I dont understand why this hasn’t been made a sticky yet? I mean, this is big news! I understand that it takes a little bit of time to update the web page, but this should be made a sticky, and it should be on the front page soon too!
You people complain all the time about how Capcom never listens to the fans, how they never give us what they want. Well now they’re offering, and we can’t just brush this to the side!
Everyone from this site that can, should go. There’s no other place that has a bigger collection of fans than shoryuken.com. I know I’d have signed up the second I heard this, but I live in virginia. It’d be a damn shame to miss this opportunity socal people.
You guys thinking too hard into this should know, Capcom won’t be the ones you’re talking to, they’ve “hired an independent research group” to do this event. If you go in there touting SRK or being all fanboyish, they’ll look at you and wonder what the hell you’re talking about.
More than likely, they’ve got a specific set of questions to ask, they’ll get answers, and that will be the end of it. It will be very unlikely that anyone from Capcom will be present.
Capcom will send people there, but they will be in a room behide the one side mirror. They jsut hire these people to do the talkings and stuffs. And the Capcom people will be taking notes and shit behide. I’ve done this before but with other game companies.
well if any of ya do get to go to this business meeting, atleast let those capcom employees know that console fighting games should have online mode now for crying out loud. and tell them to add a crap load of extras and extra features in the game like soul calibur 2.
In reality the majority of gamers out there probably never heard about SRK or know about the fighting game competition. You have to remember fighting games in general isn’t big. And so the majority of gamers don’t know whats going on as we do. Sure capcom can come here and look at all the responses. And look at how much we want fighters. But we are a VERY VERY VERY SMALL portion of Gamers that are into fighters.
These are for the people that want another MvC sequel. Stop being so selfish and think about this more realistically. This is the time for capcom to start making fighters again for everyone. Not to make a fighter to a small portion of people that want a specific fighter. Remember capcom wants to make some MONEY!!! PROFIT!!! They DO want to get something out of this right??? And MvC2 didn’t really do all that well. Its only popular here. They want to make a fighter that will be more popular, worldwide. Its pretty simple math… the more people that buy it, the more money they make. It’d be great if they made an MvC3, but you also have to face reality that MvC2 did horrible and i don’t think they want to make the same mistake twice.
Look at the number of retarded comments, ones that aint even constructive, on this thread alone. Not dissing the site, or any members for that matter, but what do you think they would care about? Sure they could look at the number of of registered users and see the support but would that have any use.
i’m not trying to dis the notion of this ‘focus group’ or whatever it is, I just think the people that go should have some well-thought, clear ideas of what they intend to say/propose…
the number of people that actually bootleg games is very small. its larger in the dc area but ps2 and such, most people are lazy or cant afford to get a modchip. i hardly think piracy is hurting them, its just a small fighting game community. its niche market that doesnt turn a profit for them.
and even if it were “really” copy protected, like all other games out there, the hacker groups still bypass that crap.
i honestly dont see this focus group to really do anything overall. its not like its capcom usa that makes the shit we play, they just localize. but i guess its better than nothing
Alright I just got a call and they asked me a bunch of questions. In the end I qualified so I’ll be there at Sunnyvale on Wednesday. Anybody else get a call?
SuperLuu, thanks for the info! I would love to go to the discussion group but I’m not traveling out of state for it. If there was some way to simply email your opinions to the same people conducting the discussion I’d like to know.
If someone records this discussion session then I would be happy to host it on my site for everyone to download.
well for capcom to sell a fighting game world wide, they have to buy a famous license name and make it into a fighting game. Dragon Ball Z would be a very good example considering most fans pick up the game without even giving much thought on it except its DBZ. samething with why soul calibur 2 selling so well on the Gamecube, cause Link from zelda was in the game. and this meeting is a good idea, but they would still get better results if they would post some question on there site and ask the fans how they feel capcoms take on fighting games now.
i have actually tested for Focus groups before. THey usually have you judge the title you play through a series of questions. And they do pay you 75 bucks for 90 minutes of your time. its easy.
I think this focus group could prove to be meaningful. I just read an article in the latest issue of PSM magazine about Capcom’s new direction. The article stated that the Capcom developers (Capcom of Japan) are going to design almost all of their games for an American audience (due to the popularity/success western developers are currently having and low sales most japanese developers/company’s are suffering from). So it makes sense that Capcom of U.S.A. are hiring someone to conduct a focus group about fighting games. From the results of this focus group, Capcom of Japan can get an idea of what some Americans want.
