that might be true, but it sets a terrible precedent that companies can release such a bare bones title and use an excuse that they will just add in more content later.
Yea, I'm not a fan of that approach either. Destiny, as was mentioned, is a big offender. MGSV had the online portion launch months afterwards - and some feel the base game launched unfinished. It's definitely getting to the point of AAA Early Access almost. I tended to wait for game prices to go down post-launch, but these kinds of practices just enforce that waiting is becoming the most prudent thing to do now.
We already see it in episodic content within other genres, as well as content released in genres like racing where the content comes after the initial purchase.
It's actually rather annoying to those of us who like complete games because we don't always revisit games every month or two when new content is released, because we have huge back logs, or just don't care.
Company's need to quit releasing barebone games at launch and give gamers the other half of the damn game its greed and shady. The game didn't need a delay they just wanted to launch it that way that's all it is.
My brother went and got it yesterday, to my surprise some key vets aren't even in the game...=/ still fun i guess but yeah this launch is a bit rushed and disappointing.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 is my all time favorite game next to the arcade version of Tekken Tag Tournament in 1999. If a game like that was to release today here's the breakdown:
15 characters at launch 5 per 3 months depending on "feedback" at $5.99 Extra modes as "asked by the fans"
I bought SF5 with the confidence Capcom would at least cater to the fighting community - WRONG! It's hard to take Capcom seriously after this fiasco, and they will have to come up with something highly convincing to justify this practice. I will say players can either play the game to unlock characters OR pay for them out the gate.
Didn't SF4 launch with only 19 playable characters?
The initial roster is very unappealing too, there isn't one new character on that list that I am excited to play. I am seriously waiting for Guile, Urien and Alex to make an appearance.
I also expected Capcom to go all out and make this a defining SF experience especially with all the hype and talk about them partnering up with Sony and how Sony "supposedly" made this sequel dream come true.
This is a very misleading comment. The 6 characters can be earned through playing the game. You can unlock 2 of them just by playing through the story mode, and you can unlock the rest just by playing survival mode. I already have enough in game credit to get 4 of the 6 characters, and the game hasn't even been out for 3 full days yet.
Just a question. Imagine your favorite game is coming in 5 months. Now, imagine of theu gave you the option to get it in 4 months, but some of the options wouldn't be available for a month. They are free when theu release, but not quite ready forlaunch.
Would you want it or no? I honestly don't know. I probably would depending on how important these features were to the 1st month of your playtime.
lol wut? We as gamers know this has very little to do with SONY corp struggles nevermind Playstation is recording major profits... This has to do with a publisher gauging fans with "premium" DLC.
Sony is broke?! Yeah films no longer get watched at a cinema or purchased on blu Rays to be watched on the 30+ million ps4's, 80-90 million ps3's, laptops, TV sets and phones amongst others, yeah they are probably going off to collect tin cans from the homeless shelter as we speak. If you think Sony is Broke, might wanna check a dictionary last I heard it meant either homeless with no money, struggling to pay your way/bills or actually being bankrupt... Now where does Sony fit into that hmmmm. The only money Sony would have paid for SF5 is for the exclusive rights for ps4 Capcom may well have used some of that towards development costs or publishing but I think even Capcom would have been funding majority of this its one of their biggest franchises. If not their biggest. Besides even Capcom aren't "Broke"
If they (Sony) purely had Vita maybe but with their masses of products, broke? Don't think so buddy.
I always shake my head when people say Sony is broke. They have billions upon billions of dollars, over 140,000 employees, $135 billion in assets and are worth $34 billion. They also develop and publish more games than Microsoft... They aren't broke, you are.
I am comparing Sony to the richest video game developer which happens to be Microsoft who make less games than Sony. If Sony was "broke" they wouldn't be making more games than Microsoft...
Sony had MLB 16, Tearaway Unfolded, Bloodborne, The Order 1886, Until Dawn, DriveClub Bikes and technically paid for the development of PlanetSide 2. As for remasters they had Uncharted Collection and GOW 3 Remastered. For smaller titles they published Helldivers and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
As for Xbox One it has: Forza 6, Halo 5 and Tomb Raider which they partially funded. As for remasters or ports they has.GOW UE and Rare Replay. Smaller game was Ori.
SONY publishes and develops a lot more games. Go back 6 years and Sony has developed/published around twice as many.
The reason a lot of Sony's first party games arent coming this year is because they supported the PS3 for so long unlike MS who basically abandoned the 360 in 2010.
@trav "I am comparing Sony to the richest video game developer which happens to be Microsoft who make less games than Sony. If Sony was "broke" they wouldn't be making more games than Microsoft.."
You talk about who makes "more" games. So you talk about FIRST party games. Sony doesnt make The Order or Bloodborne. PlanetSide 2 was released back in 2012 for PC, before next gen consoles were even announced... They just now ported it over.
I give you MLB 16, Until Dawn and Driveclub (Tearaway is a remaster)
Dont act like Sony is pumping out game after game after game.
I said develop and publish but again these are all large investments that cost resources and money. Tearwax Unfolded is more than a remaster and has 50% more contenot among the other changes.
Their first party studios also co-develope these games. Sony Santa Monica for The Order and Sony Japan for Bloodborne.
Also don't ignore the fact that their first party studios released way more over the last 5 years and most are coming out this year because theyvery actually released games in the last 3 years.
This year they have a lot more releasing than MS as well.
The consistent argument has been that without Sony street fighter 5 would not have been made and that is why it's exclusive. So that is where it relates to Sony. Now the sony is broke argument is stupid. But they did play a direct part in the making of this game
that's terrible considering SFV and The Order exclusives, Sony was the lead platform for Destiny.
I know they have no control over third party developed games but you'd think they'd want better content considering they are the crown jewel this generation.
R6 it was expected a long time ago after they changed directions from Patriots. Star Wars was a money grab. I can't speak on Godzilla, haven't played that.
They invest in franchises people will buy. They are a business and like you said have zero control of what is in the game on release with the exception of The Order 1886.
Im lucky though supposedly my CE edition was going to be delayed by Amazon and i complained and got 50 dollars off ;) so i only paid 33 and still got it on the 16th. At that price i cant complain (with one of the best Collectors Edition statues ive bought). If i paid 60 i would have been upset.
I dont know if you consider Mario Tennis AAA or not, but that was the thinnest game I have bought so far. No tournament mode whatsoever. No mushroom, Fire flower, Star or Rainbow cups. A crappy endless-runner/knockout challenge is the most effort they put in the game. The items are more of a hindrance on the court. Im absolutely shocked that this came from Nintendo, maybe thats why it feels so wrong. Mariokart 8 was incredible! As was Mario 3d World. What happened Nintendo?
Good mention, i forgot all about that Nintendo game when i mentioned elsewhere that all consoles have that game and publishers slowly but surely are trying to get away with murder.
Bet everything on it, that instead of impulse buying SF6, ill wait it out and if i hear anything about it being skimpy, i will never buy it. This is a movement i am not trying to be a part of.
If you don't wont the game then don't buy it. Titanfall did the same thing, no campaign just online and the reviews were stellar still. I love Titanfall by the way. Street fighter releases online only cause that's the main draw of the game and they get 7s for an awesome fighting game. Anyone who follows street fighter knows this game will be kicking even when the ps4 dies, so if it does not have what your looking for pass on it. pretty simple.
really? what about the other "Thinnest AAA Title" that you need to pay 30/50 more to get the rest of the content KI? Destiny? star wars battlefront? evolve?, you dont need to buy the game now, and the rest of the content are free, since you just gona unlock them by PLAYING the game, or just be lazy and buy them.
Capcom should not of rushed the incomplete game out. They should of used this game as an opportunity to redeem their tattered reputation for the street fighter X tekken Disc Lock Content scandal. But NO. Instead digging an even deeper hole for themselves.
"Free" whats with throwing this particular word around does not mask that more like capcom has not finished the game to release it on FEB 16. And so are working on it right now until then we all can play this "online dedicated" of a game which the online server went down on launch day!! cant earn in game currency offline. People buy a game, it should be complete and all its functions should work. I use to be a fan of capcom, street fighters and resident evils especially. But the way capcom are carrying on is just insulting to me and all their customers of their products.
This so called free content is supposedly ready in june, this will be interesting as it gets closer. Lets see if it does release. I am anticipating some sorry as excuse for postponing it as its still not complete by then. Prove me wrong Capcom.
Sorry you spend money on the game and your not happy with it. Guess I'll wait for it to land in one of steams holiday sales. I'm hoping they put more into it by then
Yeah please do wait for the sale, I highly discourage anyone from paying full price for this, ive got my refund now and will save it for something else.
Glad you got your money back. I've learned a longtime ago capcom can do some slimy [email protected]$t. I'll never forget them trying to sell DLC that was already on the disk you bought
I think that title belongs to Evolve, but SFV is up there too, and at least, it's going to get better with free updates, unlike Evolve. Definitely a bummer for first buyers tho.
Well many gamers have said they like how they are breaking up FF7 and maybe capcom wanted to get in on that since many would pay for it. Don't blame capcom, blame the people who buy it and accepts it cause it maybe exclusive to a platform. Blame the reviewers who gave this game high score because of the Dev or Pub. But will score many other games low for having missing content.
the project would be about to create bigger games from the code perspective, to organize things ready to layers.
then the "circle" as the base already: then from on keeping waiting, would be to catch things on the expectation by not screwing the project lines.
Microsoft Windows are nice to keep running the versions, that would be up to organization to the option screen to provide the player to keep playing from the "issued update". making the help docs ingame apart to new players. that's the software game OS. or to the few "tweaks" featured way of it.
The N4G gaming blogs are all over it. it's funny though, because the people that actually play it seem to really enjoy it, and they don't pretend that more content isn't coming soon.
I guess unlike some gaming blogs and the obvious local vocals, people who did the research knew what they were getting, and the people who just wanted a good tight fighting game where they can have fun really don't care because they got exactly what they wanted.
Interesting. So you sympathize with people paying 60 bucks for this game even though it is lacking in content because more content is coming but early access games that are cheaper (and have more content than this) are a foreign concept to you?
I remember when pre ordering was to guarantee a copy of a game that was in high demand. Now it's used as a tool to gauge how many people are willing to buy a beta. After The Division I'm no longer pre ordering or even buying day one. I'll wait it out.
I was actually shocked that the "story" only consists of the same 3 fights and it's over. No more long list of opponents before getting to the boss, and earning the ending, which has been a staple of the series since SF2
*at launch
Its not so thin anymore in 3 weeks, or in june..or in 5 years.
But today..its as thin as Destiny or Star Wars Battlefronts.
Maybe thinner.
Way to go Capcom.
I honestly didn't expect this game to be so light, but it makes sense. Sony is broke and they funded it. Capcom can't afford to do extra right now.
It's tinge for Capcom to be bought and end the bleeding...
Oh please, The Order 1886, Destiny, R6, Godzilla, Star Wars...
Takes episodic gaming to a whole other place.