We just feel like we just got forced with the double dip..why release Ultimate if you were going to improve on it not even a year later? We should have skipped straight to UMVC3X (lol at those letters) as opposed to making us drop $40 along the way
I guess you could say that. Since the turn around between MvC3 and UMvC3 was so short, having an update come out only 7 months or so after that seems like too much too soon. But at the same time, it's DLC. Like, actual DLC. Not models and data hidden away on the disk, or (I'm assuming) stuff that was just picked out and sealed off for a later profit. If they're going to follow any kind of release schedule, it seems to me that it would be better to put this stuff out as soon as it's finished, rather than sit on it for a few months to make it seem like they've been working on it for longer than they really have. Besides, can you image how much worse the reaction would have been if we knew that Capcom had more content planned, but held off on releasing it because wait I'm setting up another Mega Man Legends 3 harangue-fest scratch that
I dunno, I guess I'm just surprised by the initial reactions on the first page. I know that not everyone who boasted about avoiding UMvC3 in this thread has posted about the subject before, and they've each got their reasons for criticizing the short amount of time between each version of the game. But it's like people just skimmed the title and fired off a post. Hell, since Niitsuma left that tweet, it's a safe bet that something like what was posted in the OP is in the works, but even before that little bit of information was known, people were posting as if it was officially announced. This isn't exactly like the '90s when Capcom put out tons of revisions. This is much more like Arcade Edition, but if it turns out that people can play against the same pool of players with or without the DLC, then it's already an improvement.
I can't even really write about the topic coherently, to be honest; I'm getting agitated at the implication in some posts that the entire genre is tied to Capcom's output - as if every other developer on earth goes into hibernation whenever Capcom gets burnt out on making fighting games - and it's starting to get to me. I'm just going to stop before I make an outright fool of myself.