Marvel Heroes: Vom Flop zum wirklich guten Action-MMO

The action MMO Marvel Heroes has reinvented itself once again.

A huge update, the “biggest ever”, was released last week for the action MMO Marvel Heroes. Over 50 characters, all in the game, have been revamped. The powers system in Marvel Heroes has been overhauled. In a video, the developers now talk about the update and how proud they are to have accomplished it:

The developers specifically highlight heroes like Rogue, Rocket Raccoon, or Loki and believe they now play much closer to their comic or movie counterparts.

Overall, they are sure: This is the best Marvel Heroes that has existed so far.

Marvel Heroes is a feel-good story among MMOs

Schuhmann says: When Marvel Heroes launched in 2013, I tried it then and found it really bad. It was a disaster and I uninstalled it after just a few hours. For me, Marvel Heroes was a typical case of “They want to milk a huge license with Marvel, and the quality of the game doesn’t matter to them because fans will play it just for the license.”

Over the years, I have reinstalled Marvel Heroes and followed its development with interest and fun. It was never really my game, but always a nice pastime for a few hours. You could make progress in each session, develop new characters, find items, improve yourself, and plow through hordes of enemies.

Especially the “event mania” of the game always brought me back on holidays because I knew: Now they have 15 buffs active at the same time and loot is raining everywhere. I even tolerated one of the longest and most annoying patch processes in the genre.

After the big update, I spent a few hours in Marvel Heroes again in the last days. It has improved significantly. The removal of skill points has done the game good – it was unnecessarily complicated before. I always felt like I was playing heroes wrong because I hadn’t read a big “this is how you play this thing right” guide. By the way, I really mean “this thing”, the one from the Fantastic Four.

Now I can, as described in the video, allocate points on-the-fly, take them back, and experiment.

With all the heroes and missions, Marvel Heroes offers a lot of gameplay content that can keep you occupied forever. And surprisingly, the free-to-play system is unobtrusive. I have now unlocked 15 characters – all for free – with 175 Eternity Splinters, you can buy a random hero. And they drop quite well.

I’ve managed to bring about 4 or 5 heroes to the highest level without spending a dime on the game. And also without “You write about us, we’ll give you this” stories.

With the update, some minor bugs and gameplay quirks have disappeared. I haven’t encountered any new difficulties, even though the update is so massive. Great job by the team.

Marvel Heroes deserves a second chance on PS4 and Xbox One

I would wish that the rumors turn out to be true and Marvel Heroes actually comes to PS4 – Xbox One would surely be nice too. If enough players see Marvel Heroes with “fresh eyes” and without preconceived notions, the MMO could flourish like The Elder Scrolls Online did two years ago.

Marvel Heroes is a Cinderella story. It proves that an MMO can go from “really bad” to “great” when the team works on it and nurtures its baby with heart and brains.

Here we present the “Biggest Update ever”

Marvel Heroes will become more like a Diablo MMO with superheroes in 2017