
As NetEase’s hero shooter Marvel Rivals gains great popularity, the community grows stronger, and so do those who serve the community, like data miners who are keen on providing early information before official channels.
There are various findings or theories coming from data mining, and one of them is an allegation that developers add fake heroes to the game to catch those who leak the information on the title.
Is this the real case? IGN got the chance to talk with the developers directly, asking producer Weicong Wu and executive producer Danny Koo if they deliberately “troll” people. Koo answered straightforwardly, “No. We would rather spend our time developing the actual game.”
Then, if those characters are not used to catch leakers or to tease fans, how would the developers explain why they appear in the game? What’s the purpose, and how they ended up there? Weicong explained:
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