I'll be honest here. I defended the game the first 2 weeks and an half after the launch. But I'm pretty fast to identify big problems in games. Honestly. I'm always the first of my friends to criticize everything to the point that it's a running joke. But they all eventually starts to see these things later and they end up having the exact same opinion than me. Not to flex here.
I'm about to get really harsh on the game, so sorry for the players who still like it..
We have to forget the fact that there's the MARVEL branding. Obviously it's really nice to control our favorite superheros, but let's stay real here.
SHORT OPINION: You cannot launch a game in that state and not communicating and not apologizing. Also, ALL the wrong decisions that can be made by a Studio has been made. It's sad to say but we need to stop defending that kind of behaviour, as gamers we have a voice and we should use it.
LONG OPINION:
Let's say it. People bought the game because of "Marvel" and it sold decently fast, but after that, the launch has been CATASTROPHIC. Like INSANELY catastrophic. Man it's crazy the amount of bugs that game had (and still have). It's 2020 man, you cannot release a game SOOO unfinished and with SOOO many bugs.
EVERYTHING that could go wrong happened and all of the bad decisions that a team can make has been made.
Some of them have been fixed but it's not enough.
The bugs: Characters falling through the map, ennemies dissapearing through walls, Characters visuals bugs in certain skins(Captain America face, Thor face, ect), people who lost ALL of their saves, people who lost all their skins patterns, Black Widow who was broken and didn't functionned properly AT ALL (she was loosing invisibility after takedowns, her loot table wasn't on-par with the other heroes) all the blue screen on consoles, and the crashes on pc, people who wasn't able to finish the campaign, people who wasn't able to finish some missions in the online, the crashes during the insanely long vault, ect ect ect ect.
The BAD decisions:
The loot was very meh, the exotics was worst than legendaries and almost impossible to obtain. The fact that only the FIRST completion of a WEEKLY mission gave a LITTLE CHANCE to obtain an exotic was insane. After that, they gave us the best way to obtain an exotic, hidden behind a SOLO CONTENT....
The fact that there was no ping system, the fact that it's SO easy to loose sight on teammates when you play co-op and that the tactical sense didn't lasted long enough. To put a faction seller to the completely back of the ship and the other one in another outpost behind a long loading. The lack of content. The fact that Captain wasn't able to break glass or hack..
The fact that they released a patch telling us that it fixed 1000 BUGS. ( A DAMN THOUSAND BUGS) and it did NOTHING. just the fact that the game has more than 1000 bugs at launch is very disturbing alone, yet it didn't fixed anything.
Shop prices were WAY too high.. The fact that we weren't even able to preview what the sellers were selling.. Like wtf?
The HUGE HUGE lack of communication...
The problems after problems after problems.
The fack that Crystal Dynamics studio head Scott Amos said he was sure players would get back on the game when they'll add new content was a HUGE LACK OF HUMILITY. There were NO apologies at all.. Eventually few days ago they did throw a LITTLE apology message hidden in patch notes.
So yeah honestly all the WORST decisions a Studio can made, they made it. You can't do a game release like that. You just can't.
No Man's Sky was THE exception to the rule. You cannot launch a game and expect to fix it later as they did. That's NOT the way to go. And studios needs to understand it.
There were 984 people playing Marvel's Avengers on steam in the last 24 hours. It says something.
We need to stop defending that kind of behaviour.
I wish NOTHING bad to these people as humans, but the decisions makers up there have considerably failed business-wide.
If something, Marvel's Avengers would be set as an example of what not to do in the industry and I hope it can serve as an example.
I know I'm harsh but again, we have a voice and we should use it. We cannot let studios think it's ok to release a game in that state.
Have a nice day everybody and if you have read until here, you're a legend.
PS: Hey, if they pull a No Man's Sky on that game, I'll be the first to admit I was wrong. But I do not think studios should releases games in that State...