enzo_gt said:
Honestly? I don't think there's much reason to take what was said in this report to heart, because Brain is not a decision maker at Capcom, and he didn't bring anything to the table that is new to what the companies current public stance is as of when the game was cancelled. It seems more like Kotaku was pressing Capcom to comment, so Capcom had Brian throw out their canned response.
enzo_gt said:
Cancelling MML3 doesn't mean they don't care about Megaman anymore, I don't see how difficult that is to understand. MML3 =/= The entire MM franchise, this is the overreaction that has plagued the MML3 cancellation. Sven is a scapegoat.
It's no secret that Inafune was the main proponent behind still pushing for Mega Man within the executives at Capcom. Since his departure, Capcom has cancelled all publicly announced MegaMan games and is completely mum on any other projects or use of the IP. There is literally no overreaction, because this is a very crucial time for MegaMan fans to make sure that their voices are heard through the Legends cancellation, even if they weren't fans of the Legends offshoot in the first place. The point is to clearly show Capcom that we want Legends 3 in one form or another, and we want MegaMan games period.
Saying it was just a corporate reality decision just doesn't fly, for reasons that have already been touched on, this whole thing isn't happening just because they cancelled the game.
Capcom does value fan feedback.. they just don't concede to the vocal minorities who want to overthrow corporate decisions in the company and do things their way in their fantasy world. They've had some pretty horrific PR as evidenced by the EU twitter going crazy and whatnot but this has been blown completely out of proportion by the MM fanbase. I'm sorry if a company doesn't want to make another game that probably won't recoup development costs, from a franchise and mascot that's clearly lost his relevance in spades over the course of the last decade, I truly am, but no amount of anger and hatred towards a company will change that.
Since the Prototype was essentially done, Capcom could have released that at no extra cost to themselves, and gauged the performance of that relative to proceeding with production. They literally could simply release the prototype as originally promised, even if they publically state that they wouldn't go ahead full production anyway, and
make free money, but they aren't even willing to do that.
And it's not just anger and hatred, I think that's a simplification, although those elements are present when any fanbase has been unfairly lied to and misled, one of the key messages from the fans to the rest of the fans is to make sure that you're polite and supportive when contacting Capcom directly. Megaman fans in isolation may not be the strwa that forces Capcom to re-evaluate their approach, but most of us are also a decent segment of their Street Fighter fans, Resident Evil Fans, so on and so forth.
The real anger should be directed towards their absolutely stupid decision to show games that haven't been green-lit in the development process yet. Showing something that's volatile that, from the start, likely was not to produce a solid release anyways, is a terrible business practice that shouldn't be encouraged. Yes, companies are moving towards the model of showing off their game as early as possible to increase the amount of time in which they will garner interest and have opportunities to show off their product, but games being shown before they are even green-lit is crossing the line. This is my main issue with the MML3 cancellation.
Well at least we agree on this, although the fanbase wouldn't have been annoyed nearly as much if they hadn't neglected to mention that the project wasn't officially green lit in the first place.
At the end of the day, this paper tiger PR response from Capcom has only seemed to increase the likes and servbots and petition numbers. So that's good for MegaMan fans, and I hope Capcom continues to respond to us and give it publicity. Now in fact is the perfect time getmeoffthemoon to start a PR campaign aimed at contacting these sites directly.