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[Affeinvasion]

Part of the reason that Marvel is relaxing the X-Men requirements vs. the F4 ones is that they feel like Fox is actually trying to make good X-Men films. Nobody in the business who saw how the F4 movie turned out and heard the rumors of its troubled production would believe that Fox was valuing that franchise. Clearly they would rather be making the movies themselves, but I don't think it's a coincidence that as the quality of the X-Men movies has increased, Marvel has been a bit more lax in their X-Men licensing in other media. Even though they don't make the films, the Marvel logo still shows up very prominently on the movies. They don't want to attach their brand to trash like the last F4 movie.

Marvel also has a lot to gain by getting back the F4 because it includes a huge swath of characters and villains that are related to the main Marvel universe because the F4 really kicked off the entire Marvel Universe. Galactus and Silver Surfer may have started as F4 characters, but they had decades to become their own things...and that's just one example.

 

[Valkerionseven]

Man I really hate this petty Marvel crap. It really just makes me not have faith in any of their work if they keep shrinking down the iconic character roster simply because they don't have the rights to a Movie license.

Like I don't even care about F4, though I kinda like Sue Storm, but it really makes me lose faith that Marvel will make their games and comics more interesting when all we will get are the base movie versions of things. The movie centric MvCI is exactly why I'm not interested. Seen these characters entirely too much in the last 10 years.

 

[Affeinvasion]

Man I really hate this petty Marvel crap. It really just makes me not have faith in any of their work if they keep shrinking down the iconic character roster simply because they don't have the rights to a Movie license.

Like I don't even care about F4, though I kinda like Sue Storm, but it really makes me lose faith that Marvel will make their games and comics more interesting when all we will get are the base movie versions of things. The movie centric MvCI is exactly why I'm not interested. Seen these characters entirely too much in the last 10 years.

If you've seen the comics over the last 5 years, it's undeniable that the movies have had some effect. But definitely not as much as you think. They're still telling crazy stories that have nothing to do with the movies.

At the same time it is foolish not to realize that the movies make up a staggering percentage of Marvel's total revenue. Good business sense often does not and usually does not take into account the feelings of consumers (especially a niche group).

 

[TheDarkKnight774]

All Fox has to do is make a good FF film.

That's not going to have any affect on Marvel's pettiness

 

[tabs2002]

Fox making a good FF movie won't make Marvel lift the ban.

 

[Canucked]

I've been doing an FF read the last while and this makes me sad. I wish things were different and they could be stars. I don't hate the Silver Surfer movie. I kinda liked it. But that last one was bad. Give them back to marvel, they're already dead.

 

[Red Arremer]

Wow that's pretty shit.
Glad I own those characters, I guess.

 

[Neoxon]

Man I really hate this petty Marvel crap. It really just makes me not have faith in any of their work if they keep shrinking down the iconic character roster simply because they don't have the rights to a Movie license.

Like I don't even care about F4, though I kinda like Sue Storm, but it really makes me lose faith that Marvel will make their games and comics more interesting when all we will get are the base movie versions of things. The movie centric MvCI is exactly why I'm not interested. Seen these characters entirely too much in the last 10 years.

I feel like most people care more about the F4 villains than the F4 themselves.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Part of the reason that Marvel is relaxing the X-Men requirements vs. the F4 ones is that they feel like Fox is actually trying to make good X-Men films. Nobody in the business who saw how the F4 movie turned out and heard the rumors of its troubled production would believe that Fox was valuing that franchise. Clearly they would rather be making the movies themselves, but I don't think it's a coincidence that as the quality of the X-Men movies has increased, Marvel has been a bit more lax in their X-Men licensing in other media. Even though they don't make the films, the Marvel logo still shows up very prominently on the movies. They don't want to attach their brand to trash like the last F4 movie.

Marvel also has a lot to gain by getting back the F4 because it includes a huge swath of characters and villains that are related to the main Marvel universe because the F4 really kicked off the entire Marvel Universe. Galactus and Silver Surfer may have started as F4 characters, but they had decades to become their own things...and that's just one example.

That makes no sense. Marvel will keep making X-Men cuz they're 50% of Marvel's brand. The X-Men fanbase is too big to piss off.

 

[Red Arremer]

As I logged into the game today, I also noticed that the F4 villain Mole Man seems to have been removed from the game as well.
I assume Gaz was able to make a deal that included only Dr. Doom as a character for them to use, possibly because of his heavy involvement in the story as villain, and his massive popularity among the playerbase as a playable character.
I also assume that this is why the story chapter that involves Super-Skrull as a boss was not part of the console release.