Marvel Heroes Early Access Launch Delayed

Early Access to Marvel Heroes, the free-to-play MMO action game from Diablo creator David Brevik, has been delayed.

A blog post by Brevik on the game's site explains that a series of issues have caused Early Access to be delayed, despite the fact that anyone who qualifies to play at this stage will have paid $199.99 / £130 for the privilege.

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The entire Marvel Heroes team has been working for the last 96 hours straight to get the game ready.

"We’re in the process of getting ready to put the game live, but it’s going slower than we hoped," Brevik writes. "Late last week, we found some serious issues that we felt we could not launch the game with.

"The entire Marvel Heroes team has been working for the last 96 hours straight to get the game ready. This process is nearly complete and ask for your patience. We always want to find these types of potential errors, so we’re glad we had the opportunity to fix them in advance of launch.

"We will not leave this studio until you can play the game. We hope this will be in a matter of hours."

While the game doesn't officially launch until June 4, anyone who opted to buy one of the game's Founder Packs of characters and costumes would gain Early Access to the servers ahead of the masses. While the $19.99 / £13 Starter Packs and the $59.99 / £40 Premium Packs offered two and four days of Early Access respectively, the costly Ultimate Pack available for $199.99 / £130 promised seven days, at least one of which is now being eaten into.

We'll keep an eye on the situation and update this story when the servers start working. Additionally, IGN will be playing the game once it goes live for review, so be sure to check back next week for our first impressions.

Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Junior Editor and has played more MMOs than you can ruin a social life with. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.

Source : ign[dot]com