Meanwhile all the girls in Overwatch look 18 and wear skintight leather outfits. Okay.
Okay. Tight/revealing clothing doesn't automatically make something sexual or inappropriate.
Overwatch characters (both the guys and girls) gets so much love because they made characters that everyone already considers atractive, regardless of clothing. There's nothing sexualized about Symmetra, Sombra, Mercy, Mei, Zarya, D.va (McCree, Hanzo, Reinhardt, Soldier), Ana, or Tracer's clothes, but you're still going to see them pushed because people think those characters are hot. The only exception in the game is Widowmaker, who is intended to be sexual.
Who is there to judge what's ok and what's not okay to look at on TV?
Everyone involved, but the most important is the viewerconsumer.
The judge(ESRB) gives SFV a Teen rating, not Mature or AO. So that should be okay to be shown on national TV. No? You guys want to make you own ratings now?
If you or Disney have a problem with it, shouldn't you complain to ESRB instead? It's not Capcom's problem.
No, it's still Capcom's problem if their design decisions alienate the majority of their potential audience. ESRB has nothing to do with that (and they don't judge, they just categorize the game as a whole).
Also to be honest, I never notice the fanservices in Cammy or Mika. Those were only noticeable if you purposely paused the game and looked for them(and then turned around and acted like a saint and complained about the fanservices!). So seriously what's wrong with some of you?
Question: How to make fighting games to become more mainstream esports? Hmm maybe gameplay, graphics, balance, strategy, team play, and make it more exciting to watch for a long time? Fanservice is a double edged sword as it could actually attract some people to watch.
I couldn't disagree more with any of this. Mika and Cammy's design/crotch shots stick out like sore thumbs. Gameplay, balance... doesn't matter when the majority of potential fighting game fans need to put in effort and research to understand it, which they won't because they're already put off by all the fanservice.
So no, fanservice is not the problem. Capcom can always move their esports to another network who accepts them. Disney's ESPN has been losing subscribers for a long time so it is a non-issue anyway.
No, fanservice is the problem. Disney and ESPN aren't forcing Capcom to do anything, they're just voicing the opinions of people who aren't so deep in that they can take almost anything as long as the game is good. That shouldn't be a qualifier to be a fan of fighting games, but unless you're exclusively playing Tekken of Marvel, it pretty much is.
You're doing this thing where you pretend everyone is looking down on you for enjoying videogames, and that everyone who argues for more conservative costumes or mainstream appeal are pretending they don't enjoy them (whether or not we do is irrelevant).
Don't forget Gief too.
These are worse than any female outfit in the game but I wonder if ESPN would have a problem with them or real Track and Field female outfits. I somehow doubt it.
That double standard.
Gief and Urien aren't designed to be sexy though. If that's someone's thing, then yeah they will find it sexy, but otherwise they're just half naked men. Like I said way up above in this comment, a character showing skin/tight clothes doesn't automatically equate to them being sexy/sexualized. It's not a double standard.
There's a reason Hot Ryu got so much push: he's one of about 5-6 designs (that Ed costume included) in a franchise filled with shirtless, muscled men, that are actually attractive to most man lovers. The fact that it seems the whole thing was an accident just hammers in the fact that characters like Urien/Gief aren't dressed like they are for the sake of fanservice.
As a fighting game fan that doesn't give a shit about e-sports I say....FUCK NO!
I don't want devs compromising their designs to appeal to an e-sports audience that may or may not be interested in their game. If a game is good enough to land an e-sport audience then let the gameplay speak for itself and let the players themselves decide what is okay to ban in tournament settings. I want devs to be free to come up with whatever outlandish crazy designs they want without fear of them being "fan servicey" or whatever the hell that means.
As a fan of fighting games who couldn't care less about esports on their own and who barely watches tornaments... I want Capcom to give me the option for a more conservative Laura. I want them to cater to me, a fan. What I want as a fan doesn't interfere with what you want, as a fan, so why do people keep acting like it does?