#Marvel Rivals’ pores and skin customization ‘controversy’ appears like some forgot the sport is designed to earn cash – Destructoid

Marvel Rivals gamers are up in arms concerning the deployment of the sport’s new coloration customization possibility, which has dominated on-line chatter over the previous few days, and I actually suppose it’s a very good factor.

When one of many bigger controversies 4 months right into a dwell service recreation’s lifespan is a scarcity of coloration customization choices or a difficulty with managing expectations, the title is doing fairly alright within the grand scheme of issues.

When NetEase Video games introduced a fancy dress recolor possibility coming to the sport in season three, gamers’ minds went into overdrive. Whereas I do suppose that including one other foreign money to the sport in Unstable Molecules is a misstep, I additionally suppose that gamers have to do not forget that a free-to-play title is certainly designed to make as a lot cash as attainable.

NetEase did such a terrific job of making goodwill in its participant base early on with options like battle passes that don’t expire, earnable premium foreign money, and pretty priced skins, that the costume customization characteristic not being what some had been hoping for appears like a much bigger deal than it’s.

This subject proves that no recreation, developer, or writer is ideal. Marvel Rivals isn’t, and by no means was going to be, both. Nevertheless it entered the market with solely direct-purchase beauty microtransactions, and that’s already a very good begin for many F2P titles in 2025, so something that wasn’t as optimistic or well-liked a choice was certain to make waves sooner or later.

The brand new costume recolors are solely accessible on 4 skins proper now (Luna Snow’s Mirae 2099, Magik’s Punkchild, Psylocke’s Vengeance, and Winter Soldier’s Revolution), and extra will probably be added over time. However the necessity to convert one more foreign money from real-world foreign money to buy these recolors is fairly annoying. That’s it. That’s all there may be in terms of precise, real issues with the brand new characteristic for now. Might it worsen from right here? Completely, however let’s wait and see on that entrance.

I feel that gamers anticipating a completely customizable pores and skin palette for heroes or for the recolors to be free had been caught up within the vibes and had no motive to suppose this fashion. It wouldn’t make sense from a enterprise standpoint, in any respect, to be that beneficiant. However once more, possibly that’s on NetEase for attempting to garner such optimistic favor in its gamers early on that its neighborhood expects the whole lot to be superb on a regular basis.

Not each determination NetEase makes about Marvel Rivals will really feel like an evolution in F2P equity. If it bugs you, then let the devs know or transfer on to a different title. Nonetheless, with the sport as well-liked as it’s, the long run will doubtless characteristic extra downs than ups as additional options and additions to monetization are rolled out over time to maintain earnings on the rise. Avid gamers ought to put together for that, and put together for the worst.

In the long run, we’re all on Marvel Rivals to benefit from the gameplay, purchase some scantily clad costumes, and dwell out our superhero desires. Simply don’t anticipate all of it to be as clean because the launch interval has been.