Marvel MMO from DC Universe Online devs is cancelled
The Marvel MMO game - that was confirmed last year but was never officially announced - is now cancelled. The Marvel Comics MMORPG was in development at Dimension Ink and Daybreak Games, the team behind fellow online superhero game DC Universe Online, but is now "discontinuing" it to focus on "alternative" projects.
As PCGamesN reported back in November, Enad Global 7 - the holding company that owns Daybreak - revealed in an investor presentation that it had a "Marvel IP based" MMO in production. DC Universe Online studio Dimension Ink was making it alongside City of Heroes designer Jack Emmert, who had a Marvel Universe Online MMORPG cancelled by Microsoft in 2008.
In a press release today, Enad Global 7 confirms that it is "discontinuing" its Marvel game due to a change in "the development priorities", and will instead "focus on alternative long-term projects". It had planned to invest SEK 500 million - roughly GBP £40 million or USD $50 million - in the game, but is instead putting this into supporting both The Lord of the Rings Online and DC Universe Online, as well as "new game opportunities with our first party, original IPs".
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