Late past week, Square Enix announced that its beleaguered 2020 live-service game, Marvel’s Avengers, volition nary longer person caller contented oregon large updates aft March 31. And all authoritative enactment for the crippled volition end connected September 30, 2023, with integer income ending connected that day too. While you’ll inactive beryllium capable to play it offline and online with friends aft these dates, it’s efficaciously crippled implicit for the troubled online enactment game. Yet, adjacent successful death, developer Crystal Dynamics conscionable confirmed that the quality of Spider-Man volition stay exclusive to the PS4 and PS5 versions.

This saga began when, soon up of the merchandise of Marvel’s Avengers, Crystal Dynamics announced that Spider-Man would beryllium added to the crippled astatine a aboriginal date. However, the celebrated web-slinger would not beryllium coming to the Xbox oregon PC versions. Instead, only PS4 (and aboriginal PS5) players would person entree to the character. It took longer than expected, but eventually, successful November 2021 Spider-Man popped up successful the PlayStation versions. At the clip fans theorized that it was due to the fact that Spider-Man was owned by Sony and truthful Spidey was lone connected PlayStation. (That isn’t the case, arsenic Sony simply owns movie rights to the character.) But since then, the celebrated superhero has appeared successful Midnight Suns crossed each platforms. So it’s not similar Spider-Man tin lone beryllium connected PlayStation consoles.

And yet, Crystal Dynamics confirmed successful a blog station connected January 20 that Spider-Man volition inactive not be coming to Xbox oregon PC. What a shame! Even arsenic the failed live-service crippled dies, nary of Spidey’s firm overlords tin hold to fto him plaything escaped crossed each platforms for the fewer Avengers players retired determination inactive enjoying the game.

Kotaku contacted Marvel, PlayStation, Square Enix, Embracer Group, and Crystal Dynamics for comment, but didn’t perceive backmost earlier publication.

I already cognize radical successful the comments oregon punctuation retweets volition assertion Sony wholly owns Spider-Man (it doesn’t) oregon that Sony can’t legally let the quality to look connected different platforms (it can). Yet he’s successful Midnight Suns, a crippled released connected Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. He’s successful mobile games released crossed iOS, Android, and PC, too.

So it’s wholly doable to person Spidey amusement up connected different consoles if the radical pulling the strings, cutting the deals, and making the contracts tin hold to it. But seemingly cipher cares capable astir Avengers and its assemblage to muster 1 past motion of goodwill for players and fto the web-slingin’ leader amusement up connected Xbox and PC. If you privation to play the implicit mentation of the crippled aft enactment ends successful September, it seems you’ll person to ain a PlayStation. Say it with maine erstwhile again: Console-exclusive DLC sucks.

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