Looking And Waiting For Something Special?

Why would you guys openly object to an arcade release? Smart business decison or not what does it matter to any of you, they aren't using your money? Working on an arcade doesn't hinder anything. SC3 and SC4 came out and obviously they weren't perfect so theres no evidence that not working on an arcade produces a better game. As for online, same applies, it really has nothing to do with an arcade.

An arcade release may improve popularity in japan which is a good thing. It's better to try to raise interest for the game in other regions to make the game more popular on a global scale.

Obviously some people don't care but global interest is good for namco. For those who like to compete it helps too but bottom line it still helps namco so it hurts no one.

Arcade release also may help produce a more balanced console version.
 
If they waste effort and money on arcade, that's less time and resources they have to improve more relevant things. Also we now have patching, which almost completely replaces arcade testing anyway. There are benefits but their minimal at best when compared to the lost time and effort. As well it will delay the consoles release which is more of a set back than getting an arcade version early. Arcade will not happen, lets just make sure we give them good feed back. Maybe push for GGPO? I have a lot of faith in SC5. I feel they've experienced enough and heard a lot of the complaints with 4 to make online better.
 
I loved SC4 with all my heart, but its shitty netcode along with questionable balance decisions prevent me from picking it back up now. If SC5 places priority on those two issues first, i dare say it will be the perfect fighting game for me. Better than Street Fighter, Tekken, Blazblue and yes, even MvsC3 which i am insanely excited about. SC will forever have my heart but only if Namco displays some effort to keeping up with its competitors.

I still hope they dont have to scale back on the extra cool shit like created characters and such. I'd like to hope for more in that department too but, if sacrifices must be made due to time and resource issues or whatever, i'd rather they stick with what is truely important for a fighter to function properly.
 
An arcade first seems to me very important for the future a fighting game. Tekken has one, BlazBlue, SSF4 and so on and so forth. A good number of the Asian countries not just Japan play these games on Arcades, most notably SKorea...the center of esports or televised gaming. Because of this T6 was at WCG this year...the World Cyber Games beat out any other Gaming Tournament on the planet, they're the world cup of gaming.

SC4 did very well in the US, but in Europe and Asia Tekken 6 won out. The success of SC isn't simply going to rely on good balanced gameplay. We have to get that respect from other communities and one sure fire way is to get that arcade release. Namco wants numbers, that's all it cares about remember that, just because SC is popular here in the USA mostly as a casual game doesn't mean it does just as well in other regions.

Hope for an arcade release, hope for a wii version, hell hope for a PC version. Whatever gets Namco that money to take our game just as seriously.

In addition: I would remind everyone that has made the failure of SC3AE argument. SC3 was already a failed game, the arcade version was so badly timed, and it had multiple version released.
 
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