Street Fighter X Tekken Dev Laments Hacked DLC

[SL33TBL1ND]

. The Vita version of the game, which I won't be picking up because the idea of playing a fighting game with a Sony d-pad makes my left thumb retreat into my forearm in fear, comes with all the DLC characters and a few exclusive ones to boot.

Really? I love the PS3 d-pad for fighting games.
OP: It is pretty hard for me to drum up sympathy for you. You withheld them solely to make even more than the already overpriced retail that is 60$.

It's better than the 360 D-pad certainly, but it gets physically painful to roll a QCF after an hour or so. I had a literal bleeding thumb after Blazblue was released. Then I bought an arcade stick.

I agree, and not even for fighting games. Playing Omega Boost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Boost] with the d-pad is one of the most painful gaming experiences I've ever had.

 

[Slanzinger]

"Street Fighter X Tekken Dev Laments Hacked DLC"

And entire player base laments DLC-locked characters. On-disc or not. The fact that the code is already there is immaterial -- I don't care if it had to be a 4GB download for the extra characters and there wasn't the slightest whiff of them on the disc, the fact remains that in any competitive game this kind of metagame-altering bullshit just isn't right. I agree with Ayano, in that I too was really kind of disappointed that they (Capcom) created this kind of environment where a bunch of players will be playing the characters but a bunch will be unable to play with them.

To be honest, the presence of five "guest" characters which are locked out of the Xbox version (without even an option of unlocking them... well, *yet*) was what swayed me completely away from this -- Ayano's hypocrisy here is just the icing on the cake.

 

[laserwulf]

The hackers used the game disks that they legally owned, on the hardware that they legally owned. I see no problem here.

(I guess the concept of game modding is becoming a lost art exclusive to PC gamers.)

 

[mikev7.0]

. The Vita version of the game, which I won't be picking up because the idea of playing a fighting game with a Sony d-pad makes my left thumb retreat into my forearm in fear, comes with all the DLC characters and a few exclusive ones to boot.

Really? I love the PS3 d-pad for fighting games.
OP: It is pretty hard for me to drum up sympathy for you. You withheld them solely to make even more than the already overpriced retail that is 60$.

Yeah Red Eyes but look on the bright side! Thanks to the mongolian clusterfunk that was the release and the inevitable fall out (I love you guys sometimes. Mostly when you save me money.) I can now buy this for $40 new! Which means the $20 download won't cost me a thing which is a net ga-....!!?? Hmmmm. Okay so I guess it's just a net equal. That's nowhere near as exciting.

Nevermind. You're right. They suck.

P.S. If I EVER have to type "sing a song" again so that I can chat about digital beatdowns? I'm leaving the community. Not the Escapist. The GAMING community okay? Just sayin'....

 

[mikev7.0]

. The Vita version of the game, which I won't be picking up because the idea of playing a fighting game with a Sony d-pad makes my left thumb retreat into my forearm in fear, comes with all the DLC characters and a few exclusive ones to boot.

Really? I love the PS3 d-pad for fighting games.
OP: It is pretty hard for me to drum up sympathy for you. You withheld them solely to make even more than the already overpriced retail that is 60$.

It's better than the 360 D-pad certainly, but it gets physically painful to roll a QCF after an hour or so. I had a literal bleeding thumb after Blazblue was released. Then I bought an arcade stick.

It gets painful to throw a fireball after an hour?? Seriously??

*blinks*

So you're like what, 70??

This is worse than my friend who's ninjalike with everything else and then when I challenge him to some fighing gaming his excuse is arthritis. Who the hell ever heard of an arthritic ninja?

 

[mikev7.0]

You know who the hackers hurt when they hacked the game?

Pardon if I feel less sympathy for the multi million dollar corporation.

and pardon me when I ask this rhetorical question: "Why do you think we have increasingly invasive DRM these days?"

I know it's rhetorical but...

We have increasingly stiff DRM because producers need to explain why their AAA title did not meet sales expectations. Easy scapegoats for years have included violence, overseas markets, pirates, and recently used game sales.

By increasing the level of DRM in games, even as it has been shown to affect pirates far less than a paying customer, they are trying to regain the faith of stockholders, the only people to which they truly answer.

It's a simple answer that can be condensed into easy buzzwords for shareholder meetings.

So by that logic if we really want to change the direction game marketing is going, instead of buying new games we should buy shares and attempt to influence the market that way? That might work if you had enough people investing in it like a mutual fund but with an agreed upon goal about why you're investing.

 

[mikev7.0]

I want to say the actions of the hackers were unjustified and wrong, because after all, in the end it is still stealing. However considering the circumstances on which this "DLC" was locked and included on the disc, and the devs tried to rationalize it, I honestly think this serves them right and should be seen as an example of what not to do.

Don't fuck your customers because they will fuck you back given the chance.

Or the much less expletive ridden: "If you want to succeed as a merchant, never make you're rules according to what the bad guys do."

An' seriously how are the "hackers" actions "unjustified and wrong."? Are you now telling me it's possible to steal something I OWN??

Do you REALLY want to hand that kind of power over to Madison Avenue? Hint; You Don't.