Blazblue Cross Tag Battle Confirmed to Have Half of the Roster as Paid DLC

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>20 Characters to Start
>20 More Are Paid DLC
>Literally half of team RWBY are DLC
>Basically advertising a season pass already

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Strong Thread starters again, OP.
Here's your base roster, Sup Forums

And silhouettes

NO ARC SYSTEMS! YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! YOU KNEW WHAT THE FANS WANTED!

No justifiable reason for this other than corporate greed, nothing worth discussing about now.
Confirmed dead on arrival.

the only justifiable reason I can think of is that it was a transliteration and even that's a stretch

if it came out this month this wouldn't be that big a deal but it's still FIVE MONTHS OUT WHY NOT JUST PUT THEM IN THE GAME?

Not only is the DLC clearly made way before the game's release, it's also all fucking rehashed from previous games. Like, they can't even pretend that they spent a lot of time making this shit.

I'm pissed af over this but we've had 2 threads about it today. I don't think there's much else to be said until something new happens

ArcSys is the biggest fighting game swindler next to Capcom with their DLCs and rereleases.

Watch them re-use the exact same trailer for EVO Japan only with english subtitles and no DLC reveals nor corrections.

I found out about this late and saw no threads about it when I made this thread. What two threads?

the amount of rehashed material is still indeterminable as far as I know (don't keep up with every detail like I have DBFZ) since there could be various new things each character gets but that is still no excuse for half the roster and HALF the RWBY team not being in the game, seriously the Persona series and RWBY ones are the main things that made me interested in this game when it was announced

We actually had like 3 threads discussing this.

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I like P4 and everything, but why are they getting slots over the P5 cast? Just because they've had a game before and the devs are too lazy to make original characters?

>since there could be various new things each character gets
They don't, they just have their kits retooled. For example, command normals are weaved into auto-combo links.
There's also the one thread a few hours ago that didn't hit bump limit

Since I don't give a fuck about RWBY, I'm OK with all of it being DLC. I won't buy it and that leaves more of the base-game for characters I actually give a shit about.

IDK Tekken 7 has been pretty bad, but before this the distance between arcs and Capcom was astronomical but NOW? Team blue has seriously fallen from their pedestal

>Just because they've had a game before and the devs are too lazy to make original characters?
Yes

So they're actively trying to kill interest for this right? Arcsys has always had kind of scummy DLC tactics, but there's no way they sat at a table and were like "yeah, people are going to be happy about this" before announcing it. Especially this far out. If they waited a few months closer to release it would have at least given people more time to justify not canceling their pre-orders and shit by convincing themselves it was almost out so they may as well go through with it.

>Caring about Rwby

I'm hoping Mai makes it in via DLC

I'd rather P5 get their own fighting game to focus on them rather than making their first appearance in a crossover title

What distance? ArcSys is the same company that rereleased BB and GG a million times just for small changes.

we've seen several trailers and a lot of footage of the game in general, the existing characters don't have any new moves or animations, just the same movesets and a few repurposed ones (like exceed accels becoming regular supers). They also said the UNI sprites would have to be retouched to fit better among the arcsys ones but again we have yet to see any of that, right now they are simply french bread sprites copy pasted without any effort

basically the game has a base roster of 20 characters with only two of them being brand new. Add to that 20 paid dlc characters of which, again, only 2 are brand new, the other 18 are recycled

Is this the Marvel gs Capcom Infinite of 2018?

Crosstag is basically a farewell to their Sprite assets

And people unironically believed Arcsys could have saved the FGC on behalf of Crapcom.

>tfw there ends up being a RWBY character in every DLC pack
Emerald and Cinder when

Not a whole lot of fun designs here

No Adachi in the base roster, no buy

Yes

the fact that 6 DLCs are packs of 3 characters while the other 2 are stand alone makes it pretty obvious that the packs are just old characters recycled from old games, nothing new. And then the remaining two are obviously blake and yang

Pffft
In your dreams. If they were planning on having that many characters from RWBY, they'd have straight up made an entire game instead of having a crossover. You're getting the main four and maybe, just maybe one more character.

It's not just RWBY

Thanks. Had I have known, I wouldn’t have bothered with this thread.

Base game roster has been revealed fully already. It's everyone we know so far minus Blake who was revealed as the first DLC character.

So if your character hasn't been revealed yet they're either DLC or didn't make it at all.

I'm more disappointed with the other three rosters; I can kind of understand RWBY being so subpar, but the other ones are just really half-assed.

At least they made Blake look good. Its too bad she isn't her mom.

What a nice dumpster fire. I'm already thinking about saying something nice about MvCI.

Sigma was and still is the best part of MVCI

>people didn't lose interest from the first few trailers and when the movesets and controls came out showing everything was so simple literal babies could play it
>this is the straw that broke the camel's back

How did they pick this dumpster fire of a roster anyways? They couldn't even add a few more characters before going to DLC?

>paid DLC with half the roster broke the camels back
Gee, who would've figured you fucking retard.

My hype immediately died when I saw the controls. This was just confirmation that I shouldn't give a damn about the rest of it.
I was still hoping for some character interactions though but literally every announcement has brought something disappointing.

they could, but they didn't. Gotta milk dumb fans by selling 10 years old sprites as dlc

Since like 80% of the game is going to be re-used assets, production cost is probably super low meaning this is an obvious cash-grab they can churn out with no effort and still manage to bring in some profit even if it doesn't manage to break 10k in its first week. As much as people are outraged about the DLC, there's going to be some hardcore weebs who will still buy it in its entirety. Somewhere, someone out there is defending this and trying to convince people it's not a problem.

>Literally half of team RWBY are DLC
Just remove the RWBY characters.

The point is the game looked garbage regardless of the roster. Even if it launched with all 40 characters at release it was still going to be garbage gameplay wise.

But then they can't pretend they put some effort into it.

But that's not the case now is it? Just be glad Arcsys went full retard and BCTB will bomb.

>RWBY triggers Sup Forums so hard that they'd rather a game be 100% reused assets instead of have characters from it

>microtransactions: the game
kek, dead on arrival

>people pretending to be mad about this while half of all the characters, stages, and 98% of all costumes in SFV are DLC, with even more on the way
Never change, Capcbros.

There's absolutely no excuse for this bullshit, not only is the game months from release, but they already HAVE THE FUCKING ASSETS

Everyone is mad about fighting game DLC practices.
Big title fighting games are dead

And he was still DLC

Remove the waifubaits.

Creating a cross-over game is a mistake. Like FE Tokyo.

Here's the deal, shill. Aside from RWBY, 3/4ths of the game's cast already have their sprites simply exist, and they're going to make us pay money to play them in an already neutered game

No one is defending SFV but at least there you could unlock all the season pass characters with fight money which took like a few days at most if you did story mode and actually played regularly. Or if you were smart just waited for AE where they're all included from the beginning.

Jokes on you, I never brought SFV.

B-b-but Capcom. Atlesst street fighter gives you a chance to get characters free

>Half of RWBY behind DLC rather than being in base game
>Azrael and Es in vanilla instead of fucking Hakumen
>Half the cast behind DLC when the game is 6 months away

that's pretty shit

Who cares about DLC when best girls are already in the base game?

>waifufag defense armed and ready

Man no one played fucking Yukiko. Seriously who are they trying to fool?

I'M REAAAAAAADY
ARMED AND READY

This. Everyone mains Chie and she's fucking annoying. Fuck Chie mains.

this
I'm buying the game just to play Weiss

>people being surprised by a company with the nickname Arc Jew Works doing something jewish

Did you guys not play fighting games last gen? They were even worse than Capcom with releases for Blazblue and they even charged $5 per character for color pallet swaps

Literally this. The only reason people wanted to play the game is for the RWBY characters only. Knew RWBY was a mistake.

>fucking Hakumen and TAOKAKA have to be lucky enough to just be DLC
>Seth has to be lucky enough to be DLC
>P4's DLC characters are just gonna be the rest of the main party everyone expected to be in the game from the start

Yeah, but say they waited until a month left to announce this. First, people would be even more upset because it would be the last minute. Second, we have seen the full roster. People would start asking questions after a month with no character reveals, let alone five.

I try not to judge gameplay without trying it first
I didn't like the idea of a lot of what I saw, but I did like some of it, the tag combos and mechanics seem interesting and I wanted to see how so many different styles of gameplay could be fit together, even if they were heavily simplified and there was a decent chance it didn't work out.
This kills it though. Even if the game was good, I wouldn't be buying it with DLC practices this scummy. I'll happily take a risk on a game I might only get a dozen or two hours of enjoyment out of if I think the devs deserve it, but if the devs don't deserve support I'm not going to give them money. The only way I can possibly influence companies like Arcsys's decisions is by voting with my wallet, so I will.

>Character colors are equivalent to the actual characters
Also, name me a similar precedent where half the roster is locked behind DLC, where most of said roster are just RECYCLED SPRITES

You can see Seth in the silhouettes

come on guys aren't you all excited to pay money for a brand new character like arakune or carl

SFxT, probably the most famous example.

This isn't the first time a shitty cash grab crossover game has done this, just don't buy it and let Arc Sys die

That's the woke fire and ice duo.

I didn't buy SFV, but I don't care about costumes and stages and shit being DLC. If you have to jew about something, at least do it about non-gameplay stuff.
DLC characters can be acceptable if work on them starts and finishes after the release of the main game and resources that could have been better spend on the base game weren't dedicated to post-release stuff so they can charge you twice. But I haven't paid much attention to SFV so I can't say whether they're doing it right or not. Probably not though.

tfw paying for a new game and paying extra for dlc just to use sprites from 2008

on one hand yeah, its the right thing to do, on the other, if this game flops, there wont be nor a RWBY standalone, nor GGxBB.

Really, they were doing so well, hell, i could have accepted Team RWBY being the only RWBY charas.

who in the seven hells thought this was a good idea? Mori? the execs at Arcsys? Roosterteeth?

>who in the seven hells thought this was a good idea? Mori? the execs at Arcsys? Roosterteeth?
mori wanted to make a full RWBY game
RT most likely has no say in the matter
so probably arcsys execs

>who in the seven hells thought this was a good idea? Mori? the execs at Arcsys? Roosterteeth?

They know that the deviant art audience that watches RWBY will eat it up regardless if it's shit and the game costed them pennies to make since everything is reused

In SFxT's defense, and I can't believe I'm defending SFxT, every character did have to be made from the ground up and weren't just reused assets.

So why in the fuck are why getting this weird amalgamation of a game and not a BBxGG game? I can see that it’s easy for them since they have sprites for all these characters but the same could be said for a BBxGG game.

Are you me ? because you are absolutely right. It speaks ill of the game the way is simply played and then we got these literal who's joining the fucking cast simply because Mori has shit taste in waifus.

considering the potential of a real RWBY fighting game, it's pretty depressing that it turned out like this, only the main characters, half of them DLC, in a game where a giant chunk of the playerbase doesn't want them at all

I swear, people asking for BBxGG deliberately ignore every explanation given to them in every single thread this is asked.

It’s fucking stupid they could at least try to hide the laziness by doing P5 and not P4.

What's with you and the whole reused assets meme?

can someone explain the roster choices here; why are characters like es and azrael in over hakumen and litchi for example?

Now I'm even more intrigued by how much of a fuckfest the story mode will end up being considering most of the groups involved are pretty much incomplete.
>half of Team RWBY not here
>half of Investigation Team not here
>Gordeau just here by himself

>giant chunk of the playerbase doesn't want them at all
Damn right.

Because Guilty Gear is the flagship game of Arcsys now and they don't want to take away players from Xrd for a shitty team fighter

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i know the problems , and i i know that at the moment GGxBB is impossible to make,

The problem here is that if Blazcross flops, shitty DLC or not, Arcsys suits will simply say: NO! WE WILL NOT MAKE GGXBB, JUST LIKE BLAZCROSS, THIS GAME WILL FLOP AND WE WILL LOSE MONEY!!!

Should I buy UNI? These threads have peaked my interest. How easy is it to get into?

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Then don’t make it a shitty team fighter? It’s not fucking hard just make a one on one fighting game with both series’ rosters.

This is a fact
This is also true but at least she was sort of different in Ultimax thanks to the one shot Power Charge changes, in Arena people just played her like a reskinned Yu with Sweep > 5D setups
But really though, the character no one played was Marie.