While I am happy that the games did well.Most people don't like the new characters that are from real life celebrities. The soccer guy, known for domestic issues and paying people off not to charge him for it. That's a big warning sign and something that should never be ignored. The d j people love a bit more, but still nobody's asking for these real life, people to be in fighting games.And that only just makes it age worse. Nobody even bothers picking the soccer guy. Especially since he's in the base roster and not a returning character from the past.
Looking at one game, does it automatically make it better, and i'm looking with caution, just like anybody else. To not do so or least consider, it is foolhardy and being selectively oblivious.
There was some drama initially but then people actually used the guest chars and both are actually exceedingly thoughtfully crafted chars, Ronaldo kinda pingpongs the soccer ball back at you and can hit it multiple times with his normals setting up a lot of situations, and the DJ guy has a lot of really weird fun moves like flying or unblockables or a flick counter like Beerus.
SNK wasn't only recently purchased by the Saudis, that happened years ago. Games like KoFXV and the recent Samurai Showdown game also came out after their acquisition and outside of chars like Najd
(she's cool too btw, she's not sexy but more stylish) they didn't seem to somehow affect anything. The sexy ladies are still sexy, the guys with long hair still have long hair, music and dancing and alcohol is included etc., no cultural shift transpired.
Basically SNK was dying but after they bought them and funded them as they deserved they made a miraculous comeback from the brink and I can't shake the feeling that it's not just capitalistic greed at work but on some level you had some prince be a fighter fan and instead of buying another 20 diamond yachts for orcas to sink or whatever he funded SNK games, and I'm all for that.
At launch, it might not be so bad, but I am kinda worried about future roadmap.
Apparently the buyout also involved some massive loan as well. My fear is that to make up for this loan, somewhere down the line BF6 and other EA games are gonna charge playerbase for everything.
IDK, maybe I am looking way too much into this
I was kinda thinking of getting BF6 but realistically I know I'd not spend much time in the multiplayer so I just ended up getting the new Doom which is more single player focused, it's a great game, maybe give it a chance if you haven't yet. It has a dragon you can ride!
