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Well, I can see the audience shrinking when you offer awesome jets at top dollar DLC prices with cutesy anime bullshit cross-marketing, and for a game that's Japan-only, to boot.
Oh, and charging what ends up being the cost of the full-price game for a per-level, piecemeal ultimate difficulty level is bullshit. Giving an achievement for beating all levels on it is an insult, especially for those who spent $150 on the game and the fucking flightstick.
And you want to know why your fanbase shrunk? There it is, black-and-white. You made yourselves look like the greediest publisher known to man. Not even Capcom, Konami, Activision or EA can touch the level of bullshit you pulled with AC6.
Oh, and charging what ends up being the cost of the full-price game for a per-level, piecemeal ultimate difficulty level is bullshit. Giving an achievement for beating all levels on it is an insult, especially for those who spent $150 on the game and the fucking flightstick.
And you want to know why your fanbase shrunk? There it is, black-and-white. You made yourselves look like the greediest publisher known to man. Not even Capcom, Konami, Activision or EA can touch the level of bullshit you pulled with AC6.
As a hardcore AC fan since the beginning, its easy to see where they lost their fan base when they cut the majority of them out of the loop by not releasing AC6 on both PS3 and 360. I certainly have zero expectations for their new rendition of Modern Warfare meets planes. I preferred the old structure and story telling of the AC games, they started getting away from that starting with AC6, and definitely with this new game. Oh well, I'll just go back to playing AC4.
Yeah, Namco really showed a total lack of understanding of DLC, and they did not help themselves by making AC6 a 360 exclusive despite the series history on Sony consoles.
I'm cool with them trying something new, I didn't even finish the last one on 360 because I just got bored 1/4 of the way through. I consider myself a fan of the series, but doing basically the same thing game after game is getting a little old.
I think your fanbase shrunk because you bypassed the console everyone was expecting the game on ( the ps3) and as mentioned above you managed to have one of the worse dlc policies EVER. Didn't have a damn thing to do with the game itself.
I agree with Everyday Legend and Genius, but also want to point out that while the fan-base has been starting to dwindle, making the games more realistic isn't helping. It might bring the series to a wider audience, but it might not. The series has been around for years--yes, with a small but very loyal fan-base. Yet that fan-base is being turned away by having the very things they love--the world of Strangereal and the semi-arcade-y physics--stripped out of the franchise. In order to get those fans back--which I don't see as being all that important to the company, sadly--they'd have to return to those two things, at least Strangereal. I just don't see that happening, sadly.
Console fanboys aside, the switch in tone and setting kills my interest in the series.
So because HAWX 2 did so damn good (protip: it didn't) they wanted to throw out everything distinct about their series and make HAWX 3: CoD Jetz? Seems a pretty poor choice to me.
Oh welp, can't get everything you want. I can't imagine this game doing good business - I wonder what the normally strong Japanese market for Ace Combat will think of it?
So because HAWX 2 did so damn good (protip: it didn't) they wanted to throw out everything distinct about their series and make HAWX 3: CoD Jetz? Seems a pretty poor choice to me.
Oh welp, can't get everything you want. I can't imagine this game doing good business - I wonder what the normally strong Japanese market for Ace Combat will think of it?
Whatever. I don't even begin to give a shit if they can't keep the setting of the prior games, the plot was literally half the reason I loved Ace Combat. I have zero interest in playing Ace Combat: Modern Warfare.
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No, RR I could care less about, but I'm one of the folks who spent $150 for that Hori throttle and flightstick on 360 - it deserves use, so Ace Combat needs to stick around.
6 was a good game, but it had its money-grubbing hands out for a $60 DLC difficulty level (do the math - I'm not kidding). I don't abide by that at all.
No, RR I could care less about, but I'm one of the folks who spent $150 for that Hori throttle and flightstick on 360 - it deserves use, so Ace Combat needs to stick around.
6 was a good game, but it had its money-grubbing hands out for a $60 DLC difficulty level (do the math - I'm not kidding). I don't abide by that at all.
I don't know how to feel about this. Love that there's a new AC game coming out but it seems like they're gonna alienate the fanbase even further with that push towards realism.
Wedge said it best. I really don't want to play Ace Combat: Modern Warfare.
Wedge said it best. I really don't want to play Ace Combat: Modern Warfare.
Naysayers take a fuckin seat!! Ace Combat is a great series that had its hiccups. this new direction the series is taking is more than welcome.. i dont think they are straying too far away form what made the series great in the first place, but its 2o-fuckin-11, time to refresh the series!! as an AC head, im soo lookin foward to this..man is this game lookin' good and fun to play!!
CANT WAIT FOR THE SOUNDTRACK!!
CANT WAIT FOR THE SOUNDTRACK!!
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