New Patch Displays Your IP In Marvel’s Avengers

<p>Patches are generally a good thing&period; They typically improve a game&&num;8217&semi;s stability&comma; add necessary features&comma; and make the game better to play&period; However&comma; in the case of Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s Avengers&&num;8217&semi; latest patch&comma; it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t all sunshine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The patch introduced the new character&comma; Monica&comma; and the Cosmic Cube event&comma; but also something else&period; It introduced a bug that caused your Gamertag&comma; date and time&comma; and other numbers including your IP address to bounce from location to location as you play&period; Crystal Dynamics commented on the bug but did not mention IP addresses being shown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">We&&num;39&semi;re aware of the issue where a floating string of text appears on the screen and are investigating&period; Thank you for the reports&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Marvel&&num;39&semi;s Avengers &lpar;&commat;PlayAvengers&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;PlayAvengers&sol;status&sol;1407362820082176009&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">June 22&comma; 2021<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A Serious Issue<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>While this issue shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t affect regular players all that much&comma; it is obviously a huge issue for anyone looking to stream the game&period; But even so&comma; if anyone gets their hands on your IP address&comma; it could spell disaster either way&period; So it&&num;8217&semi;s better to be safe than sorry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game has <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;marvels-avengers-review&sol;">already been critically panned<&sol;a> for its live service model&period; With a rather high amount of microtransactions&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s easy to see why&period; When the game is also struggling with updates like these&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s easy to see why Avengers isn&&num;8217&semi;t the hot IP that Crystal Dynamics might&&num;8217&semi;ve hoped for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It took an entire day for Crystal Dynamics to realize the severity of the issue and release a hotfix&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">We are currently testing a solution to the issue of personal information&comma; including the player&&num;39&semi;s IP address and username&comma; being displayed on screen on PS5 and plan to deploy a hotfix tomorrow at around 8AM PT&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Marvel&&num;39&semi;s Avengers &lpar;&commat;PlayAvengers&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;PlayAvengers&sol;status&sol;1407388018504257541&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">June 22&comma; 2021<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A Fix Is Released<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The hotfix should have been released at the time of writing this article since it was planned for 8 AM PT&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;PlayAvengers" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">The official Twitter account<&sol;a> has not mentioned the hotfix actually being deployed though&comma; so we recommend not streaming the game or sharing screenshots until Crystal Dynamics gives confirmation the bug has been fixed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It really is troubling how this issue has not been properly acknowledged&period; Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s Avengers has still been running despite the issue when the servers should have been taken down to prevent people from accidentally doxing themselves&period; Hopefully&comma; it gets resolved quickly today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;