Hello crazies, DioRod here bringing another video

and today we are going to talk a little about what I commented

when we got the announcement about Strive's rollback, the hashtag #SNKRollback and some more

that I cited, talked on social networks. Also if you don't follow me on then, that would be cool, hehe.

But I mentioned, talked the term "3 pillars" for a fighting game to be successful, so to speak,

for it to fight on the market and all that. And many folks asked what they were, and those folks didn't understood very well,

some comments popped up about that in general, that I think is interesting to talk more about it, okay?

What is the question here? I am a person who advocates improving fighting games as a product,

no matter how cool a game is, no matter how cool a fighting game is, the fighting game product nowadays is way behind other genres,

so when I talk about the 3 pillars that would be more in the sense of game- the fighting game product that was:
ONLINE, CROSSPLAY and PRICE

Today a fighting game that will be relevant, being played for more time, needs to fundamentally, in my opinion, have those 3 points

in a clear, competitive way from the start. When I say netcode, means a good and reliable netcode,

cross-play means players on all platforms that the game is announced can play among themselves,

and price because 60 dollars we can't take it anymore, spoke about it more than once, so...

that thing about price, netcode-all those 3 elements showed up several times on the channel, be at specific videos about them,

or in some moments I talk about them in the channel or in participations in other channels and all that.

So much that, as proof of that concern, specially regarding the price, is that Guilty Gear Strive was, at the moment of this recording,

was planned to release on April, April 9th, and was delayed to June, because Arc System heard the feedback and

was working to fix the things people apparently didn't like. Some were praying that the lobbies to go away,

something I criticized myself that I didn't liked either, the disconnects, the server's long downtime that occoured.

If a change, a delay is for an improvement, that's OK, because we already saw that the game is solid, the netcode's working.

So no matter we joke about Cyberpunk 2077, it's very unlikely that the same will happen with Guilty Gear as a game,

but as a product it's another thing, why? Everybody was worried about this date because it coincides with the release of Final Fantasy 7 Remake new update,

I don't know exactly what it is, because I didn't follow, but it's an update that everybody is waiting for it,

so when the game launches on June, the thing I talk about it's going to happen:

Someone see a fighting game with 15 characters at 60 dollars, and a continuation of Final Fantasy 7 Remake also at 60 dollars,

which one this person is going to buy? That's my point. So that worry, that observation some people have with Final Fantasy

goes head-to-head and confirms, at least for me, this argument: that fighting games at 60 dollars are doomed to always lose this comparison.

But I will not talk more about this. As I said there's a whole video about it. I talk a lot about it as a product and all that.

The product, the commerce, it's sale, but it doesn't matter a fighting game with good netcode, having cross-play on all platforms,

have a good price, but the game won't be good or not having an appeal. The technical part, the proper game part also need to work.

There must be a harmonious union of it all, why? Because it won't do any good the game being cheap, even free,

people will download it, buy it, will play for a week, doesn't play anymore and the game "dies". Proof of that, and I'm not saying that game is bad,

we have two games, one that is cheap and another that is free - it became free later; The cheap one is Power Rangers Battle for the Grid,

it's a cheap game, you play against all the platforms it released, absolutely all of them, including Stadia,

so if you have it on a Xone (Xbox One), for example, you play against PS4, Switch, PC and Stadia. That was all the platforms it released.

Cross-play with all of them, went down in history with that. But why it isn't played a lot, why isn't there more people playing everywhere?

Because it has cross-play but the online, while good, is not good enough to play globally, for example, me against foreigners

it's a little rough, there's some annoying lag while playing. And as much as Power Rangers is a good brand, a big brand,

specially nowadays as Hasbro's flagship brand, the game itself doesn't have appeal, the game has no appeal to audiences outside of Power Rangers.

You have characters from series that people likes, from Mighty Morphin' and all that, but there's some from the comics that only those who follow

will understand who it is. There's a lot of points that doesn't make people interested in playing

and there's also the point of the developer's support that I see. The game is good, it is fun,

if you want to just have fun you can, if you want to be a pro you can be a pro, has interesting mechanics, the tag system is cool,

but it doesn't have enough support and ends up not having appeal. And the other game is Fantasy Strike,

Fantasy Strike, that became free, in a free model that I find very good, very cool it's free model, however it just... it "exists"

Why do I say it "exists"? Because it's system is interesting, don't like it that much but still it is interesting; as a product it is very good,

it's well worked, when it became free because it wasn't before, but when they made it free a very good mechanic for it to be free,

but, for example, I don't find the characters charismatic, there's some "whatever" characters, lots of moves blatantly "traced" from other games,

so there's a lot of things- and it has good online, has crossplay between PS4 and Switch, so it has cool things,

but it doesn't have appeal by the game itself. It's no use the game having those 3 pillars as product, while as a game that it really matters, not deliver.

Not deliver what people expect. I am saying that those games are bad? No. I am saying that they don't have appeal,

and that lack of appeal makes people not interested. For the developers not investing properly, we will remind and will keep hitting the same key

about the blessed Riot's fighting game, that I speak so much about it that I'm afraid it's gonna come out, flop, and all hopes go down with it.

Because Riot-I always said- if they invest 10% of what they invest on League of Legends into Project L, it will eat the other fighting games alive.

We see what the developers work on the games, sometimes they can manage to erect one of those 3 pillars that I said,

Sometimes it has none, nobody got all 3, or when it has all 3, the game itself isn't good or don't have appeal or doesn't have the "oomph",

something the crown needs.

Maybe if one of the big ones, one of the big franchises manages to reach this: price, netcode and cross-play right of the bat,

maybe we'll have a new revolution for fighting games. Maybe we'll have a fighting game boom as we had with Street Fighter II,

later on we had with the success of KoF on the arcade's times and then with what we had with Street Fighter IV,

But while, I think, no one achieves this mixture of erecting those product pillars, while delivering a good game,

we will keeping banging our heads and have to pick and choose. "This game has bad netcode but it is fun, should I buy it?"

"This game's fun and netcode's good, but it's expensive. Should I buy it?" We'll keep banging our heads about this,

the community gets divided, and nobody is going to play for long that way, because again:

I am not talkin-not talking- about Brazil, I am talking about the world. Those 3 points that I said goes for the whole world.

Guilty Gear is going to compete with Final Fantasy 7 in June. Which one is going to sell more?

Maybe if it wasn't 60 dollars on launch it would be more cheap-I mean bought more? In the world, not just on Brazil, alright?

So that's it, folks, is my opinion, is what I think. More or less explaining the 3 pillars and yes,

the game also needs to be good, doesn't matter being cheap, have good netcode and have cross-play if the game isn't good.

And that's it, my friends. Do the internet thing that you guys know how to do much better than I do, a kiss on your hearts, until the next video, your beautiful ones of my life, a hug for you.