Critical Edge: A Brief History of Banning...

[Malice]

Why even bother making a ruleset if we are just going to leave it up to everyone to decide for themselves? This two ruleset idea is even worse.

And yes, using a save file still leaves plenty of room for error and doesn't alleviate the need to actually check to make sure that a fucking custom character is up to specs. Most people don't even know how to copy save files properly.

The bonus stuff that is in SCV is to attract people to buy the game, not to play it in tournament, and going through all this effort and potentially splitting the community just because someone may want to use a custom character is ridicules.

Sack up and ban DJ. If there's a standard character that gets added, we can go from there.

 

[BLACKSTAR]

The 'banning Devil-Jin at majors' is a pointless decision [read: DUMB idea]. Either he's banned or not. People don't just pick what is 'perceived' as OP in the first couple of months. That stuff happens later on in a games life cycle. The only thing that will do is cause more problems with confusing rulesets(ESPECIALLY with the newcomers that we are all expecting/hoping for at tournaments).

As much as I dislike Tekken, I'd have to say that it takes awhile before players start bandwagoning a single over-powered character. In other fighting games, this is the same. In Marvel, you didn't see everybody hopping aboard the Wolvie/Akuma train until around 4 months in, though Justin Wong was winning a ton of events with them all the while. Phoenix and Wesker took half a year. In SF (Vanilla), it took a few months for tournaments to devolve into Ryu vs Sagat. An exception was made for Arcade Edition, but that's only because everybody already knew how broke the Hong Kong trio was since Japan was playing that version 6-months before the US.

I'm only taking tournament players tendancies into consideration,and SC5 will be no different. People play the characters of their choice until they have a sufficient amount of encounters with OP characters. THEN the bandwagoning thing happens.

 

[IdleMind]

Sack up and ban DJ. If there's a standard character that gets added, we can go from there.

Cannot emphasize this enough. This is not a character balance ban. This is a logistics ban. Give us a character, and we wouldn't even be having this debate.

Don't let anyone tell you this is about broken- because it isn't.

 

[damn-I-Suck]

Seems like you guys are in quite the predicament here. I don't envy the man who has to make a decision like this.

 

[acefrost]

I hope he is the most broken character ever created.