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Fucks sake, I can't stand saint cola commentary. Half the current fgc commentators are straight trash, everybody's trying to be the next yipes while having none of the wit or the charm the man himself has

I forgot all about how rapid and quick SF6 matches can be when we're not interrupted by esports shit and ad breaks every 5 fucking minutes

Jesus punk just folded in the finals set. What the hell happened after he played so convincingly well against Tokido?

Don't worry they'll use it for Super Street Fighter 6 in a couple of years

I mean both CEO and CEOTaku are still going fine Combo Breaker is massive every year Stunfest died because of shit production and they kinda moved away from twitch to some French stream platform Can't comment on NCR Canada cup had a sort of implosion because of organisational issues and the whole lapchi crypto drama

You guys are forgetting that while esports objectively hurts FGC events, if it collapses as a now integral part of the genre - it completely kills international competition even at majors. Nobody is going to spend thousands of dollars to travel across the Atlantic ocean for 2-3 days to come out with nothing and only lose out while not being compensated by the sponsor. If anything it will force a transition to where most fighting game tournaments will become unviable to support and the genre completely transitions into online outside of REALLY big events like EVO, CEO, UFA, Combo Breaker. And online tournaments fucking suck

Capcom really don't want people to watch capcup The event itself is spread over like 10 days, LCQ is taking an entire weekend for some reason, the main bracket itself kicks off on a WEDNESDAY when every single major event is usually during the weekend, and to top it all off there's no announcement or a reveal taking place, apparently not even for the season 2 patch But hey million dollars amirite

Don't see anything wrong with it Release season 2 patch Observe feedback Make adjustments Drop Akuma and another balance patch before new CPT season kicks off It's much better than waiting another fucking year if the Capcom Balancing strikes again

Yeah and it's shit. Granted Tekken is also doing a one char per time of the year release but at least it had a roster twice the size of SF6 at launch Imagine they don't even tease Akuma in any way and conclude a CPT season finale with a fucking Ed trailer lmao

Just a reminder there's the Topanga Charity Cup for SF6 taking place right now with over 600 teams of 5 entering the competition, they're gathering the donations for and raising awareness about the relief efforts towards fixing the damages caused by the earthquake that took place in Japan recently

So Akuma is in April or may for sure then Launch was in early June, Rashid in late July, Aki in mid October, Ed in February. Seems the gap is roughly 2-3 months between characters

Season 2 will kick off immediately after CPT finals with a big balance patch. They don't have to release Akuma alongside the balance update. In fact it's even better because if they fuck up some of the S2 changes Capcom can either roll those back or make further adjustments in April-May for the Akuma patch, kinda like what NRS are doing for MK1 since launch I'm assuming the 2024 CPT season doesn't start until EVO Japan and Akuma will drop a week or two before then

So far: - MK1 = 6 charas / year - T8 = 4 charas / year - SF6 = 4 charas / year - GBVSR = 5-6 charas / year UNI2 likely won't get another 1-2 characters until the next major revision (which depends on whether Melty receives more support or not) KOF has no news about S3 yet DNF probably dies after its last planned DLC character Nothing major is coming to FighterZ Samsho is done too

Remove the gem system from xTekken and suddenly it's a great fighting game

Capcom regretting the character choice so much they're not even hinting at his release lmao Even they know people only want Akuma and couldn't care less about some blonde bitch boxer boy

We really need to talk about the massive issue that Street Fighter has with its generational shifts Like they had Ryu for first two games. Then they go back and make Ryu young while introducing the supposed next gen with Sakura who pretty much fangirls over him so much so self-teaches ki manipulation and the basics of ansatsuken. Then we go into SF3 and they move the timeline like 20 years forward whuoe introducing the next generation with Alex but don't do shit with the guy Then we go BACKWARDS again to SF4 and they introduce the supposed next generation with Abel but don't actually do shit with the guy Then we move a little forward with SF5 and we get three "next generation" characters with Rashid (protagonist of the story), Alex (literally appears in story for 5 seconds and doesn't do anything else) and Luke (introduced at the very end of game's life) And now we have SF6 with Luke taking the backseat role of teaching people martial arts while not really being involved with the story much, that's left up to your player character, Bosch and Li Fen So who's to say when we reach SF7 Capcom won't try to replace Luke with someone else again? They're just going back to the good ol bum ass Ryu and the ghost of Bison somewhere in the background waiting to come out the shadows

Let's not pretend like it's just Capcom Every fighting game developer has a contingency plan of "people don't like a character - make him a waifu"

Shit that's a really good looking Paul, just missing the skyscraper hair

I'd be fine with a guest or two from another FG franchise in 6 if the seasons were larger. At 4 faces a year and the uncertainty of future passes? Nah, each slot is way too valuable and if it's a chara I don't care about personally that's another 3-4 months of waiting for the next roster addition

Corona was 3 years ago but we're still feeling its impact today Worst decade ever

MK has open mic voice chat in online matches, I guarantee you'll meet some nasty mfers in there

Luke is definitely getting sent to the Hague for his warcrimes next balance patch

That's funny because I'm completely opposite. I find 4 very fun to watch but not so much play. I don't know if it's the correct term but that game possesses some element of "jank" why is why even borderline Noob matches can be still entertaining, like the legendary Ghandi vs FSP fight. No other game in the genre has that

Cracker jack, balrog and dudley clear

Oh and yeah happy new 2024 boys