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So I guess I won't need to waste my time downloading the update.
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Marvel Heroes
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Gerrard
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So what has "changed completely" again? Because this is exactly what the game was before.
Actually, no. Before you didn't even need to avoid red zones, you just used a medkit with invulnerability on costume core.
Lol I can't believe someone rated you "retarded" on this statement. Yeah, Diablo 2 is what Marvel Heroes would be like if they took away the hotbar but kept the "F1, F2, etc." hotkeys that only affect the left and right mouse button. And then you got Zealot Paladins spamming Zeal, you got the Barbarian Whirlwind spam done in a triangle, you got skeleton army Necros that do jack shit, you used to have the Blood Golem + Iron Maiden combo which again lets the Necro do jack shit. Or you could be an idiot like me and keep trying to make a Meleemancer work.
The last thing I would call "smooth" is the travel power windup time.
Given that they added a "cooldown" to dash powers, there is actually less mobility.
Still, I'm super surprised they actually went through with it, given the huuuuge backlash on the official forums, including the Test Center forum.
Travel power windup time is a bandaid to the shitty idea of putting cooldowns on Dashes. It was annoyingly shit in GW2 and I played that a lot.
eklektyk
Erudite
so decided to do smth diffrent and installed this - went thru tutorial with iron man - it was nice but starting currency allowance did not covered his cost so went with black widow
after awhile decidet to roll dice with that random hero token thingy coz i got only one hero so what can go wrong ? right ?
as it stands i rollled black widow
GG RNG GG kinda bummed but stil i may hang in as far as finishing story goes 
Sykar
Arcane
They hoped that they can ensare enough console users to play their dumbed down game. The retardation of this move cannot be fully appreciated if you do not know about the fact that for more than a year they were updating every hero to the so called "level 52" standard, only to throw it all overboard with this big "overhaul" again.
Essentially they wasted a crap ton of resources for a massive update only to completely invalidade it with an equally big update before the originally planned massive update was fully realized.
I would not be surprised of this game goes down the shitter in the next 5 years.
The game is ruined for me no way will I ever touch it again. A crying shame since the original game had a lot of promise for years to come, but no, they have to dumb down the game for consoletards.
Edit: After checking recent Steam reviews, never mind. Lol.
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Sykar
Arcane
I can guarantee you that they are all warranted.
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Sad! Because even if dumbed down, I still was willing to play the old fluid experience, just to have a bit of casual fun (with characters that don't need more than one bar lol).
But nope, I can't even do that.
But nope, I can't even do that.
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Sykar
Arcane
Richly deserved after all the BS Gazderplion was pulling.
Jason Liang
Arcane
I lost 1.5 years of my life to Marvel Avenger's Alliance (and I'm not ashamed to admit it anymore). I can still feel the steaming rancid bile rising for this. Fuck Disney, Fuck MCU, Fuck Thor 3, Fuck Star Wars VIII TLJ.
BOYCOTT
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MAA was the stuff man
Balance was incredibly shit and PvP is p2w but it is really fun regardless. System wise it was better than 90% of other flash game, even today's mobile games.
Was on 1 month break and when I returned the dev announced closing the game down.
Sykar
Arcane
From the Marvel Heroes forum a timeline:
"I have been following Gazillion since they got the Marvel license in 2009 and was in touch with them because of the site and domain I got before I stopped playing the game since 2014 because of various reasons.
So, I'm probably the very first fan. I'll try to write a quick history down from top of my mind.
2005 - Gazillion was found by a venture capitalist Rob Hutter along with his investor friends and John Romero aka the designer of Doom.
2005-2009 - Gazillion bought out various studios including the studio that's making Jumpgate Evolution, NetDevil. Romero's studio was Slipgate Ironworks.
2009 - Gazillion got the Marvel license for a decade.
Mid 2009 - Diablo series creator and founder and ex-president of Blizzard North David Brevik accepted Gazillion's offer to lead making a Marvel MMO. He started as a Studio Director. He quickly began creating a development team and hiring people. Mostly ex Blizzard-North people.
By this time Gazillion had 5 or 6 studios (Gazillion HQ, Brevik's Gargantuan, Netdevil, Slipgate Ironworks, Amazing Society and one more which I can't remember atm) over different places around the world and investors raised a lot of money. If I remember correct, investors raised around 60-150 million dollars around that time.
350+ people were working at Gazillion by the end of 2009.
End of 2009 - Slipgate Ironworks was shut down. Their MMO was cancelled. John Romero left Gazillion.
2010 - Brevik became SVP and Head of All Studios.
End of 2010 - Brevik became President and COO.
2011 - NetDevil was closed. Development of Jumpgate Evolution stopped.
Gargantuan Studios was renamed Secret Identity Studios.
Gazilion and Amazing Society's family-friendly game Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was released.
2012 - One more studio was shut down. Their game was cancelled.
Amazing Society transferred over to Gazillion HQ and stopped hiring people. Secret Identiy Studios was also there develoing Marvel Heroes. Gazillion has been shutting down studios and cutting expenses for the last couple of years and this relocation was just an another step.
End of 2012 - Investors expected a Marvel MMO to come out by then. They raised tremendous amount of money and one by one all studios save one failed to release a game. Amazing Society's SHSO was a a fairly small project and it was not doing good at all. The board started pressuring David Brevik to release the Marvel MMO by mid 2013 at latest.
Creative Director Peter Hu (Ex Blizz-North member) stated in the forums that Marvel Heroes was not an ARPG and they had to change it to one in the middle of the development.
2013 - David Brevik became the CEO and Marvel Heroes was released. It got mixed reactions and a metacritic score of 58 although the fan rating was a bit better (6.7). David Brevik's reasoning was the game had to come out too early and investors rightfully wanted some of their money back after 8 years of failure with other studios.
A couple months after the release - Marvel Heroes and Gazillion were on the brink of death. The board almost locked the doors of Gazillion but David Brevik assured investors he would change things around and the game only needed some time.
Brevik encouraged all developers to take part in the forums, interact with the community and implement changes to address their concerns.
2014 - Marvel Heroes got improved greatly by weekly updates and monthly hero releases.
The game started making money.
Marvel Heroes was rebranded as Marvel Heroes 2015 and it got a Metacritc score of 81. The fan rating was even better.
2015 - David Brevik said the game made 10-15M dollars of profit last year (I can't remember the exact number) and predicted it would make around $25M in 2015.
Throughout the year Marvel Heroes 2015 enjoyed high praises from ARPG communities and won several gaming awards. At one time it's Steam rating was almost 90%.
Monthly hero releases continued. David Brevik estimated the Marvel Heroes team to be around 150 people.
October of 2015 - David Brevik left the Gazillion. He eventually told the community that he was not happy being a CEO and he wanted to return to making games. He apperantly went very indie and started developing various games himself alone (he's all that's doing coding, art, animation, sound, music, design, testing etc.)
Investor David Von Dorman became the new CEO.
2016 - Marvel Heroes 2016 was released. It didn't meet the expectations of the community that hoped as much improvement as MH 2015 had over the original although the game was still very enjoyable.
Updates slowed down and little to none new content was added to the game.
2017 - Marvel Heroes 2016 received an update developers called Biggest Update Ever. The community was very vocal about the changes in the update and gave largely negative reactions. Developers insisted BUE was going to make things better eventually.
Marvel Heroes 2016 was renamed Marvel Heroes Omega and PS4 version of the game was announced. It cause concerns among the playerbase.
Marvel Heroes Omega's console version was released and it got mixed reviews.
A few months after the release of console version Gazillion went completley silent and various articles about the CEO Dorman appeared in MMO news sites.
November 2017 - Rumors about Marvel Heroes and Gazillion's closure proved to be true as Disney announced they removed their ties with Gazillion and Marvel Heroes games would be shut down.
December the 31st, 2017 - Marvel Heroes is going to be shut down."
It is such a fucking shame that one of the very few decent license games for a major comic/movie franchise was run into the ground after it showed so much promise after a botched start.
I hope I will never see any of the retards responsible for the mess near a game I will play in the near or far future again.
Fun fact, one of the rabid forum moderators had deleted the original post but luckily someone had saved it. Fucking yokels think they can do anything without someone noticing.
"I have been following Gazillion since they got the Marvel license in 2009 and was in touch with them because of the site and domain I got before I stopped playing the game since 2014 because of various reasons.
So, I'm probably the very first fan. I'll try to write a quick history down from top of my mind.
2005 - Gazillion was found by a venture capitalist Rob Hutter along with his investor friends and John Romero aka the designer of Doom.
2005-2009 - Gazillion bought out various studios including the studio that's making Jumpgate Evolution, NetDevil. Romero's studio was Slipgate Ironworks.
2009 - Gazillion got the Marvel license for a decade.
Mid 2009 - Diablo series creator and founder and ex-president of Blizzard North David Brevik accepted Gazillion's offer to lead making a Marvel MMO. He started as a Studio Director. He quickly began creating a development team and hiring people. Mostly ex Blizzard-North people.
By this time Gazillion had 5 or 6 studios (Gazillion HQ, Brevik's Gargantuan, Netdevil, Slipgate Ironworks, Amazing Society and one more which I can't remember atm) over different places around the world and investors raised a lot of money. If I remember correct, investors raised around 60-150 million dollars around that time.
350+ people were working at Gazillion by the end of 2009.
End of 2009 - Slipgate Ironworks was shut down. Their MMO was cancelled. John Romero left Gazillion.
2010 - Brevik became SVP and Head of All Studios.
End of 2010 - Brevik became President and COO.
2011 - NetDevil was closed. Development of Jumpgate Evolution stopped.
Gargantuan Studios was renamed Secret Identity Studios.
Gazilion and Amazing Society's family-friendly game Marvel Super Hero Squad Online was released.
2012 - One more studio was shut down. Their game was cancelled.
Amazing Society transferred over to Gazillion HQ and stopped hiring people. Secret Identiy Studios was also there develoing Marvel Heroes. Gazillion has been shutting down studios and cutting expenses for the last couple of years and this relocation was just an another step.
End of 2012 - Investors expected a Marvel MMO to come out by then. They raised tremendous amount of money and one by one all studios save one failed to release a game. Amazing Society's SHSO was a a fairly small project and it was not doing good at all. The board started pressuring David Brevik to release the Marvel MMO by mid 2013 at latest.
Creative Director Peter Hu (Ex Blizz-North member) stated in the forums that Marvel Heroes was not an ARPG and they had to change it to one in the middle of the development.
2013 - David Brevik became the CEO and Marvel Heroes was released. It got mixed reactions and a metacritic score of 58 although the fan rating was a bit better (6.7). David Brevik's reasoning was the game had to come out too early and investors rightfully wanted some of their money back after 8 years of failure with other studios.
A couple months after the release - Marvel Heroes and Gazillion were on the brink of death. The board almost locked the doors of Gazillion but David Brevik assured investors he would change things around and the game only needed some time.
Brevik encouraged all developers to take part in the forums, interact with the community and implement changes to address their concerns.
2014 - Marvel Heroes got improved greatly by weekly updates and monthly hero releases.
The game started making money.
Marvel Heroes was rebranded as Marvel Heroes 2015 and it got a Metacritc score of 81. The fan rating was even better.
2015 - David Brevik said the game made 10-15M dollars of profit last year (I can't remember the exact number) and predicted it would make around $25M in 2015.
Throughout the year Marvel Heroes 2015 enjoyed high praises from ARPG communities and won several gaming awards. At one time it's Steam rating was almost 90%.
Monthly hero releases continued. David Brevik estimated the Marvel Heroes team to be around 150 people.
October of 2015 - David Brevik left the Gazillion. He eventually told the community that he was not happy being a CEO and he wanted to return to making games. He apperantly went very indie and started developing various games himself alone (he's all that's doing coding, art, animation, sound, music, design, testing etc.)
Investor David Von Dorman became the new CEO.
2016 - Marvel Heroes 2016 was released. It didn't meet the expectations of the community that hoped as much improvement as MH 2015 had over the original although the game was still very enjoyable.
Updates slowed down and little to none new content was added to the game.
2017 - Marvel Heroes 2016 received an update developers called Biggest Update Ever. The community was very vocal about the changes in the update and gave largely negative reactions. Developers insisted BUE was going to make things better eventually.
Marvel Heroes 2016 was renamed Marvel Heroes Omega and PS4 version of the game was announced. It cause concerns among the playerbase.
Marvel Heroes Omega's console version was released and it got mixed reviews.
A few months after the release of console version Gazillion went completley silent and various articles about the CEO Dorman appeared in MMO news sites.
November 2017 - Rumors about Marvel Heroes and Gazillion's closure proved to be true as Disney announced they removed their ties with Gazillion and Marvel Heroes games would be shut down.
December the 31st, 2017 - Marvel Heroes is going to be shut down."
It is such a fucking shame that one of the very few decent license games for a major comic/movie franchise was run into the ground after it showed so much promise after a botched start.
I hope I will never see any of the retards responsible for the mess near a game I will play in the near or far future again.
Fun fact, one of the rabid forum moderators had deleted the original post but luckily someone had saved it. Fucking yokels think they can do anything without someone noticing.
flyingjohn
Arcane
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So it looks like gazillion fired everybody and the game servers are closing this Friday.
Sykar
Arcane
Too bad that Gazillion did not fire themselves and let competent management handle the game. What a waste of a formerly decent superhero game.
LeStryfe79
President Spartacus
I had fun with it back in early 2016. My friends and I would gather at Stark Tower but would refer to it as Trump Tower. I think playing the game back then the way we did was one of the reasons Trump won.
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