Darwinianevolution said:
Darashiva said:
I'm not defending Capcom in this at all. Their practices in recent years have been just as bad as WB's or Activision's, I'm just saying that MvsC I selling worse than the SF2 port could lead to an even worse situation regarding the future of their fighting game franchises.
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Yeah, but what else we could do at this point? Vocal criticism is useless, if it worked, we would have solved this problem by now. The only thing that seems to make them think their action twice is through the sales numbers. If we buy the game we are still paying for a game that has a ton of awful practices behind it, and if we don't buy it, we hurt a potentially good game and franchise (and even then, Capcom might blame the game for the low sales, instead of the bad bussiness model, like they have been doing since last gen). There's no perfect choice or outcome.
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That's the problem with buying some of their games from a certain genre but not others I suppose. People bought a lot more SF2 than the new MvsC, so Capcom might think that their customers no longer care about the latter series. That's always the issue with voting with ones wallet. I understand it, and I've done it myself as well, but if you do it with a series you're a fan of, it could mean that there will be no more games made for that particular series.
For example, I've completely stopped preordering any video games or consoles, because the practice is in my opinion massively flawed in its current state and only encourages publishers to gate content by making them available only by preordering the game. I think that the most effective way a customer can influence the video game industry is by not giving money to publishers who do stuff like what Capcom is doing, since most will only begin to listen when their profits are in danger. Unfortunately, when you do so you need to also accept that there's a certain risk involved as well.
