The Free2Play action MMO Marvel Heroes has completed its annual relaunch and is now branded as Marvel Heroes 2016. Big things are being announced.
The reasons for the relaunch of the Diablo-like Marvel Heroes have been explained some time ago. They had a weak start back then, made a lot of changes to the game, but felt: No one is interested anymore. The press only came for the release and then forgot about us. Since Marvel Heroes continuously expanded the game, there were also no major cuts that would have prompted new reports – they developed the action spectacle linearly, constantly bringing updates, but no major expansions.
So they simply said: We are no longer Marvel Heroes, we are now Marvel Heroes 2015 – the press came, there were great reports, and then more players came in.
Once you start with the year-number thing, you have to stick with it
Now they have a problem: Who wants to be called “Marvel Heroes 2015” in 2016? It’s just like watching the apocalypse movie “2012” today and feeling: Man, that’s old.
So they applied the “Hello! We’re new now!” trick again. And to give people something to watch, there were some new features accompanying the recent relaunch as Marvel Heroes 2016.
- the start of the Secret Invasion
- Controller support
- a revamp of the graphics for heroes who have been in the game since launch
- leaderboards
- then they revamped the popular hero Deadpool (a movie is coming soon)
- Black Cat is the 55th heroine – Agent Venom a new companion
- and Marvel Heroes 2016 is out of the Mac beta, officially released for Mac now
The new CEO at Marvel Heroes proclaims: What is being launched here will usher in the biggest year for our game yet. The best is yet to come.
