Meta shut down MARVEL Powers United VR (2018) again in 2021, the net co-op sport launched solely on Oculus Rift by Meta-owned studio Sanzuru Video games. A latest fan venture devoted to reviving the sport gave followers a glimmer of hope that they could even have the ability to play on-line once more, however Meta has now shut that down too.
As reported by Video Gamer, the short-lived ‘Powers Revival’ venture has been shut down, citing copyright infringement by IP holder Meta.
“Sadly, we remorse to announce at the moment that the ‘Powers Revival Mission’ shall be closed and fully eliminated within the following days,” organizers introduced within the venture’s Discord over the weekend. The Discord first opened its doorways on August twentieth, making for a reasonably speedy response by Meta.
The venture’s scope was to advertise software program instruments so customers may choose sport ranges, and subsequently play all of Marvel Powers United VR’s single participant content material. It additionally seems Powers Revival got here pretty near releasing multiplayer servers too, which is a disgrace.
Points appeared to stem nonetheless from the group offering gamers with direct hyperlinks to torrents so customers may set up Marvel Powers United VR content material in its entirety, reasoning that many such professional homeowners had already deleted their sport information as steered by Meta again in 2021 “to keep away from lifeless area taken up in your machine.”
“Whereas we, in good religion, wished to assist professional sport homeowners obtain the sport as most had already uninstalled it at Meta’s request after shutdown, that in the end ended up being a horrible determination as we had been unintentionally infringing on the copyrighted information belonging to Meta Platforms (MP). As could be anticipated, they’ve kindly requested us to take down this venture and any infringing information.”
The revival group stated over the weekend they’re nonetheless making an attempt to barter with Meta, though admits “it’s extremely unlikely and if we don’t hear again positively the [Discord] server shall be deleted as scheduled.” An announcement message from group organizers notes at the moment is the “daybreak of the ultimate day. 24 hours stays.”
In its wake, the Powers Revival venture is urging gamers to signal the Cease Killing Video games initiative, which seeks to finish the follow of publishers deleting video video games they’ve offered to clients.
What’s extra, all of this was in service of a sport that acquired largely middling scores for basically providing up a brilliant hero-flavored wave shooter, albeit letting you play as 18 completely different Marvel heroes, resembling Black Widow, Captain America, Spider-Man, Storm, The Hulk, and Wolverine.
Nonetheless, its general manufacturing worth and skill to allow you to cosplay as your favourite superhero was a highpoint not value overlooking. On the time of this writing, the fan revival Discord has almost 6,000 members.
Because of Antony Vitillo of Skarred Ghost for pointing us to the information.
