Gazillion Entertainment has curiously posted a new trailer and screenshots for a game called Marvel Heroes 2015.
It appears that Gazillion is secretly re-launching the Marvel Heroes MMO as Marvel Heroes 2015 according to forum chatter on the official Marvel Heroes website. One official moderator who goes by @Doomsaw essentially stated that the game will go through relaunches of this nature to ensure it’s inline with the greater Marvel Universe.
A non-profit educational group is looking to buy the Marvel Heroes license to either maintain the MMOARPG as-is or use it to build an entirely new game.
Why campaign is set to "Flexible goal"? Like "We desperately need $450 000, but hey, we'll settle for any amount of money you'll give to us. And we won't have to do a damn thing.".
They say in Indiegogo campaign: "To achieve our plan, we are currently seeking a minimum of $450k – $900k". MINIMUM of $450k, so why "flexible"?
Next, they say that currently, "creditors claims totaling at $900K" and "The closer our offer is to those claims, the greater our chances of success". A chance costs $450 000.
They're also saying that "One downside is that Gazillion has spent millions to license the use of characters and story lines over the years", where will they get millions for a license? Another campaign? Aggressive microtransactions? Oh, right, "Unless millions are raised to fund this campaign, the odds of this option being successful are very limited."
Even their Paragon university website has "Coming Soon" on it and "Elder mage" have only one "news" and copy-pasted content from Indiegogo campaign. Sounds like a scam to me.
These were all my feelings as well. The whole thing reeks of ripoff and I'm generally a pretty forgiving guy when it comes to crowdfunding campaigns.
Chris and Colby are back with Episode 2 of the Gaming Historia podcast. In this episode, we use the imminent closure of Paragon as a jumping off point to discuss Digital Gaming and how it affects gaming as a whole. In addition, we get a little off topic about questionable things that are done with amiibos.
There's not a lot of closure when free-to-play games go away.
I almost spent 50 bucks on this game. It's sad for the people that spent all that money.
Had a notification on PSN that refunds will be given on things purchased from IIRC August until now. Hate to see it close down I was starting to enjoy it but at least will be getting some of my money back.
So this appears to be a relaunch of Heroes to celebrate the 1 year anniversary. It also will officially kick-off the Mac open beta. May have to try this now that it will be on Mac.
I wonder if there's any interest in launching this on console platforms. It seems well-suited to controller play, but I ask because of how successful DC Universe was on PlayStation platforms-- I think Sony Online stated that PS3 players took up like 80% of the entire player base.
This would be great on consoles. Wonder if it will come over :)