*My $0.2 1,000,000
This point is completely invalid. SF4 is not responsible in any way shape or form for any positive momentum in the marvel community. wcw2 will not bring any marvel players back, instead we have marvel players like demon hyo saying “I want to focus on sf4” Justin Wong also. Prior to sf4 this was never an issue with these players. Some of the average and top players have moved to sf4, and if they do try to enter marvel they are not of the calibur to win due to marvel’s ever progressing competitive scene. As of now, I’ve not established a point of my own, simply pointed out that I think your point was invalid. As a mature gamer/adult I’m pretty sure that I can disagree with your point without having any sort of major contigency on a personal level.
Now, to state my own point…When you say sf4 is where the money is, to the average sheep this is the truth. However upon closer observation you can realize that the pot is going to a small group, the pantheon of top players if you will. You can boast a number “sf4 had a pot of $10,000” but the truth is that all went to daigo justin and so on. That money didn’t hit anyone but the top 3. When we say marvel is where the money is we’re referring to all of the money exchanced non-stop from the highest eschelon to the lowest. A scene where someone like rudy is playing neo for $1000 bucks. Neither of them are top 5 in the world. A scene where someone like toan can win $13,000 in a money match against me. Where $100 matches are happening on a regular basis from people who couldn’t compete in any way with the top players.
SF4 has an unrestricted ammount of hype right now. Depending on how one defines hype it can be considered to be one of the most hype games in the scene right now. However I define hype from a different standpoint and agree with most others. An excellent analogy would be comparing golf and hockey. While golf might have bigger pots than your standard hockey match, there is an energy level, a vibrancy, that almost consumes you when caught up in the moment. I’ve only experienced that when I watch Justin play Daigo in sf4. I can get that from a collective of about 20 players in the marvel community. The energy output during sf4’s hypest moment slightly edges out marvel’s, but that is based on shear numbers. I.e. at graduation in my family typically we are the loudest most vibrant group of people to cheer. This is because I come from a humongous family of 9, and my mom was also one of 7, so based on numbers alone we’re going to produce more energy than most. Notwithstanding the fact that we’re black. However if a group of 4 are almost able to match our energy level we can clearly say, they’re a lot more hype than we are. In that same way marvel has less numbers now, because sf4 is obviously more commercial right about now. Marvel is perpetual, it will see the end of sf4, just as it saw the end of a few guilty gears, 3s, cfj, cvs2, several tekkens, and many other fighting games. Unless capcom continues to make sequels and modification to the sf4 engine it will eventually come to an end. I’m not hoping for it, just pointing out an observation.
Anyways the pith of my argument is this: Sf4 is more hype by some definitions, but by the most pervasive usage of the word hype, marvel is the game that really fits the definition. Marvel is perpetual and will continue to exist for a very long time unless we see a mvc3 which is not comparable to the hype of mvc2. One can assume this will happen because capcom tends to think almost broken is not good. Marvel was viewed by most at capcom to be a failure due to glitches and infinites and just overal brokenness of the game. Clearly 10 years after the game was made being the best selling games on ps3 and one of the top 3 selling games on xbox 360 shows they are misplacing their value. Thus mvc3, if ever released, will most likely fail. SF4 is where the money is for the pantheon, but marvel is where the money is for EVERYONE (even non marvel players side bet on huge marvel matches garnering great results). SF4 is enticing some of the marvel players away (which I guess is ok) but will not last forever and I firmly believe they will be back. Finally, I hope the fighting game community never dies and I hope sf4 never dies and becomes perpetual just as marvel is.
I’m not gonna bother to grammar/spell check this. Critique it as you will.
