>>729366078
Small ass roster full of Arcane champs nobody gives a shit about

>>729366078
Riot doesn't know how to develop a game that isn't League of Legends and that one is debatable.

>>729366078
No one plays fighting games

>>729366078
They didn't know how to make a fighting game so they just made a really bad update of Rising Thunder
Making these shitty pseudo-marvel clones with no-movement specials is never going to work because the fundamental idea is stupid.
The kind of person that refuses to learn motion inputs is the same kind of person that refuses to learn combos. You can't accommodate them like this, they still refuse to learn the game, you've just made it less fun for the people that were already interested.

Fighting games will never, and I mean NEVER, be mass-market again. They are a niche genre that only had power as a unique concept in the formative years of arcades/consoles

>>729366078
a roster not much bigger than the years spent in development. Too much transparency on the development to the point of not even being novel when it came out.

>>729366219
League of Legends is their worst game by an order of magnitude.

It's out?

>>729366262
street fighter and tekken consistently do fine, the prob with this game is it's an anime tag fighter
>but what about dbfz
dbz can sell a jpeg by virtue of being dbz

>>729366078
>League of legends retards playing something where they cant blame their teammates

Is the game even out yet? I will say it was bold of them to not develop new characters for the game and just copy paste their shitty league designs, as if they're any good. Most of them just don't look like actual fighters and the ones that do (like Sett and Lee) didn't seem to have even made it in.

>>729366413
>SF and Tekken do fine
They do fine for fighting games, a niche genre that sells poorly, and that's with enormous brands behind them. Brands that are souring.

>>729366337
>>729366526
on pc. january for consoles

>>729366337
>>729366526
you can play it right now early access on PC, console version january 26

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>>729366582
>anything that isn't gta is niche and sells poorly

>>729366176
I agree but they already said Caitlyn will be the last arcane character

>>729366669
SF6 is such a boring casualized fucking shit game, the last good Street Fighter game was SFIV, after that they released nothing but trash

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>>729366078
Ekko just doesn't sell

>>729366078
no naafiri or sejuani

>>729366669
Anon
That was below their sales target despite an enormous ad campaign
Street Fighter is supposed to be a tentpole

>>729366946
so? that's still not niche

>>729366972
Am I speaking to a robot
It is a niche genre where games meant to be tentpoles with decades of history and millions upon millions of ads with a worldwide launch can't make sales targets.
It's also worse than every other 3D SF, indicating the already small genre is dying.

>>729367071
trillions of ads, even

SF6 doing embarrassingly bad in sales compared to 4 and 5 might be an indicator of a genre dying as the only people that like it age out, but it might also just be because SF6 is a genuinely shitty game with ugly graphics, awful music, and braindead meter mechanics.

Absolutely garbage roster.
Too many Arcane champs to the point that only the most obsessed Arcane fans (who will still not install the game let alone play it) are not angry with the choices.
I’m still fuming. Every spot taken by Arcane characters is a function that will eventually be seen as redundant to add again. Hope you Sett fans are willing to pay 20 bucks because we couldn’t think of how to make him play differently enough from Vi so he’ll just be a skin for her. Hey Jihn players, you can just buy the base Jihn skin OR you can roll on the Gacha like in the main games.
The Caitlyn announcement has legitimately killed the excitement for the game and even the hardcore players are mad because it’s another zoner when the game is dominated by the other two zoners. Majority of people I’ve read and spoken to say they’ll just wait half a year until they add more interesting characters.
Fucking Arcane twitteroid NIGGERS

If it was a 1v1 it would excuse the small roster. But with characters getting added slowly 2v2 will get stale really fast.

>>729366078
Putting a negro next to a white woman on the cover probably had something to do with it.

>>729367071
>>729367209
shut the fuck up samefagging schizo
>In May 2015, Capcom announced that the company was expecting the game to sell at least 2 million units worldwide before the end of the company's fiscal year.[117] In Japan, Street Fighter V entered the chart at number four, with sales of 42,000 in the first week.[118]
>By February 2020, Capcom announced that Street Fighter V had shipped a combined total of 4.1 million units across the PS4 and PC platforms (digital downloads included)
>Street Fighter 6 sold over 1 million units within five days after launch.[64] By June 2025, sales had surpassed 5 million units.[65] As of November 2025, the game has sold 6 million units.[66]
sf6 sold more in 2 years than sfv in 4 years

>>729367582
>I don't know what samefagging is
Cool story, not reading your unformatted wiki dump

>>729367652
you don't have to read, you just have to know you're factually wrong and need to shut the fuck up

>>729367684
>Y-you're wrong s-shut up!
SF6 failed to hit sales targets
Despite a vastly broader launch in a world with tons of newly opened gaming markets it has sold worse than every other 3D SF and has lost all sales momentum with no hope of recovery from an expansion

I can see you love SF6, and that's because you're a little baby that doesn't know any better.

>>729367825
>SF6 doing embarrassingly bad in sales compared to 4 and 5
I proved you wrong and accepted your concession

>>729367880
>SF6 obsessive os a delusional schizophrenic
Yeah that tracks

>>729366078
>black with warmonger haircut that all wokies love to use
I'm fatigued and hope the pendulum swings sooner rather than later and that we get a paradigm shift when it comes to aesthetics in character design

>fighting game
I see where it went wrong.

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>>729367904
>proving somebody's statement wrong with simple facts is being schizophrenic
also lmao at being called sf6 obsessive when I only clocked 96 hours total in that shit game while i have 3k+ hours on sfv, not counting my side accounts.

>make a fighting game made for people new to the genre
>base it on one of the most popular normie games
>get the main company behind the game to fund it
>free to play
That should be a hit, but
>actually make it a tag fighter, a definitely not beginner-friendly type of a fighting game
>but also don't include motion inputs
>in development for 6(?) years with not much to show
>single digit roster, most of them from the netflix show
>in a 2v2 tag fighter
>since developlent started most of other fighting games started dumbing down for newcommers
>and a lot of tag fighters started to pop up as well
>both markets taken, can't really stand out like that
>also, free to play but with skin/character bundles reaching AAA pricetag

>>729366078
>what went wrong beside the shit name and the rootkit?
Rito themselves.
As a vidya company they are the sick man of vidya industry, just like how ottoman is the sick man of europe in late 1800s. They used to be profitable with lol one time, but then nothing going on after that; they are being too comfortable in their position, it leads into the state of being stagnant as a company; they are neither innovative or at least evergreen. Even if they make another game/ip, they are just simply following whatever current popular thing in the market right now; card game, competitive shooter game, mobile assfaggots, and now fighting game. None of their games are innovative in any way, they are just some reskinned version of some already established franchise in some already established genre

>/v/ complains about small roster
i shouldn't be defending this dogshit of a franchise but you could say the same shit with other fighters that releases new character DLC like merchants. Don't act like new characters will make online more varied when we all know people tend to meta whore.

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>>729368162
>I'm not a weirdo schizo obsessive and to prove it here's the two years I spent treating SF like a full-time job
Seek therapy for your schizo delusions and the PTSD you have from playing the trash fire that was 5 for so long, hikki.

>>729368349
I already accepted your concession

>>729368162
>OP makes thread to shit on 2XKO
>Thread immediately starts shitting on the whole genre and SF in particular
>OP flips their shit
Amazing.
Instant karma.

stop replying to yourself

>>729368439
I already asked you to stop samefagging

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>>729368549
That's not what samefagging is
It's time to stop posting

>>729368582
you just couldn't stop your gotcha about sf, you're not as subtle as you think you are. I'm starting to wonder if you're not a butthurt 2xko fanboy

>>729366262
>bad update of Rising Thunder
That's bullshit, anon. Rising Thunder was a 1v1 and actually fun unlike this shit.

>>729366078
>long high damage combos, which would be fine but the combos are lame
>neutral is shit, assists are very strong so a lot of neutral is either stalling for assist or covering random options with assist
>really degenerate pressure, but again it's all lame.
>Ekko

IDK if this is still accurate because I played when it first came out and quickly dropped it. Tag-fighters and anime fighters will typically be kinda bullshit but use this to let you do sick shit. There will be sick characters, sick combos, sick resets, whatever. This game feels like it looked at those over the top fighting games and thought "People like bullshit" and not "People wanna do cool shit and play against people doing cool shit"

>>729371452
>Tag-fighters and anime fighters will typically be kinda bullshit but use this to let you do sick shit
i hate how it seem to be the defacto expectations, why can't we have a tag/anime fighter with a more grounded gameplay like sf or tekken or even kof?

>shit name
>rootkit
>shit roster
>lame supers
>lame finishers
>8 characters
>Arkane shit
>looks like a mobile game
>souless corpo shit
>unbalanced as fuck (Whoops All Ekkos!)
The list goes on

>>729366219
So they cannot develop games at all.

>>729366078
>Arcane shit
>barely 10 characters in a 2v2 game
>nu designs
>rootkit
>spyware
>40 seconds combo
>tag shit that only USA enjoys
>billionaire company that can't shit out ps3 models with short move lists
>Arcsys lobbies

>>729372327
>40 seconds combo
i hate this shit so much, especially when they're not mechanically impressive

>>729366078
>name that won't be recognized by LoL community
>tag
>pathetic roster hence bad rep from fgc
>fgc doesn't really care about LoL and LoL community doesn't care about fightans
>unspectacular visuals
>initial hype lost
>there's Tokon on the way
Game is kinda unlucky desu

>>729371946
>Why can't we have an arcade racer with full physical simulation, forced manual transmission, genuine car handling,...
Anime fighters are defined by the fact they are NOT SF and the thing that makes them work is all these added mechanics that work against grounded gameplay.
If you want a game where anime girls slap each other in a grounded, SF fashion, just play GBVS and the like. SF fighters with the anime aesthetic.

>>729372793
ok but what if I like the concept of assist

>>729366078
Nobody gives a shit about league and their tranny charactes besides the subhumans who play xer games

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What went wrong?
Many things. One of them is their insistence on pushing Arcane characters
Daily reminder that the 2XKO Twitter account had to make a tweet saying
>no more arcane characters for a while
because people were complaining so much
And if a leaked list of upcoming characters was legit (and if anyone here ever played LoL, you know these leaks are just controlled "leaks" Riot distributes on purpose to generate "hype" and get people talking), the next entire year was gonna be nothing but Arcane characters, with Mel, Ambessa, Viktor, and Jayce after Caitlyn
And again, if this were true, that means they had to put quite a few characters on the back burner because of backlash, which is brutal for a game with a roster as barebones as theirs
They really overestimated the demand for Arcane shit in their games
It's clear that people playing their games don't care about Arcane. Hell, the Visual update for Viktor (which was swapping to his Arcane look) was very poorly received, to the point they had to apologize and make a new skin that more closely resembles his old look. But the skins still get fucked with the gay ass animations and skinny lankty proportions, so lol. also pay up goy. we create a problem and then sell you the solution

>>729366078
>dev had to say out loud "no more Arcane chars for a while and we'll reduce combo length" not even after the beta ended
lmao they don't even know what the fuck they're doing anymore

>>729373343
>>729373417
>>dev had to say out loud "no more Arcane chars for a while and we'll reduce combo length" not even after the beta ended
they really overestimated the overlap between people who enjoyd arcade, lol and tag games

>>729373598
>arcade
arcane

>>729373598
It could have also been their marketing pitch to the upper management.
>Hey see line going up on Arcane?
>Why line not go up on LoL?
It's fine boss, they would loooove to play but ASSFAGGOTS is 2hard.
>How 2 mek line go up?
See, we're making Mortal Kombat but LOL. Mortal Kombat makes the line go up, Arcane people will gladly pay for it, I'm sure!
>Ok, grug-grug, feel free to spend 10 years making Mortal Kombat! *wooohooo, promotion here I come!*

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>>729366078
The worst offender of it all is how boring this game is to play
Bad balance and a small roster could be excused if the game proposes unique playstyles, but tiers here are only decided by how easily you convert and what mix you can access from assists

>>729366669
this game is always on sale for 20 dollars

Entire dev team is nothing but nepo hires from the west coast FGC scene.

>>729367981
black people generally dont even like the killmonger cut kek.