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NEWS: Blazblue: CentralFiction Fighting Game Reveals New DLC Character Trinity Glassfille

Would honestly love to see more things like this. Update the older, classic, good games with new characters and stuff rather than putting out newer entries in a series. The advent of DLC should have made recurring releases like fighting games obsolete when you can just add new characters and updates to them.

But, at the same time, I also have to question how many people are really still playing a game 9 years after the fact? Probably just a personal thing, but I feel like if a game has not have a character release in 9 years, it probably also hasn't had a story update, likely hasn't had any feature updates, probably no QoL updates... at that point, you'd probably be better off as an IP holder thinking up a new game and running with that, rather than leaning on a decade old game and hope that a significant enough chunk of the original player base is hyped enough to jump in and start playing again (because I highly doubt they had a robust number still playing all this time with nothing new being added to the game). Not many games can do the TF2 thing and just hold a rabid base for seemingly forever. But again, that might just be my own biased view. I honestly don't know a ton about Central Fiction to know how well it's held up this past decade.

But, at the same time, I also have to question how many people are really still playing a game 9 years after the fact? Probably just a personal thing, but I feel like if a game has not have a character release in 9 years, it probably also hasn't had a story update, likely hasn't had any feature updates, probably no QoL updates... at that point, you'd probably be better off as an IP holder thinking up a new game and running with that, rather than leaning on a decade old game and hope that a significant enough chunk of the original player base is hyped enough to jump in and start playing again (because I highly doubt they had a robust number still playing all this time with nothing new being added to the game). Not many games can do the TF2 thing and just hold a rabid base for seemingly forever. But again, that might just be my own biased view. I honestly don't know a ton about Central Fiction to know how well it's held up this past decade.

Fighting games are a bit of a difference beast in that regard. I mean, people still do tournaments for Street Fighter 3rd Strike which came out in the late 90s. Granted, Blazblue was never as popular as Street Fighter, but who knows? Guilty Gear came back with a bang after being dead for about the same amount of time.