A Word Of Caution About ‘Marvel Rivals’ Season 1 And The Game’s Future – Forbes
Marvel RivalsMarvel Rivals has just launched season 1, the game barreling forward with a colossal amount of momentum over the past month as it has broken past the “you can’t make a successful hero shooter” narrative and has created a phenomenon.Players have praised what is a truly massive amount of content for season 1, which includes three new maps, four new characters (the entire Fantastic Four) and a $10 battle pass with a full ten skins. This is a genre where you might get one character a season, or every other, and fewer battle pass skins than that (often less cool-looking) for the same price.However, many players have brushed past NetEase’s own warning about how the game will function going forward, in the sense that they have purposefully stacked season 1 to be huge, and other seasons will not be this jam-packed. Substantive, sure, but not at this level.“During our brainstorming sessions, we unanimously agreed that bringing them into Marvel Rivals in one giant-sized season was the way to go,” said the Creative Director Guangguang in a dev video. He said season 1 is a “two-in-one” that “features double the playable content of a regular season.”Marvel RivalsSo, this is double. And future seasons will be half of this. What will that look like?This was also sort of evident given that leaked upcoming heroes seem to be thematically paired. We have:Reportedly Blade will be a new character in season 2, given the vampiric events of this season, and he’s already been shown off in official art. I’m not sure who he’d be paired with. Some say Ultron, but there’s not really on theme here. Also floating around is Captain Marvel I can’t find a pair for. But yes, I say two per season even if they’re not perfectly linked.There’s nothing wrong with any of this, it’s just that NetEase has quite literally said that season 1 has double the content of future seasons, so players should not be disappointed when that happens. If the battle pass changes, however, and they cut down the skins while leaving the price the same, that could prove irritating to players. We’ll see. Until then, enjoy season 1.Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram.Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.One Community. Many Voices. Create a free account to share your thoughts. Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations. We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space.In order to do so, please follow the posting rules in our site’s Terms of Service. We’ve summarized some of those key rules below. Simply put, keep it civil.Your post will be rejected if we notice that it seems to contain:User accounts will be blocked if we notice or believe that users are engaged in:So, how can you be a power user?Thanks for reading our community guidelines. Please read the full list of posting rules found in our site’s Terms of Service.
