Marvel Rivals' latest gambit is seeing whether you'll pay real money for colours

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An alternate colourway of a Magik tegument  successful  Marvel Rivals. Image credit: NetEase/ Marvel Rivals

Colours! They exist, right? They're each astir us, everyplace you go, and arsenic of yesterday, Marvel Rivals did thing revolutionary: it made them customizable. Taking my sarcasm chapeau disconnected for a moment, that means developer NetEase added successful the quality to take antithetic colour palette options for your costumes. It's conscionable a tiny small mode to adhd immoderate magnitude of uniqueness to your mentation of the game's highly pre-established characters, really. Except, the drawback is that you person to wage existent wealth for them.

Well, ok, to beryllium circumstantial you person to bargain them with 600 of a caller currency called Unstable Molecules. But you can't conscionable bargain Unstable Molecules, you person to person your Lattice into them, astatine a 1:1 speech rate. How bash you get Lattice? Finally, this is wherever you tin walk your hard earned cash, by buying a 100-pack and 500-pack for astir $6. Costumes themselves already spell for astir $20, which is 1 of the main ways the crippled makes wealth seeing arsenic characters are ever free, truthful I recognize the thought process of charging for colour swaps.

Even still, you can't assistance but rise an eyebrow to bonzer heights astatine a developer trying to inquire radical to walk existent wealth connected colours. Not to notation doing truthful a caller currency obfuscates however overmuch these things really cost. Such is the curse of free-to-play unrecorded work games, I suppose, but a curse I find rather agitating.

Right present the colour options are lone for a fewer characters similar Magik and Luna Snow, and I ideate much volition travel successful the future. I bash wonderment if NetEase volition instrumentality to their guns oregon conscionable hold for radical to halt complaining astir it connected Twitter (the tract trying to beryllium known arsenic X).

In immoderate case, Season 2 kicked disconnected conscionable past week, with NetEase promising that caller heroes volition beryllium coming to the crippled each azygous month. Sounds similar overkill and excessively overmuch enactment for a squad that isn't arsenic large arsenic it utilized to be!

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