Gazillion's new Fortune Online title is headed for the scrap heap, according to our friends at Joystiq. The Diablo-style browser MMO was born of a desire to simplify dungeon crawling for casual gamers, but apparently it's taking too much time (and too many resources) away from Gazillion's Marvel projects.
"We will continue delivering and refining content for Super Hero Squad Online, along with building and developing the Marvel Heroes game," a Gazillion spokesman told Joystiq. The firm also denied speculation that it is preparing for a Disney acquisition, and it declined to announce a timetable or job losses resulting from the Fortune closure.
[Thanks to Space Cobra for the tip!]
Reader Comments (8)
Posted: Feb 14th 2012 6:45PM edgecrusherO0 said
Hmmm, casual dungeon crawler...that seems oxymoronic.
Posted: Feb 14th 2012 7:44PM Germaximus said
aww That sucks, was very cool for a browser game. I guess Drakensang was too much competition? =p
Posted: Feb 14th 2012 9:47PM UnSub said
... and that only leaves Jumpgate as NetDevil's sole remaining active title.
Posted: Feb 14th 2012 9:53PM Maseno said
Too bad Marvel Heroes looks like it will be a pile of trash.
Posted: Feb 15th 2012 7:00AM Lobotomist said
The game was simply not good. Thats the bottom line
Posted: Feb 15th 2012 11:54PM MewmewGirl said
The game had potential to be good but they never settled on a system or a story line. The game changed the entire storyline over multiple times - from dark and serious, to a completely goofy spoof, back to semi serious but different from the first one. To try to make the gameplay faster, they just speeded up the current system instead of actually putting much work into it, which made the graphics look all jumpy and like the game wasn't made to handle it (which it wasn't). They went back and forth so much with it I could easily tell it would probably be dumped...
At least they're giving refunds to people who spent money on it. Another game I played and spent a bunch of cash on microtransactions announced the very next day they were shutting down in a month, no refunds!
At least they're giving refunds to people who spent money on it. Another game I played and spent a bunch of cash on microtransactions announced the very next day they were shutting down in a month, no refunds!








