Takebacker Wrote:If i understand you correctly...why would the community invest in developing a metagame for characters where some or most of the rest of cast is knowingly unavailable?
Because no game with DLC characters has ever had a metagame.
Certainly not. Ah, but lets just look at, I dunno, Evo2013 because its the most recent tournament I can think of.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Mortal Kombat 9
Street Fighter X Tekken 2013
King of Fighters XIII
Persona 4 Arena
Smash bros Melee
Oh. Of those, Only Persona 4 and melee don't include DLC characters. But the rest of them do, and clearly had enough of a "metagame" to be featured at a large fighting tournament. If the metagame is such an importance, why do you even need a new game if, as you put it, " it changes SO QUICKLY AND OFTEN" without a new game? Or that they should remove the idea of updates to satisfy the small number of people who care about that stuff (compared to the audience anyway: go on, claim that a majority of the 11.5 million sales of brawl care about the metagame stuff).
Takebacker Wrote:I just don't think it's going to happen to the extent DLC is traditionally done. DLC is like of one of those things that nintendo just wouldn't do unless they literally needed to because of the whole "losing face" thing the japanese do. To them, releasing DLC after the fact is the same as admitting they rushed the game which they don't want to do.
This is also bad logic. Do you think that because they released New Super Luigi U as DLC for New Super Mario Bros U, that the game was rushed? Or all the extra maps for fire emblem? Releasing extra content later doesn't mean the game was rushed.
(Though the clear downsizing they're doing to everything because Nintendo neither has the time or money they did last gen is another issue entirely)
Edited because the characters from the base version of MVC3 are still dlc in ultimate.