Capcom Wants to Cut Ties With The West, Increase DLC

[Canadamus Prime]

What? Did the Capcom execs get into EA's supply of stupid pills?

...again?

 

[Rad Party God]

*sigh* I actually liked DmC, but after playing RE6 at my cousins house last week, I just... ugh... what a piece of shit.

I miss the old Capcom, the one that actually had amazing games for 4 entire console generations.

Capcom has been pretty shitty this gen and if a warning of bankruptcy isn't enough to bring them back, then I think it'll be best to let them be and do absolutely nothing when they drown themselves.

 

[KingWein22]

Good thing I bought used copies of Mega Man and Mega Man X Collection(s). Played the free MMxSF. Bought MM9, 10, RE4-6 new then got rid of 5. It's okay though, Capcom. It's not like people are gonna riot...wait...

 

[viranimus]

Hrm... I dunno. That sounds pretty insulting to me. Loosely translated its almost like saying

"In Japan and across Asia, We are Gods. Anything we make people buy. But you evil westerners with your expectations and standards. We do not wish to sell you our games any longer because we are afraid your reasonable expectations might infect others here and how can we allow that? We do not come to your country and tell YOU who you can gouge do we?"

In the west, We know just exactly how little Capcom thinks of their customers, but it is baffling how those in the East simply are not seeing it and in fact are protecting them from the bankruptcy they have been begging for for years.

LOL Captcha.. You So crazzee. "Know your rights" Yep, I do, especially the right not to give arrogant douche nozzles my money for snip jobs and copypastas out the ying yang.

 

[GAunderrated]

F you right back Capcom. I haven't bought your tripe in years because anything I gave a damn about you cancelled (3 guesses) and everything else you have put forth is glorified shovelware. Cut your ties with the west and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

I won't miss you. Your best years are way behind you.

 

[Maerx]

It bothers me that Capcom acts like this is our fault. Capcom wtf is your problem?

Fix your crap and don't blame the customer for your delusions.

 

[Teoes]

Okay here's a new drinking game: every time a game fails to meet sales expectations, you take a shot. It'sh the greatesht! *hic* /falldown

No Capcom, you're doing it all wrong! Isn't it obvious? You need a CoD-killer! That'll save you. Perhaps take one of your existing blockbuster titles and action-ify it.

When I get a sec I'll compare your last few years' releases against my games library; doubt I'll find much.

 

[Avalanche91]

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

Piss off Capcom. The only game you've gotten me slightly interested in in years is the new Ace Attorney, and that one looks as if you beat it near death with the angsty stick.

 

[Tiamattt]

Wow...so uh...I really don't know what to say. I'm rather stunned.

Is...is this the start of the collapse? Are we really about to see iconic game companies that have been around for years, decades even, disappear? What happens then?

Other companies buy their IPs, and hopefully continue making games with them, and if we're lucky remembering what made their former owners disappear in the 1st place. Sad to see giants fall sure but hard to shed tears when they do it to themselves.

 

[Jiefu]

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.

You have to wonder what these publishers actually inside their skull because it certainly isn't brains. "Since we began our DLC strategy we only met 50% of our sales estimates, we must invest even more into the DLC strategy to correct this!"

How can they be blind to it? People are getting fed up of this and Capcom are one of the worst for DLC shenanigans, maybe even the worst and now they are paying for it through customer dissatisfaction.

Capcom is definitely the worst DLC offender. EA, for all their troubles, has had some good DLC releases as well - the larger BioWare DLCs have mostly been good, and Lair of the Shadow Broker was a shining example of DLC done right. Battlefield had some decent packs. Capcom doesn't really have any successes to show at all, and manages to feel even more like they're engaging in product splitting.

 

[Jaebird]

"Restoring Ties to the West" will be paid 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.