So between my old post and this one, I've seen quite a few people say they dropped Johnny because of the whiffing issues among other things. I hope NRS understands that before they decide to not work on Johnny because of lack of interest in the character.
Edit: I'm just going to keep tweeting Boon and Paulo with #fixjohnnycage
Anyone wanna join? lol
I don't know if possibly annoying them is the best route, but we do need to make our point known. The point about fixes, I mean.
Call me crazy, but I just don't have any hope we'll get a fix. Buffs are meh. Johnny is solid, despite every one of his tools being done better by multiple members of the cast. But as far as fixes, let's look at the facts. Johnny's been affected by only two patches (as far as I recall). One was a "fix" for whiffed hits that apparently did nothing, but it exists so that probably counts as being an addressed issue in NRS's eyes. The other is a nerf to fisticuffs, a variation used by one player in high-level play for only a portion of his tournament performance. This variation is wildly referred to as the variation-less variation, even before the nerfs. We have rhetoric on this site from people not of the Cage community that spells out tournament viability for a character in his most base form, and NRS already tipped their hand by nerfing this variation ASAP when nothing was wrong with it. DJT's performance (not to degrade him as a player, he is phenomenal) was easily influenced by a lack of match-up knowledge in his opponents, which is why after one shutout match he quickly stopped picking up "easy" wins and kept having to switch from Cage in subsequent tournament performances due to not gaining significant traction against his opponents.
So yeah, I just don't see Cage ever being addressed and only the most loyal of Cage players will continue playing this character.
