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9 months later, Street Fighter V has finally shipped (incl digital) 100K more copies
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Polygonal_Sprite
Gold Member
Thanks for the replies guys. I'll probably hold off until it gets a bit cheaper then.
It's good and it's dirty cheap right now, i paid it 19.99 last week, first season pass included in the price and i already have almost enough fight money to buy all upcoming season 2 characters.
stan423321
Member
Well I apparently don't know what I'm talking about, but Rainbow Six Siege is not only in a different genre altogether, it's not 1 vs 1. Teams mean you don't have to have perfect matchmaking to make the online game enjoyable, even if one team dominates the other it's not just you who failed.
dreamcastmaster
Banned
That was added months ago.
Oh geez, had no idea. That may change things for me then
Strangelove77
Member
I dread how they're going to fuck up MvCI.
Megatron
Member
Wasnt that a price error?
Maintenance
Member
If I had legs like this game I'd rather use a wheelchair.
bangbang i'm a timpani
Banned
i mean its a given at this point
JayWood2010
Member
Hmm, that surprises me. Thanks for letting me know.
Rabid Dwarf 76
Member
It happened multiple times.
It was around the same time that Urien & the Missions (challenges that net you Fight Money) came out. It was kinda necessary to do some of the Missions without fighting online.
To be clear, there is still no arcade mode.
The fuck-up is probably gonna be no X-Men/F4 characters at launch, which is likely Marvel's fault.
Call me when it's all the characters, not just S1 or whatever season they are on. $30 would be a dream, considering that with regional pricing what you talk about is $80 on Steam for me.
I like KI :x
But yeah, as someone who loves SFV, I still can't believe the game bombed so hard.
Holy crap, lol
Infernostew
Member
Pokemon is a lot more popular than Street Fighter.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
It's not going to be "all the characters" for several more years. I don't know why you'd insist on thinking of "completeness" in these restrictive terms when it comes to a fighting game. If you can get 22 characters for 30 or 40 bucks (which you can during any sale) is that not a reasonable value proposition?
I feel you on the regional pricing, but I spent 70 CAD on the base game and have put 260 hours into it. With one character. It's hard for me to sympathize with arguments about lack of value for SFV, or any fighting game.
Do we know how many people are still playing Pokken, though?
dreamcastmaster
Banned
Wow, I didn't know this. Pokken is more expensive too.
Pokemon is will forever be more popular than street fighter, and is a section to themselves at Nintendo that runs its own licensing branding and toys section because how goddamed big it is.
Pokken or Smash are not good comparison points because those things are a bit too huge in terms of potential reach.
For a mainline Street Fighter game? We consider that atrocious.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
If you plan to play it online its great bar a few niggles (battle lounges seem to suck if you arent in USA or JAPAN for example). But you can easily get caual and ranked matches.
If you only want to play single player then I am not sure I would recommend it. Its better than launch however. It has the following:
Story mode - personally dont think its very good. each fight is a different character so you dont get used to using anyone. Its one round and starts so fast you arnt even ready for it to happen half the time. The story itself is pure garbage and not even in a good way. Well accept Zangief. He is genuinly funny / entertaining in this.
pre-story modes - each character has a mini story that takes place before the main story mode. However its 2-4 super easy 1 round matches with kinda crappy art boards with voice overs inbetween
Survival mode - also kinda bad. Has a nice idea where you can spend points between rounds for buffs (power increase, life recovery etc) but there is no endless mode and the AI ramps up in a really bad way. For example medium is 30 fights long and is stupidly easy till about the last 3 fights when the AI can go mental on you.
Trails - I like these and always have in fighting games. 10 Combo challenges for each character.
Basic Vs AI mode - Its bad though as you choose a character, opponent etc and its just that one fight.
Still no arcade mode but its meant too be coming at somepoint as well as some other mode.
However if you go through all that your looking at 10-20 hours of single player stuff depending on skill. Some chars trials I got through in 10 mins, others an hour. Depended on how hard that chars trials are and how drunk I was. Also each easy survival takes about 10-15 mins while normal is more like 30-45 mins a character.
However I think the gameplay is really great and have been playing this game on and off since release. I say on and off but I have spent longer periods of time playing it than not. Before this game I had played MKX for a few months and that was the first fighting game to get me back into what was my fav genre when I was younger (so like 15-20 years). Now thanks to this game its my fav again and I cant seem to get enough.
I really hope they work out the issues.
family_guy
Member
Just cut your losses and focus on Marvel for the immediate future. Then take some of the stuff that worked from Street Fighter V and make Street Fighter Alpha 4, with at least as much content as 3.
Obliterator
Member
The amount of games that sell more than 100k over their first 9 months post launch is enormous and way too long to actually post.
The answer is the vast majority of AAA games
Harmondale
Member
Bought the game some week ago, liked it at first but have already dropped it.
Reasons: Survival mode was god awful crap. Difficulty spikes at the last levels...easy grind Before that.
Wished I had bought naruto instead of this game. Cant justify to throw Money on Another fighting game for awhile..
Reasons: Survival mode was god awful crap. Difficulty spikes at the last levels...easy grind Before that.
Wished I had bought naruto instead of this game. Cant justify to throw Money on Another fighting game for awhile..
They already confirmed again very recently that they're sticking with SFV until 2020 (as originally planned). Ditching SFV entirely wouldn't end well for the FGC, seeing as it's the biggest fighting game competitively.
Doctrine Dark
Member
No, it isn't. Not with the way Marvel is working closely with all of their licensed games nowadays. They're also looking at the Esports side of things, so the last thing they'll do is allow Capcom to release the game in a pitiful state. The Producer of Infinite even made it a point to mention that the game will be "feature rich" on day 1 of its release. I'm sure it won't have the same issues SFV had at release. Good netcode is a must, though.
Dead End Irony
Member
I'm still trying to figure out why they put out a season pass, but they haven't announced the characters included. I'll admit I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff, but is that normal for season passes?
If the game had a better pricing model or the content to justify is price tag, it DEFINATELY would have met is sales goals.
To maintain the surprise, probably. The only reason they were up-front about the Season 1 Character Pass was because the identity of the characters were already leaked by dataminers.
lucebuce12
Member
It's not uncommon for the actual content to be detailed but not shown which in this case is characters with premium costumes.
But it's been over a month since the release of the previous character and there is no schedule nor any details regarding the characters (other than they've never been playable before) nor any details as to when we can actually expect an announcement.
But tbh, that's kinda stupid when we know that they're all new characters.
Megatron
Member
Twice, right? Both for just a few hours. I think those were price errors.
Varies as some games choose to be transparent, but in most cases its part of the marketing roadmap given these things are meant to draw attention to the product over the long-term.
Spoiling the surprise upfront essentially curtails potential interest during the staggered release milestones for each new piece of content. On the flipside, this is putting a real strain on consumers to spend money blindly and greatly limits the short-term gains beyond the dedicated fanbase.
Enoght that it is fighting a good fight in the evo player choice with Marvel 3
You know what does not have a huge potential reach ?
The console that has Pokken.
Ps4 has more than 50 million consoles (december numbers) sold and it is still selling like cupcakes
The WiiU died at 14 million.
That is 36 million people MORE owning the console WITHOUT COUNTING PC USERS.
The Lone Dragon
Member
Actually, SFxT took several years to reach 1.8 million.
And, SFxT reached 1.5 million SLOWER than SF5 did (SFxT took a whole year, SF5 took less than a year), which means SF5 is doing better than SFxT in the same time period. Also, SF5 is already planned to have longer support than SFxT, so higher sales than SFxT are likely.
Also, DLC is a large part of SF5's marketing plan. If no one knows how that's doing (and you guys don't), no one truly knows how well SF5 is doing. The CPT bundle that everyone described as 'absurd' sold WAY better than any of you expected. I'd imagine the regular DLC is doing pretty good.
Because lots of companies do the exact same thing?
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
I totally lost track of this game shortly after release. Have they announced the second round of DLC characters yet? Any love for my main Sakura?
Season 2 already started, though it's only Akuma & a bunch of new characters. As of right now, the released DLC characters are...I totally lost track of this game shortly after release. Have they announced the second round of DLC characters yet? Any love for my main Sakura?
- Alex (Street Fighter III: New Generation)
- Guile (Street Fighter II: The World Warriors)
- Ibuki (Street Fighter III: New Generation)
- Balrog (Street Fighter II: The World Warriors, First Playable in Street Fighter II: Championship Edition)
- Juri (Super Street Fighter IV)
- Urien (Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact)
- Akuma (Super Street Fighter II Turbo)
lucebuce12
Member
I totally lost track of this game shortly after release. Have they announced the second round of DLC characters yet? Any love for my main Sakura?
Second season has Akuma (who's already been released) and 5 brand new characters. Brand new in the sense that they've never been playable before and have never shown up in a main entry Street Fighter before (pre-street fighter 5).
family_guy
Member
What kind of money do they stand to gain from the competitive scene for SFV? If they focus their resources on making a game that can sell 3+ million copies, that's better for the competitive scene anyway.
But letting SFV die would hurt the FGC in the long-run, especially when MvC never really was a headliner for fighting game tournaments (it's big, sure, but it's always played 2nd string to Street Fighter). It'd be the equivalent of ripping the foundation out of a building. It's not like they can go back to USFIV, which is more-or-less dead outside of Japanese arcades.
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
Thanks for the update. If I only wanted Ibuki, I could use the in-game currency system to purchase just one character, right? Is the amount required within reach for a casual player?
Yes, & you can easily afford her with Fight Money by just beating the existing Character Stories. That said, I should note that Urien & Guile are two of the best characters in the game right now (in terms of tiers).
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Yikes, uh that's pretty fucking awful.