Update 2.8 is live in Marvel’s Avengers, which means practically nothing to anyone except the 700 p𒀰eople still active on the subreddit (hello), but it’s an important milestone for the game. As in, the final milestone. Marvel’s Avengers will never receive another update, it is no longer a live-service game, and after September 30, it will ceasꦇe to exist entirely.
The update brings a couple of significant changes, some of which will only matter to hardcore players - like the removal of the Superior gear cap on end-game mission rewards and reduced cost on upgrading max-level gear - but ไother changes are worth noticing even if you’ve never played the game before. Most notably, the marketplace has been unlocked, meaning that hundreds of MCU and comic book-inspired cosmetic items are free to use. The battle pass system called Hero Challenge Cards is also gone, and all of the rewards from each one have been automatically added to players’ accounts.
There’s also been a permanent 1.5x increase to experience gain, in place of the old Hero’s Catalyst consumables (which previously cost real money). Players will also earn Fragments 1.5x faster than bef⛎ore, as Fragment Extractors have also b🔯een removed.
All this to say, you should really꧙ play Marvel’s Avengers now if you haven’t already. And if you played it at launch, you should dip back in and see everything you missed. It’s still on Game Pass, so there’s nothing stopping you. If you don’t play it now, you’ll never be able to.
The game will be delisted September 30, meaning anyone that hasn’t already purchased it will never be able to. If you own Marvel’s Avengers you’ll still be able to access the full game, but if you haven’t bought it by now, it’s unlik♚ely you ever will. We don’t know when it will be removed from Game Pass, but there’s little doubt its days are numbered.
Marvel’s Avengers utterly failed as a live-service game, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing of value here. Just because it couldn’t iterate and deliver content fast enough to maintain a large audience doesn’t mean it’s a worthless game. In fact, after nearly three years of updates, new characters, and missions, it’s actually, finally, in pretty good shape. If Marvel’s Avengers today had been the game that originally launched, the reception would have been unanimously positive, and we all would be talking about what a bright future🍒 it has. Just because it’s over doesn’t mean it was all for nothing. There’s still time to enjoy some entertaining Marvel action before it’s gone for good.
Aside from the original campaign, which takes about 12 hours to complete, there’s also the Black Panther and the War for Wakanda campaign, and four other post-launch heroes: Kate Bishop, Hawkeye, Jane Foster, and the🐻 Winter Soldier. Whether you go it alone or play through the campaign with friends, there’s at least 20 hours of original, narrative content here befoಌre you hit the end-game grind. All of that content is great and was well-received. Marvel’s Avengers’ fatal flaw was its inability to build a sustainable grind that would keep players coming back for years to come, but you don’t have to worry about that anymore.
You probably aren’t especially motivated to jump into Avengers now that its death has been confirmed, but it would be a shame if you never got to play it before it shut down for good. It was not a very good live-service game, but it’s still a decent third-person action game, with great characters, an action-packed story, and really satisfying combat. If you play it now, you’ll never have to regret not playing it after it's gone. Yes, I’m using Pascal’s Wager to compel you to play Marvel’s Avengers. No, I’m not embarrassed in the slightest.