Yes, online games are a goldmine for developers. Imagine releasing a game once, only to keep making money off it for years, or even decades? It sounds like a great deal. The only problem is that making an online game players will keep wanting to come back to isn’t easy. In fact, it’s very difficult, so much so that failure is more likely than success.
This gamble doesn’t stop big studios from trying, though, often resulting in enormous flops. These are online games that big studios attempted to make, only to produce a failure that shook the entire industry.
Marvel’s Avengers
Marvel’s Avengers is perhaps the biggest, most resounding corporate failure on this list. The game came out at a time when the Avengers franchise was at its hottest, seeming to suggest that a game version of the popular characters would be a guaranteed hit. It wasn’t.
From the lacklustre action to the grind-infested levelling up system, there was little that any gamer was looking for. If you even bothered to check it out, you’ll already know that every battle boiled down to multiple players all piling onto the same damage sponge boss at once. Only for everyone to simply … Read More..
