Give the hype surrounding the game, it seemed somewhat likely that Marvel Rivals would beat its launch concurrent playercount. It did, and then some.

Marvel Rival has broken its all-time concurrent player record following the release of its first season of content. The hero shooter released its first season yesterday. This saw 644,269 players play the game concurrently, launching it to number 14 in Steam ‘s all-time highest concurrent player counts.

NetEase has clamped down on Marvel Rivals skin modding in the game's latest seasonal update, so no more playing as Iron Man cosplaying Vegeta.

Marvel Rivals has just launched season 1, the game barreling forward with a colossal amount of momentum over the past month as it has broken past the “you can’t make a successful hero shooter” narrative and has created a phenomenon.

NetEase Games' popular hero shooter reaches a major player milestone shortly after the launch of Marvel Rivals' Season 1: Eternal Night Falls.

The first season of Marvel Rivals may have started, but it's brought an end to mods that let players be third-party characters.

First reported by IGN, it appears that Marvel Rivals' season one update has disabled mods in the game. Until now, there was actually a surprisingly lively scene of modders creating skins and other cosmetic additions for the NetEase hero shooter.

The latest update to Marvel Rivals has killed support for PC mods that change the looks of its heroes, like turning Iron Man into Vegeta or Mantis into a goth. Just after season 1 started on Friday, players started asking in the Marvel Rivals Discord why their mods weren’t working.