I hope at some point in the future we get a full blow out on everything that happened behind the scenes, this has to be the one of the biggest fuck ups in gaming history holy shit. Like we know some stuff, engine trouble, bad management but I feel there is a much bigger story here yet to be told.
The game is bad because making an Avengers game a looter shooter was the worst possible way to go about it, but who decided to go that route? CD? Square? Marvel? And did no one along the way say "hey maybe this isn't the right path"?
Also, I know that people like Crystal Dynamics, but imo, they always seemed a huge red flag to hire for a live service avengers game, such a game is so wildly out of their wheelhouse, nothing wrong with trying new things but they just jumped from tomb raider, a cinematic single player AAA game, to an online live service looter shooter with several playable characters with different movesets and a much more in depth combat system compared to TR. With never really even having made any multiplayer games before let alone managing a live service.
Mistakes were made.
Also fascinating they are straight up delisting it, would love to know the reason for that.