10 Biggest Video Game Botches Of 2021
4. Marvel's Avengers's Year One Content
Square Enix's Marvel's Avengers has had a hard time of things pretty much since the day it launched in 2020, and it feels like the game is still trying to play catch-up even now at the tail end of 2021.
From the battle to get Spider-Man involved to the messy menus and interfaces, Marvel's Avengers has never made the splash in the industry that has such a huge arsenal of names and characters should have delivered.
To be fair, the game did finally release the long-awaited Spider-Man DLC in November, but even this much-anticipated move ended up being botched by Square Enix, with the company announcing that it wouldn't be arriving with any story content whatsoever.
Another controversy came earlier this year in September when Square Enix and developers Crystal Dynamics introduced an XP boost that players could purchase with real money. This blatant cash-grab is nothing new, but the controversy of the move came from the fact that both companies had promised in 2019 that the game's microtransactions would purely be cosmetic features, not game-altering ones.
What made things even worse was the fact that earlier in the year, the game received an update that made levelling up and progression an even slower process, making the XP boost move look all the more sneaky.
Crystal Dynamics removed the XP boost barely a couple of months later in November, but that only closed the year off with one final embarrassing u-turn for a title already struggling with the community.
This game was a disaster in 2020, and unfortunately the 2021 updates haven't done much to save it.