Chiaroscuro
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Disney Infinity Canceled; Disney Exits Console Publishing; Avalanche Shut [Statement]
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Only as the servers will be still on (not long)
Yes.
We'd get guys like Black Panther, Ultron, Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, etc., instead, which I'm super okay with. Outside of Deadpool, Doom, SSkrull and maybe Sentinel I wouldn't miss those guys much. X-23 and Skrull would likely have gotten removed anyway.
But this is for another thread.
Caring about the gameplay would also mean that it would be way more exciting to have completely new characters with new movesets in the game.
Its not like a lot of kids and young adults will miss Wolverine if the other options are Ant-man or Black Panther playable.
LordRaptor
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A lot of that is for historical reasons as COTA was the first mahvel fighter, but its not like other fighters haven't had mostly clean sweep rosters before.
The Marvel side of things in MvC3 were mostly 'faces' Marvel were trying to push for the MU / MCU rather than fan favourites, so I don't think that would change too much for a hypothetical future version
eyeball_kid
Member
You might want to specify on which Ms. Marvel you mean...
Carol Danvers (formerly Ms. Marvel, now Captain Marvel)?
or Kamala Khan (the current Ms. Marvel)?
Razgriz-Specter
Member
At least we got Mulan.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
Why would they remove any of these characters? Fox only owns the movie rights to them.
This is surprising. I enjoyed the games for what they were, and the figures always looked great. Good luck to all of the employees affected by this. I know what that's like. Working in the industry is brutal sometimes. I've been in and out for 10+ years now. Currently in, but lord knows how long that lasts.
Looks like I'm going to have to stop holding off on picking up some of the Marvel figures I've been looking at. I have the vast majority of them, but not all. I have all of the Star Wars characters, but there's no way I'm completing the Disney proper collection. Too many characters, not enough money. I'm sticking to ones I really want/fans of, and that'll be it. Such a shame.
Star Wars showed a lot of potential for growth in gameplay for future titles, as it was genuinely fun. I wished it was more like the LEGO games, but overall, it was good times. Definitely geared towards a younger audience.
Looks like I'm going to have to stop holding off on picking up some of the Marvel figures I've been looking at. I have the vast majority of them, but not all. I have all of the Star Wars characters, but there's no way I'm completing the Disney proper collection. Too many characters, not enough money. I'm sticking to ones I really want/fans of, and that'll be it. Such a shame.
Star Wars showed a lot of potential for growth in gameplay for future titles, as it was genuinely fun. I wished it was more like the LEGO games, but overall, it was good times. Definitely geared towards a younger audience.
Neo, show him the thread.
Because after the release of Contest of Champions (the mobile Injustice copy-cat made by Kablam), Marvel Entertainment issued a video game ban on all X-Men & Fantastic Four characters for any new games made after Contest of Champions in an attempt to screw over Fox & minimize exposure for both franchises. Remasters & ports of older games are safe (see the Deadpool remaster), as are games with active contracts signed before the ban (see Marvel Heroes, which is safe until 2019). Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch in particular are only allowed by Marvel on a case-by-case basis (see Lego Avengers), but the game cannot mention either of their ties to the X-Men franchise.
Sho_Nuff82
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Eh, there are levels of survival I'm willing to accept for more Marvel.
Winter Soldier, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Groot, Drax, Gamora, Thanos, Sentry, Blue Marvel, Hyperion, Proxima Midnight, Namor, Corpus Glaive, Ronan the Accuser, Quasar, Adam Warlock, Silver Surfer, Black Bolt, Zemo, Bullseye, Beta Ray Bill, Red Hulk, Squirrel Girl, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and more could easily replace the Xmen.
You just made me sad, because the ending of Battlegrounds
JoeyJungle
Banned
Wow, I was under the impression that these games made money hand-over-fist. Did Infinity 1 and 2 do good? Is this their first game that they took a loss on? I guess taking a loss on a toys-to-life game must be even more disastrous than a normal game bombing, because of the extra merchandise and manufacturing involved.
Marvel & Fox would have to settle their differences before that happens, which I'm not sure will happen in the near future. That is, unless they work out a deal to where the Fantastic Four movie rights return to Marvel Studios.
Skellig Gra
Member
This is very very surprising.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Shit, man. I just got into it this year. Now I have a shelf full of figures with no future. 
Chiaroscuro
Member
As someone with every figure (including all crystal variants) and discs (including the D23 one) this makes me sad.
Seven Force
Banned
Wolverine would be the only character it'd be weird not seeing in a MvC game, considering his perfect attendance record for Marvel/Capcom fighters. Every other character on that list was either new to 3 or sat out multiple Vs. games already. Hell, it'd be the second time Doom had to sit out a Vs. game because of some stuff involving the FF ip.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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That's immensely shitty.
Still, it's only a self imposed ban. There's nothing legally preventing them from using those characters.
Darth_Caedus
No longer canonical
This is what happens when you live off of fads and the casual audience, they just care about movies, not anything else.
disappeared
Banned
Did they ever end up making an Aurora figurine?
Nope, it's fully enforced by Marvel & Disney during the licensing process. The X-Men & Fantastic Four characters are explicitly left out of licenses for games, & devs have to legit fight for the Maximoff Twins.
chrisPjelly
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Disney Finite
Hope all the workers get picked up soon
Hope all the workers get picked up soon
SinCityAssassin
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It wasn't doing well enough for Disney to go forward with it. They were banking on the toys-to-life market to expand exponentially. Growth has slowed down altogether.
ryutaro's mama
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Yeah, 300 people are about to lose their livelihood but I guess to you, it's time to make a joke or whatever.
Terrible response, dude.
Astral Dog
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Mad Season
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What a shit post . 300 people lost their jobs
Astral Dog
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obviously not according to Disney
R10Neymarfan
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And just when they started to get kingdom hearts references in there. Lol
Silent Chief
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Imagine the Amiibo potential. $20 a piece.
For what is worth, i think Super Skrull would be safe, wasn't he included precisely because there was a ban on F4 characters, but Super Skrull was allowed due to a technicallity?
dfa records
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Super sad news, hope everybody on the team lands on their feet. Was really enjoying 3.0 as well
SinCityAssassin
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As much as people flake Nintendo for essentially making "physical DLC", how they're proceeded into the toys-to-life essentially helps future proof Amiibo sales for at least a few more years. It's not tied down to one game where people choose to buy figures and buy nothing else. The fact that it's a viable merchandise collection in of itself also helps it. Nintendo merch like that is HARD to find for certain characters. You want a Captain Falcon? It's Amiibo. You want Chibi Robo? Amiibo? What's that you want a cheap, yet functional Ryu or Bayonetta figure?
Amiibo.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
VR demos are going to be a disaster unless retail stores get an employee to watch the station at all times. I just don't see it happening.
Back on topic, I had to get my Judy Hopps and Nick from Zootopia figures tonight.
I second this question, anybody in the know can tell us if there were upcoming packs?
PeskyToaster
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Damn, I thought they were doing really well. Guess not.
This is surprising and sad to see such a big name and franchise just leave the industry. Development costs for AAA games have to be better controlled, projects need to be more tightly managed, and there needs to be a better pipeline for 3rd party middleware. If nothing changes, we're going to have a complete dearth of AAA in a matter of years.
He was included to save time. Instead of having to make each of the Fantastic Four, they could make one character with all of their powers. But sadly, Super-Skrull also counts in the ban.
The current one.
But anyway, I don't want to talk about this here. I don't want to derail this thread further talking about Mahvel 4, as much as I like doing that.
TechJunk
Member
Ya you're right actually, their strategy is a little different than Disney Infinity or even Lego Dimensions. Rather than have the figures only playable in one game (or one game series), they are playable across most of their games.
Sad news, I'm guessing the servers with all the downloadable levels will soon go too, my kids enjoyed that part most.
spyroflame0487
Member
I'm sad to see it go, but as a prospective customer as well as a TTL enthusiast, I just didn't think the game lived up to all the potential. I mean, the first reveal concept art.
That looks sweet. But some characters can't play in some modes? It seemed to me to be not what it was hyped up to be. That doesn't make it a bad game of course, but there's something different with it compared to Skylanders or Dimensions which is more...I guess maybe story focused. Amiibo has the collectability thing going on and we'll probably see a full fledged game for all of them in the near future.
I wonder what this means for Playmation (which I don't think sold well at all either) and what this means for the TTL market overall. Slow Skylanders sales from this last game has me worried too. Maybe too many cooks in the kitchen, maybe some fatigue.
The figures are all really awesome. I have Stitch and plan on getting some Marvel peeps when we see some sales going on.
I hope all the devs and people who worked on the game find some other employment. Especially the designers; their ideas rocked.
That looks sweet. But some characters can't play in some modes? It seemed to me to be not what it was hyped up to be. That doesn't make it a bad game of course, but there's something different with it compared to Skylanders or Dimensions which is more...I guess maybe story focused. Amiibo has the collectability thing going on and we'll probably see a full fledged game for all of them in the near future.
I wonder what this means for Playmation (which I don't think sold well at all either) and what this means for the TTL market overall. Slow Skylanders sales from this last game has me worried too. Maybe too many cooks in the kitchen, maybe some fatigue.
The figures are all really awesome. I have Stitch and plan on getting some Marvel peeps when we see some sales going on.
I hope all the devs and people who worked on the game find some other employment. Especially the designers; their ideas rocked.