Intlist, a website that allows users to post bounties “on griefers & throwers” in Marvel Rivals, Overwatch, and Valorant, went live on February 23, and the Marvel Rivals community is particularly ticked off about it, mostly because they believe that NetEase is to blame for letting things get to this point in the first place. Intlist promises that those who respond to the bounties on the website will be paid for their work, but it’s clearly trying to have its cake and eat it too, as its founders state that the posted bounties are ”not a green light to harass the target.” In spite of this statement, several bounties on Intlist feature information about the targets in question that can be used to track them down elsewhere, such as their Twitch usernames.
Founded in part by a “former pro player” called EchoRivals, Intlist’s official page on X states that the site’s creation is also NetEase’s fault, due to their implementation of Engagement-Oriented Matchmaking in Marvel Rivals (via Fandomwire). “intlist.org exists because the devs left a gap — and the community filled it. Remove EOMM and actually ban throwers? We’ll gladly shut down.” For context, NetEase has stated on multiple occasions that Marvel Rivals doesn’t use EOMM.
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However, Marvel Rivals players are upset with NetEase due to the lax methods it uses to punish people who throw games and grief teammates. Prior to Inlist’s creation, posts criticizing NetEase for not banning those who abuse this fact seemed to pop up on r/rivals on a daily basis. “Can we just start banning people for throwing. I don’t get how we’re a year into this game and people are still throwing games left and right 24/7 without anything happening to them.”
That being said, the same subreddit isn’t too fond of Intlist either, as the community is now asking NetEase to go after the website directly. According to several players in the thread, Intlist is clearly only making the problem worse. “There is also a Saudi millionaire paying people to target throwers, and now every game is people throwing each other’s games. Can we do something about this, please? Perma these people.”
Perhaps the most obvious sign that Intlist isn’t doing its due diligence here are the specific names featured in the bounties. One of the targets posted on the site is pro player Jay3, founder of the Jay3 Community Clash tournament, who has a 7-dollar bounty on his digital head. It also doesn’t help the founders’ case that the latest post on Intlist’s X page states that the website is currently down for maintenance so they can “cook a few things.” That is slightly underselling the reason behind its “maintenance,” as earlier this morning, founder EchoRivals announced on the official Intlist Discord server that the site is offline because they “detected unauthorized access.“ As a result, a “limited number of email addresses tied to bounty posts were exposed.”
