The season of game company gaffes continues with NetEase apologizing for a Marvel Rivals preview contract that asked streamers not to make 'subjective negative reviews of the game'

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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting.

Publisher NetEase has walked back a controversial"non-disparagement" requirement for streamers and video makers previewing its upcoming hero shooter Marvel Rivals. Just one day after prominent streamerMarvel Rivals is an upcoming 6v6 hero shooter reminiscent of Overwatch, but with all those superhero guys from the comics. Rivals is beginning its first closed alpha playtest, with a number of content creators previewing the game as part of the test.

Credit where it's due for NetEase: it's been taking days of popular backlash over game company missteps to see stuff like this reversed: see' days of rage over unpopular changes to those games. There's definitely a kernel of something reasonable to a clause like this: an understandable protective attitude toward a work-in-progress being shown to the public for the first time, and a need for players to manage expectations for an alpha release.

 

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