Marvel Heroes Online

Marvel heroes is a "free" to play MMO in the marvel comics universe.

I have played this game on/off for while I was even part of the beta. Its a Diablo style game made by most of the original Diablo team.

Originally you had a small selection of starting heroes. Hawkeye, Daredevil, Thing, Storm, and Scarlet Witch. You could pick one. Any other heroes had to be purchased ($5 - $9) or received from a random drop. When I tried I got Daredevil(not too bad) and in 12 levels of play only got one drop (the thing). In 2013 they changed this process but it was not that much better. They introduced "infinity shards" that could unlock a character. But given you would be lucky to get one every 10 minutes of play getting to the 400-600 you'd need to unlock a character was a decent effort. I was never motivated enough to get more then a few shards.


While the prices were not unreasonable to just buy the hero you wanted the game was just never able to get my interest with the hero's I had available.


So why make a post about a game I did not like that much? Cause they fixed it.

For 2015 and the release of avengers 2 they changed the starting hero list. Captain America, Black Panther, Punisher, Black Widow, Luke Cage, Human Torch, Colossus, Storm, Hawkeye, Rocket Racoon, Daredevil

Each hero can be played to level 10 for free.
You start with 400 Shards which will get you several of these heroes and a few others. If you wanted Iron Man you just need to earn 200 more which is easier to do than the 600 originally needed.

They have added a "team-up: system for 400 shards you can get a second hero as your pet. (in theroy this can come as a drop but I have not seen it yet. )

There have been several other small QOL tweaks that have just made it alot of fun to play. Using my 400 shards I got Nova and he's alot more fun to play that thing or daredevil are. I still want Iron Man but I can wait till I get enough shards naturally at this point.