Excuse me? How the community feels about SFV is the most negative thing about it? Not the bridge it burned last year with casuals during it's launch? Not the shit servers for a year? Not the madness inducing 50/50 gameplay? Not the input lag?
Out of all of that, you say the community's feelings are the worse thing surrounding the game? lol
50/50s have always been a part of SF. SF4 had tons of 50/50 setups yet there wasn't a peep about that shit being brought up the way it does now. Everything about the game's faults get overblown to the point where it just makes you hate yourself for even liking it. Its easily the FGC's biggest whipping post, and I am personally convinced that many pockets of the FGC would rather celebrate the game's demise (for a variety of reasons I don't wanna get into right now) over Capcom announcing tomorrow "We heard your cries. We are flipping the switch & everything wrong with the game will be fixed tomorrow."
Shit servers for a year? I'm sorry, but i've played almost all online fighters released in the last year, and i'd probably put SFV in the top 3, easily. I see this complaint continually being brought up but I just keep shrugging my shoulders to it cause its been working absolutely great on my end. Yes, there is server maintenance & downtime & outages when patches do launch which spikes the online userbase up for a day or so, but the moment they either spin up more servers to handle the stress or the numbers taper off a little? It works fine. And thats even before the CFN update, which definitely increased the speed by which I get matched up with opponents.
Yeah, SFV burned a bridge with casuals, there is no defense that the game didn't launch with an Arcade mode & intros + endings to them. Personally, it launching with a cinematic mode would've have done anything - thats not why people play SF nor is SF lore in any way engaging enough to make a campaign around. But we're wayyyyy past the point of the casual part of this discussion anyway - its not the first 6 months of release; this is the point where the competitive scene of the game is the overwhelming majority of users still engaging with the product. Happens with every fighting game release - having this plethora of casuals buying the game last February wouldn't change what is going on within the community today.
And at this point, the input lag is once again, fine. Its like, 1.5 frames off from SF4, but its a game built around the higher input delay regardless. Games like Tekken & Marvel have significantly higher input delays then SFV & no one is complaining in T7's case. These are just justifications to continually hate & shit on the title.
The community's feelings are absolutely the worst part about SFV, because it makes trying to engage with the community when anything related to SFV is occurring insufferable. I love the game. Its not a perfect game; there are gameplay issues (there should be a V-Canceling mechanic in the game) that should be fixed up, but it fixed all of my issues with SF4 that made me stop playing that game. And even though I didn't like playing SF4, I still watched it & engaged with the community and rooted for its success every step of the way. There are segments of the community actively trying to make the same thing impossible for SFV.
