Daybreak Games’ Marvel MMO game has been officially canceled
Sorry, players – it happened again. Just six months after Daybreak Games unveiled plans to revive its abandoned Marvel MMO, the company has pulled the plug on the project for the second time in five years.
The news of the MMO’s development broke in November last year, after Daybreak’s parent company, Enad Global 7, mentioned the game during an investor presentation. Daybreak already had experience with superhero MMOs, having been co-released DC Universe online in 2011. In addition, the study recruited former City of Heroes designer Jack Emmert to act as project manager. But now EG7 confirmed in a new blog post that its resources will be directed elsewhere.
“EG7 announced today that it will suspend development of the Marvel project at Daybreak Games,” the company wrote. “Based on the reassessment of the development risk profile, the investment size and the long-term product portfolio strategy for the Group, the Board of Directors has decided to change the development priorities and reallocate resources in the Group to focus on alternative long-term projects.”
Rumors of Daybreak’s plans for a Marvel MMO began circulating in 2019. According to a post on Reddit (via Massively Overpowered), the studio had developed an earlier version of the game for most of 2018. But due to “top-down issues,” Daybreak completely scrapped the project, which ultimately led to a round of layoffs.
EG7 also shared that it plans to invest over SEK 500 million (more than $ 50 million in US currency) in the Marvel MMO over the next three years. In the wake of its cancellation, this money will now go to developing original IPs.
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