Originally posted by: I4AT
If this is about viability rather than money, what's their excuse for not patching all of this into the PC version? The standard edition of the Witcher can be patched to the Enhanced Edition for free. The Enhanced Edition can then be patched to the Director's Cut version, also free. Blizzard has been updating Diablo 2 and Starcraft for the past 10 years, D2 is getting the 1.13 patch soon even though D3 has been announced and in development for quite some time. Some companies reward customer loyalty, others are only about the dollars.
New characters and stages or not, the added content is not going to be too large to simply patch in, and anyone who believes that is fucking delusional. This is a fighting game, it's simply a few new models fighting on static backgrounds. Look at Fable II, it's being broken up into 5 episodes and released over XBL. The first episode is 2GB in size, there are several multi gig demos available for download. Whatever Capcom has planned for Super SF4 it can be distributed digitally, I guarantee it.
Street Fighter 4 never even got lobbies, something that should have been in the game from the start. They had plenty of on the clock time to whip up alternate outfits for each character and charge for those though. But I understand, those take a lot of time, money, and man hours to develop, otherwise there'd be hundreds of freely available community made ones.
They're bringing back Dee Jay and T. Hawk for fucks sake. How many people asked for them, like 12? I was surprised that Fei Long, Gen, and Rose even made their way in. And I'm sure Rolento will be one of the add ons, because 15 people asked for him on the Cap boards. These characters were hardly ever played in their original games and now all of a sudden "the fans" are asking for their return? gtfoh. New characters I don't mind at all, when SF4 was announced I hoped it'd be an entirely fresh roster, but I didn't mind that it ended up SF2+ because it was something new to play. Now they're shattering the community a year after its release.
I didn't wanna get involved in this debate at first, but I see all you guys jumping on people who said they aren't happy with a new release when nobody is trying to convince you not to buy it. We simply said we weren't interested, we'll be voting with our wallets, and those of you who support it will be voting with yours. I think it's fine that some people don't mind, but you all seem so butt hurt that we don't share the same view. One thing I don't believe is opinion however, is that this can be done via DLC.
This isn't 1993 and we aren't playing on 16-bit consoles running cartridges. Most people didn't go out and buy every revision of SF2 like you guys are claiming either, by the way. Back then arcades were still the most popular format, and it wasn't a big deal when a new edition of SF came out cause the investment in new machines lied with the arcades, not the players. This is the online age, I don't own 7 different Guilty Gear games, I own one, X2 #Reload because it had online play.
The update can be done via DLC, and it can be done free of charge. Capcom is a very large company, one of the biggest in the industy, SF is one of the most popular franchises in the world, and obviously SF4 was very successful or they wouldn't even be thinking of another. You say they're doing us a favor, I say they're doing us a disservice and fingering the asshole of everyone who paid for the original. They'd be doing us a favor by patching the game for free with things that matter like improving netcode, adding lobbies, and new characters if any. They'd still be doing us a favor by charging for new content as DLC so the rest of us have the option of not having to pay for returning characters that nobody ever bothered to play in the first place, and the community wouldn't have to be split. Some of us don't care about the stages we play on, the outfit our character is wearing, or the music that plays in the background and we shouldn't have to pay for that shit.
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