They are short on money and they don't have the same kind of development budget as before. That's why games like SFV and MVCI are lacking at some aspects, not because Capcom suddenly become super greedy and don't want to spend money on development anymore.
In 2012 Capcom released 24 games In the last year they released 6 games
As Ono said, they also didn't have the money for SFV before Sony started somewhat funding the project to push their E-sport scene.
Not saying to financially support their games if they eventually turn out lackluster, just to be a bit more symathetic of why they turn out like that instead of spreading the "punish Crapcom for their greedyness" mentality, and overexeggerate the flaws of their othervise decent games. If their games flop that won't make Capcom "learn from their mistakes", that will just kill their franchises for good.
Joshua Smith
>we're not making as much money as we used to >lets make low quality products
Nathan Perez
I don't give a shit about character models, I have problem with the gameplay.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
Look at what they've done to Monster Hunter. They're killing their own franchise because they want the casual audience.
Blake Clark
t. Apologist
Samuel Wood
they are already making much less games
completely dropping development (because they couldn't make a proper big budget game) of some franchises also casues hatered towards the company, see: dmc
Bentley Jackson
>not because Capcom suddenly become super greedy >season pass scam bandwagon to sell games for $90 now instead of $60
Opinion discarded.
Blake Taylor
opening to a broader audience this suddenly is also probably a desperate attempt to make money. Still, most people way overexxeggerate how drastic these changes are.
Chase Miller
If they don't have fucking money anymore they could just stop losing money trying to get a wider audience and stay focused on their loyal fanbase.
Xavier Martinez
Their loyal fanbase will probably buy it anyway because you don't have much choice when a new fighting game comes out so might as well grab the other retards too.
Julian Hernandez
>capcom
Jayden Ward
tfw the only series they didn't fuck yet is MH
Eli Turner
12edford, is that you?
Nathaniel Wright
>ywn spank juri as her impenetrable sassy attitude comes crumbling down and she begs for you to stop in a whiny voice
Logan Evans
Big games won't be financially succesfull if you only sell them to 1 million people. If you sell it to 2 million the development costs will probably pay off but you still didn't made money.
A game like MonHun wouldn't appeal to westerners more than that without designing the game a bit more towards them.
Adam Scott
>whiteknighting a corporation jesus
Robert Martin
Do you know how economics works? When you're short on money, you don't make more elaborate products since that's just a bigger drain on finances especially if they fail.
Brandon Johnson
Nowadays consumers are jaded and cynical to most of the big companies of late They are as follows Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, ValVe, EA, Ubisoft, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Tecmo, and Comcept In the past they have made bad games in which before consumers praised most of their products with their money. Nowadays Consumers are more stingy buying products at sales and at a cheaper prices instead of purchasing on opening day or pre-order.
Rule of thumb to a savvy game player is that 3 to 7 months after release of a title. Sales tend to happen may they be 10% off or higher.
Michael Butler
>I'm going to whine like a faggot about optional things I don't have to buy
William Foster
Fuck off commie
Michael Hernandez
spanke girl
Anthony Collins
didn't they just recently release a resident evil movie? was that through some other company that borrowed the IP?
Isaac Stewart
Children are just cheap fucks in general and feel they deserve games at the lowest price possible and the idea of making a profit these days has been vilified to hell and back by retarded coffee drinking armchair socialists.
Dylan Thompson
Make shitty fighting games, make shitty money
Grayson Reyes
this
Capcom is loving money because of shitty practices. They deserve every nail in their coffin.
Chase Foster
Company who bought an IP license.
It would be incorrect to say Capcom is on the verge of going broke but a more proper way to describe their situation is downturn. Something most gaming companies are in these days due in part to the stinginess of new adult consumer base.
Christian Young
Nah B, everythang that happened to them fools is they own fault, nahmeen? They don't make shit for years while the industry moves on without em', they leave they flagships games to rot in a some shithole ether like some bustas, they let they fuckin' subsidiaries like Clover die n' shit, and then they release some halfass games while doing some shit business practices. Capcom's some perpetrators, and now even they know it. Them fools can rot in hell for all I give a fuck.
Eli Cook
>Capcom will die in your lifetime
What a time to be alive
Carson Lewis
You gotta look at it outside of the situation. The world as it is. Its shit. People are either getting richer or poorer. While I do agree that making a profit is good for some companies like SEGA which almost nearly delivers on Consumer friendliness and games in general (a few are shit but they have an decent track record) Not everyone could afford everything and as it is. Word of mouth, Friends playing games, Streams, Videos, Ads, and marketing are what makes a company grow into something more prominant.
If you lose trust in the consumer. Then your product might not fare well despite being a cult sleeper hit.
Liam Murphy
SFV is completely alright tho it had a bad launch but now it's just a good example of how people can overexeggerate a game's flaws if it belongs to a company they dislike.
Jason Martin
This is now a Juri thread
Colton Smith
>They are short on money and they don't have the same kind of development budget as before >this game game with 50 characters at launch >none of them recycle animations
David Torres
I read that in Sweet's voice.
Elijah Williams
Didn't help with the whole shit in a can Kickstarter that spawn Mighty Number 9
After that game released. People are getting the general gist that putting forth money at face value at a game that wasn't made isn't the brightest of all ideas.
Xavier Carter
Hopefully Konami joins them
Blake Perez
Not to mention butthurt nintendo drones spreading lies about the game
Parker Rogers
>capcom doesn't make big budget games for franchises that didn't sell well >those fucking dipshits, how do they dare
>meanwhile the thread is exactly about how they already don't have the proper money for developing even some of their more popular franchises
Adrian Nguyen
Quality and detail aren't the same thing. Just cutting corners doesn't excuse ugly character models and bad writing.
Samuel Reed
>They are short on money They're short on money because they created shit games and dumped their great franchises. Recently Capcom could have made a lot of money with the Switch and what do they release for it? Fucking Street Fighter of all things.
Jayden Brooks
>terrible netplay >terrible RQ system >no arcade mode >season passes >discourages playing defensivly >unbalanced characters
Nah, this game sucks as much as it did when it launched. It's not even a finished game. STILL.
Jack Perez
>They are short on money and they don't have the same kind of development budget as before are unironically saying that other studios who ship MUCH better fighting games are rolling in dough and are free to spend decades developing their games?
are you for fucking real
no excuses for hacks
Jordan Wright
You forgot to mention how shitty REVII is.
Jonathan Thompson
All people in all income brackets have a better quality of life than they did 20 years ago. These days people are up in arms because someone has more zeroes in their bank account than them which is childish as fuck. And yes, I agree that consumer friendliness is key to success, some people are making mountains out of ant hills (DLC) or just feel that they're entitled to a product at a lower cost simply because. It's a two way street here and both sides share blame.
Lucas Long
Street Fighter II for $40, for that matter.
Adam Cooper
>SFV is completely alright tho It has some issueswith gameplay (everyone knows about risk/reward on jump-ins, anti-air jabs being too strong, some silly balance decisions) I like how I can start SFV and get a match going in few seconds though. KoF online on PS4 was pretty much empty on release, and empty now, GG is "same 20-30 people in french lobby the game" and so on. SFV has players.
Jackson Thompson
Mighty Number 9 had nothing to with Capcom. That was an independent project by the Megaman Creator after Capcom gave him the boot.
Brody Hughes
Things like overtime exist along with pay scale for more experienced developers. Those are things that can cost a project cost to skyrocket if not checked
Jaxon Price
SNK's fighting games have been low budget since the PS1 era. It's pretty much how they stay afloat
Chase Lopez
>terrible netplay not perfect but definitely not terrible since the season 2.5 patches >no arcade mode just play fucking survival or player vs ai againts whoever you want. The arcade mode is literally just slapping 9 random matches againts each other and you can already do that. >season passes you can literally unlock shit for free without too much difficulty >unbalanced characters compared to USF4 sure, but compared to other fighting games it's still pretty good >discourages playing defensivly that's a real flaw >terrible RQ system the fuck does that mean
Luke Gonzalez
It's not completely alright.
The game still isn't fully functional. Literally some options in the menus don't funation.
The game play is canned and stale. They are still making costumes to milk idiots at 5 dollars a pop when the online while better after 2.5 still doesnt properly work.
One sided roll back still exists. Matchmaking is still bunk. Placing you with people across the ocean.
They finally got the players flag to show in lobbies. As of season 2.5 Of course the fucking ping bars still don't work though.
Story mode was a joke. Arcade mode still doesn't exist. ( literally rumored to be in super v aka season 3)
Don't pretend sfv is a good game. It's not bad everyone knows it
Jace Thompson
No but Capcom neglicting their other IP's like Megaman and choosing how to properly build ports of said games and ilk is bad practice.
Why would you have 2 versions of Megaman Legacy when you could just put all of said Megaman series in one game. Then X in the next. Value them at say $35 each.
Comcept had NOTHING to do with Capcom yes BUT the actions they did as to be of a Game Developer did not and as such hurt consumers in trusting the bigger companies.
People do not like how Games are becoming more of a Service in that you have to pay to play constantly as to say pay once and play it whenever and however til days of end.
Wyatt Watson
>People complain about SFV having season passes when the traditional Capcom business strategy was to simply just rehash the game altogether, add a few new tricks and characters, slap either SUPER or ULTRA to it and sell it again at full price
I don't know if all you are either just retarded or ignorant
Blake Peterson
by alright I meant that the game is neither great nor bad.
When people say it's a shit game you just know the only ratings they know about is "10/10 goty" and "fucking piece of shit".
Angel Brown
>They are short on money because they keep putting it into sucky content in the first place desu
Easton Jenkins
All points that arent problems in USFIV. The game before. Talk about two steps back
Luis Reed
The rumor is that they are literally putting out Super SFV for season 3. And I don't put it past them.
Christian Sanders
Because Megaman never drew in big sales numbers, not in the way Street Fighter or Resident Evil did. A sad fact of life is that Megaman was niche. As for the collection thing, that's classic Capcom, They've been doing that since the Playstation days.
Easton Mitchell
>They are short on money and they don't have the same kind of development budget as before
Luis Cruz
I wonder if Capcom is enough in the red to be bought by another company
Ayden Morgan
USF4 was also the 4th installment for SF4
I also agree that SF4 was better than SF5, but there is no need to overexeggerate the flaws of SF5, it's still a good/decent game just not as great as it's predecessors. Capcom was financially also much weaker when making SF5 than when they made SF4, still it's good to see that SF5 is still getting updated or that the updates didn't even slowed down, even though noone wants to buy the game because of all the shittalking about it.
Elijah Stewart
well, I was a loyal fan myself but they lost me.
Isaiah Jenkins
I hope they get bought out by Bamco
Dylan King
In all honesty, Capcom has made terrible games for years, it's just now that it's caught up to them.
Anyone remember Capcom fighting Evolution? They were still using Morrigans old DarkStalker sprite
Mason Roberts
>over 2000 employees >adding 100 employees every year since 2014 >building two of new development studios
>short on money
Is this new meme?
Daniel Scott
I would like it if Sega Sammy could acquire them like they did with Atlus
Better then them to be claimed up by Sony or Nintendo
Jose Martinez
Didn't those sprites in KOF 13 bankrupt them?
Owen Robinson
CFE didn't have Morrigan, but it still mixed Darkstalkers sprites with ones that really, really didn't match.
Hunter King
>DMC4 was the best selling game in the franchise even when it was half finished >THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR A REBOOT B A R V O A R V O
Evan Rodriguez
>recent years they released 4 times less games than any year 5-10 years ago >they are making desperate attempts at saving money with outsourcing shit and cutting corners with their games
>they just suddenly turned into super evil greedy bastards. They are also so stupid that they don't even develop games anymore because they want to keep the money for themselves.
Brandon Torres
Reminder: Crapcom fucked over every Megaman Legends fan by canceling MML3. Crapcom fucked over all Devils May Cry fan when they decided not to listen to the fans and went ahead with Donte's DMC.
Leo Taylor
Crapcom will never localize Ace Attorney Investigations 2. Crapcom will never localize Dai Gyakuten Saiban.
Robert Campbell
i like how they haven't even bother to change Ironman's proton canon.
i took one look at MvC:I roster and i can't believe people are going to pay money for so many return characters. THEN pay more money for dlc which will feature actual new comers.
.. wait street fighter.
Chase Hughes
Unlikely.
Brandon Ramirez
Yep. Capcom has been making money hand over fist lately but since old franchises have been neglected some fags are butthurt
Anthony Carter
Capcom has been treating it's customers like shit since 7th gen so they deserve to die.
Defending them is just beyond sad.
Landon Roberts
You should blame yourself for AAI 2 if you didn't buy the first game because its low sales is why they never localized the second.
Luke Butler
One thing that should never have been made a console exclusive was Monster Hunter 3,4,5. It just doesn't make sense when playstation has the established fanbase and way more playerbase right there. But they went ahead and made it nintendo exclusive for a long time. Sure it sold very well, but I have a feeling it could have sold a lot more if it wasn't exclusive to nintendo.
But whatever.... now it feels retarded that they are fucking over nintendo fanbase just to make World for everything but nintendo. Monster Hunter is a game that will sell well on any console, which makes no sense to suddenly make it exclusive to some and not available to others. Especially now that there is a established fanbase on sony and nintendo markets.
What the fuck is crapcom thinking?
Ethan Kelly
can you provide a source on that?
Lincoln Powell
>What the fuck is crapcom thinking? I've been asking that since 2009. It's amazing they are still around
Nicholas Torres
Despite the r/kappa spread negativity Capcom is still working on SFV and not abandoning it. There even seems to be plans to improve netplay since they made that new deal with Bamco.
Jose James
And Apollo Justice's low sales is why DD and the other one were only released oveseas digitally instead of a physical release. You fags whine for these games and when Capcom delivers you don't even fucking buy them
Aaron Peterson
More like they have one guy working on it
Jace Kelly
And people say company shills getting paid to promote their shit in Sup Forums don't exist...
Josiah Ortiz
implying reverse shills, paid to shittalk about a company don't exist
Henry Baker
Their revenue for the quarter is up too. If anything Capcom is doing good right now
Jaxson Phillips
Nice try Capcom shill
Noah Young
>If you don't hate on a company then you're a shill
Ok
Angel Edwards
I'm not a shill but I think Capcom deserves a second chance. They made millions of people's childhood awesome.
Jordan Robinson
They did it to themselves by destroying just about everything good they had.
John Cox
>muh corporate boogieman
You fags need to move to North Korea
Cooper Torres
Lost Planet was never good
Mason Lopez
Lost Planet 3 could have been good if Capcom handled the gameplay while Spark handled the writing/scenario. There's decent writing and characterization there, but it's wasted on a shit game.
Dominic Johnson
nice fresh memes from 2016, kappaturd
Samuel Gomez
Capcom pls
William Thompson
Their cancelling a group of Megaman games was an omen.
Liam Ross
It's been so long yet I still can't believe he's really dead.
Dylan Cruz
kekken shill pls
Alexander Ortiz
>They are short on money and they don't have the same kind of development budget as before. With all the nickel and dime bullshit they pull, they should have enough operating profit They keep making bad decisions and cutting corners and there's nothing more to it. This is coming from a die-hard Capcom fan.