Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix have officially released the last major patch for Marvel’s Avengers.
Marvel’s Avengers was operating on borrowed time after it was confirmed that official support for the much-maligned live-service superhero title will end on September 30, three years after it came out.
Update 2.8 brings a laundry list of changes to Marvel’s Avengers. The main highlight is the revamped Marketplace. It’s now open season to everybody, which means you can redeem nearly all Outfits, Emotes, Takedowns, and Nameplates. The latest update also removes Shipments and Hero Challenge Cards. If an item is locked via campaign progression or the Cosmetic Vendor, it won’t be unlocked unless the conditions are met.
As a bonus, Crystal Dynamics is giving anyone who earned a trophy or achievement before April 1 the Founder’s Gift, which contains a new Iron Man skin, Variable Threat Response Battlesuit.
This suit is the same exact one that War Machine wears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The only difference is that it’s for Iron Man in Marvel’s Avengers. It doesn’t bring any gameplay difference but it looks sick, if we’re being honest.
Unfortunately, Spider-Man isn’t swinging its way to the Xbox and PC platforms anytime soon. Square Enix will continue to abide by the PlayStation exclusivity of the web-slinger, at least for Marvel’s Avengers.
Marvel’s Avengers has been dead pretty much for at least the past year. It’s the best example of why studios shouldn’t push live-service elements into their games. Marvel’s Avengers was a decent attempt at capitalizing on the success of the MCU. For a while, it worked. But, then, the honeymoon period wore off and people realized that forcing games to go on for much longer than they should don’t work most of the time.
Fingers crossed, Rocksteady Studios is taking notes on how they want to change Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League so it has minimal backlash.
Marvel’s Avengers was part of Square Enix’s multi-year and multi-game deal with Marvel Studios. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is the other one. It’s unclear if Square Enix is currently working on other Marvel games at the moment.
