Some Xbox Fans Want To Boycott Marvel's Avengers Over Sony Deal

I agree, let's boycott this! I feel Sony and huge chunk of its players are always mean to us, just for evil fun!

If start a mini_poll here, Fraser, even if only a dozen vote, it'd be interesting

The game half interests me, but, agreed, getting less content isn't good. Knock a fiver off, or a free Spiderman update 3 months later, but not this approach.

The thing is, it's not just Xbox but PC players as well left out now.
I wouldn't mind if it was like Soul Calibur, where each platform had an excluisve character, but this is just a very anti-consumer move from a multi-platform game.

@Grot I completely agree. These Avengers simply look "off", so it's more like an uncanny valley version for me, so I was never going to get the game anyway.

Still a d*** move by Sony, though...

I don’t know about a boycott, but buying the Xbox version is a whole lot less appealing. It would be one thing if it was a minor character or if each platform had an exclusive, but it’s hard to not feel like you’re getting less for the same price because spider-man is so beloved. Would there be less backlash if this was paid DLC?

Also, doesn’t this feel like deja vu after the whole “Spider-man won’t be in Avengers movies anymore” fiasco?

I wasn’t really interested in this one. I’m one of the few people in existence that just thinks the mcu as a universe is just “okay” and the game looked to me like a pass.

But if I was in a different position, liked the MCU more and was excited about this, I could understand the frustration. Especially for players.

I will continue my boycott of the game that looks like poo.

Are You Planning To Boycott Marvel's Avengers? CERTAINLY

I'm not gonnay say that I'm not interested in the game, because it would be a lie. I wasn't untill the recent demo came out : I've watched it and assumed it was pretty good.
So I was interested.

And I find this move, I don't know... quite unfair, maybe. Cause one thing for sure, IF I buy the game, I won't buying the Xbox version.

But I'm also not very keen on buying the PS5 version neither now (planning to get the console eventually), cause I'm not comfortable with all this nonsense.

Exclusive content on a platform or another has always existed, but this is some kind of huge. I mean, we're talking about an AVENGERS game, WITH or WITHOUT... freakin' SPIDERMAN, one of the most popular super hero ever...

TIMED EXCLUSIVE ? Sure, I'd call it fair. But totally ? Man, don't do that sort of thing.

As for playstation as for xbox i skip this game.

The thing that boggles my mind is how Disney can't get whatever rights Sony has to the IP back.

To me, it seems like a no brainer - don't renew the IP rights to Sony. Yet, it seems that Sony has some kind of lifetime grip on certain aspects of the Spider-Man character. How?! It's Marvel's character!

IP licensing is so weird.

Boycott? Haha, no. I have no interest in the game at the moment, but there are much more important things to possibly boycott. Not this.

Watch as the sass dimension twists this into an act of entitlement.

My hot take here is Deadpool countering this as an Xbox exclusive. Just sayin' - Xbox users need some damage control now. (I'm partially an Xbox gamer, too.)

Spider-Man is such a mainstream pop-culture phenomenon, keeping him off of other platforms sucks. It makes sense financially. But it does suck. More power to those who will boycott.

if you're even REMOTELY surprised by this, i don't know what to tell you.

on the other hand...gaming is LITERALLY the only entertainment medium or hobby that even puts up with this. imagine buying a new TV and not being able to watch Game of Thrones because it's Panasonic exclusive. Are you going to buy 3 or 4 TVs so you can watch everything? of course not, that's stupid, yet console gamers put up with it. i know better, but it WOULD be nice if console gamers (all of us) decided that enough was enough and demanded an end to exclusives. the people this pleases are those childish "console warz" people, and to hell with them lol

@GamingFan4Lyf Sony bought the rights to Spider-Man from Marvel. It’s as simple as that.

The game looks terrible anyway for me - but to boycott over that? Way over the top.

Microsoft purchased timed exclusivity on a patch for Yakuza 7 - it happens. It's business.

Sony have an agreement in place on imaging rights for the character at the moment, so they would be owed money to put in on another platform.

Game looks like fun and I'm looking forward to the beta on Friday!

I wouldn't boycott the game over exclusivity like this. Unfortunately it happens with COD, Tomb Raider and all sorts these days with purchased exclusivity.
That said this game looks a real stinker... A loot based game with Avengers?! They could have Howard the Duck playable and I'd still avoid it.
The combat from the underrated Wolverine game looks better than this. Add in a rumoured always online requirement and I can't quite believe it's the great Crystal Dynamics making this thing.

Abuse and exploitation of workers and customers? That's cool.

Exclusive character? We riot!.

If you don't want to buy a game over something you disagree with, don't buy it. But if you want to start a social movement against something you consider particularly bad, save those for things that actually matter.

I'm more surprised that 76% are at least mildly interested in this game..!

@AlexSora89 Come on, you're better than that.

I understand why Sony did what they did they want spiderman to be exclusive to playstation, Not saying it's right but business is business..

I wasn't ever interested in the game. Though I'm a multi-platform gamer (PS4, Xbox, Nintendo, and PC), I'm going to avoid Marvel's Avengers based on principle. Exclusivity hurts consumers, and it's unfair to pay for a game then get gypped on a single exclusive item.

@Benjamin But it's not that simple. Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man movies. Yet it seems to be able to borrow Spider-Man IP as much as it wants as well for video games.

Merchandise and comic book rights are solely held by Disney/Marvel.

It also seems that in order for Sony to keep it's hold on the IP, it has to produce a Spider-Man film every fives years (according some sources I read).

So it's not as simple as "Sony owns Spider-Man".

I'm not interested in the game but honestly I feel like the anger is justified. This is the equivalent of having a multi-platform pokemon game but not being able to get the most popular/famous evolution lines unless you're playing on a Nintendo console.

The move just feels petty. Either make it console exclusive or sell the entire game, don't lock parts of it behind consoles. You're essentially forcing someone who likes spiderman to buy a ps4 if they don't have one just to play as him.

A boycott may be overdoing it but there needs to be some form of repurcussions. Either way it starts with just one character, unchecked it could be a half the roster from a fighting game, or maybe an entire class of vehicles from a racing game etc. Especially if the devs see that people are buying the games multiple times (which lets be honest some people will).

Also yes considering it's the same game minus one character you are essentially buying an inferior version of the game for the same price as the full version. That's just gross. £50-60 for a game or £50-60 for the exact same game but with a few more hours worth of content.

@Royalblues Spider-Man was never part of the marketing for this game, so the fact that he's shoehorned in doesn't surprise me. I don't think anyone is missing anything really.

@GamingFan4Lyf I think that's part of the deal. Marvel gets to use Spider-Man in their films, and Sony gets exclusive rights to Spider-Man in games.

@Tasuki I do wonder if there will ever be a point where Disney can just be like "[expletive] this, we want our property back for good" so it doesn't have to keep making deals with Sony. Disney certainly has the revenue stream.

@AlexSora89 You really like to mock-link push square on every single PS news article, don't you? What, did they ban you there, or something?

I have canceled my ps4 preorder yesterday, because the game looks bad so far. That's the reason to boycot the game not a character.

@Tasuki No, that's not what I meant. It's pretty simple: Spider-Man BELONGS in the Marvel universe, and is an INTRINSIC part of many of the Avengers' story arcs, so he shouldn't be missing in any version of this game, regardless of platform.

The situation with Soul Calibur was completely different, because as I already mentioned, there was a COMPLETE roster of characters in ALL versions of that game, and the unique characters for the respective consoles (GameCube, Xbox and PS2) each were a specific EXTRA character, so added on top of an already complete game/list of characters. It's not like any of the other versions of the games were inferior or less complete, roster-wise, compared to each other.

Having basically two versions of this game definitely IS like having an incomplete game on PC and on Xbox, because it makes it mandatory for those two versions to change the story line so it doesn't mention/reference and/or contain any Spider-Man connections or appearances, which is simply stupid.

Remember a few days ago when very few even cared about this game.

Now all of a sudden everyone is interested because of a Spiderman exclusivity deal. Funny...

Just seen the news regarding PS players getting even more content than just Spidey.

Tbh i’m a little bit interested in the game; but due to this i’m just going to wait to get it instead of buying it at launch. But still on Xbox. So.... they gain nothing from that. I even have a PS4 but just prefer playing everything on Xbox.

Really stupid how Sony sounds so proud of it as well.

This is just Sony being Sony. They are about as anti-consumer as they come. But whatever.

As others have said..... clearly, Spider-Man will not be involved in the “story” of the game (whatever that ends up being), so this is basically a DLC character that isn’t even coming out until 2021. We’re probably not missing much.

And the game has looked like trash, so far, regardless of this douche move by Sony. I will boycott it bc I am not going to pay $60 for a game & get less content than on the PS AND bc the game just doesn’t look good regardless.

As soon that this all came to be my purchase will be a second-hand copy from Gamestop. I get to enjoy the game & gamestop gets my money instead of parties involved in the BS.

Is it going to be the same Spider-Man from Insomniac's PS4 game? If it is, then I think it's fair play to be honest. Spidey is tangled up with Sony and PlayStation anyway (pun intended), and I think boycotting the game over a character who in all likelihood isn't gong to have much of a presence beyond a small DLC pack is a bit of an overreaction. If you've been looking forward to the game thus far, with no Spider-Man anyway, why should it change now?

We need to see how substantial the content is going to be - let alone how the main game turns out - before making such a decision.

@TimG13 it's not, Sony are just being tools.

Sony wants more people to buy Avengers on Playstation, so they pay for certain exclusivity rights. X-box fans get mad and decide not to buy the game. Sony's like "great, more marketshare for us!" Boycotting does nothing but play right into Sony's hands.

This would be the most counter-productive thing ever.

Square, we want to show you that there is money to be made in XBox by... not buying your game for XBox so you feel the pain!!!

All that would do is make Square feel there is little point on NOT taking Sony's money for exclusivity deals. Want to show them? This will sound crazy but: BUY THE GAME! Buy the game for a friend that cant afford it, buy it for everyone that would be able to play it if you can. Buy it physically and digitall, collector edition, whatever, just make sure you buy the XBox version. Make it feel that XBox users should not be ignored!

@KelticDevil It is very likely this character was decided upon at the last minute because Sony wanted it, would explain why it is coming so much later.

Microsoft should just approach Square and do their own exclusivity deal, maybe try to get Deadpool or Wolverine as XBox exclusives.

Edit: Seriously, lets make this happen instead! someone start a campaign to convince Xbox to convince Square Enix to do this!!!

I wasn't planning on buying the game anyway. Does that still count?

@Tharsman

Deadpool would be awesome! Great idea! 👍🏻

With or without Spider-Man the game doesn’t look that appealing. I may pick it up when it eventually goes down to single digits

Very anti-consumer move by Sony, I doubt that the publisher asked for this. If it was paid DLC or an exclusive character on each platform, if not lower the price of the Xbox/PC version... It's kind of stupid banning Spider-Man in an Avengers game.

I won't be buying the game, but this move would mean nothing to me even if I did. Spider-Man is a cool character, but my apathy could not be stronger for him as a PS exclusive.

This will keep happening across the board. It's the darker part of the console business but all platform holders will continue to do it.

No different to Sony getting timed exclusivity on Control - or Microsoft saying timed exclusivity on DLC is bad and then getting 30 days timed on DLC for The Division.

The reason this has got one side of the community so outraged is because Spiderman is such a central part of the MCU and it's like locking out an intrinsic part of the universe for one format.

In the context of the game though the character wouldn't have been that central to it. This is likely an extra character Sony have paid to be included, not a character already included removed from the game for other format owners.

I get the grievance, but it's nothing that hasn't been done before, and certainly not by Sony alone, they just see it as more central to their business strategy this time round than before, so are being more aggressive about it.

Was the same for MS in the 360 days.

I wasn't going to get the game anyway.