Petition for arcade release of SSF4

This is like a huge troll thread. The arcade near me in Seattle is horrible. I play scrub after scrub who only pick Ryu and hadouken nonstop.

Maybe they will add an arcade release after the console release?

The ignorance here is astounding, even for SRK.

You guys realize there are other countries out there besides the USA and Japan, right? This isn’t just a “well, fuck the Japanese, they’ll have to wait like the rest of us” thing. Who are “the rest of us?”

News flash: Korea, China, Singapore, and other Asian/Southeast Asian countries have arcade scenes too. Not to mention there are still holdouts in the western world. Having no arcade release in countries that have large urban areas and small apartment sizes is such a retarded idea.

So much so, this can’t be real.

Jesus.

That’s sort of like the arcade that’s closer to my place. It’s called peter pan, and the comp there is that bad as well. I consider myself very scruby, but when im wrecking people and going on winning streaks and everyone there is amazed, I take it as a bad sign lol. it’s ok though, 30 min to an hour and im at ctf.:china:

No, the SC community WAS strong, but not as big as the SF community. I moved to Japan in 2004, two years after SC2 was released. The community was STILL strong back then. I’d go to Club Sega Akihabara or Shinjuku (the two main arcades for SC back then) and you’d have anywhere between 10 - 30 people for that game. Sure, it wasn’t as popular as the other games, but it was still there.

Then they released SC3 on PS2 only. Soulcalibur 2 machines were fucking deserted after that. Then SC3AE came out, the scene kinda got revived again but it was a shell of its former self. Then SC4 came out… scene was DEAD. Granted, it took two games to completely kill off the scene, but just apply this scenario to Street Fighter and you can see why it is worrisome. I mean guys, fuck, Iyo quit SF4 after losing ONE MATCH at SBO, wtf do you think would happen to the rest of them if there was no arcade version?

Like I said, a small, privately-owned arcade such as ko-hatsu could get away with it. They’re small enough that it could go undetected. A large corporation like Taito? That’s different I think, although again I don’t know the legalities behind it.

I have a hard time believing it won’t see an arcade release. Even if it is after the console version. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a ploy to get more people to pick up the console version in arcade heavy territories than they would have with an arcade release… then a few months later they announce the arcade version. If the arcade version then receives balance changes for testing they can apply that to the console version via patch for free.

lol you just took the words out of my mouth. i mentioned this in a post a couple of pages back. in this thread it’s like the whole world only has two countries in it .

Im in for an arcade version. I’ve bused 2 hours just to play the nearest SF4 cabinet. Plus without an arcade release the game looses legitimacy amongst most people; Japanese players especially.

I’m gonna just go out on a limb here and say you have no idea what you’re talking about. A game’s life in the competitive scene isn’t delegated by who plays it casually. If that was the case MK VS DC would be at EVO, along with whatever Dragonball Z game is out at the time.

Also, Blazblue wouldn’t be anywhere. That game is tailor made for hardcore players, and it’s a game that rewards time.

Ask anyone who’s played a Virtua Fighter game if the casual scene is the reason their game dominated Japanese arcades for so long.

My chief problem I think is that you guys are coming to SRK and arguing that Arcade’s are worthless sinkholes. That is utterly retarded, given the fact that somewhere around 80-90 percent of the top player base for this game has leveled up PRIMARILY through arcades, and if not there, then with people who FREQUENT arcades on a regular basis.

You have a point, Casual gamers buy this game and play it casually, and there the reason Capcom gets to pay their lovely employees. But that’s not the point. The point is that this game is tailor made for COMPETITIVE GAMING. Joe Shmoe doesn’t really want to buy a brand new version of SF4 if it’s already similar to the one he has. And while getting the game into the homes of as many people as you can is a brilliant Idea-- you’re going to fuck over a large base of users who are also helping this game thrive.

Right now, Street Fighter’s surviving off the base of it’s competitive community. A good part of that Community exists in the Arcades. It’d be stupid to just let them go.

i agree with ParryAll, deci, and reno’s sentiments 100% completely.
its nothing to do with dickriding the japanese really.

I’m also saddened by CaliPower and Shirts opinions on this matter considering they come from the arcade era. It’s not like ssf4 netcode is gonna be as good as arcade, or even as good as ggpo, keep shit real lol. even if it gets close, cmon you know its not gonna be as fun as playing in arcades.

i love arcade culture thats simply pretty much it and it would be sad to see that hype die. i was hoping for a simultaneous arcade/console release this way everyone could be happy (and it would be free money/software upgrade for arcade machines, right? unless this isnt the case?)

ono fucked arcade owners bad…remember waaay back when he convinced arcade owners to buy expensive sf4 viewlix setups was because he wanted to “future proof” the arcade scene and bring arcades into the era of hd?

guess that was BS.

anyway, signed. this killed my hype im coming back home lol

Master Chibi: I only played online cause you guys did not play sf4 seriously, when the hardcore players came to my house we were playing each other offline with 2-3 setups in my house.

LMAO. Really? REALLY?! Let me ask you this, you playing at gameworks or at narrows? If it’s gameworks then you’re either a liar or just go at the wrong times. Cause I know on Monday I went and we ha a vega, bison, geif, sagat, balrog, akuma, viper, and 1 ryu player there.

Check your facts before you try to dump on Seattle playboy. Cause the scrubs you’re reffering to sure don’t reppresent Seattle.

Why would I have showed up to your house to play anything else?

Sanford was sitting there playing Graham for like three hours straight.

This happened more than once, and in other games too, come on now.

lol

i’m not arguing that arcades are “worthless sinkholes” and i hope they are around in 100 years from now, i just don’t think they will be.

i would say that the “80-90 percent of the top player base for this game has leveled up PRIMARILY through arcades” is something that can’t be argued. however, these same people were playing the arcade release 6 months before anyone was playing the console version, so they have a huge head start. this whole argument could only be measured fairly on a game that was out on both platforms at exactly the same time.

with ideas like gootecks “bar fights” and places like gamestop having monthly tournaments and so on…these are alternatives to the arcade scene and will probably take off more and more as the years progress…so i don’t think the whole “real interaction” with players will die…but it won’t come to your doorstep, you will have to seek it out.

I don’t even know what you’re arguing with me about. I never said arcades are worthless shit holes. I hope there is eventually an arcade release. It will be a shame if there isn’t. And what the fuck does a shitty game like MK vs DC have anything to do with anything? I doubt shitty games are going to get new players to want to try other fighters. MK vs DC is just bad advertising for the community.

And the street fighter community won’t survive off of its competitive community forever. Players will leave and there will be no one to replace them. SFIV has done a lot for the community. I know a lot of people that have got into other fighters because SFIV caught their eye and they gave it a try. Even a lot that have become pretty hardcore about fighters, and of course some who don’t even play anymore. But even the ones that haven’t kept on playing helped make sure we would see new players and releases. It has done a lot of a community if you like it or not.

Quoted for motherfucking truth.

We’ve got a strong arcade scene here in the Philippines (where not everyone can afford a console). Heck, we just had our Tekken 6 nationals last month, sponsored by TimeZone (a large, corporate arcade chain, based in Australia) and Namco, the winners of which are gonna be sent to fight the New Zealand champs soon.

Meanwhile, we just got our SFIV cabs this year and the community is in its growing phase. An arcade release for SSFIV would help keep this fledgling community alive.

@Reno
You’re on Unity right, I made a post over there about this, care to join in and show some support?

In all honesty, I hope my anti-console rants are proven wrong and there will be a Japanese arcade release.

Is that supposed to be a compliment? lol

If you are not in an arcade scene nothing will change for you.

that like 90% of us worldwide…

Seriously all you need is comp.

Its the future of gaming

were all sitting behind out HD tvs cursing out our opponents while we lose to shotos spamming hadoukens and running away.

sucks

:lame: no arcade?? thinking of quiting sf4. It needs more characters and with the super sf4 not coming out on arcade just sucks. it limits the competitive play without arcades. ill sign this petition of yours cause arcades are essential for the serious fighting gamers cause it cant compare to sitting at home without any pressure. just my thoughts

Street Fighter IV has led to a quick expansion of the scene, but it in no way is the saving grace of the fighting game community as you noted before. It’s done a lot of good, that much is true, but it’s pretty much inflated the scene with a lot more scrubs than actual talent.

Also, the SF scene has survived as a small niche before. Prior to SF4, we were still playing SF games from the early 2000’s or late 90’s. Players both left and joined over the years and we were still existing regardless of SFIV.

I can’t wait for tomorrow when Ono will announce there’ll be an arcade release. He just wants people to buy his games, y’all!