Capcom's big mistake: giving the game away for free

[Liberty]

This has allowed negative reviews to be written by people who have never intended to buy the game, but are eager to criticize.

The game is fantastic: 31 games for 40 euros / dollars, it is just over one euro (dollar) per game, when others sell single arcade games at 7 euros.

Good emulation, scanlines, cooperative gameplay, online leaderboards, games never emulated until now...

I think it's worth it if you are a fan of this kind of games, the haters are just noise.

I hope Capcom keeps on releasing packs with many other games that are missing: Pang, Black Tiger, Cadillacs & Dinosaurus, Three Wonders, etc.

[Retro]

yup lol they probabyl regret that, Im enjoying it.

[justseedy]

the problem is that as of now they are not selling the games one by one - so you can buy the ones you want like in the Sega collection

[Brussels_Sprouts_Are_Not_Food]

It's their messaging. What is this game?

[Daikatan]

Originally posted by ShadowNinja:

Controls are smooth in this too compared to one collection, SNK 40th, where it was the complete opposite making you fight with the controller every step of the way.

Personally, i always buy Digital Eclipse collections not for games themselves, but for thing that they do the best - gorgeous museum section with art, interviews, information, etc.

Though i wouldn't say i had as much problems with controls as you, but yeah, it (snk 40 anniv) runs far from perfect.

[Timedye]

Their biggest mistake was marketing it as though you could buy the games a la carte -- even going so far as giving each game a $2 price tag -- and then not actually allowing players to buy them that way.

Either the purchasing system is busted, or they straight up lied about how you'd be able to buy the games. Dunno why that's so hard for the apologists to understand.

[SargentoTITO]

1- Dont have online coop (Remote Play Together is not native online coop, is a Steam feature)

2- You cant bought games separatly (I have the Capcom Beat Em Up Bundle and is so stupid have repeat games in different packs)

[Empty Skies]

The games need to be available individually. Until that is corrected, this will keep getting the lambasting it deserves. There is literally one game I want (1942) - yet I have to pay a minimum of £10+ for it?! Nah, these reviews are spot on atm.

[W.A. the Anum]

Originally posted by Liberty:

This has allowed negative reviews to be written by people who have never intended to buy the game, but are eager to criticize.

The game is fantastic: 31 games for 40 euros / dollars, it is just over one euro (dollar) per game, when others sell single arcade games at 7 euros.

Good emulation, scanlines, cooperative gameplay, online leaderboards, games never emulated until now...

I think it's worth it if you are a fan of this kind of games, the haters are just noise.

I hope Capcom keeps on releasing packs with many other games that are missing: Pang, Black Tiger, Cadillacs & Dinosaurus, Three Wonders, etc.

pretty much this coz all i see is mostly people complaining the fact that you have to buy the other games than complaining the ACTUAL games.

there is only one problem i have with this collection so far which is with other collections of such kinda nowadays the same which is that if feels a bit from the lazy side.

Back in the day, i had Capcom generations on my PS1 and there they added all cheats and alternative music for some of the games to play - you know, "little goodies" i would say.

Sure, you have now the rewind thing literally EVERY classic game collection has but as for anything else, its literally as barebones as it can get. "Here, have our old games. freaking play them". I mean in older collections you could even read about the games - like as sample vulgus which is basicly the first game capcom created. Here? Rewind opinion and some vitual arcade looks, thats all.

I mean yea, those are nice but why are devs do something like that?
The best sample for such collections would be the actual Namco Museums vol. 1-5 on PS1. THOSE were GREAT made. It felt like youre really walking in a "museum" made for this games where you got background infos about the game, history, buildup, spritework, artwork, concept, music, soundtest, the freak do i know i could count up here! And now? Look at Namcos "museum" collections now. freaking barebones.

Srsly to say, i dont understand why they putted so much effort into this old collections just to end up with nowadays collections which are basicly "legal roms" of their old games and nothing else...

[STBiLL]

I didn't down voted them but I can understand the frustration. I only want a couple of them. If you want all of them and buy a bundle it should be cheaper but I don't care about most of these games. Give us the option to buy them on their own like SEGA and the negative reviews will stop.

[Kyezoar]

Thought compare to what SEGA has already done with their similar collection. It's kind a let down.

[Vintage Comfy]

I can already play these games with superior quality in MAME or RetroArch. If I want to play multiplayer I can do it in Fightcade2 with better netcode than any of the current Capcom arcade re-releases. People who are supporting this are too dumb or lazy to do the five minute install work to setup a much better emulator experience. Capcom has to realise their arcade releases need to compete with the best of the community and at least match MAME, otherwise it fails.

[🎃MaximusBlastalot🎃]

Originally posted by Kyezoar:

Thought compare to what SEGA has already done with their similar collection. It's kind a let down.

It was years before it was in the state it is now it was not like that on release.

[Daikatan]

Originally posted by 🎃MaximusBlastalot🎃:

It was years before it was in the state it is now it was not like that on release.

Didn't they have separate purchases YEARS BEFORE they added workshop mumbojumbo?

[🎃MaximusBlastalot🎃]

Originally posted by Daikatan:

Originally posted by 🎃MaximusBlastalot🎃:

It was years before it was in the state it is now it was not like that on release.

Didn't they have separate purchases YEARS BEFORE they added workshop mumbojumbo?

They were orginally sold in compilations of about 5 or so games pre steam as far as pc cd releases. Unfortunately the steam release dosent have the old shinobi 2 where the game had all the copyrighted "like: charcters like the old compilations.

As far as the steam yes it is now has (or had I havent checked in nearly half a decade) however there were also multiple games that had to be bought separate or had separate pricing (which eventually largely changed).

Around 2016 ish they added the 3d room and alot of the fancy options and largely finished fixing various issues.

Of course games here have a listing price and likely arent listed due to an error (hence why the store page is "odd") so I imagine they will be on the page in the near future.

[SpectralShade]

1.3 giga download for a single aged 2d shooter is a bit over the top, don't you think?