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Megaman Legends 3 axed; Capcom blames fans/goes insane, [Fans Start Support Group]
- Thread starter PeakPointMatrix
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PeakPointMatrix
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Over 43 thousand likes now, we're still around 100-150 likes a day, though I feel that something needs to happen to give the movement another shot in the arm. Though hopefully that's coming sooner rather than latter.
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I have no personal interest in this game, but I don't understand. Capcom cancelled the game because there were only a few thousand users on some obscure "devroom" forum? What the fuck kind of logic is that? Did they make an official announcement like "hey anyone who wants a new Megaman game, come check out our forums!" or did they just arbitrarily take a census and can it?
Imagine if other companies did this. "Welp, there are only 5000 users on our site beta.dev-nintendo.com so I guess no one would buy this new Pikmin game."
Imagine if other companies did this. "Welp, there are only 5000 users on our site beta.dev-nintendo.com so I guess no one would buy this new Pikmin game."
Just buy Ultimate Marvel versus Capcom 3 used. Also remember to join the facebook group and become a servbot. I'm buying all of my capcom stuff used, fuck em.
Yeah I agree. They need some fresh perspective and focus. It's like when they said that they proved G4 how wrong it was when G4 said that no one cared. Their proof was the youtube video of one person. You aren't going to get Capcoms attention that way, or provoke a response from G4. I sent them an e-mail detailing this sort of thing, we'll see if it makes a difference.
And on that note, the international strategies is looking for new recruits, so if you want to help them out or feel thatyou have somthing to contribute that they're currently missing, g ahead to the facebook page.
Yeah but the fans surpasssed the only stated goalpost for the devroom. That goalpost was over 10 thousand people between the various regions, at the devroom had like 15-20 thousand.
Well Namco Bandai did rethink their localizations when 50 thousand fans got together for Tales.
As per your comment towards Capcom just giving lip service:
Which is exactly the sort of duplicity that getmeoffthemoon has to highlight visibly. It's a shame that Legends 3 is considered old news right now, because it would be much easier to get news sites willing to do interviews when the whole thing was hotter.
qq more said:
Yeah I agree. They need some fresh perspective and focus. It's like when they said that they proved G4 how wrong it was when G4 said that no one cared. Their proof was the youtube video of one person. You aren't going to get Capcoms attention that way, or provoke a response from G4. I sent them an e-mail detailing this sort of thing, we'll see if it makes a difference.
And on that note, the international strategies is looking for new recruits, so if you want to help them out or feel thatyou have somthing to contribute that they're currently missing, g ahead to the facebook page.
Roto13 said:
Yeah but the fans surpasssed the only stated goalpost for the devroom. That goalpost was over 10 thousand people between the various regions, at the devroom had like 15-20 thousand.
.la1n said:
Well Namco Bandai did rethink their localizations when 50 thousand fans got together for Tales.
As per your comment towards Capcom just giving lip service:
Which is exactly the sort of duplicity that getmeoffthemoon has to highlight visibly. It's a shame that Legends 3 is considered old news right now, because it would be much easier to get news sites willing to do interviews when the whole thing was hotter.
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Only 43k likes?
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Zen said:
It'll just inspire them to put up more merchandise.
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Merchandise of MM Legends.
The Broken Ska Record
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:rollseyesUtako said:
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I NEED SCISSORS said:Only 43k likes?
Indeed.
PeakPointMatrix
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The next "shot in the arm" won't happen until we reach a milestone that warrants attention, say reaching 50,000 people. I'm sure it will turn a few heads at the very least.
And to the skeptics now: Yeah it's easy to say this wont work, but then again no videogame cancellation has ever amassed this much attention and controversy, ever. Whether we reach our goal or not, this has become a reference point in videogame history as an example of a company's ill behavior toward fans, backlash, and the disrespecting of a beloved brand property as bad as the Sonic franchise. It's easy to predict that a movement like this won't accomplish jack shit, but perhaps being too stubborn to give up is the key to our only chance at success.
The group has made it so far and grown so much that it is uncharted territory for a videogame fan movement, so why not keep pushing against and see what happens? Journalists and gamers will always reference and remember this event for what it stands for, with Megaman at the face of it. It means more than just bringing Legends back, and I think that's important.
And I gotta hand it to the group, they've got a real classy setup going on here. The effort going into the outreach is really amazing.
And to the skeptics now: Yeah it's easy to say this wont work, but then again no videogame cancellation has ever amassed this much attention and controversy, ever. Whether we reach our goal or not, this has become a reference point in videogame history as an example of a company's ill behavior toward fans, backlash, and the disrespecting of a beloved brand property as bad as the Sonic franchise. It's easy to predict that a movement like this won't accomplish jack shit, but perhaps being too stubborn to give up is the key to our only chance at success.
The group has made it so far and grown so much that it is uncharted territory for a videogame fan movement, so why not keep pushing against and see what happens? Journalists and gamers will always reference and remember this event for what it stands for, with Megaman at the face of it. It means more than just bringing Legends back, and I think that's important.
And I gotta hand it to the group, they've got a real classy setup going on here. The effort going into the outreach is really amazing.
CoffeeJanitor
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This stuff is sad to watch. Good for the fans for caring but its pretty obvious that Capcom doesn't give a fuck. You're wasting your time--Legends is dead. This is just my outside POV but I don't see any evidence to the contrary.
Zing said:
The development of the game was a trainwreck and Capcom cancelled because it was going nowhere. They said so in their official statement. An initial delay of the game points to this being true.
All of a sudden a fucking moron capcom europe executive got into a twitter fight with fans saying "is your fault cause, see, the dev room wasn't popular and you the fans where supposed to do the game for us". Those were HIS words, NOT THE WORDS OF CAPCOM as a whole, not the words of ANYONE with a relevance standing inside of capcom, we don't even know if any highup executive in Japan know of this incident.
Now everyone believes the "unpopular dev room" thing is the reason it got cancelled and fans are doing petitions on twitter, facebook and everyhwere to let capcom know we do care.
it's all fucking stupid, from all parts.
PeakPointMatrix
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It's a self fulfilling prophecy. News outlets think its a lost cause without enough support, but we can't get enough support if they don't help us spread the word. They literally have the power to propel the word of mouth and change the fate of this movement, but instead expend energy in actually putting us down and smothering the cause. And then seconds later they'll post an article like "lawl look at this mario brand daiper!!!" "what iz your top ten gaming snax??" I guess whatever's more important for gaming journalism right?Boney said:
How hard would it be to spare a simple "hey these megaman fans haven't given up, support here if you want"
HammerOfThor
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I NEED SCISSORS said:Only 43k likes?
At least its over 9000
All this debacle with Legends 3 made me realize that I ignored that the Legends series had such a "hardcore" following. I enjoyed the series, bought the first 2 games, the N64 port and the Tron Bonne PSone game back then (love Tron Bonne and the Servbots); yet I recognized that the series was mostly ignored by everyone and therefore wasn't expecting sequels out of it.
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Forgot to mention how Capcom will go down as the biggest fucking trolls the industry has ever seen.Mpl90 said:
Holy fuck.
ThatObviousUser
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Mpl90 said:
Eh? That's X.
Mpl90 said:
What you need to realize is that when Capcom says Megaman is still valuable as a franchise to them, it means they can and will take every opportunity to merch his ass out for a quick buck. It does not mean they have any interest in making future games or working with fans.
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First thing that came to mind.Andrex said:
The reason no ones covering this is because its done and over.
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Mpl90 said:
See, petitions do work. Capcom listened and now you got some Megaman action on the 3DS.
ThatObviousUser
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I'd rather have a 3DS X game than Legends TBH... >.>
The original as a 3D Classic would rock.
The original as a 3D Classic would rock.
It's understandable, but it's still trollish and a little funny. The reason that it's slightly trollish is that the limited 3DS case SDCC 2011 line is for their upcoming 3DS games as shown at SDCC 2011...
Legends would have been one of those. so it's funny that they still included 'MegaMan' despite their being no upcoming 3DS game, and went a step further and changed it to X instead of Legends. It would have been a more fantastic troll if they had used Legends anyway.
Legends would have been one of those. so it's funny that they still included 'MegaMan' despite their being no upcoming 3DS game, and went a step further and changed it to X instead of Legends. It would have been a more fantastic troll if they had used Legends anyway.
The gaming media has moved on, as they should, because Mega Man Legends 3 is cancelled and it's not coming back and that's all there is.Boney said:
They did that already. Nothing important has happened since then. "Sad Mega Man Legends Fans Don't Know When To Quit" isn't much of a headline.SwiftSketcher said:
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Boney said:
If you say so.
Platformers all the way.