This has undoubtedly been asked before but no doubt phrased differently. And if there is a thread like this please link it and I will delete this or ask for it to be closed or whatever. But this is something I’m genuinely curious about and maybe someone can share some real insight.
What is in it for Capcom by sponsoring tournaments, having community managers, and etc?
When you think about it the tournament players make up a small percentage of the consumers that actually buy the games at launch day. These are my thoughts:
Raises continued awareness of the games with minimal cost spent on advertising.
Improve the relationship with the community and instill consumer loyalty.
Measure feedback to gauge the interest and direction of current and future projects and compare to casual feedback.
It would be nice if Capcom actually made use all of that. Considering how their stuff actually ends up being it feels it’s just there for fluff. NRS does a better job with FGC communication
Maybe this year they will show some respect to the people who put them where they are, and release pure ports of ST, Alphas and some kind of RE2 remake like RE1 had. Bringing CvS2 back onto Live would be a pretty easy money-spinner too in my view.
It’s a grotesque injustice that many of their finest 2D games are currently MIA to the many thousands of gamers out there who don’t have access to the old hardware, or who don’t want to just play laggy roms with a handful of anonymous cheaters.
The problem is that not everyone actually ends up buying these. For example, MvC:O has the most perfect ports of MvC1 and MSH, yet it’s apparently selling below what Capcom had predicted.
They don’t give a shit about the people who put them where they are. The people who are keeping them where they are right now is infinitely more important.
I think the reason for this is pretty simple. The games are in competition with their modern counter parts. Look at HDR, that came out several months before SF4 on console and it was riding the hype train. When Marvel 2 was re-released it came out almost a year before Marvel 3. 3SOE (argh) came out in between UMVC3 and AE2012 patch. And it probably didn’t help that the old Marvel games are so broken that they make Marvel 3 look like the most balanced fighting game on the planet.
Marvel VS Capcom 4?( i kid)
Never been a fan of Capcom vs SNK because i dislike 50% of the cast.( guess which half it is)
While a port would be interesting, i wouldn’t be really interested in it.
However if someone wants to make another addition to marvel in a few years , in the immortal words of the random Veiwtiful Joe announcer girl “JUST GO FOR IT”.