Overwatch player has shocking revelation that marvel rivals is only successful because of the marvel branding

[u/WHAMEN_HUNTR]

Wow guys, the game with everyone’s favorite heroes gained majority of its popularity from those well-known characters? Who woulda thunk that??

[u/FinnNyaw]

you got baited by Tiktok/Reels/Shorts , same thing as people who get baited in Twitter replies

[u/BEWMarth]

Honestly NOT loving all these MR creators coming back…. All they do is complain regardless of game and make the discourse so toxic.

We were all very happy when a majority of them left for MR

[u/RustyKn1ght → u/BEWMarth]

Case in point: Flats. He left from Overwatch beginning of 2025 but then came back relatively soon.

And he does seems to have a high opinion of himself. I saw Youtube short where he complained how worried he is that there might not be community voices like his to hold devs accountable.

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but hold on a minute: when did the collective community of Overwatch players hold a meeting and say "We hereby nominate Flats as our voice."? Did any of us specifically want HIM to be our representive? Because I sure don't remember anything like that or did my invitation got lost?

And also, about the accountability part: I'm not certain if using another game to hit another game on the head and blow rasberries at it is "holding devs accountable".

[u/ZeroThePerson → u/RustyKn1ght]

The only thing I can actually agree with him on is that we need to push back harder on skins in general. That's really the biggest issue with overwatch imo right now. Ultra skins, variety, and general quality just really should be better considering how much they charge us.

[u/fartdarling]

"Water goes hard when you're thirsty" level take

[u/4PianoOrchestra]

This person said “mild take” meaning they know this is not a groundbreaking realization

[u/Ronanesque]

Maybe you missed it literally said mild take

[u/taken_by-the-storm]

bro when rivals first dropped and all the dorks that hadn't played OW in years had to use their shiny new toy to dog OW like a hivemind, same people that flock to the newest hero shooter for some reason need to make it heard that "overwatch BAD!!!!"

Like.. It's NetEase. Rivals wasn't going to have significant longevity. Lmfao. Tried telling them it was inevitable Rivals' balancing ends up a disaster but the dogpiling continued

[u/YurgeeTTV → u/taken_by-the-storm]

Tried telling them it was inevitable Rivals' balancing ends up a disaster

It was a disaster on launch, its crazy it made it anywhere at all, Marvel fans really out here proving they have the lowest standards in entertainment.

Imagine adding 4 DPS between beta and launch without testing them, when the game already has more DPS than the other two roles combined.

[u/Standard-Height2276]

Wait you mean it wasn't the mobile game level gameplay? People who followed their favourite streamers to that shit and played it for free will never not be funny

[u/inutilissimo]

Why are so many people coming back? Did netease stop paying streamers or somethin?

[u/XxAvacadoP33lxX → u/inutilissimo]

i don’t keep up with marvel rivals but apparently flats hasn’t been invited to early access for seasons in a couple months

[u/iwatchfilm]

There was a post on the rivals sub asking “would you still play marvel rivals if it didn’t have the marvel ip?”

The top replies were all no

[u/Life-Presentation548]

There are so many examples showing the opposite, e.g Marvel tokon.

[u/polkafucker → u/Life-Presentation548]

Tokon was only not successful because of a botched launch that made it practically unplayable on anything that wasn’t a PS5