NetEase Not Worried Marvel Rivals Roster Might Become Too Big
Marvel Rivals spans 85 years of Marvel, with its abundance of characters, and continues to grow every month as NetEase fulfills its promise of releasing two heroes every season.
But could there be a point where there are too many characters?
Developer NetEase doesn’t seem to think so at this point according to a statement given to us by the game’s Creative Director at the Marvel Rivals Ignite Mid-Season Tournament held in Guangzhou, China.
Could The Marvel Rivals Roster Become Too Overwhelming With Ongoing Monthly Releases?
In an interview with Marvel Rivals Creative Director, we asked that very question, since it’s also a concern of ours seeing as the hero selection wheel is slowly getting packed with characters, and we’re just in the game’s third season.
MP1st: I know that currently it’s averaging like one hero a month being added to the roster. Are you worried at all that the roster may become too big at some point to where newcomers may become overwhelmed? Or is there a plan to ever maybe retire heroes to where it’s not too large of a roster? Do you have any plans just kind of based on that?
Guangguang then answered (via translator), “Maybe, but actually we would focus more on the present situation and actually would see players having many anticipations on the upcoming new heroes to see that we could enlarge our roster. And for the current in-game environment, we also see that players’ anticipation are I believe more than the negative aspect that we could have foreseen. So in that case, we would continue to release heroes at a monthly basis for the upcoming foreseen seasons.”
While this is mostly the kind of response you would expect to hear, it’s still interesting to hear the mindset directly from the person who works directly on the game at such a high level.
Rather than focusing on the downside of adding more characters, it appears that the team at NetEase is looking at which characters people are most highly anticipating and working to bring them into the mix instead, which is rather exciting as a fan.
This interview also confirmed that the monthly releases are still the plan for the upcoming future, which makes sense with the large roster of characters to pull from, as well as the number of leaks of potential upcoming roster additions that were also addressed by NetEase who told us they were developing countermeasures against it.
In the same interview, Guangguang also confirmed to us that they were given the green light by Marvel to create their own characters for Marvel Rivals.
Do you think that the roster for Marvel Rivals will eventually have to be whittled down to perhaps groups or are you fine with a massive roster that is ever growing? Let us know in the comments below.
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