Screenshot: Marvel / Second Dinner / Kotaku
Yesterday, Marvel Snap was up to date and for probably the most half, the replace was properly obtained. The brand new token system is in and a few small quality-of-life adjustments have been added. Good things! However when gamers opened the shop after the patch they noticed a giant ol’ banner for a brand new $100 bundle. And whereas it isn’t the worst factor ever, it was for a lot of, myself included, a grim reminder that, yeah, that is nonetheless a free-to-play cell recreation…
For individuals who may need been residing below a rock for the previous few weeks, Marvel Snap is a brand new cell card recreation developed by Second Dinner, a brand new studio from former Hearthstone boss Ben Brode. Marvel Snap is all about velocity, random chaos, and fast matches. Decks solely include 12 playing cards and video games solely go about 6 rounds. It’s a incredible recreation and simply probably the greatest digital card video games on the market in 2022. It additionally has received over many due to its non-predatory microtransactions and in-game retailer. However, a brand new costly retailer bundle is an effective reminder that even a recreation as good as Marvel Snap remains to be prepared and keen to take all of your cash.
On November 29, Marvel Snap’s newest replace went stay. Many had been ready for this patch as that is when the sport’s already-announced token store would go stay, including a brand new and extra dependable solution to farm for sure playing cards. However after I hopped into the shop this morning to take a look at the Token Store, I as an alternative discovered a large advert for a $100 in-game bundle. The bundle features a new Apocalypse variant, a brand new avatar icon, 155 boosters to improve that new variant, 3000 collector tokens, and 9,500 credit.
Screenshot: Marvel / Second Dinner / Kotaku
Now, to be clear, by way of what you get to your money this bundle isn’t horrible. Actually, the credit alone would value you round $1000 (sure, $1000) in actual cash to purchase. (Although credit are pretty simple to grind, so why you’d even purchase that many is one other query…) And positive, the brand new variant appears to be like cool too, and 155 boosters and all these credit will allow you to improve it very quick. So, value-wise, this bundle isn’t too outrageous. However the truth that Marvel Snap has been—up till this level—principally devoid of those sorts of bundles implies that its sudden look within the retailer is a reminder that even a pleasant recreation like Snap will nonetheless promote you $100 value of shit.
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The group response to the bundle isn’t too vitriolic, with many gamers reacting extra with confusion or amusement at seeing such an expensive advert seem within the recreation. Once more, Marvel Snap’s common lack of predatory microtransactions and pay-to-win nonsense has seemingly made it simpler for folk to abdomen this out-of-place bundle. However I doubt that is the final expensive bundle we’ll see in Snap, and whereas I don’t count on Second Dinner to ever promote new playing cards in any of those potential future bundles, I’m nonetheless a bit bummed to see this type of stuff within the recreation in any respect. I assume the beloved Marvel superhero Superman was proper: “Nobody stays good on this world.”
