Epic Games have ordered the team behind a shooter that features Marvel and Star Wars characters to complete their project using an "AI first" production model.
Even before the Slop Mandate, I’m not sure I could be less enthused about that product.
Let’s cross over the trillion-dollar franchises! That’s not the premise for a classic game you’ll proudly share with your children one day. It’s the premise for a 16-year-old fanboy’s first outing on AO3. It’s the premise for something that shuts down in 9 months due to declining interest after two half-hearted content updates and nine gacha banners.
Hot take: if your game mechanics and story wouldn’t work as an unbranded, franchise-free version, no amount of smearing Darth Vader and the Incredible Hulk on the carcass will make it better. (It will, of course, sell better, because Star Wars and Marvel Boys seem to inexplicably have access to credit cards.)
I was thinking more Marvel Rivals. Like why not just add Star Wars characters there? You know most people playing that only care about the thirst traps anyways
Even before the Slop Mandate, I’m not sure I could be less enthused about that product.
Let’s cross over the trillion-dollar franchises! That’s not the premise for a classic game you’ll proudly share with your children one day. It’s the premise for a 16-year-old fanboy’s first outing on AO3. It’s the premise for something that shuts down in 9 months due to declining interest after two half-hearted content updates and nine gacha banners.
Hot take: if your game mechanics and story wouldn’t work as an unbranded, franchise-free version, no amount of smearing Darth Vader and the Incredible Hulk on the carcass will make it better. (It will, of course, sell better, because Star Wars and Marvel Boys seem to inexplicably have access to credit cards.)
Plus, they already did that shit with Fortnite so it won’t even be novel
I was thinking more Marvel Rivals. Like why not just add Star Wars characters there? You know most people playing that only care about the thirst traps anyways
NetEase totally could do that, and then Epic’s desperate bid to cling to relevancy would be even more pathetic