Because the only thing broken about it isn’t the tourney, it’s the arcade scene (or the lack thereof) and therefore the amount of effort, money, and manpower necessary to gather relatively scarce materials in abundance, accomodate foriegn players (ie controls), accomodate the participants (ie projectors, etc), and “aftermarket” deals (ie capture cards for DVD), not to mention the possible costs of technical support and replacement materials.
Now, really, it’s not broken. But why exactly would you decide to take the long way home when you could just take the highway? You get from point A to point B, but one is far more cost effective and efficient. Tournaments depend on three things: competition, money, and efficiency. Without one of the three, the end. What is being covered here is the last two. With consoles, more matches are run which means brackets get done faster which means events begin and end quicker which translates all to higher efficiency. Additonally, the overall cost of having it done on consoles is considerably less which means one of two things - one, the entry fees become less; or, two, the pot for the winners becomes larger. Possibly both.
Let’s also factor in the additional costs I stated before. Capture cards are no longer necessary, because RCA outputs can be directly wired to VCRs, DVgates, and are more easily compatible with large screen projectors. Furthermore, the cost of techincal support is minimized to either (a) having additional copies of games in order to replace defective media and/or (b) having additional consoles in case, for some reason, the console is defective. On top of this, issues with controllers (outside of the obvious “they aren’t arcade sticks and embedded solid into the cabinet” deal) are virtually nonexistent because in the event of defect, either replace the controller with another, provide your own controller for which you are aware is not defective in any way, or open the stick up and assess the problem, or any combination of the latter three suggestions.
Another issue is people mashing and accidentally pausing. People forget that there are four controller ports on a DC. This means that the start buttons on P1 and P2 can be disengaged and/or assigned taunt and a controller put into port 3 or 4 can be the one that presses start when it’s necessary. If you were in arcade mode, this would present a problem, but if I recall correctly, arcade mode in MvC2 on the DC doesn’t allow the character switch deal at the pre-match screen, so I would assume it would be done in VS mode, which automatically puts itself back to the character select screen after every match, eliminating the need to press start more than once at the title screen.
Now, getting cabinets and running tournies on them is just fine. But someone has to get the cabinets, get the boards, transport the equipment, and so on and so forth. So, for more money and less efficiency - because running cabinets means a lesser number of stations for people to compete on - you can get the same job done. It’s about something being broken. It’s about doing something better.
The only thing really lost here is the aesthetic environment of an arcade. That is unfortunate. But then, you don’t hear anyone bitching because they lost the aesthetic environment of thier console. There’s a certain level of elitism that people need to lose that’s causing this situation to seem way more negative than it really is. The only viable negative points about changing this over are things that directly affect the actual game (namely, the speed difference in CvS2 and such). People argue that not having cabinet arcade controls will affect outcomes of matches. Last I checked, outside of finding a way to mount it, a MAS has nothing different from an arcade cabinet stick outside of the fact that it’s portable.
If the Cannons allow personal controllers to be used, then that also may be an issue. As far as I know, this is still up in the air, so arguing this point is moot since nothing is concrete.
And please, spare me your e-thuggery. I can’t imagine what a gangsta like you would do to me over a message board full of fifty trillion people that I don’t know and never have or will meet personally, so I am just shaking in my fucking shoes. Because making me look silly here will somehow irreversibly scar me for life and/or warp the delicate path that my life travels on. Give me a fucking break, child. I treated you like you were treating people you were responding to, so if you can’t handle your own shoe shoved up your ass when you were trying to put it up everyone else’s, that sounds like a problem of your own. Respond to people with respect and that’s you get in return. But you didn’t so you got what you deserved. Personally, I think you got more than you deserved because I graced you with a response.
Your solution to all of this is to eliminate people who won’t place top 32 for every event. If you don’t realize the inherent retardation in this logic, then there no point for anyone to talk to you. Do not think that people before you came up with the concept of Regional events to dictate who comes and who doesn’t? It wasn’t popular. Do you know what the definition of a tournament is? It’s competition. At any level. People come to tournaments and sign up for events to play and compete against each other. Even the top players come only to compete. The fact that they place top ten is just a nice thing that goes along with the fact that they compete at much higher skill level than the rest of the participants. It is not anyone’s job to dictate who is good and who is not. That’s what results are for. Results are concrete. That’s why pools before main events work so nicely, because it presents results before running main brackets.
Trying to push your opinion on to people while being an ass doing it was all you were doing.
