Marvel Rivals has finally addressed ‘incentivised throwing’, the bounty system where people pay to ruin matches: ‘We maintain a strict zero-tolerance policy against any form of malicious disruption’

Just when you thought Marvel Rivals’ competitive balancing couldn’t get any worse, a new system to throw games turns up. Incentivised throwing is the name, and ruining people’s win streaks is its game.

Third party websites popped up with the sole purpose of placing bounties on players’ heads. The intention being that if people find themself in a team with someone who has a bounty, they can throw the game and claim 80% of the reward (20% goes to the website, very convenient). People who throw games for any reason are already losers with paper-thin mental, but this sinks to new depths of deadbeats.

These sites supposedly started as a way to target griefers and, ironically, people who throw matches. But instead, it just created a surge of throwers in Marvel Rivals, many of whom don’t even target people who deserve it, instead going for the classic pick: streamers.