Capcom “looking into” adding Arcade Mode to Street Fighter 5

Between the launch day server issues, questionable reviews, and lack of single player content, the narrative has been overwhelmingly negative, despite there being an utterly fantastic fighter at the game’s half-finished core. Fortunately, Capcom sent a glimmer of hope regarding the brawler’s inexplicably missing Arcade Mode.

[masterfox]

“looking into” ?? da hell ? I will look into showing a certain finger of my hand then.

[OldGuyStillGaming]

They're" looking into " how much to charge for it

[DragonDDark]

$0

[sinjonezp]

What im upset about is they say "looking into" , like...it wasn't thought of at all when they developed the game. What is a fighting game without arcade mode capcom!?!? I am disturbed

[bloop]

I thought arcade mode was already confirmed to be coming in one of the future updates? Capcom are taking the piss now.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

LooooL

[Eonjay]

"The team is looking into adding an Arcade Mode and we’ll have more information to share soon"

Thats a pretty direct statement.

[3-4-5]

80-90% of my playing time in any fighting game has been with an arcade mode or 1v1 vs the CPU.

I don't really play fighting games online, as I just kind of play them for fun here and there.

The gameplay of SF5 looks awesome, but everything.......not so much.

16 characters is a joke.

[Articuno76]

16 characters is pretty standard for a first release of a fighting game that's a blank slate (new engine, no resused assets).

Look at Street Fighter 4 (arcade), BlazBlue or King of Fighters 12. They all had roster sizes in the same region.

Any other game you could think to mention would likely fall into one of two categories: they had an arcade release (or several) before the home release or they recycled a lot of assets (particularly animations/models) from the previous game.

[badz149]

looking into?! LOL gaming these days...even a standard mode is turning into a feature being looked into! just like how EA said they were also "looking into" including SP campaign in SWBF!

SMH

[AizenSosuke]

Ok SF5 needs an arcade mode fast.

[-Foxtrot]

You can imagine next gen

"Capcom are currently looking into adding more like 5 characters"

"Capcom are looking into adding more then 4 stages to the game"

"Capcom are looking into giving gamers the the other half of the games disc"

[Hoffmann]

Am looking forward to KOF XIV and Tekken 7.

[moegooner88]

I am looking into trading my copy in soon if they don't do it. Ridiculous.

[Hoffmann]

I was lucky, could return my copy last friday.Might buy SFV again if they release a...more complete version.

[chrisx]

Weren't u the person defending this sh*t, giving me a senseless reply when I called capcom out on this? Now u say this? Lol

[Paytaa]

I'm not a Street Fighter fan by any means (respect the series for essentially giving birth to MK) but how can a fighting game not have arcade mode? That's how I would master fighters in MK and before there was online that's all there was albeit a few other modes.

I don't want to see Street Fighter fall off because of stupid business decisions because everyone is raving about the gameplay and what not. It's been awesome to see SF and MK last this long and I'd prefer if they stick around and not be victim to corporate BS.

[gangsta_red]

I don't think SF will ever fall off since it is the premier fighting game in its genre.

Which is a shame because this is exactly why Capcom is doing this with V. Capcom knows they can basically give SF in any state they please to gamers because of the series popularity.

[WeAreLegion]

Are... Are you serious?

How difficult is it to have training mode with the AI on and add it to the menu under "Arcade Mode"?

I don't understand why they would leave it out. They don't need to tweak anything. At all.

[chrisx]

That's a very stupid comment from capcom if that's exactly what they said

[torchic]

wait, this game doesn't even have an arcade mode?? wtfffffffff

[Kamikaze135]

Yup. It doesn't even have VS CPU in versus.

[blackblades]

Where you been at, it's been a week of the samo samo article about it.

[WickedLester]

I'm "looking into" never supporting this franchise again if Capcom doesn't pull their head out of their ass! Seriously what think tank believed that omitting a mode of play that is a staple of ALL fighting games, not just Street Fighter, was a good idea??

I can't understand how game companies can possibly think there won't be negative backlash towards crap like this. Do they operate in THAT large of a bubble? It's just so egregious I can't believe no one at Capcom ever spoke up and said "you know, this is going to piss off a large percentage of our potential buyers, let's think about this a little more." Yet it's almost as if they're TRYING to piss gamers off. What it shows me is a complete lack of respect for the consumer and lack of standards and expectations.

[Hitoemi]

Puzzling, they are looking into adding an Arcade mode to a game that began as an Arcade fighter. Its like Activision saying "we are looking into adding online MP to BO4" it just smacks of a slap in the face.

[gangsta_red]

"The absent Arcade Mode, a staple of Street Fighter entries and literally every other fighting game that’s been developed since,"

Absolutely mind boggling how Capcom thought this was okay to do.

[WickedLester]

Right? It's like studios sometimes just cannot get out of their own damn way. I swear to god, content wise Street Fighter V makes basic Destiny look like The Witcher 3.

[Relientk77]

Should have been in day 1 add it already

[NobleRed]

I'm looking forward to delete this piece of sh** game from my hard drive.

Problem is I bought the game digital and can't sell this crap.

[blackblades]

Funny how one little arcade mode cause so much chaos. Bet they didn't expect that coming.

[WickedLester]

Don't attempt to downplay it's importance. Not every gamer wants to play online. Many just want to play against the CPU and advance past each fighter/stage. The fact that Capcom didn't understand this shows me just how out of touch some developers are with their audience.

[blackblades]

Downplay what, I was just saying. I don't even play online its pretty much rare for me. Doesn't survival mode do the same but instead of stopping on stage 6 or 7 it stops when ever you go down. What I do in arcade is basically play with each character just for there story at the end. Which sfv has a story mode, and survival makes up for the arcade part.

[Articuno76]

TBH it's not like they have a load of extra content to cover the loss. If you are going to turn up mostly empty handed you should at least come to the party with an arcade mode. Especially when everything needed for that mode is already made (character, stages, AI etc).

[Hold_It]

It's funny how Capcom releases Street Fighter V with everything they promised, and people are getting mad about features they said were not going to be in the game at all before day 1.

They made it pretty clear that Arcade wasn't going to be in the game, just like they made it clear that the real Story Mode and Challenges weren't going to be available day 1, but here we are with people claiming that Capcom put paywalls, because you can't read, and didn't decide to look this information up before you bought the game.

You can't blame Capcom for your ignorance and/or stupidity, because you only have yourself to blame for that.

That's like blaming the road for speeding, because you didn't look for the Speed Limit sign.

[WickedLester]

Yes because EVERY person who buys Street Fighter V reads up on every nugget of gaming news prior to its release. Give me a damn break! Joe Shmoe who walks into a store, sees that a new Street Fighter is out, and buys it on the spot isn't going to have the first clue that for the first time in franchise history, Capcom decided to omit a mode that's been a staple of the game since it's inception! The crime isn't that Capcom didn't attempt inform people ahead of time. The crime is they made the decision to omit it in the first place and still charge gamers full retail price. But yeah, it's the consumers fault.

[Hold_It]

Moral of the story : Learn to read.

It is 2016, if you don't have internet access by now and common sense you got more problems than Street Fighter V "Omitting" a mode for people who don't play fighting games.

[VTKC]

"Looking into" Well i guess even after all the noise thats been made, it doesnt matter really since only EVO registration numbers is what matters and not your users even if it means your god dam sales for your future Street fighters, that is assuming you survive this poopstorm you created Capcom.

[Majister-Ludi]

I despise fighting games ever since I stopped going to arcades 15 years ago so this hasn't affected me. That being said I don't know how they get away with not having this feature from the start. Fighters as a genre have always been bare bones so for anyone to buy this one without the most common feature blows my mind.

[dreadz74]

This is why I play WWE 2K16 over 100 characters/wrestlers and you can create over 100 and a universe mode the game is dope.
Here is some of my Gameplay with all Caws https://youtu.be/zdK9UwgLZ6...

[Urbz7870]

Street Fighter V Alpha Early Access Edition

[BenRC01]

After seeing akuma in action in tekken i think for the first time ever ill take tekken over sf5