Is this game very dead?

[Magnadeus]

I keep hearing that this game is very dead and almost no one plays it anymore online. is this true?

[Shizuma]

It is unfortunately yes. If you find a friend to play with though, netcode is extremely good and game is fun.

[MiKowaii]

Every now and then I'm able to find a room/fill a room, but yeah it's pretty much dead and ranked match wait time is very long.

[unclassified]

Originally posted by Shizuma:

It is unfortunately yes. If you find a friend to play with though, netcode is extremely good and game is fun.

what lead to this situation when the netcode is fine?

[mdizzbx]

Originally posted by unclassified:

Originally posted by Shizuma:

It is unfortunately yes. If you find a friend to play with though, netcode is extremely good and game is fun.

what lead to this situation when the netcode is fine?

Every update to the game only dropped when a character came out or was a small hotfix from before or after a tournament. Marketing was also just about non-existent.

[Ghost]

The problem was clearly the gameplay itself.
The game died in 1 month despite getting attention from the largest fgc youtube channels.

I don't think any number of updates with character balances would be enough to keep a game that dropped dead after 1 month with a huge hype. The price probably didn't help either.

[Amateur Asian]

this game didn't die, it was killed

[Tyrone Biggums]

Originally posted by BasuRAI:

this game didn't die, it was killed

no no they uhh just fell down the stairs yeah thats it

[Mallangs]

the game died cause the updates were extremely bad. the community is asking for nerfs so that a DP cannot 1 shot kill you if you geuss wrong, and istead of nerfing it they litterly buff it. its the most baffling thing ive seen in a fighting game.
the developers have no clue what a fighting game is.

[garethxloh]

Originally posted by unclassified:

Originally posted by Shizuma:

It is unfortunately yes. If you find a friend to play with though, netcode is extremely good and game is fun.

what lead to this situation when the netcode is fine?

modern fighting game players find out the amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if a fighting game was made like the good old days

[Taiga]

Originally posted by garethxloh:

Originally posted by unclassified:

what lead to this situation when the netcode is fine?

modern fighting game players find out the amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if a fighting game was made like the good old days

No one liked that back then either. But everyone had to shut up and eat it up because there was literally no other way to go about it than wait for the devs to release a new game version. That's why almost every Street Fighter entry had like 20 versions. Online updates were not a wide spread thing until the mid to late 2000s (2005-2010 or so). As before that Microsoft and Sony charged quite a lot for each and every game update no matter how big or small was. It wasn't until the 2010 where they stopped charging for that and thus devs started to release and patch games more often. Also, up until then fighting games were still being release first on arcade and second on consoles.

So of course that a fighting game released in the 2020s would died immediately if it had tons of balance issues, the devs never communicated with the playerbase and if they did absolutely nothing for the game for almost an entire year. We are not in the 90s anymore.

[PlanetPerfecto]

this game has been unnecessarily hated on since inception. it quite literally can not get a player base behind it. it's way cooler than Strive, too. It just kills me.

[memk]

https://discord.gg/gnpF6Exk we have a discord server for this

[G-Yuki]

The advertising and post game development was severely mishandled causing it to lose players. Took them a long time to bring out major news or content after launch and it wasn't that well advertised at all.

[Leo]

They waited 3-4 months to nerf the super egregious stuff. I should know, I mained Striker and she 100% needed nerfed lol.

Then they waited till December of that year to actually drop a huge patch that changed a lot. And the worst part, they waited an entire year to actually start cooking and drop DLC characters.

Coupled with no marketing, just an absolutely horrendous case of mismanagement. The devs killed this game through and through and I guess they just enjoy playing with corpses with how frequently they're dropping characters now

[Harley]

They didn't invest into the eSports scene too much which caused most content creators and pro players to not play for the long term. The hype plummeted shortly after and never recovered lol.