Marvel Rivals devs break silence on ‘trolling’ leakers with fake heroes
Marvel Rivals devs have finally shared their response regarding claims of allegedly “trolling” leakers by planting fake heroes.
Since the early days of Marvel Rivals, leakers and dataminers alike have already managed to unveil a plethora of differentcharacters that have the potential to be addedto the game. Looking at theFantastic Four characters in Season 1and other in-game additions, some of them have, of course, turned out to be accurate.
The same thing can’t exactly be said for the rest of the characters’ leaks, though. Just last month reports regardingdevs allegedly baiting leakers by planting fake heroeshave started circulating around social media out of a sudden, which came off as quite a surprise to the community.
In an interview withIGN, however, producer Weiwong Wu and executive producer Danny Koo, have finally shed some light about the matter.
Marvel Rivals devs say they would rather spend their time developing the actual game
When asked if devs were “deliberately trolling people” following the news regarding planting fake heroes, devs have made it clear that the answer is “no.” Instead, they would rather spend their time “developing the actual game.”
It’s a fitting response, seeing how they’ve confirmed their plans torelease heroes twice as fast as Overwatch 2, among other things. Aside from this, though, devs have also issued a caution regarding dataminers messing with the game’s files.
Wu said: “So firstly we want to say that we don’t recommend anybody to make adjustments to the files [of the game],” before going on to explain that each character’s design comes through “a very complicated process,” with a lot of concepts, trials, prototypes, development, among other things, involved.
Because of this, he mentioned that there “could be some information left in the code, and it might mean that we have tried those directions and they may appear or may not appear in our future plans.”
Marvel Rivals devs approved to make “original” heroes & fans are fuming
Marvel Rivals lead dev is grateful fans like the more revealing skins
Overwatch 2 player makes Marvel Rivals game mode & it’s mindblowing
While it’s suggested that the datamined information could contain content of what was potentially in the works or planned for the future, it doesn’t mean that it’s accurate.
As described by Koo, the overall situation is equivalent to “someone doing scratch paperwork and then just left a notebook there, and someone [a dataminer] decided to open it with no context.”
As always, because of this, it’s always ideal to takeleaked informationwith a grain of salt until there’s an official announcement from devs.
