So, @Sajam is boycotting EVO. You all should as well. Saudi is a Trojan Horse. They will eat the FGC from the inside. Support your locals. Support regionals. Don't contribute to sportswashing, global acceptance of one of the most corrupt govt's on earth. If you do you're a pawn!

HiFightニキのCAPCOM社長インタビュー翻訳に海外から「CCのPPVが海外で売上が弱かったのは時差が原因のワケねーだろ」とめっちゃ怒りのリプついとる…まぁそれはそう

Don't think it's hard to understand: - It costs more - Not grassroots because of the buyout - There's a moral conflict for some people about supporting the people who own the event - Timing is way worse than it was before - Much better alternatives (grassroots events, other EVOs)

"Sagat has a good drive rush when speed/movement should be his weakness" We forgetting that he could zoom across the screen almost 2 decades ago? 😂 EX Knee was pretty much the original drive rush...

So, @Sajam is boycotting EVO. You all should as well. Saudi is a Trojan Horse. They will eat the FGC from the inside. Support your locals. Support regionals. Don't contribute to sportswashing, global acceptance of one of the most corrupt govt's on earth. If you do you're a pawn!

I refuse to believe that this is really what the people at Capcom think is the reason. Because if this is TRULY what they think, then they are insanely out of touch, and will most assuredly never understand the actual playerbase of the game. Very bad look for Capcom to say this.

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

It wasn't inexplicable, it was a tradition going back to the first Capcom Cup. Capcom had offices in San Mateo, CA, in where Combofiend worked as SF4 community manager in 2012. The Cali SF scene was very strong, had 2 majors (Norcal and SoCal regionals) and it made sense for the era to have the finals there. Now Covid killed the west coast Majors, and Capcom didn't offer to help with rekindling it. I was at the first qualified CC, 2014, at the Warfield in San Francisco. A small theater and the atmosphere was electric, to see players like Daigo, Momochi, Xian, and PR Rog so close and personal. The crowd was amazing, full to the brim, with no lack of attendance or interest. Ono took the stage after grand finals to make his trademark announcement speech. A whole crowd photo was taken and we did a shoryuken. It was peak community. We even had a performance by the Mega's, and DJ iPad (A_Rival). Now that Capcom has yanked CC away to Japan, yes, the attendance is strong. But keep in mind, they claimed "20,000 visitors" when in reality, that sumo arena only has 11k seats. It's a marketing trick because they meant 20k across all ~3 days of the event, not seated at once. Their quest for growth makes perfect sense from a business point of view, but the community still doesn't really benefit from it - case in point, they made the CC stream a PPV now. They tried to make it $40, bundled with SFL, but the community called them out on that and they backtracked. After 15 years of being free, quite inexplicably.

Since I was told more EVOs is good for the fgc and we should ignore competitive accolades and tournament prestige which is what it was founded on. Introducing EVO Front Yard EVO Back Yard EVO Neighborhood EVO Sidestreet EVO Down the Street EVO Around the Corner EVO Back Road EVO Out Yonder EVO Around the Way

While cost might be one of the main factors, I can't help but think EVO destroyed itself by diluting across multiple regions. Then they started adding all this noise of EVO awards, etc. While its great for other regions, the main event got rocked. RIP

Just clarifying (because i used a colon instead of a period), his quote from the AMA was: "I grew a large FGC presence onto their [Twitch's] platform, organized and ran mutiple events, “parties”, various FGC ideas, concepts, blah blah blah." "And keep in mind, Twitch originally was a free thinking, creative environment to do cool s***. They didn’t have to answer anyone when I was there initially. Money means they are owned now. When you are owned, you have no freedom. Just an illusion of the concept." and relating to Capcom: “I had proved the concept that a CPT Centered talk show, Capcom Pro Talk, was something the community needed. After doing it 2 years Capcom told me it was a waste of time as it didn’t generate them any money (their costs for this were $0). This is what led me to kill the show. I spent money out of my own pocket to bring cool s*** to y’all but they didn’t appreciate that so f*** them.”

Beautiful fortune teller.

Please consider not making the random color a requirement for ordering FDM. One advantage of 3d-print for the consumer is the customization. Random defeats that purpose. In your own words: "...the adoption of 3D printing technology allows for a wide range of color options."

Put the pricing up then lose 50% of the players 🤔

I’m cool with this game having a long life span. But we will need some new toys such as new mechanics or additional moves. Toning down of slop is essential. I’m looking at you Mai OD fan etc. New stages, costumes and FT3 pools on the CPT circuit and we got ourselves a game.

Wait a second... He called them "new customers" LMAO Not even players? or fans?

Under Ono we got: - system mechanic improvements every season - way more characters - balance patches that actually mattered - more communication with the community - DLC costumes in droves - Character launch on the DAY of Capcom Cup (surprise announcement), or at least reveal trailers at major tournaments now we got: - total lack of system changes - only 4 characters / year - balance patches that are the bare minimum, symbolic basically - no communication except random tweets here and there - characters only have 3 costumes after 3 years - characters launch on random days, not aligned with any hype events/tournaments.

It’s interesting, because I am young and all my younger friends (25 and under) we are all interested and play classic characters like Ryu, Guile etc. That pattern repeats in the young high level competitors. The newcomers don’t really interest me in their designs at all.