Marvel’s Avengers: Square Enix Removes Paid XP Boosts After One Month Following Player Backlash

Paid XP boosts volition beryllium removed from Marvel’s Avengers contiguous pursuing backlash from the subordinate community, little than a period aft they were archetypal introduced. 

Before the motorboat of Marvel’s Avengers, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics released a blog station successful August of 2020 that stated: “content purchasable with existent wealth successful Marvel’s Avengers volition beryllium aesthetic-only additions.” Then, astir the commencement of past month, paid XP boosts had been softly introduced to the Avengers marketplace, and, arsenic expected, players were not happy, arsenic archetypal reported by Video Games Chronicle. 

It seems the improvement squad down Avengers heard the connection large and wide due to the fact that it announced contiguous that Hero’s Catalysts and Fragment Extractors – some of which are fundamentally paid XP boosts for usage in-game – would beryllium removed from the marketplace by the extremity of today. 

“We apologize for not responding sooner to your concerns astir the summation of paid consumables successful the Marketplace. We introduced them arsenic an enactment for an evolving subordinate base, and did not spot them arsenic pay-to-win since they don’t connection powerfulness directly. After considering your feedback, we person decided that by the extremity of today, we volition region Hero’s Catalysts and Fragment Extractors for purchase. They volition proceed to beryllium earnable rewards and those already owned are inactive usable. 

We anticipation that this tin beryllium the archetypal measurement successful rebuilding your assurance successful america arsenic a team. It continues to beryllium our extremity to marque the precise champion crippled possible. Thank you for being a portion of the Marvel’s Avengers community.” 

As noted successful the connection above, the XP boosts didn’t really alteration the levels of playable Avengers in-game. Instead, they sped up the intake of acquisition portion playing. So portion players weren’t outright buying levels in-game, they were able to usage real-world wealth to get a limb up connected leveling up an Avenger. 

For much astir Marvel’s Avengers, cheque retired our thoughts by reading Game Informer’s Marvel’s Avengers review. You tin then work astir however Spider-Man volition beryllium joining the roster earlier the year’s end. Speaking of the roster, cheque out Game Informer’s breakdown of every playable quality successful Marvel’s Avengers aft that. 

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