Capcom Wants to Cut Ties With The West, Increase DLC

[Abyssinian45]

Hold on a second, doesn't anyone realize that the statement says "cut ties with Western Developers"? The title of this article is perhaps just a little misleading, unless they think everyone in the West is a Western Developer.

In my opinion, if this leads to the cancellation of Lost Planet 3: good on them. I loved LP1 and 2, it's a little offensive to see LP3 as some mediocre samey 3rd Person shooter made by a Western Developer with a bad track record.

Oh and it really doesn't matter what Capcom does anymore, it seems like everyone hates them no matter what they do (I like to recall Kotaku's incredibly Skyrim-biased Dragon's Dogma review). How about save the hate for when they cancel Duck Tails and Remember Me, maybe?

Edit: Grammar discrepancies

 

[CharrHearted]

Wait, so this means no Monster Hunter Online for Europe or NA....

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Pretty much sums up my rage, screw you capcom, you will not be missed... AT ALL.

I mean, how can they be so thick?! It's completely impossible these idiots think more DLC will HELP them!

 

[weirdee]

All of this sounds like "it's everybody else's fault" instead of, y'know, owning up to mistakes.

 

[gyrobot_v1legacy]

Japan once again desires to go into cultural irrelevancy.

 

[Strazdas]

Huh ... This kinda goes along with the whole discussion we had on the Monster Hunter forum thing a day or two ago. Okay then. Capcom and EA just got a little closer.

EA has been trying to catch up Capcom all along and Capcom saw that they are getting close, so they took measures to ensure their lead in the worst publisher ever contest. Makes sense.

 

[weirdee]

Im starting to think that the games industry may generally be made up of robots incapable of understanding human emotion or logic...

robots wouldn't cancel megaman legends 3, a game set in a world where all life forms have merged with inorganic technology and can swap any of their body parts with mechanical augmentation freely

 

[Infernai]

Such a shame because they finally got it right with western devs by making DmC. I know I'm going to get a lot of flak for this, but I genuinely enjoyed the game. Ninja Theory is a talented developer and it really showed in it, bringing so much originality to the series. I was finally having fun with a Devil May Cry game. It's just saddening that customers in the gaming industry have such a knee-jerk reaction and refuse to get something just because of a different take on the formula.

I know people are justified to not want to get something because of face-value, but goddamn there were good things in that game.

*sigh*

If you like DmC then that's fine, you're within your right too. In alot of ways it's Ninja Theories best game and they did show some improvement. The thing is though..it's just not a Devil May Cry Game. If it wasn't called Devil may Cry, it would be an enjoyable if average hack and slash game.

The biggest problem? It was handled by a group of people who didn't so much misunderstand PR, as do the exact opposite to try to rile up everyone. The game marketing was handled ATTROCIOUSLY and on a social front all Ninja Theory did was drive people away with their attitude: They made mistakes you just simply can't make and it came back to bite not just them but Capcom in the ass at the end of the day.

 

[Another]

At first I was like "Woah! We don't get enough cool Japanese games as it is! This sucks!"

Then I went back to look at what Capcom has made over the last gen and I can't say I'm impressed.

Of the ones I purchased:
DMC was ok
Dragon's Dogma was at once one of the most exiting games and most boring games I have ever played
RE5 wasn't very good
RE6 was bad
Asura's Wrath was fucking great, I don't care what anyone else says.
Monster Hunter on PSP hurt my hand, though It looks great, but Capcom seems determined to never out it on a more powerful platform (the MH for the Wii U notwithstanding, as I haven't played it, I just want it on PC)

So 1 game that really got me. That's not a good record. Between that and Capcom's scummy DLC history, I think I can do without.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

Cutting ties with the West, eh? I actually kind of liked the new DmC, so that's a shame. But then again, I stopped being surprised by anything Capcom does. They have cancelled a huge list of Mega Man games that seems to be growing every day. I mean... cutting off ALL of the West? That seems a little extreme. It makes me wonder how that place is ran.

 

[strumbore]

Good.

Capcom makes bad games. They've got douchey, un-relatable characters; terrible acting; ridiculous stories; and grating melodrama. Good riddance.

 

[Quellist]

Soo,it was the fault of the west that you followed up the mind-numblingly awesome Resident Evil 4 and 5 (OK 5 was only awesome if played with a friend, but I did) with the Toxic Waste burger that was 6?

Stop making excuses and make decent games instead Capcom!

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I'm trying to think of one Capcom game I ever bought and nothing at all comes to mind. They could cut out their games to the west completely and I doubt I would notice. Though "Devil May Cry" does stand out in my mind as one of the lamest titles for a video game I ever heard, so that's notable.

I can, it goes:

Megaman 1-6
Megaman X 1-3
Demon's Crest
Street Fighter 2
Street Fighter Alpha
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Bionic Commando
DuckTales
Gun.Smoke
Willow
Gargoyle's Quest
Breath of Fire 1-4
U. N. Squadron
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
MegaMan Legends

And that's just a partial list. So yeah, Capcom did know how to make a decent game and listen to their fans when it was warranted, but the passage of time has shown that they have become neither capable of good games or listening to their fans currently.

Although, I absolutely liked the story of Asura's Wrath. Once you can get past the repetitive gameplay, that is.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Yeah, Capcom. DO IT! More DLC! That's just what everybody wants. You've figured it out. You're so smart.

/sarcasm

 

[Doclector]

Capcom, you're literally doing the exact things that are the reasons your games are failing. Seriously, people have stopped buying your games thanks to your DLC policies.

Think about that. When other games that people ARE buying have you pay an extra cost for online play if you buy preowned, YOU are losing sales.

Think about how terrible that makes you look.

 

[lancar]

"sales expectations" is becoming a really ugly phrase. Nowadays, every time I see it it fills me with contempt towards the one saying it. It seems like everything that doesn't sell a quadrillion copies is a complete and utter failure.

 

[AgentLampshade]

Go ahead Capcom. Seriously, do it. See how far you get. Your war with logic is reaching a climax and I for one, am happy to sit back watch you crumble.[footnote]He says with a Capcom related avatar...[/footnote]

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I'm not sure about you, but the concept of making more DLC to make more money doesn't sound like the brightest thing to do. I buy a game exepcting the vanilla version to justify the purchase by itself, and that's really the part they seem to be having trouble with. I'm not going to buy Dark Arisen unless it's got enough content to be a sequel, and from what I've seen so far, it looks like and expansion pack you have to buy for full price (if you can't tell, I'm not impressed). While not outsourcing as much could go some way towards remedying the quality issues, if more DLC is the kind of attitude they want to run with I hope it fails for them.

 

[Shia-Neko-Chan]

Earlier this year, Capcom rebooted its Devil May Cry franchise with DMC: Devil may Cry, which was developed by UK studio Ninja Theory. While getting generally favorable reviews, the game ultimately failed to reach sales expectations.

Can't imagine why. Might have had something to do with the fact that the game was built in such a way as to be a deliberate "fuck you" to the original fans of the franchise, even going so far as to take a direct stab at them with the now-infamous "white wig" scene.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you focused more on making a political statement (as the clearly-not-Bill-O'Reilly monster boss working for definitely-not-Fox-News illustrates rather well) than, ya know, making a good game.

Maybe it has something to do with your policy of on-disc DLC in several games.

Or the fact that you openly killed a beloved franchise because you claim that it "didn't have enough backing" even though that's clearly a lie.

Maybe, just maybe, if you weren't being total, thorough, complete dicks about everything and anything, people would buy your games. Just maybe.

Good. Cut ties with the West completely. Don't let the door hit your ass too hard on the way out. I'm sick of seeing your tripe on the shelves anyways. It'll leave room for games that actually deserve people's money.

Huh. You know, when you put it that way, maybe Capcom abandoning the west isn't such a bad thing after all.

Maybe if they'd listen to what we have to say, things could have been different, but meh. :/

edit: Although, if they take Phoenix Wright with them (and it's not like they even gave us Gyakuten Kenji 2, anyway), I will definitely miss it.

 

[axlryder]

Oh Capcom, you are the only company who I'm torn between wanting to see succeed and wanting to see fail miserably. In the perfect world Capcom would just give all their best IPs to someone who won't fuck them up and then quietly disappear.