Marvel Rivals simply hit a powerful milestone: 10 million gamers in three days.
NetEase’s free-to-play superhero team-based PvP shooter launched on December 6 throughout PC by way of Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. While Sony and Microsoft don’t make PlayStation or Xbox participant numbers public, Steam makes Valve stats obtainable, and it’s there that Marvel Rivals is having fun with a very large launch.
Marvel Rivals peaked over its launch weekend with 480,990 concurrent gamers, which was sufficient to place it in Steam’s prime 5 most-played video games. It’s the twentieth highest concurrent participant quantity ever seen on Steam, forward of the likes of Helldivers 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Destiny 2.
On Steam, Marvel Rivals has a ‘largely constructive’ consumer assessment score, with 76% of the 35,000 evaluations tagged as constructive. Check out IGN’s Marvel Rivals Review in Progress to search out out what we expect.
For NetEase, it will likely be hoping not solely to maintain Marvel Rivals’ participant depend as excessive as attainable for so long as attainable (one thing that’s proved significantly tough for dwell service video games of late), however to make sufficient cash from gamers to satisfy the corporate’s inner income projections. To that finish, Marvel Rivals sells a battle go and premium skins, however are they convincing gamers to open their wallets? Early indicators counsel they’re — Marvel Rivals is the second top-selling recreation on Steam by income, behind solely Grinding Gear Games’ motion RPG Path of Exile 2.
Marvel Rivals launched alongside Season 0, dubbed Dooms’ Rise. This month-long kick-off season begins with a complete of 33 heroes, all obtainable to play without spending a dime, eight maps for Quick Match and Competitive modes, a Conquest map, and a Practice Range. Dooms’ Rise serves because the opening chapter “for the chaos brought on by every of Doctor Dooms’ time experiments colliding and unleashing the Timestream Entanglement,” NetEase mentioned.
There’s a Twitch Drops occasion for Season 0, as you’d anticipate from a dwell service recreation of this kind, an ‘Entangled Moments’ seasonal occasion to unlock spray rewards, gallery card rewards, and tales for finishing duties, and a world launch reward: a particular code for a free Iron Man costume.
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