A Massively Multiplayer Superhero / Supervillain Simulator
THE BASICS
Baseline Subscription: This give the player access to all the training zones, (New York, Latvaria, Genoshia, etc.) initial number of character slots, and all events within those zones. This doesn’t prevent you from teaming, side-kicking, or mentoring (co-op) into other zones.
HAVE IT YOUR WAY
My Pull List: This gives the player the baseline zones as well as discounted access to areas of interest. For example, you may participate in an “Atlantis Attacks” event in New York, but you may not be interested in opening up Atlantis as a zone. Your Pull List lets the player choose their path with prices targeting their interests. If a zone includes new races or new (non-temp) abilities, these are also included in the purchase. This also doesn’t prevent you from participating in teaming, side-kicking, or mentoring (co-op) in those zones.
Everything All The Time
The Works! The Works gives the player access to all new zones, events and costume pieces. Character slots must still be purchased, but at a discounted price.
Baseline subscribers who operate in the training zones, will get a taste of the greater Marvel Universe as the hubs for everything that happens and will have the flexibility to modify their account whenever they choose. We want the baseline player to feel that there is so much content for them to experience that the greater universe is just icing on an already huge cake.
Notice that there was no mention of a $60 box price. The Marvel Universe Online is so confident in the product, we believe we can forgo the expense of manufacturing and packaging physical media and instead focusing on a fully virtualised sales model.
Revenue streams don’t stop with player accounts. With the games growing popularity, we have the opportunity for interactive advertising within the appropriate zones. Linking billboards, signs, and storefronts to actual retail store websites. Marvel could stream movie and TV trailers, promote merchandise, or provide players with exclusive deals on Marvel products. As the main hero hubzone, Manhattan lends itself natively to this form of advertising, without it feeling intrusive or out of place.
This idea creates a “gamified” multimedia and e-commerce center that focuses on all things Marvel, but can be expanded to other products in cooperative advertising agreements.
Serving as not only the character creation tool and stat sheets, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Online gives players the chance to collect entries from other players and NPCs to form their own “Encyclopedia” of Characters throughout the game world!
As a revenue stream, these collections can be sold as either individual sheets or as collected books to form libraries of handbooks! This promotes a sense of pride and the collectors urge to “catch um all”!
Imagine being the star of your own Marvel Comic! Build-A-Comic is a feature that catalogues your in-game adventures and compiles them into custom digital comic books that you can collect, share, or even purchase hard copies to proudly display your superpowered achievements in the Marvel Universe!
