"Seeing as this has remained a hot topic for the community, we decided to ask Capcom's Director of Brand Marketing & Esports, Matt Dahlgren, exactly why the team decided to make these changes.
Dahlgren was happy to respond, and you can see what he said after the jump.
Dahlgren gives it to us straight, and to the point.
"First and foremost, it's a product still in development, so things get tweaked as we go along. If something could be considered ‘going too far,’ then we might have to scale things back.
“We work very closely with the ESRB to make sure we're a Teen rated franchise, and that's the primary, driving factor," he said."
It's always the ESRB's faultnot really Matt you fucking liar
>>319993606
>“We work very closely with the ESRB to make sure we're a Teen rated franchise, and that's the primary, driving factor," he said."
Seems fair enough
Too bad /v/ is obsessed with anything that doesn't pander to them
Why do you even care? Mika's a shit character and no one will play the stupid bitch anyway.
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>>319993768
"In an interview on UOL Jogos, Producer Yoshinori Ono explained the reasons behind the changes:
“Our objective with ‘Street Fighter V’ is to start over from zero”, explains Ono. “We want the professional players and the casual fans of the series to return, but we also want to reach those who have never even touched a fighting game. So we can’t have something in the game that makes people think, ‘This is not acceptable’”
Ono-san also promised that the change wasn’t influenced by external factors, but was born within the team:
“We didn’t make any change because of external influences Those changes came up internally. We decided to remove that because we want the biggest possible number of people to play, and we don’t want to have something in the game that might make someone uncomfortable.”
He then mentioned that the objective is to reduce as much as possible the instances that could offend someone."
>>319993993
>but we also want to reach those who have never even touched a fighting game.
It has never been a good thing when game companies say this
>>319993993
>but we also want to reach those who have never even touched a fighting game
Dropped
It's a marketing decision. That's all there is to it.
It's a small price to pay to avoid any complications with ratings boards and negative publicity.
>>319993993
>we also want to reach those who have never even touched a fighting game
Is there a redder flag?
>>319993993
>we also want to reach those who have never even touched a fighting game
>literal marketer
funny since they wouldn't know an ESRB form from a TRC
just more jewish lies from the west
>>319993993
Yeah go to online then get shit on so much they refun it in the next day.
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>>319994674
He wants the Smash Bros audience
>>319993993
>but we also want to reach those who have never even touched a fighting game.
And I thought we were through this wider audience phase already
