Cool article, bro.

If you email a website with something you did, it wasn’t to be considerate, it was for attention. That’s how this one looks anyway.

Cool, but, why?

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…

I don’t know if it’s a matter of being old. I think it’s a matter of valuing your own money and the work you do to obtain it, and expecting that the people you give that money to meet the unbelievably basic standard of “giving me a complete product when I pay for it.”

It wouldn’t surprise me if they did ... but your a and b points can be said about pretty much every game, ever.

I totally agree. The only thing keeping me from buying the game is lack of an arcade or vs CPU mode.

It's weird tho because this is how my friends got really good at the game. Arcade/vs mode and the training mode for the combo practice. Most people would have been down with that until the next big release.

Agree completely. As a fellow old fogey, arcade mode is essential for me. It also gives me a short term goal for my play session so I’m not just floating online match-to-match with no end in sight. That’s how you lose track of time haha.

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.

It’s pretty much a given that any game with online multiplayer will have server issues around launch. It sucks, but I get it- you don’t want to overspend for servers that are going to be unnecessary after a week.

You know what makes that a bit more bearable? A solid single-player experience.

Surely someone at Capcom…

This isn’t quite unprescendented for Capcom:

I dunno about 1p so much but I want to sit down in front of the same tv with my son or friends and family and play. I’m not much into playing fighting games online with strangers. Don’t really think that makes one a “casual”.

Life is a cycle. Eventually gamers will get fed up as companies get more and more brazen with shipping out unfinished games ‘because they can get away with it’. Still waiting patiently, but I don’t buy any games until I’ve heard some good things about them post-release.

Seriously so sick of video games launching this way. It is fucking bullshit. If I bought a car I am pretty sure I wouldn’t get the rear wheels, and backseats 2 weeks later.

I’ve become pretty accustomed to buying games and “waiting” for things to work or “get patched”, a shitty, ridiculous sign of the times but this one really annoys me more than most. Yes, the common “don’t buy things at launch” is always the reply but it really is ridiculous that we even have to say things like that…

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.

In other words, fuck them sideways. That is ridiculous.

Yeah. Honestly it should have one. Someone mock up the symbol, stat!

Yeah. This is coming from a guy who enjoyed Star Wars Battlefront a fair bit. I think they finally went too far. At least that had a bunch of modes.