The level of competition in the world of gaming is always very high when almost any developer always has competitors in the same game genre. Of course, this will increase the quality of game projects, and the ultimate beneficiary is simply the gamers. To see the fierce level of the current market, just look at the “war” between Marvel Rivals and Concord recently.
Accordingly, in the past few days, both games with similar gameplay styles to Overwatch have launched test versions on Steam not long after each other. And the results are really different. While Concord only reached a very modest peak of concurrent players, 2388, Marvel Rivals brought a much more positive signal. Accordingly, also during this testing phase, the Marvel Rivals trial version had more than 50,000 concurrent players, 22 times more than Concord. Perhaps this detail alone is enough to show the popularity of NetEase's new project.
There are many reasons to explain the limp and absolute victory for Marvel Rivals. First, Marvel Rivals had a test launch before and also achieved quite a lot of success. This trial version did even better than what the NetEase development team had done before. Meanwhile, on the contrary, Concord was criticized for being too boring, old-fashioned and just maintaining a small number of test players was enough to make the developers struggle.
And perhaps Concord's future seems to have been decided right now. Because if Marvel Rivals is good and will be released for free, Concord has set its selling price at $40 – a huge number. A good game is released for free, while a less interesting game is sold for more than 1 million, it is not difficult for players to make their choice.
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