MushroomSamba
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jett said:
Yeah, it'd be better with dual analog, but unplayable? That's silly. You'd have to be completely inept to struggle that badly with it.
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Megaman Legends 3 axed; Capcom blames fans/goes insane, [Fans Start Support Group]
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Yeah, it'd be better with dual analog, but unplayable? That's silly. You'd have to be completely inept to struggle that badly with it.
When asked about porting Legends 1 and 2 to PSN, Sven said that they are still 'in progress'. Which could mean that Capcom is still looking in to making it happen or that he was slying saying that it would never happen, so huh. What can you do. I do hope that they make it on PSN, I'd love to play them on my Go or PS3.
Rolls update
Getmeoffthemoon Click here
International Strategies Click here
Capcom forum - Signing the Petition Click here
Theconsumerist Click here
Official Nintendo Magazine UK Click here
The website currently has just shy of 800 peices of original arwork submitted, the goal is 15000.
The facebook group is up to 38,729 likes and there are over 12600 servbots. The devroom is almost upon the Okami group too.
Rolls update
Getmeoffthemoon Click here
International Strategies Click here
Capcom forum - Signing the Petition Click here
Theconsumerist Click here
Official Nintendo Magazine UK Click here
The website currently has just shy of 800 peices of original arwork submitted, the goal is 15000.
The facebook group is up to 38,729 likes and there are over 12600 servbots. The devroom is almost upon the Okami group too.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Is this confirmed? I recall Audrey Drake saying she'd look into it, I hope she hasn't forgotten.Zen said:IGN is going to be doing a story (something more than a news post) on the facebook movement, just a heads up.
MegaMan fans won't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8MkEsgf-I
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Don't remind us.
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PeakPointMatrix
Member
Boney said:
oh you know. denial, hope, etc etc.
Almost to 40k though!
IC_Champion
Member
You know what's ironic? I've just been at the 100,000 strong for Megaman FaceBook page and compared it to the DmC FB page. 39,541 likes for Megaman, while DmC gets 157,488 and that is you have to like the DmC page in order to comment or complain about it. Smh...
GSR said:
To be fair, even Sven said that the latest comment from Capcom was meaningless. It was just a PR statement that was issued as the company line because Kotaku was, rightfully so, pushing them for comment.
Chances are slim but there's also nothing to lose, so why not, right.
Gravijah said:
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9085141
Remember to like the facebook group as well, and tell any friends that might do similarly!
SwiftSketcher said:
All I've heard was an offhand remark on the wall, so who knows. This is exactly the sort of situation that a PR team is meant for. The people behind getmeoffthemoon apparently had an e-mail internet crash and are backlogged on emails, so hopefully things get caught up.
I came across a blogger of sorts that has some fairly good opinion peices on the whole thing, so I figured I'd start reposting them here.
Open Letter to Capcom: Please Remeber that OTHER Game You Didnt Wanted Dont forget, Mega Man Legends 3 isnt the first sequel in the series the company showed a lack of interest in. Does anyone remember how the last one turned out?
The Mastermind of the Dash 3 Revival Effort? Perhaps everything which has happened was expected all along and all plays into a master plan
You Got Those Numbers, How?
How a Lie Kills Your Fanbase Was Capcoms biggest deceit about the sales of the Prototype Version being a determining factor? Or was that merely just one facet of a much greater deception?
Why You Get to Blame The Executives, not The Developers
These are all well written and good for some light reading if you have the time.
scytheavatar
Member
Zen said:
But then again, 1.5 million being the best number a Megaman game has ever achieved just proves that the series has never been a cash cow the Megaman fans think that it is. 1.5 million was huge in 1988 but by today's standards it could only be counted as a respectable but hardly a huge success. And the odds of any Megaman game ever reaching that number is extremely slim. After Megaman 2 you have Battle Network 4 at 1.35 million, Mega Man X at 1.16 million and Mega Man 3 at 1.08 million. These are the only games in the entire series that have exceeded 1 million. So Capcom isn't wrong in thinking that a new Megaman game wouldn't be very profitable.
scytheavatar
Member
That's the thing, it's getting harder and harder to make low budget games nowadays. Handhelds are the future of the series, and with the 3DS being a bust it'll tough for Capcom to make a Megaman game that'll be profitable. If the 3DS doesn't pick up or the Vita becomes dead on arrival the series is doomed, they certainly could release more 8 bit classic Megaman but a Legends 3 will be tough.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
It's not like these games have like 30-40 million dollar budgets though. It's a 3DS game. One with high demand at that. Most people look at our numbers saying "LOL, even if all 40,000 people bought a copy that's not a lot!!" What?scytheavatar said:
Do we go into the facebook page or OT for a game and tally the posts/likes for to base sales on that? Fuck no. There are way more people that the internet can simply not account for. It's not like fans only will touch the game, while being kryptonite to newcomers. It would sell to 3DS gamers, megaman fans, legends fans, those curious both domestically and abroad. Especially now that this whole debacle has spread awareness of the Legends franchise to many corners of the internet, with even more to cover still. It's a shame that a fanbase has to reduce itself to a self-advertising tally-count just to prove this game's worth.
The point of the Legends fb page is to show there was an audience of gamers out there, alongside fans that both want and support it, beyond crazy fanclub numbers. There are fans that have no clue the game was cancelled, or was even in production to begin with. It's just one on the many bullet points of why this whole thing became the clusterfuck we see today. It may not do Resident Evil numbers, but have we seriously reached the point where a company like Capcom won't support something just because it won't do BLOPS numbers? Especially when something like Legends has extremely low risk factor vs. some of their past releases this gen, and it would very clearly at least break even.
ShockingAlberto
Member
I do remember there was a time Capcom would fight for Mega Man games, though.
Like when SCEA did not want to allow Mega Man 8 to be published in America. Capcom very obviously threatened to pull both MM8 and RE2 and put them exclusively on the Saturn until Sony capitulated.
Though maybe that was more because they did not understand why Sony was attempting to boss them around.
Like when SCEA did not want to allow Mega Man 8 to be published in America. Capcom very obviously threatened to pull both MM8 and RE2 and put them exclusively on the Saturn until Sony capitulated.
Though maybe that was more because they did not understand why Sony was attempting to boss them around.
AzureNightmare
Banned
You haven't a single damn clue what the hell you're talking about. You should stop before you dig yourself a deeper hole.scytheavatar said:
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
AzureNightmare said:
Must be a junior thing.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Speaking of not-busts, Mega Man ZXA failed to sell 250k copies on the somewhat-successful DS. Worldwide.
Sir Ilpalazzo
Member
Well, back then it probably wasn't just Inafune.
eso76
Member
ShockingAlberto said:
i'm just playing ZXA now after finishing ZX, and while it has its pros it's an overall lazy and boring game.
I really liked ZX though, plus i think it has some of the best 2d bitmap graphics i've seen in a while. We need a new G'n'G in the same style, dammit.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Femmeworth
Banned
lol Like he can actually do anything.
Hours Left
Member
Sven is pretty high up at Capcom. Certainly the most senior member that posts on the Unity forums.ninj4junpei said:
AceBandage
Banned
And then he put all those letters in that toaster oven...
PigSpeakers
Member
AceBandage said:
That sort of looks like it has a Nintendo logo on it.
Femmeworth
Banned
Unless he has significant pull at Capcom Japan, his words mean nothing.Gunloc said:
Hours Left
Member
Well, he said he is one of six or seven people that decide Capcom releases for every region.ninj4junpei said:
If your going to talk to anyone at Capcom USA, he'd be the guy.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Christian Svenssonninj4junpei said:
Corporate Officer/Senior Vice-President
Look at all those important words. JUST LOOK AT THEM.
corporate cheerleader
Member
It doesn't look like the group will reach 100 000. :/
PeakPointMatrix
Member
I was worried it was going to look utterly embarrassing when it would halt at 10k. They dun good without any real push from the major websites.Boney said:
You what's funny though, if they had Japan's fanbase it would have eclipsed 100,000 by now :/
I remember looking at some of the abandoned ideas they had for Legends 2 that were intended to be reused in a hypothetical Legends 3 years ago. I can't find any of the stuff online and I can't remember what most of it was.
I think one idea had something to do with the different purifier Megamans that were shown in the Complete Works Artbook. It would've made for a nice read for people right now.
I think one idea had something to do with the different purifier Megamans that were shown in the Complete Works Artbook. It would've made for a nice read for people right now.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
There have been. There are actually 12 international links to multilingual facebook pages for the cause, as well as a recently created international hub for fanart. It's impressive to look back and see this was all done in under a month.Krev said:
The facebook/Japan thing can't be helped since fb just never caught on over there. Twitter and "mixi" seem to be the big thing in Japan.
kingofthedead45
Member
http://www.capcom-europe.com/blog/2011/08/a-little-something-about-mega-man/
Well, atleast we're being heard. That's good news right? Hopefully something comes out of this
Capgod said:
Well, atleast we're being heard. That's good news right? Hopefully something comes out of this
AzureNightmare
Banned
The Japanese fanbase has created the One More DASH movement.SwiftSketcher said:
A relatively well done video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9nEKYBJgo
It's nice to see that we're being heard, absolutely. Apparently Capcom is going to give something out to notable devroom contributors.
I do find the 'MegaMan is absolutely an important brand to us at Capcom' interview that was diceminated recently to be a bit of hollow PR taht reactionary to try and quell the fanbase. I'll believe it when I see it, especially with Inafune gone.
More over they still haven't said what the actual reason was for the cancellation. Maybe they realized that they didn't have enough free hands to handle Legends 3 when everybody in Capcom is basically regulated to pouring time and money into Dragons Dogma and RE6, but there's still no tangible reason to with hold the prototype.
If that sort of thing is the case, then MegaMan fans should also make sure that our voices are being heard by CC2, since external development would solve the manpower problem.
About us not making it. Who's the say. The facebook group hasn't gone below 200-250 like a day, and that's actually seems to be the level that it has averaged out at after the initial surge. It went up by 500 likes on Saturday, and the member count on the devroom keeps getting higher and higher while the facebook group itself is increasing in organization. I know there's a group on fans that are apparently also looking to make a Legends fangame if Legends 3 doesn't come out; it does't look like people are going to lay down and die on this.
kingofthedead45 said:
It's nice to see that we're being heard, absolutely. Apparently Capcom is going to give something out to notable devroom contributors.
I do find the 'MegaMan is absolutely an important brand to us at Capcom' interview that was diceminated recently to be a bit of hollow PR taht reactionary to try and quell the fanbase. I'll believe it when I see it, especially with Inafune gone.
More over they still haven't said what the actual reason was for the cancellation. Maybe they realized that they didn't have enough free hands to handle Legends 3 when everybody in Capcom is basically regulated to pouring time and money into Dragons Dogma and RE6, but there's still no tangible reason to with hold the prototype.
If that sort of thing is the case, then MegaMan fans should also make sure that our voices are being heard by CC2, since external development would solve the manpower problem.
About us not making it. Who's the say. The facebook group hasn't gone below 200-250 like a day, and that's actually seems to be the level that it has averaged out at after the initial surge. It went up by 500 likes on Saturday, and the member count on the devroom keeps getting higher and higher while the facebook group itself is increasing in organization. I know there's a group on fans that are apparently also looking to make a Legends fangame if Legends 3 doesn't come out; it does't look like people are going to lay down and die on this.
Update time:
Facebook likes: 41,528 (currently still going at a little under 200 a day since yesterday)
Servbot count: Over 13,000
Devroom Count: 15,048 Members
Capcom Petition: 7,269 Signed
To think that the devroom only had under 4500 when this started.
flyers that can be used:
http://www.facebook.com/GetMeOffTheMoon#!/media/set/?set=a.160517877355795.38414.149316248475958
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=161434527264130
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiofLnWKc8Y
Click the link to get to all the links. The video that way made is great, and sad D:
I still think that there needs to be an official PR team. Making a nice youtube video is on thing, but it's not the sort of thing that the media is going to report on. That and the window for this being a topical story is closing. While creating a website and fanvideos is great, it's all useless unless people know they exist.
Facebook likes: 41,528 (currently still going at a little under 200 a day since yesterday)
Servbot count: Over 13,000
Devroom Count: 15,048 Members
Capcom Petition: 7,269 Signed
To think that the devroom only had under 4500 when this started.
flyers that can be used:
http://www.facebook.com/GetMeOffTheMoon#!/media/set/?set=a.160517877355795.38414.149316248475958
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=161434527264130
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiofLnWKc8Y
Click the link to get to all the links. The video that way made is great, and sad D:
I still think that there needs to be an official PR team. Making a nice youtube video is on thing, but it's not the sort of thing that the media is going to report on. That and the window for this being a topical story is closing. While creating a website and fanvideos is great, it's all useless unless people know they exist.