Yeah...
Capcom needs to do something big to salvage public opinion and bring the game around. There won't be any weird juggle modes or wall bounces or extended combo trickery.. the entire game has been designed as a bare, right and fundamental style game, so seeing some of the systems and mechanics from other games is unlikely unless it's fits the theme of the game - which that stuff does. Adding those things would take a total rework of every character to balance it right and let me remind you all, we still don't have an arcade mode and Capcom still hadn't done the BASIC polish and shine that any game in today's market should receive.. how many characters have hair that clips through themselves still? Along with a myriad of other little grievances like that?
And yeah, I know that has nothing to with how competitive blah blah, fuck that. It does have everything to do with not just public image but as an insight in to Capcoms entire thought process for this game.
They have states no balance stuff until s2, ok, fine, then why in the stinking halls of corn-filled shit, have they not invested even the most basic effort in to seeing sfv polished and touched up so its more than just a systems-mostly-complete beta?
It just irks on my nerves that we have all paid full price for a game that, were it not Street Fighter, would have been shit on even harder than it already has been. The core of the game is very solid, but that's it.
Which is what leads me to worry. Now there is a chance, though a tiny one, that Capcom is being very spare with the non-balance related patches because they are saving it for a massive s2 update that's going to REALLY change the game and instead of little.incremental changes they are just going to go full bore - re-release level stuff and try to draw in more players.. and I HOPE that is what happens. I genuinely do, but based on the track record we have to go by..
I'm betting on some very modest changes and if some of the balanceing from sfiv is any indication, at least a handful of those changes are going to be headscratching idiocy..
Dudley almost surely will NOT make it in, unless it's in s3-4 etc. I'd love to see him, but I just don't see it happening when there are so many characters that will likely sell better than he would. He has a rabid fanbase but it's a small one.