A new website called Intlist went live on February 23 with a questionable premise: real cash payouts for players who deliberately lose Marvel Rivals matches. The targets are supposed to be known griefers and throwers, but the site has already devolved into something much uglier. Well known streamers and top ranked players are getting bounties placed on them, the platform suffered a data breach exposing user emails, and the Marvel Rivals community is overwhelmingly calling the whole thing "braindead."
How the Bounty System Works
Intlist operates like a hit list for ranked games. A player uploads a clip of someone they claim is griefing or throwing, attaches the offender's username, and puts up a cash bounty. Other players then act as bounty hunters, queuing into the target's lobbies and deliberately throwing to tank that person's games.
Bounty hunters who provide proof of a completed throw collect 80% of the cash pool. The other 20% reportedly goes to payment processing fees. It is uncertain whether players are actually receiving their promised bounties.
The site was cofounded by EchoRivals, who claims to be a former professional player. One example bounty shared on X listed a "Boosted Grandmaster 2 player in Marvel Rivals playing Rogue only" with a $21 price tag and the player's name fully visible.
Intlist Blames NetEase for Its Own Existence
EchoRivals and the Intlist team have framed the site as a necessary response to NetEase's failure to police its own game. "Marvel Rivals won't fix EOMM. They won't punish griefers. They won't protect your ranked games. So we did," reads one of Intlist's posts on X. "Remove EOMM and actually ban throwers? We'll gladly shut down. Until then, we're not going anywhere."
EOMM (engagement oriented matchmaking) is a system designed to maximize player retention rather than match players by skill. Losing too many games could pair you against weaker opponents to engineer a win, while winning streaks might trigger harder lobbies. NetEase has denied using EOMM in Marvel Rivals, but the accusation keeps coming up in community discussions.
The frustration Intlist is riding on isn't manufactured. Players on the Marvel Rivals subreddit have spent months complaining that throwing penalties are laughably weak. Community reports indicate the harshest punishment for throwing a match is often just a 15 minute ban, and the timer keeps counting down even when the game is closed. Someone can throw a match, shut down Marvel Rivals, and come back unbanned. One player compared NetEase's approach to "trying to stop a flood with a paper towel," especially since a single thrower can cost their team around 27 ranked points while barely facing any real consequence.
The Actual Targets Aren't Griefers
Intlist claims to go after throwers and griefers, but the bounty listings paint a very different picture.
Popular content creator and pro player Jay3 appeared on the site with a $7 bounty. The list was found packed with "One Above All" ranked players (the highest tier in Marvel Rivals), pointing to targeted harassment of top competitors rather than any kind of community justice.
Many listings also include Twitch handles, making it trivial for bounty hunters to snipe their targets through their streams. Watch the stream, see when they queue, and jump into the same lobby. The Intlist founders have said this is "not a green light to harass," but the community isn't buying it.
Reddit users flagged other avenues for abuse too. One commenter noted there's nothing stopping someone from posting a bounty out of pure spite: "Could see someone getting mad that they got dunked on by an enemy Spider-Man and wanting revenge." Players have also referenced unverified claims of a "Saudi millionaire" funding bounties against specific individuals, creating chaos at the top of the ranked ladder.
More Throwing Doesn't Fix Throwing
The logical problem with Intlist is obvious, and the community has been vocal about it. Paying someone to throw a match to punish a thrower just doubles the number of ruined games. The bounty hunter's teammates, who have nothing to do with the dispute, eat the loss.
A Reddit post calling for the site's removal gathered over 150 upvotes. Players described the concept as "braindead" and "transcendentally stupid." One user, Cryocian, put it bluntly: "It's so insanely stupid that this even exists at all because it's a minor annoyance at worst for the thrower and rage inducing for anyone randomly matched with them."
JoanOfSarcasm added that Marvel Rivals' throwing problem was already pushing players away before Intlist entered the picture. "I see a lot of throwers in general now who die a couple times and then say they're just playing for the vibes while AFKing or throwing." They said this contributed to their decision to quit playing altogether.
Data Breach Adds to the Mess
On top of the backlash, Intlist also got hacked.
On February 25, an Intlist representative confirmed on Discord that the team "detected unauthorized access to our database from a single bad actor." The breach exposed a limited number of email addresses tied to bounty posts. According to the statement, no passwords, payment info, or plaintext IP addresses were compromised.
The site went offline following the incident. The Intlist team insisted the downtime was voluntary, not forced: "The site is temporarily offline while we lock everything down. We were not taken down, one person just decided to ruin it for everyone temporarily."
Intlist remains down at the time of writing. The landing page now displays a message reading "something big is coming" along with claims that the "system is being upgraded." Given that the platform already deals in identifying player information like usernames and Twitch handles, the breach makes its privacy situation even more concerning.
Players Call for NetEase to Step In
Community frustration is split between Intlist and NetEase. Many players see the site as a symptom of a larger moderation failure, arguing it would never gain traction if throwing actually carried meaningful consequences.
The Marvel Rivals subreddit is full of calls for a harder approach. Players want permanent bans for throwers and for anyone tied to bounty sites. Some point to the current penalty structure as the root cause, noting that minor punishments don't deter dedicated trolls while heavy bans are rarely handed out.
NetEase has not issued any public response to Intlist. It's unclear if the developer plans to act against the site, its users, or the moderation problems that gave rise to it in the first place.
A Problem Bigger Than Marvel Rivals
Griefing and throwing aren't unique to Marvel Rivals. They've plagued competitive multiplayer games for years, from Overwatch to League of Legends and beyond. It plays out the same way every time: players feel developers don't take bad actors seriously enough, frustration builds, and someone eventually tries to take matters into their own hands.
Intlist is just the latest version of that cycle, and one of the most counterproductive. Every fulfilled bounty means another ruined match for uninvolved players. The site also creates a direct pipeline for harassment, with real money incentivizing people to target streamers and top ranked competitors who may have done nothing wrong.
Until NetEase addresses the moderation complaints driving this anger, the ranked experience in Marvel Rivals remains unstable. Players are left in a competitive environment where the teammate next to them might literally be getting paid to lose.
