Marvel Strike Force’s updates back in August 2018 were so provoking that the reaction of the community was very unsatisfactory, especially that the developers could have dodged those results had they made a different call.
Enlisting heroes after measuring their power and cooperativity, and forming teams to confront various trials are substantial grounds for an entertaining mobile game in Strike Force. However, the execution of the game was possibly the most disappointing business scenario.
Strike Force’s upgrade at the time was uncontrollable in outraging its users to the extent that its most influential supporters criticized the decisions of FoxNext.
Marvel Strike Force had a straightforward, everyday story with humoristic writing and typical heroic characters. The protagonist, Nick Fury, has organized the parallel reality’s black ops force Strike to defend his own Earth, which represents the center of all dimensions. The villain Ultimus had colonized many of the other worlds, suppressed and brainwashed their heroes, and is heading next for the player’s world. They fight each other, and the player attempts to complete challenges, release heroes, and add them to his list. Many available modes and missions allow the players to unlock heroes and coins. In addition to different events relating to the Marvel universe, players can also fight each other in arena battles.
The gamers can collect coins and power cores by merely playing, but they can opt for using real money to quicken this process. Accordingly, in four months, the game had reached 10 million downloads and over $25 million. Although everything seems reasonable, things get somewhat weird when analyzing these data. Unlocking some heroes just by gameplaying can take months of patience and hard work when a simple purchase that can cost tens or even hundreds of dollars suffices. That is, obviously, past the microtransactions framework. Moreover, heroes can upgrade to seven stars, which requires paying even more money or a lot more patience and grinding. At this level, we are talking about macro-transactions.
To make this unfair treatment even worse, the free gaming progress is plodding and has many limitations that outraged the fans, including reduced raid prizes and the lack of log in awards.
Consequently, two of the game’s most prominent supporters on Youtube, “Kraken OXTS86V” and “Seating: Man of Marvel Strike Force,” declared leaving the game as a reaction to the publisher’s last updates. Despite their fondness of Marvel Strike Force, the raiding rewards and overload of paywalls drove them away.
The game’s final destiny was still ambiguous back then. Despite its solid grounds for a fun gaming experience, the macro transactions were irritating the fans and pushing them to quit. The publisher must restore that winning side of the Marvel universe before it is too late.
