na man, its not that.
Imagine your favorite character lost like 75% of their specials moves and changed the way they played drastically. I can understand if they change normals and stuff but by removing literally her specials and playstyle, it doesnt make her Ibuki anymore. She might as well be a clone or something.
She lost her penguin kicks, rekka kicks, the flip move, neckbreaker, close launcher roundhouse,etc....What makes her Ibuki is gone.
^ this
All this.
The killing of Ibuki pretty much lined up exactly with the day Street Fighter V died for me.
There are no characters in the game I'm comfortable playing with...
I was shit tier when the game launched but I was holding out for Ibuki so I could rise out of the Bronze tier finally...
And then they released Ibuki in the summer and that was that.
The magic was gone. She played so horrendously different that it wasn't even worth learning how to use bastardized Ibuki.
And the rest of the cast just doesn't interest me.
My favorite game series in gaming ceased to be my favorite in an instant.
I don't even know what my favorite series is now, but it's not Street Fighter, that's for sure.
I put up with so much shit in the initial launch of SFV from the awful load times, banana hair clipping, no arcade mode, shitty net code and prevalence of rage quitting asshats, and breaking Ibuki was the final straw.
Between this and how crappy MGSV turned out... What's to love about these once cherished series any more?
They've lost me until they fix Ibuki or release SFVI I guess.