yeah before it came out Mike Ross was all like "it's my favorite game ever" and Gootecks was like "not as good as 3s but still really fun"
a month after it came out, Mike Ross was like "I don't like how this game is played" and Marn was like "LOL jab jab jab crossup jab jab jab crossup"
Anyway people still want to play and buy fighting games, they just don't want to play the games that Capcom is designing right now. I know it sounds weird to point at KOF and Skullgirls as doing it right when they sold way less, but if SFxT was designed as an honest fighting game like they were it probably would've sold better. The last time Capcom put out a fighting game that most people liked and respected was CvS2. That was like a decade ago. Seems like these days if you want traditional designed games you need to look somewhere outside of Capcom.
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