Inevitably, paid XP boosts appeared in Marvel’s Avengers

The comic adventure sets in motion the “Pay to Win” mechanic

Unsurprisingly, as inevitable as Thanos, paid XP boosts have been added to Square Enix’s RPG Marvel’s Avengers. Fans of the game have taken to social media to express their disappointment with the new update.

Players can now purchase “consumables” from Marvel’s Avengers in-game store, allowing characters to speed up their individual level growth in exchange for real money. While the addition of these boosts comes as no shock (given that Marvel’s Avengers has been a cash register since before its launch), players are particularly upset as it was previously stated that the paid boosts would be not functionality in the game.

The Marvel’s Avengers Reddit features comments from players criticizing the move.

Paid XP boosts join a laundry list of disastrous marketing ideas surrounding what easily should have been one of the most promising IPs of 2020. Even before launch, the wrath of Marvel and gaming fans has continued. came up with an abundance of piecemeal chords around the title. , including platform-exclusive characters, a slew of microtransactions, and fancy marketing crossovers that tied in-game content to internet providers and even chewing gum brands.

For the most part, the public voted with their wallet, with Square Enix noting that the launch sales for Marvel’s Avengers were well below expectations. The game’s creative director Shawn Escayg left Crystal Dynamics in April to return to his former Naughty Dog playground, and the epic comic book adventure continued to limp through 2021, with one of his biggest prints, the PlayStation exclusive Spider-Man, always unpublished one year after its controversial revelation.

Marvel’s Avengers challenged by players for “Pay to Win” update [ComicBook.com]