This game just came out and the site that’s supposed to be universal for fighting games has not given a single announcement on it. Every other game has articles on the front page. You wouldn’t even know this game came out if it was up to them.
Someone sees Guilty Gear as a threat to Street Fighter V IMO. There’s no news on it on other sites as well (like eventhubs). SFV was spit out on every site when it released. All of the things like lupe Fiasco vs Daigo, down to IGN doing silly matches with some other SF players. They don’t even have it in the main “coming soon” release area. Something is seriously up.
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Reason we get so much focus on Street Fighter V is because, Street Fighter V content is the one that tends to have the greatest number of readers. While I can’t recall the exact numbers right now, I can say that an overwhelming number of our readers on the front page are there just for Street Fighter V content. The game that’s second to it isn’t even in any way close. More importantly, it isn’t even Revelator (it’s the King of Fighters XIV). That said, we’ve actually had a steady stream of Revelator related content, including several bits regarding strategy and getting better at the game.
So that must explain why KOF XIV won’t be playable at EVO this year, because Capcom’s scared.
They probably know that once people see the load amount of characters & content from it, that people will immediately move on over to it & ignore SF V entirely, LOL.
OR SNK Playmore just decided for some reason not to bring it to Evo. Or they’re working to bring it there and haven’t ironed out the details with Evo staff.
Can’t assume one without the other without wearing a tin foil hat.
Yes, Capcom is scared of SNK. Because if there’s one thing history’s taught us, it’s that SNK is a true business juggernaut that always makes wise decisions and KoF XIV has wide mass-market appeal compared to Street Fighter.
Or maybe, just maybe, Street Fighter is the largest fighting game franchise by a pretty wide margin, whereas anime games are fairly niche by comparison? I love KI and Skullgirls, but you don’t see me coming up with conspiracy theories about Nintendo buying the industry as to why they don’t get as much coverage as Pokken or Smash. The brands aren’t as large.
Also, I feel this would be the perfect place for some kind of Itagaki hates Tekken joke, but I’m not very funny so I’ll leave it to someone else.
Nobody is trying to hide Revelator it’s just not that popular for several reasons.
Competitive scene in America is healthier than ever, but it won’t explode because people who are playing to get money don’t like being free to/months behind the Japanese.
It’ll never go mainstream because anime aesthetic turns lots of people off, no english dub for the cheesy-ass story mode means you can’t even show it to your friends to get them to give a shit about the characters because fuck all that reading.
Even among the fans it has, it’s a technically demanding game that doesn’t deal well with lag. Gotta know what you’re doing in the first place to git gud via netplay, and thanks to the aforementioned factors good luck finding a local scene unless you live right next to a weekly/monthly.
Revelator added characters but wasn’t a rebalance. Not a bad thing since the game was fine, but also makes lab monsters who don’t care about the new characters be like “why bother paying $60 for blitz shield changes and throw break”
Dustloop is kind of dead. Every character board is barren or damn close to it because the first topic made is “wheres the line/discord/skype group for this character at”. Like why bother having a character forum if yall are just going to post offsite? Some haven’t been posted in for months, and it’s a new game out RIGHT NOW. So where do you go to talk GG, really?
I love GG, and between Jam and Raven I think I finally have characters to make up for the hole in my heart Order-Sol left, but it’s a niche game for a reason.
Just like Nintendo, living off of a IP’s name won’t save them. SRK isn’t the only place to get info out, but it is kinda like a meeting-ground. Twitter, Twitch, Facebook etc. can cover some real ground. If they think they’re going sweep this under the rug, well I got news for them. I’m just getting started. Trying to stop the progress of a quality product because they couldn’t make a complete package themselves WITH financial backing. How pathetic. People can joke about it, but I’m serious. This taking sides action isn’t cool at all. I’ve started with SF and still play it, but it just doesn’t break “tradition” and sometimes traditions can get tiring.