The Crystal Dynamics team has announced the end of development for its live service game, Marvel’s Avengers. The news comes two and a half years after the game’s fall 2020 launch, during which time the Marvel’s Avengers development team released 12 playable heroes (including the PlayStation-exclusive Spider-Man), a full expansion set in Wakanda, several character-focused Operations, and several smaller pieces of content .
Update 2.7, which arrived on November 30, 2022 and added Omega-Level Threat to Winter Soldier and the Cloning Lab, was the last new content for Marvel’s Avengers. Crystal Dynamics has scheduled a final title update, version 2.8, for March 31, 2023. This update will not add any new content (including no additional cosmetics). Instead, it will deliver definitive balance updates and shut down the cosmetics market.
Once this update is available, credits can no longer be purchased and any remaining credits in players’ accounts will be converted to game resources such as units, fragments, upgrade modules, polychoron, and DNA keys. As a result of the closure of the marketplace, all content from the marketplace, challenge map, and cosmetic shipping will be made available for free to all players. This means that all outfits, takedowns, emotes, and nametags from these sources will be free for all players starting March 31st.
Official support for Marvel’s Avengers will end completely on September 30th. After this time, single player and multiplayer will continue to be playable, but Crystal Dynamics is unlikely to fix any further issues with the game. The game will also be removed from digital storefronts at this time. Marvel’s Avengers received mediocre reviews at launch, with many praising the single-player content. However, it was the repetitive multiplayer modes, numerous microtransactions, and slow implementation of new content by the development team that irked many fans of the title.
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