Former Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra has slammed Marvel Rivals, intimating its an Overwatch clone.
In a now-deleted tweet posted yesterday, Ybarra referred to as NetEase Games’ free-to-play team-based PVP shooter “Overwatch Marvel Rivals”, including that very like Tencent’s Light of Motiram is “a transparent copy of Horizon Zero Dawn”, Marvel Rivals clearly took inspiration from Blizzard’s personal team-based PVP shooter, Overwatch.
“Looks like Overwatch Marvel Rivals ships tomorrow,” Ybarra wrote within the now-deleted tweet. “Much like Light of Motiram (a transparent copy of [Horizon Zero Dawn]) out of China.
“I imply, even the character identify – Windowmaker in [Overwatch] vs. Black Widow in Marvel Rivals lol – NetEase/Tencent – all the identical.”
Before Ybarra deleted the put up, nevertheless, a neighborhood observe appended to the tweet mentioned: “Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, is a well-liked Marvel hero who made her comedian debut in 1964, greater than 50 years earlier than Overwatch and Widowmaker had been created.”
Marvel Rivals lastly launched in full yesterday on sixth December 2024. Getting off to a heroic begin on Steam, it managed to already attain a peak concurrent participant rely of 444,286 over on Valve’s platform, with this quantity doubtless rising additional once more over the weekend.
The recreation itself is described as a “thrilling, fast-paced, cooperative gameplay expertise”, and one which on its announcement head of Marvel Games Jay Ong referred to as one of many staff’s “most bold recreation improvement tasks”, and one the developer has “poured [its] coronary heart and soul into”.
