Things at NetEase sound worse than previously thought, as its CEO apparently considered cancelling the immensely successful Marvel Rivals at one point just because he didn’t want to pay for licensing fees | Gaming

Marvel Rivals might be one of the biggest games around right now, but the CEO of its developer NetEase reportedly considered cancelling it completely at one point.

Just this week it was revealed that Marvel Rivals has already reached 40 million players, which to be clear, is more people than the population of Poland. The game is clearly doing well! But this week also brought the news that US devs working in the game have been laid off, despite being such a ridiculously massive hit. Now, a new report from Bloomberg (paywalled) has shed some light on what might be going on behind the scenes at NetEase. According to the report, Marvel Rivals even releasing was in question, as NetEase’s CEO William Ding apparently didn’t like the idea of paying Disney for the licence…more

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