'Get Paid to Throw' — Unofficial Marvel Rivals Bounty Website Faces Backlash as Players Ask NetEase to Intervene

Marvel Rivals players are asking NetEase Games to instrumentality enactment aft the emergence of an unofficial bounty website triggered fears that it could harm the assemblage it’s supposedly trying to protect.

Fans of the leader shooter sounded the alarm erstwhile third-party tract Intlist.org went unrecorded connected February 22. Established by Marvel Rivals contented creator and X/Twitter idiosyncratic EchoRivals, its authoritative Discord leafage says the extremity is to springiness players an avenue to sanction those who intentionally sabotage oregon “throw” multiplayer matches and “put a terms connected their head.”

— Carson (@EchoRivals) February 23, 2026

“Put a bounty connected griefers & throwers,” the archetypal station connected its X relationship says, promising a strategy that offers an 80% payout for those who successfully propulsion matches successful retaliation. “Someone queues in, throws it back, gets paid.”

Intlist allows immoderate subordinate to station bounties related to disruptive behaviour crossed 7 games: Deadlock, Overwatch, Valorant, Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Dota 2, and, of course, Marvel Rivals. The tract has done its champion to merchantability the transportation arsenic a elemental solution to a communal issue, but arsenic Marvel Rivals fans person pointed out, determination a fig of concerns going unaddressed.

Some person already called retired however a wide utilized bounty website could origin a domino effect that sees not lone griefers punished but everyone else, too. One Reddit idiosyncratic calling attraction to the contented says they’ve already seen an summation successful sabotaged matches for each benignant of player, informing that “now each crippled is radical throwing each other’s games.”

“Something tells maine throwing the crippled of idiosyncratic who throws already is not going to annoy anyone but the 4 unfortunate randoms connected the team,” different fashionable reply from a instrumentality says. “I bash not spot the constituent of this similar astatine all.”

The Intlist relationship replied to the disapproval above: “Collateral harm is an unfortunate world of war.”

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— Viper4K (@Viper4K) February 25, 2026

Another substance brought to the array by fans online revolves astir however the assemblage defines who is and isn’t sabotaging matches, arsenic good arsenic Intlist’s verification process. The superior intent of the tract was already facing scrutiny astatine launch, arsenic players suspected determination whitethorn beryllium excessively fewer safeguards to support well-meaning players from falling unfortunate to retaliation done the bounty system. Reports that notable Marvel Rivals contented creators similar Jay3 had joined the database of offenders lone added to these concerns.

Meanwhile, arsenic of the work of this story, Intlist has been pulled offline arsenic the squad backing it teases that “something large is coming.” Discord messages from EchoRivals overgarment a clearer picture, explaining that the tract was locked down aft they “detected unauthorized entree to our database from a azygous atrocious actor.”

“A constricted fig of email addresses tied to bounty posts were exposed,” the station adds. “No passwords, outgo info, oregon plaintext IP addresses were compromised - we don't store immoderate of those. The tract is temporarily offline portion we fastener everything down - we were not taken down, 1 idiosyncratic conscionable decided to ruin it for everyone temporarily. We're besides moving connected immoderate upgrades portion we're astatine it.”

The Intlist.org website is down pursuing unauthorized entree to its database. Image captured by IGN.

EchoRivals insists their volition is lone to code problems that person plagued the competitory gaming assemblage for years — Marvel Rivals included. Like truthful galore different online games, the comic publication character-filled spinoff has seen a accordant travel of reports of griefing enactment since its motorboat successful precocious 2024. The real-world communicative known arsenic the Kingsman play besides seemingly led to an influx of reports of thrown matches recently, arsenic little superior players person attempted to spoil just play successful the sanction of a speedy joke.

“I spot a batch of throwers successful wide present who dice a mates times and past accidental they’re conscionable playing for the vibes portion AFKing oregon throwing,” 1 Reddit idiosyncratic said earlier this week, referencing events related to the Kingsman drama.

“I stopped playing the entirety of Season 6 due to the fact that it conscionable became truthful unbearable. Can’t judge radical are inactive doing this anserine s**t a period later.”

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Intlist targets players crossed a assortment of experiences, but the tract has expressed circumstantial involvement successful Marvel Rivals. One of its posts goes arsenic acold arsenic to committedness to “gladly unopen down” if NetEase bans nefarious players and fixes its Engagement Optimized Matchmaking (EOMM) — a maneuver the workplace has denied utilizing successful the past.

Many are calling for the website to beryllium removed arsenic they fearfulness however it could impact each players, portion others reason that thing indispensable beryllium done to combat griefers. However, it seems astir everyone successful betwixt is asking the developers to measurement in.

“People resorting to brushed doxing is kinda wild,” 1 instrumentality argued. “I dont recognize wherefore [NetEase] refuses bash to thing erstwhile they tin intelligibly codification a bare minimum strategy to prime up lord farmers. Profits. Its for profits thats why.”

“Because what we request successful games is much throwers and not a strategy that rewards positivity instead,” different X idiosyncratic said sarcastically.

Marvel Rivals is presently successful the midst of Season 6, which added Deadpool and Elsa Bloodstone arsenic playable characters. NetEase has yet to code immoderate semipermanent plans to woody with players looking to ruin the amusive for others.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).