{"id":1223072,"date":"2025-02-21T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223072"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:55:00","slug":"marvel-rivals-was-reportedly-almost-canceled-over-licensing-fees-in-last-minute-pivot-that-cost-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223072","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Rivals Was Reportedly Almost Canceled Over Licensing Fees In Last-Minute Pivot That Cost Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/99254813bde139358f1500a92c74c90e.png\"><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/marvel-rivals-new-patch-notes-captain-america-luna-snow-1851756109?_gl=1*16t6bvx*_ga*MTg4NjY0MzM1NS4xNzM5NDU1MDcz*_ga_V4QNJTT5L0*MTc0MDE2ODYwNC4zMS4xLjE3NDAxNjk1ODkuMjcuMC4w\">Marvel Rivals has been a huge hit for NetEase<\/a>. The Chinese publisher recently reported the free-to-play hero shooter had over 40 million players. But the Overwatch clone was almost canceled over the licensing fees the company would owe to Disney for using its popular comic book characters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/marvel-rivals-disney-characters-netease-license-fees-1851765915\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel Rivals has been a huge hit for NetEase. The Chinese publisher recently reported the free-to-play hero shooter had over 40 million players. But the Overwatch clone was almost canceled over the licensing fees the company would owe to Disney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}