Anyone who defends this clearly isn’t thinking long term. If I want to play SFIII and I pop in the disc, I get the whole game. If I want to play SFV years from now and something happens to all that “patching” (and it’s really stretching the nature of patches), I’m basically going to be stuck with a game that’s nearly…
If they wanted the game out for the pro tour, they should have just made the game available to those competing to practice on and save the full retail release for later when they actually finished the game.
I think the majority of people complaining about the lack of arcade mode are “old folks” like me. We grew up renting fighting games and playing arcade mode until a friend could come over. Playing through arcade mode to see the final boss was always the main draw for me.
Games 20 years ago had more content and features than SFV does at launch. It’s embarrasing.
The real fact of the matter is that this is entirely our fault. We keep letting publishers and developers get away with this shit because we are incapable of just saying no, and not buying the damn things. Articles like this will continue to be written on a regular basis and we will continue to flood the comment…
That’s an awful lot of words to say “I don’t understand why games are held to different standards.”
the difference between Splatoon and SFV is mainly that splatoon wasn’t unfinished at launch and most of the mutiplayer maps they added with updates were already there on the disc.
So much this. Capcom straight up said it wasn’t finished, which is more than they’ve ever done in the past. Hell, people should have learned not to buy Street Fighter games at launch way back in the 16 bit days. Every time a new SF is released we get the same bitching and moaning; the bitching and moaning has just…
Remember when game launches used to be hyped things and you could be sure you were getting a full quality product that worked... ya those were the days.
Stop buying games at launch.
I called it! Sony and Capcom said they will never release an upgraded version of SFV a la Super SFII and Ultra SFIV.