Disney Interactive has today shared first details on an upcoming Facebook game called Marvel: Avengers Alliancewhich is being developed by Playdom. The game has a sort of Pokemon feel to it with players having to collect Marvel heroes and villains, and then train said characters in order for them to gain new abilities and attacks.
Players will also be able to use something called "ISO-8" to further upgrade their pet super-humans and while no mention of what ISO-8 actually is was made, I have a feeling that acquiring the stuff may require credit cards. A rather interesting aspect of Avengers Alliance seems to be the inclusion of PvP, with players being able to fight each other with their own custom heroes and villains.
While it does sound interesting, if ISO-8 does in fact turn out to be a "buy your way into all the good stuff" method that many Facebook games have been doing since forever, some players might and will be turned off by it. Expect to see Marvel: Avengers Alliance sometime in Q1 of this year.
Nothing for nothing, and this isn't to defend most of these games that allow you to, as you put it, "buy your way into all the good stuff", but those games (facebook/social games -not F2P MMO's) are pretty much built on the fact that you have to pay to get really any where with it while hiding behind being "free for all". Its their entire plan.
Now if we were talking an MMO then it'd be a disaster, because the work you put into those games is what normally gives you the really good stuff, not usually the other way around. And if thats the case then you mine as well just pay $15 a month for a subscription.
Either way, if this were to turn out anything remotely like the Dragon Age one, I'd play it a little. Didn't put a dime into that game but it still helped me passed some time here and there when I was bored.
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This trend in gaming is one of the darkest yet.
looks like shit
Now if we were talking an MMO then it'd be a disaster, because the work you put into those games is what normally gives you the really good stuff, not usually the other way around. And if thats the case then you mine as well just pay $15 a month for a subscription.
Either way, if this were to turn out anything remotely like the Dragon Age one, I'd play it a little. Didn't put a dime into that game but it still helped me passed some time here and there when I was bored.
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