Capcom Wants to Cut Ties With The West, Increase DLC

[deth2munkies]

The Resident Evil series has never been good and Mega Man has been extremely hit or miss and completely absent for several years. DMC and their fighting games are average in every sense of the word, so why do we actually care about Capcom and what xenophobic shit they want to pull? They're not a good publisher and will be going the way of THQ soon enough.

 

[Magmabear]

This is how Japanese game developers do business. They do not listen to ANY feedback from foreign consumers at all and just think that their way to do things is the best way, and if their sales plummet, they just blame the foreign developers and consumers. Believe me when I say that their attitude towards foreigners and their opinions fly through one ear and out the other. It's really messed up.

Of course, American companies like EA also screw things up so much too with their own horrible business practices.

This will definitely come back to bite them in the ass later on, and it will not be pretty. The crash of the AAA games industry is coming closer and closer... =(

 

[Beautiful End]

See, while I still feel sympathy for someone like Square Enix, who is still trying to release good games but somehow doesn't get the fact that people would throw their wallets at them if they only released KH3, a FFVII remake, FF Versus or TWEWY 2, Capcom can just go rot in hell. Capcom is the kind of company that screws up, blames it on someone else like now (Or Megaman Legends 3, right?) and keeps doing the same half assed moves.

So whatever, Capcom. once you were one of my favorite developers. Now I just don't care anymore.

I'm still pissed about Legends 3! >.<

Son, no one will ever get over that.

No one. *Tear*

 

[Tradjus]

Blame it all on foreigners, boy what a common refrain from Japanese companies.
Seriously, that island hosts some of the most xenophobic people I've met in my life.

 

[Quadocky]

I think oversaturation of AAA titles has harmed them if they are not meeting sales expectations.

I don't really get all this Capcom hate anyway.

 

[Xarathox]

Again with the industry blaming the consumer for their own shortcomings.

This trend is really starting to get on my nerves.

 

[Jimalcoatl]

As long as Remember Me comes out as planned I don't care. After that Capcom can do whatever the fuck it wants and enjoy failing because of their inability to understand their market.

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

I'm sorry if someone said this lot already, but I can't be arsed to read through four pages of posts ^_^

Capcom has lost it's fucking marbles.
DLC and associated practices have lost them the community's favour, alongside repeated and brutal fanbase betrayals (Devil May Cry, Resident Evil etc.). They spent fucking millions of dollars "restructuring" itself to try and make more money (hey, anyone else notice how that didn't work, like, at all?). They then refused to release several quite possibly profitable games in the west.
They also outsourced games from their main franchises to developers who had no business working on those titles (Operation Raccoon City, anyone?).

It seems amazingly simple to me, all Capcom has to do is reign back game production to an in-house structure (allowing them to keep strict control of development), take great pains to ensure they don't repeat DLC practices of the past and listen to their fanbases. It also probably wouldn't hurt to localize that shiny new CryEngine 3 Monster Hunter MMO that's being beta tested in China (hint, fucking, hint).

 

[Atmos Duality]

Did you hear that? All I heard was the sound of another Publisher AAA thrashing about throwing a tantrum because people didn't blindly buy into their business model.

?concentration of AAA titles in the hands of few foreign competitors?

Oh the irony...a AAA publisher whining about other AAA publishers.
I remember 13 years ago, when the situation was reversed and Japanese game publishers positively dominated the market.

?drastic changes in the industry?s market environment?

Well, that says definitively nothing. How is the market changing?
With such keen analytical prowess, how isn't Capcom dominating the market?

More worrying for Western devs is Capcom?s assertion that it has suffered a ?decline in quality of titles outsourced to overseas developers? which has forced it to alter its strategy ? it will now place shift to internal game R&D and increase its post-release DLC

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Furthermore ?work in progress in game software? has been ?strictly re-evaluated for business restructuring?. In other words, it is cancelling games.

So they're canning projects to cut costs, and lowering their core game value by weighting them for more DLC.
Meh. No great loss to me. I don't buy Capcom's games primarily because they don't really appeal to me.

 

[JokerboyJordan]

I'm sorry if someone said this lot already, but I can't be arsed to read through four pages of posts ^_^

Capcom has lost it's fucking marbles.
DLC and associated practices have lost them the community's favour, alongside repeated and brutal fanbase betrayals (Devil May Cry, Resident Evil etc.). They spent fucking millions of dollars "restructuring" itself to try and make more money (hey, anyone else notice how that didn't work, like, at all?). They then refused to release several quite possibly profitable games in the west.
They also outsourced games from their main franchises to developers who had no business working on those titles (Operation Raccoon City, anyone?).

It seems amazingly simple to me, all Capcom has to do is reign back game production to an in-house structure (allowing them to keep strict control of development), take great pains to ensure they don't repeat DLC practices of the past and listen to their fanbases. It also probably wouldn't hurt to localize that shiny new CryEngine 3 Monster Hunter MMO that's being beta tested in China (hint, fucking, hint).

Hear fucking hear!

Capcom really need to get their heads out of their asses and just listen to what their consumers want, as they are the ones that will ultimately buy your games.

I want:

A real Devil May Cry 5, a good Resident Evil game, new IPs.

Shit Capcom I don't want much, but I'm sure Megaman would bring you some money you stubborn fools.

 

[kael013]

So, basically the plan is to reduce the number of people working on your products (actually makes sense; less people working for you the less people you have to pay), thus reducing the number of products you can release in a year, then increasing DLC -which will either increase the work-load on your remaining people significantly (and create weaker games since the dev team is spread too thin trying to balance it all) or weaken your games due to content being cut so it can be released as DLC.

Yeah, that's gonna work reeeaal well.

 

[EHKOS]

And that was Capcom with "How not to run a business"...wait what? That's next week? OH SHIT!

Also I won't play another Capcom game. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS.

 

[Kunzer]

Publisher refuses to listen to fans, fans dont buy games, publisher loses profit. Publisher blames every one but self.

Why does this sound familiar? Oh right, same shit, different company.

I agree with your words. They accurately reflect my sentiments on quite a few levels as a gamer.

 

[unstabLized]

What is with the high sales expectations all of a sudden? What do you expect a game to sell? Something like Devil May Cry isn't going to sell 5 million units. Adjust accordingly and stop basing expectations on other games. Especially the mainstream things like CoD.

 

[Zukabazuka]

Can't remember where I read the article about Bionic Commando game but reason for it not feeling complete was mostly due to Capcom not sending them money to pay for payments and such. The company would get some sum of money for developing BC but in short no money never came to them. So they had to cut a lot of stuff in the game. So the company wasn't at fault here since they just never got paid for it. Sucks because if they actually had more time they could have made it pretty good. Game just felt satisfying when smashing people to the wall when grabbing them.

They really need to stop making games "western type". We don't want to have that huge muscular guy as our main hero in every single game. They can just translate their game, slap subtitles on the current voice actors and you just saved a whole lot of money without having to hire more actors for most of the time that fail so bad. At least with original voice we have a harder time knowing if it sounds bad or not.

Also the fans should really spam the hell out of their forums about bringing Monster hunter to western. It would sell, and please on console and PC and not just the Vita.


As for the whole DLC shenanigans, they better fire who ever came up with the idea to release more DLC.

 

[RicoADF]

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Because they don't see what the community sees, they literally are only given numbers, both of their own games and how other studios are doing and they try to find a way to make theirs as big if not larger than others. It would be like a sports athlete trying to develop a new car with only sales figures to go off and no understanding of how the system works or what people want.....

.... and the sports athlete has never been in a car because he/she runs everywhere.

Still you would think execs in charge of a consumer product type company would take some time every now and then to personally see what the customers think of your products, wouldn't that be part of being a successful executive by trying to oversee as much as possible?

That would make alot of sense and is what the good publishers/devs do, hence why the community loves them, and they make lots of profit. Unfortuently the bigger publishers are run by businessmen only, their the same type of people who run banks, media corporations, toy corporations and any other big thing. They don't care about the product or the consumer, they just care about the cold hard numbers.

Personally I think corporations need to be banned or atleast put on tight leashes.

 

[RevRaptor]

And that boys an girls is the sound of a company circling the drain.

I think this may be a good example of why the 'but games company?s are in it to make money' argument fails.
Capcom tried too hard to bring in the cash and in the process started treating their consumers as commodity?s trying to get as much as they could from us with DLC and dogey business designs and to no ones surprise we didn't like it.

It's not a hard lesson to understand you gotta cater to your consumer base if you disrespect them you are gona fail.

 

[J Tyran]

They don't care about the product or the consumer, they just care about the cold hard numbers.

Personally I think corporations need to be banned or atleast put on tight leashes.

Thats the silly thing, customer satisfaction isn't exactly a quantifiable statistic but at the end of the day how happy your customers can result in cold hard numbers. Corporations are not exactly the whole problem, the consumer needs to shoulder its share of the blame too. In an ideal world when a companies service is shit or their products poor customers would go elsewhere and turn to the competition, the corporation would either have to improve or it would go bankrupt. Consumers don't though, companies get sell broken or overprice goods & services and people still pay. Of course the corps are skilled at marketing and convince the consumer that the stuff is fine and the prices are good but a bit of common sense would soon sort that out.

The main reason for the corporations getting away with this shit is they form Oligopolies, the UK energy market is a perfect example of this. When utilities where privatized the government told the public how awesome it would be for everyone, instead of paying fixed fees to the state companies would all compete for custom which would ensure the best possible prices.

Yeah right, prices go up & up yet never come down when wholesale prices drop and profit margins are going through the roof. If one company raises its prices its no use changing supplier to try and get a cheaper rate, once one raises its prices the rest soon follow. I agree that they need to be put on leashes, trouble is they always influence the legislation behind the regulation so that it favors them somehow.