If the game doesn’t force you to equip the gems then it’s all good. Tourneys can just ignore them if need be and it’ll just be a little extra fun on the side. Just because you can’t turn them off doesn’t necessarily mean you have to use them unless I’ve missed out on some of the finer details regarding gems (which to be honest I havn’t been trying very hard in keeping up with the news).
If you can skip the gems than I can’t see why tournaments wouldn’t just go with that option, “bu-bu-but online!” lol who cares.
Fuck online, shits a joke and it’s not like Capcom even gives two shits about it anyway.
Just replace GGPO with online lol 
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If you really want tournaments to say “fuck gems” in the event that gems must be selected, you could just enforce a standard set of passive gems like +2% damage, speed, meter gain, health and one other thing to make up the 5 slots for each character.
Personally I have no problem with gems, save for that autoblock/tech bullshit. The whole issue I have with the entire system revolves around those two. Not even the preorder bonus or extra dlc gems bothers me because they will be insta-banned at tournaments and insta-ignored by me.
@therook- Thanks for the rundown, but are we sure there will be multiple supers to choose from? I kind of don’t see the reason behind that.
It was mistranslated. There is only one SA and one CA
I’m now imagining Ryu punching his opponent in the face and then having a sombrero instantly appear on his head as his gem activates.
…I think a feature like this would greatly increase the entertainment value of this game.
So Gems…how do they work?
IIRC someone mentioned you can select gems by packs, maybe that would be the best way to do it for tournaments.
Here’s hoping Diablo 3 comes out before this bullshit.
My AE replacement.
Now that I think about it…
…the new build’s line is going to be a LONG BITCH.
So wait, are these gems locked to one/a few characters?
According to the information we have right now, no, but it could happen.
Yupp possibly six new characters, new balance changes and the GEM SYSTEM
I still think they are going to show more than 6 characters
I’m guessing 8-9 once they show those they’ll give the lead off for another team.
We got the six teaser characters plus Rufus which gives us 7 new playable characters that we know of, and then there likely be another Tekken character to balance this so we know that potentially they could show the 8 new characters though it will unfortunately likely be around six of those (which is still quite a lot) as Capcom still needs to keep some characters for later reveals and we still have not been given information on who Juri’s partner, or the Tekken character who isn’t Paul or Law (I haven’t played a lot of Tekken so I forgot her name, sorry :() is partnered up with.
On the brighter side I can see a new character that unrelated to these teams being announced through a CGI trailer like the Law introduction on the sign at the end of the Rufus vs Bob trailer, or like Cody and Guy’s reveal (if they weren’t in after being shown like they were in that trailer that would be realy confusing) as a team at the end of the wrestling match trailer.
Also while on the subject of CG trailers I hope for once the Street fighter side will be able to win for once so that they can even out the sides, unlike the first trailer where we cannot see the result, or the second and third trailers when at least one of the characters on the Street Fighter side loses (Rufus in the third trailer wasn’t exactly in a brilliant position, but it’s not shown how well Zangief does though we at least know that he did epic collateral damage :).
I wouldn’t be surprised if Lili and Asuka defeated chun-li/cammy in the CG trailer and then Karin and Sakura jumped in to help.
I would say that team old girls VS team school girls. but Cammy isn’t that older than Sakura. I think she is two year older
