DC Universe Online creators cancel their MMO about the Marvel universe

It would have a budget of 50m euros, but its executives see too much risk in their investments.

Swedish video game conglomerate EG7 announced today that an MMO featuring characters and locations from the Marvel Universe in development has been canceled. Dimensional Ink Gamesbetter known by veteran DC Universe Online and recently announced to the public in the fall of 2021.

EG7 claimed that they had reassessed the development risk profile, size of investment and long-term product portfolio strategy for the group, adding that this production resulted in a discontinuation of the gestation process, which would have a reduction. budget of about 50 million euros.

Instead, the holding company will allocate these resources to multiple smaller projects such as the Lord of the Rings: Online and DC Universe Online updates, as well as new opportunities. development with own IP.

In this way, we missed one of the Marvel games announced in the industry, although there are still a few ongoing. The closest we’ve got is Firaxis and Marvel’s Midnight Suns from 2K Games dating to the second half of the year, with fans on the horizon hoping to hear from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 with Villain’s Venom and Marvel’s Wolverine both from Insomniac.

While DC Universe Online has been around for over 10 years, The Lord of the Rings Online celebrated 15 years on the network a few weeks ago. Both still maintain a hidden number of active players on PC, although they are far from many past years.

Speaking of Marvel, we recently got some clarifications at 3DJuegos from a former senior officer of Marvel Games, where he talked about how they knocked on Microsoft’s doors in 2014 to develop big-budget video games on IP and they didn’t succeed.