determined whether a lack of communication was the reason why Marvel’s Avengers initially had a flawed performance.
Source: Game Informer
