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Hoppy800
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Crapcom's desperate for money and relevance. Maybe if you didn't sentence BoF to death by making BoF VI a money pit, shoehorning on disk DLC, making Dual Destinies digital only in the US when we all know PW sells here, and killing off Megaman, you wouldn't be wanting to sue folks left and right to stay afloat.
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mdo7
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What the???
Capcom is sueing Tecmo Koei for patent infringement, so is Tecmo Koei going to countersue claiming Sengoku Basara copied of Samurai Warriors?? |
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mangamuscle
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So Capcom is doing the same as SNK, suing another company in the hope they buy them instead of dealing with a long court fight that might delay further installments of their hit series.
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Felicity dash
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I understand what you meant to say, but I'm pretty sure it's trial not trail. |
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terran3020
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i know there's some pretty dumb patents out there, but the controller vibrating when enemies are nearby?
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iloveturkey
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The last few BOF games have sold poorly. BOF VI is a new direction to see if the franchise is actually worth keeping around. You should wait to see how it does before you cite it as a reason in your argument.
Which makes them money, actually.
We do? They cited poor American sales as to why they skipped out on the spin-offs and made this digital only. Do you have secret information Capcom doesn't and would like to share?
The last few games only sold a few hundred thousands world-wide. The franchise is dead, let it go already. |
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Nionel
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Not to mention this saves time and harddrive space for those who don't want to buy the DLC, since it makes it so you don't have to download large updates and compatibility packs to continue playing the game online. I've never understood why people singly out Capcom for this practice, they weren't the first company to use this practice and they certainly aren't the only ones who use it either. |
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ZetaZaku
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So first they rip off Samurai Warriros, and now they sue Koei for copyright infringement? How the mighty have fallen. Man, instead of doing this shit, why not make a good game that would sell well.
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AsherFischell
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Importing old saves for new content and controller vibration when enemies are nearby? Are they serious? This is pathetic, even by Capcom standards.
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Apollo-kun
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And you know, I'm sure all of the people who backed MN9 would have bought a proper, new Mega-Man game. You know. Those people who helped fund it twice? Fully? Yeah. Would it have sold as well as, once again, some big-budget, over-hyped "Titanfall" or "Destiny" or "Call of Duty Black Op BroGhosts Warfare"? No. But it would have sold well within its own genre. Your argument that seems to patently defend the practice of games being all about making the most amount of money possible is exactly the type of thing that's wrong with the game industry. |
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Leland Lee
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I'm sorry, but this pitiful little suit will fail miserably. Which means that Capcom won't be giving you a raise. If anything, you might even be laid off. But fret not! That's a good thing, cause you'll regain your dignity back by not having to be the Mouth of Sauron anymore! |
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iloveturkey
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So, gamers have become so disillusioned that when someone asks them for proof of their egregious claims rather than joining in on the caveman-like mud-slinging they can only respond with that person must be an employee for the company. Remarkable.
No company, no matter how consumer friendly they are, is going to put out games which lose them money. AA sold low in America even by those niche standards. Especially when other handheld games, new IPs without a fanbase even, in the west can sell twice what they do.
Mighty No 9 was backed by 67,226 people. Mega Man, even at it's absolute lowest, sold more than 67,226 copies. Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge sold more than that. You people need to stop using Mighty No 9 as some kind of proof Capcom is dumb for axing Mega Man. It actually proves Capcom right when they can't even muster 67,226 people to care about their property. Mega Man in it's prime, the Battle Network games, could sell over 1 million copies. They weren't holding the franchise to Gears of Duty: Bro Warfare standards, they were holding it to it's own standards it set with previous installments of the franchise. 67,226, when the standard used to be over a million, is a sign of a decline that anyone can see. It's only a niche audience who cares about Mega Man still. Your problem you keep assuming is that Capcom is holding those games to AAA standards and that's why they're disappointed with sales. They're not. They're holding those games to their own standards, and they've effectively failed to meet even those. I hate AAA gaming too, but let's not use it as some boogeyman scapegoat for all the problems in the world. |
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silentjay
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No, Patent Infringement. Two completely separate things that are only loosely related. |
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Leland Lee
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Change your avatar. :< |
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Themaster20000
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I really think a lot of people look at the BoF series with rose-tinted glasses. Honestly of BoF III was suppose to be an indication of the series quality I really dont' want to see the rest of the series. Last edited by Themaster20000 on Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:11 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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