Gooberking
FGC Cannon Fodder
If you are exited over a cleansing, you best be real sure you are a reaper.
I'm going to preference what is about to be a wildly unpopular post by saying I have no idea what this is all going to shake out to be like, or how much I or anyone else will like it. It may be like many changes that will leave everyone glad that progress has been made, and have little to no one longing to go back to where things were. That is the hope.
The first unpopular thing I will say is that I have some serious reservations with the ability for games to mutate significantly over time to the point that they may not fundamentally remain the same game people paid for in the beginning. Now, nobody is going to want to go back to MKX's initial netcode and everyone want's things to be "fair", but if people are right in that the game might actually have to be approached from a different perspective, that the meta and feel for how the game plays changes, well then not everyone may feel like they are getting a better game.
I can't know that is how it will play out, and I don't even have a good sense if that is even a likely scenario, but I do think it would be an interesting discussion to have as to how much improvement a game can get before some sort of mile marker version is needed that people can go back to or stick with. (What if there was no SFA-SFA3 and just SFA for example. Would anyone care?)
The second unpopular thing isn't aimed at anyone, but more at the notion that the game needs to be anything, or play like anything. It doesn't. It doesn't have to be a good technical fighter. It doesn't have to please the competitive community, or follow any standardized formula for what constitutes a "real fighter." Anyone saying it does is speaking from a very specific POV that encompass a very select and small group of people. Many of whom have been doing little else but shredding the merit of a game's worth which has been enormously successful for it's genre with a group of people that, by in large, may have no idea the game could be changing significantly in a few days. Mostly likely because the top 5% or whatever have been super vocal about how scrubs and trash players shouldn't be snaking wins with coin flips.
This game was made for everyone, and it's been more successful at accomplishing that than any other fighter, like ever. Being good is not a requirement. Being bad is not shameful. People don't deserve to be looked down on, belittled, or equated with dumpster contents because they aren't EVO material. I feel like people are thinking they will finally have vindication over the scrub army and shoot up in top eights on Tuesday, or are just plain taking the opportunity to make cheap shots at people that have done a little bit better at the game than they have. I get having a personal desire for something to play or be the way I imagine it ought to, but I don't that I get why that translates into the game "needing" to be a certain way or why that assertion needs to involve rampant insulting of large chunks of the player base simply for not being top 1-5%'ers.
I'm sure that this is a wall of text everyone can enjoy, and I will leave saying I hope the changes result in only good for everyone. That the game continues to play well and be a rewarding across all skill levels, and that pros can feel they have a game that is more legitimate and worthy of their time.
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