Marvel Rivals devs promise they’re not wasting time planting fake leaks – “we’d rather spend our time developing the actual game”

Marvel Rivals developer NetEase Games is going ham on the multiplayer game, aiming to bring a new hero to the title every month-and-a-half. With so many heroes planned, the studio has also left teams of characters on the cutting room floor, with many sharing their inclusion as fact.

Just as Marvel Rivals director Thaddeus Sasser told us months ago, producer Weicong Wu and executive producer Danny Koo explained that the leaks only lead to disappointment. With leakers claiming that NetEase have planted “fake leaks”, the developers explain that not everything is going to make it to the final product.

Marvel Rivals devs on constant leaks

Speaking to IGN, Koo explained that the team at NetEase “experimented with a lot of play styles and heroes” that could have been included in the game. However, that doesn’t mean the team will be adding any of those heroes to the game anytime soon.

“It was like there’s someone doing scratch paperwork and then just left a notebook there, and someone [a dataminer] decided to open it with no context,” the executive producer explained.

In a blunt statement, Koo explained that the team isn’t actually spending its time planting fake leaks to catch out dataminers.

“We’d rather spend our time developing the actual game,” Koo told the outlet.

As for whether or not players should trust the leaks, producer Weicong Wu explained that the leaks may be accurate, but that doesn’t mean they’re actually coming to the game. In a statement to the outlet, Wu urged players to not take leaks as “gospel”.

“It might mean that we’ve tried those directions and they may appear or may not appear in our future plans,” Wu said. “Whether or not they will appear in our future pipeline is highly depending on what kind of gameplay experience our players would expect in our game.”

During the same period, Wu also revealed that the team is prototyping a Marvel Rivals Switch 2 port, although it may never release.

For more Marvel Rivals news, check out the release date for the Human Torch and The Thing in an upcoming mid-season update.