How do I put this lightly
It's crazy how you're literally in the SFV thread and yet can't get past the tunnel vision. Capcom is still top dog in the FGC. SFV still tops every tournament in viewership, contestants, and money. Capcom surely is not impenetrable (we precisely saw that with SFxT and even moreso with MvCI), but you can't act like Smash is somehow considerable in the FGC when the overlap between Smash players and other players is almost two completely separate circles and in the same breath say Capcom is dead. There's a reason that both people who love and hate SFV all have SFVI on the mind, and that's because its nearly guaranteed to be a hit when it launches, even if it's solid at best.
If you say so
If your argument is that things are changing, I'm inclined to agree. Capcom isn't commanding a towering lead over the others like late SFIV and launch SFV, but to argue its already dead is nonsense.
Street fighter will never be dead
Didn't you hear? Number 2 is like "number last" now.
Fair points indeed... The game's two main strengths will be online and prize pool for sure.
The thing is, even if they don't at first, that flexibility will work in their favor. Listening closely to feedback and adjusting the game accordingly will prevent it from landing in some unsalvageable hole. As long as the core gameplay is good and it has elements with potential, they'll be able to realign things as need be.
That's really what concerns me. Listening to the loudest voices on Twitter and Reddit for balancing the game is bad, listening to them to design the game would be even worse...
I stand by my previous statement.
Yup, I was thinking of the games coming next year (no idea when Riots launches) but I don't see GG killing it (though I hope that has a good showing, the game looks to be shaping up very nice), and aside from Granblue (which admittedly I forgot existed) I can't recall any new fighters coming in 2020 for Evo - though I suppose KOF XV might be aiming for an Evo slot (and it should totally get one if its released in time, I love me some KOF).
There's an argument to be made that maybe it should have died given things like the rootkit. And that the fact that it didn't doesn't make the fanbase look great.
The only people SFV makes look bad are the mentally deranged weirdos that continue to brainlessly shit on the game three years after the fact.
There are a lot of very vocal, stupid and toxic people in the "community" which is really mostly Reddit and Twitter nobodies. The really bad thing is when those online cretins are enabled by the more toxic well-known "pros" who also engage in the shitty behavior.
Gotta agree. I'm glad at least that SFV's were clearly dummy/minion characters that had little business being playable, but it's kinda dumb that they couldn't be included anyway just for fun.
