NetEase has required content creators to sign a contract prohibiting them from saying anything bad about Marvel Rivals for playtest access.
"NetEase Games & Marvel Games are today very glad to announce that they are soon going to kick-off a closed beta for their Team-Based PVP Shooter Marvel Rivals. (the said closed beta starts this July for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S)" - NetEase Games & Marvel Games.
The long development cycle means these are no longer even flavour of the month. Xdefiant, concord, marathon. Oof. All vying for that small hero shooter pool.
I really hate what Jim Ryan did to PlayStation while he was there. They should have stopped entirely at Bungie and kept everything else as it was.
will we be able to play the beta without signing an nda not to talk anything negative about the game?
The ultimate 6v6 Super Hero team-based PVP shooter comes to PS5.
NetEase Games seems to have just conducted a Marvel Rivals console playtest in California for a total of six hours this May.
So they recognize that is a bad game from start :)))
No faith in the product. Why should I put faith that it will turn out any good and spend money on it?
Pretty unethical practice. But there will be content creators happy to shill it like they did with other bad products in the past. I remember kinda funny games telling us how great the Avengers live service game was.
It's hard to actually judge the value of this proposition
for 1) it could have a perverse effect on the perception that the game must suck if they don't allow negative reviews.
But on the other hand, we have seen how a game can be tanked just by having streamers or content creators bashing the game just for the sake of bashing due to the nature of the game or who's behind it.
My best example would be Day's Gone where the media already bashed the game due to being another generic open world with a white male protagonist.
A balance should be found between both extremes.