➀ Marvel Rivals has achieved significant success since its launch in December last year, with over 20 million downloads in less than two weeks and a peak concurrent player count of nearly 650,000 on Steam. Despite this success, one of the game's directors has announced layoffs. ➁ Thaddeus Sasser, the game director at Marvel Rivals' support studio, made the surprising announcement on LinkedIn, expressing his team's success and subsequent layoffs. ➂ Jack Burrows, a level designer on Marvel Rivals, also confirmed the layoffs, noting the pleasure of working with American colleagues and the inevitability of the situation despite the game's success.