Marvel's Midnight Suns Releases In October With Spider-Man In Tow

Can't wait!

Three questions:

Does defeating Venom unlock him in the roster? Seeing his base model in the cinematic gives me hope that we may see him join the Midnight Sons once he is freed.

Could we get Man-Thing in there as DLC?

Last but not least, you promised the MTX would only be cosmetic, but how much emphasis will there be on a fun experience and earned functional rewards?

i ask that last question because I can forgive MTX cosmetics in a paid game, but you have to supplement that with a fun experience and functional rewards that keep the player engaged throughout the life of the game. I don’t mind paying or grinding for cosmetics, but they can’t be the only rewards in a paid game, and don’t starve us with the functional rewards in order to coax us into buying cosmetic rewards. If I start getting too hungry, I end up walking away. I only have so much money I’m willing to spend on your game. I don’t need the MTX cosmetics having any influence on how often you reward me with the other stuff. Otherwise, you starve me of those functional rewards in the hopes that I buy something cosmetic, I start sensing the game is predatory, I leave a bad review, I stop playing, and I stop buying your games. I switch to games that don’t abandon casual players and cater the live service to the whales. There’s are tons of games out there right now who pinky promise that the only MTX content will be “cosmetic”, but then they don’t include any other means to reward the player, or they start depriving the player of functional rewards later in the game so players feel that need for a dopamine boost just before they get prompted with another special offer to buy a cosmetic loot box or whatever. OR the functional items get COMPLETELY abandoned in all post launch content in favor of what should be a F2P model, and all those promises of future content that were used to sell the game wind up being nothing more than flashy MTX farms with very little reward for people who already paid for the game. If you want to be a respected studio AND make money off MTX, you have to avoid those predatory monetization tactics. Don’t abandon players enjoyment for the content that makes money.

I dunno man....

Normally, I'd be driving the hype train on this thing but there are just some major alarm bells going off in the back of my head.

Randomly generated cards and MTXs-- but it's just cosmetic, we're assured. They totally pinkie promise that, although there will be microtransactions-- none of it will will affect the gameplay whatsoever. I mean, didn't we hear those kinds of assurances multiple times already- one time just this very month?

And now there's the phrase "along with the optimizations"....

So... What exactly is being optimized by this purchase and what other "optimizations" are going to be available in the cash shop later on if/when you get the game?

Also, there's the fact that it's become the "cool" thing to release a game and let it sit for awhile out in the wild before shoving in a ton of predatory MTXs. Almost all of which, we were super duper promised that it was only going to be cosmetic and, instead, wound up being anything but.

So, yeah, looks good-- looks great-- looks super fun but, otoh, they always do. They always look great even while the developers promise that it's just cosmetic, they always swear that it's not P2W this time-- just believe them. Trust them because this game-- this game'll be different! Promise!-- right before the pull the ball out of the way just before we finally, at long last, get to kick it.

I'm sorry. This time could indeed be different and it could indeed be alright but, I am honestly not entirely certain that we're not just seeing Lucy in disguise.

So, unfortunately, I'm going to have to give this one a miss until a little time's passed after release. Just to be sure. Because, others might be far more trusting than me but I, myself, am just sooooo officially done with falling for it time and time and time and time again at this point and can only think one thing to myself instead of getting hyped:

We'll see.

I'm all over this.