If UMvC3 was just 12 characters, 8 stages netcode and spectator mode, I would say this bitching is warranted.
The reason this bitching isn’t warranted is because they’ve rebalanced the whole god damned game. None of us are going to be playing UMvC3 the same way we’ve been playing MvC3.
Sure, we’ll have a general idea of what the fuck we’re supposed to do, but we’re still going to have to learn new combos, new setups and tactics, matchups, so on and so forth.
So really, we’re kinda getting a whole new game for $40, and I consider that a bargain.
Well, who knows. Maybe it was impossible with the current game (as in, couldn’t be patched), but they were able to fix it with a retail release. Just playing Devil’s Advocate.
I honestly think a lot of the bitching has been more of a jealousy angle, in that it’s people pissed off that they’re going to have to pay an additional $40 when they’ve already spent $60+, while newbies are going to get the game for just $40.
I know it sounds silly, but such childish thinking runs wild in gaming communities.
I remember paying much more than 40 bucks for a game with 8 playable characters, 4 boss characters, and 12 total stages. Didn’t even have a training mode, and you couldn’t pick the same character as your opponent unless you knew the cheat code.
Well said these sports companies dish out a new game every year with minor tweaks and charge 65 dollars or whatever the price is. That’s obsurd is you ask me tha can easily be DLC
You know, put simply I would agree with you on every bit of this. The difference however is that since I bought and will keep buying it I simply cant complain. I’m that guy who bought everything they could spit at me and loved it even if it was a jip in the end, some how I had this weird assumption that they were going to update everything, and make it all better. It seems after a 3 month hiatus of nothing, now is the time for a big giant update. At the very least I have experience on when to not buy something now, MvC 3 and Blazeblue are special exception where I can be abused. StreetfighterXTekken, you can believe I wont buy it when it comes out. I’ll wait and see what happends first this time. Hahah you know, at the very least I’m greatful that capcom even thought of making another one since SxT is coming out early next year. I will gladly be a milk cow if the product satifies my needs enough, but now I’ll be a smarter cow about it. Mahvel Baby!
um yes I would. Tell me this kid, how many hours have you spent playing MvC3? Be honest, you are posting in a MvC3 forum on SRK so I’m guessing you’ve put in hundreds upon hundreds of hours in on this game like many of us here on these forums. When you buy another retail game, how many hours do you put in on those? On average it’s between 20 - 40 hours of gameplay.
Did you buy SSF4 for 40 bucks when it came out? That was worth the price as is will Ultimate MvC3. 12 characters and 8 stages is too much for download and that’s not just all you are getting. There’s gonna be new game modes. endings, game balance and character tweeks, spectator mode, a new endboss (phase 2 of Galactus) and who knows what else more will be included.
40 USD will lead to another hundreds of hours of gameplay, for me at least and for the masses here on SRK that play fighting games, marvel imparticular. So yes I think 40 dollars is a STEAL. You can either buy it and enjoy it or go buy another 60 dollar game and play it for 20-40 hours and be done with it and most likely never play it again.
um, it’s not for 12 characters, it’s for 12 NEW characters, there’s 50 characters in total. Anyone stupid enough to pay $10 for those shadow battles doesn’t deserve the money.
Look at it this way - it probably is worth the $140 you’ll ultimately spend on it because of how much play time/enjoyment you’ll get out of it. The fact that the payments came in stages actually helps because it gave you the chance to evaluate if you wanted to keep spending after $70. You could have decided it wasn’t a good value and you weren’t interested in it anymore.
In a day and age where you can drop $100+ on just dinner, drinks and a movie for 1 night, when I can get 100+ hours of entertainment out of a game I’ll take it and be happy with it. That’s not even counting all the time I get to waste arguing on the internet about it. And that’s god damn priceless.
what the fuck is up with this thread? why are people correlating $$$ to characters and stages? Personally I buy fucking games if I like the game itself who gives a shit about x characters or y stages?
Personally I won’t be buying UMvC3 because I wasn’t the hugest fan of MvC3 but some of you guys’ reasons for buying the game just endorses Capcom’s poor business practices even more.
how fair is that tho really dude? the vast majority of games dont have hundred of hours of replay value, the majority of most fighting games dont have the licensing hurdles that mvc has to deal with, theres prolly less than 50 games total that might have came out for xbox and ps3 at 40 dollars. your bound to get hundreds of hours out of umvc3 if you enjoyed the original/beta/vanilla whatever you wanna call it. and you still think its somehow wrong? its difficult to see where your coming from considering you already said your buying it.
there are companies who do far worse with their endeared franchises and i think its wrong to slam capcom for giving fans what they asked for in a manner that, on paper at least, is everything they asked for
To everyone who is comparing MVC3/UMVC3 to Madden, CoD, and other RPGs, when people buy the new Madden they are buying it with the full knowledge that the game is a slightly improved version of the old game with an updated roster. They also know full well that a new one will come out the next year.
When I bought MVC3 what I expected was a game that would have a good roster that would be improved with periodic DLC (so much for that), playable online (didn’t happen), and most importantly a fun fighting system (sure it was fun, but I am tired of braindead magic series combos and c.L beating everything and leading to 100% combos).
Now looking at this all they needed to change was adding in more DLC characters (like they promised), patch the online, and release a balance patch.
This looks exactly to me like what Aksys did for BBCS2 (free, need to buy dlc characters seperately).
How was this any different than the above? Capcom wanted to squeeze money out of it is the difference. Why they couldn’t release a $20 dlc package and a $40 disc release is beyond me.
I personally will not buy this game as MVC3 was a disappointment for me in a lot of ways and I am tired of Capcom doing this bullshit. Maybe if some people stop blindly dickriding Capcom they will stop with this crap and actually go through with their original promises for once.
Also before anyone responds to me saying hurr derr 12 * 5 = 60 this is a bargain. 12 MVC3 characters < 4 SF/BB characters.
Again, if you did not learn from the SF4 and SF3 series and its community…that’s on you.
And are you sure that the adjustments/additions being made to MVC3 would be $20 if it was DLC…I personally don’t know how that stuff works.
Props though for speaking with your mind and wallet.
If you don’t like it…don’t buy it.
LOL so many apologists ITT. Sure we get loads of new content for $40. Point is, 1/2 of it should’ve been in the original game and this is more or less a mega-patch with lots of flash to distract from the fact that you essentially bought the game twice within a year.
capcom has to pay for marvel characters and the street fighter characters have mostly been throwbacks from sf3… unless the remaining 8 new umvc3 are rehashes thats an unfair statement. cause you dont like mvc3 doesnt make it a ripoff or create poor business practices
and not expecting capcom of all companies to rerelease one of their games is lol how many different marvel/x-men titles came out? how many street fighters? how many mega mans? by your own arguement its either okay for them to do what they do or your fault cuz you didnt expect it despite the 20 year trend