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Yoshinori Ono hoping to increase amount of people in the fighting game community by 10% in 2013

Posted by Catalyst
January 1, 2013 at 4:11 p.m. PST
Yoshinori Ono hoping to increase amount of people in the fighting game community by 10% in 2013 Yoshinori Ono revealed one of his goals for 2013 — to expand the fighting game community by 10%. He didn't elaborate on the metrics Capcom is using to gauge this, but in typical fashion, he sounded energized about the prospect.

Ono: Good morning 1st day of New Year! My objective is to increase people [in the fighting game] community by 10% this year. ;D

Capcom has already made some of their plans known for the fighting game community in 2013, as they recently hired two well respected members of the FGC, bringing Neidel "Haunts" Crisan and Peter "Combofiend" Rosas on board.

They also setup a deal with IPL (IGN Pro League) to host tournaments for their fighters, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition and Street Fighter X Tekken, but they could potentially add other titles as well.

As far as major releases/updates go, only Darkstalkers Resurrection (March 14) and the v2013 update to Street Fighter X Tekken (Jan. 29) are known at this time, but as it's just the first day of the year, there could be a lot more revealed in the near future.

What do you think Capcom should do to expand and support the community? Leave a comment below with your thoughts.

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Liamis1337 said on January 1, 2013 at 4:16 p.m.

I think another gamstop type thing would be cool. Make it for sfxt2013 and sf4ae2012.

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Arcand said on January 1, 2013 at 4:18 p.m.

A commitment to keep bugs and unfairness out of competitive fighters, to help keep the longevity of the games.

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flairinmike said on January 1, 2013 at 4:19 p.m.

Lot more revealed in the year = darkstalkers 4. But don't forget kids, only if you buy the rehash of the old ones...

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Oroku_Saki said on January 1, 2013 at 4:25 p.m.

Capcom All-Stars: Let's Go Training
The biggest baddest Capcom IPs in a battle for supremacy. There will be two input modes. EO [Easy Operation using the right analog to store special moves] mode and Tourney [regular input] Mode. The ability to filter out the input modes when searching for online battles will enable EO guys to face themselves, and Tourney guys to face themselves if so desired, of course, EO could go up against Tourney guys, and the lifebars will tell what mode you're using.
This game will have EVERYONE from Capcom, and surprise characters from Arika.
Minds will be lown, hype will be generated and power countries. There will be parrying, FADC, glitches into supers.
It will be magnificent.
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......But then it will get ruined by some DLC tactic.
Which will get a Gold release with all DLC, and be sold at a cheaper price.

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KTProsper said on January 1, 2013 at 4:28 p.m.

WHY WOULD YOU POST THIS ONO!?

Now we have to prepare for the complainers lmao..

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illness690 said on January 1, 2013 at 4:32 p.m.

I don't really care about this stupid community, just keep giving me decent fighters to play and I'll be good.

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Chrisuchiwa said on January 1, 2013 at 4:32 p.m.

Happy new year Everyone.
Well Capcom should announce DS4!!! For the Community, they need to support some majors and some great FG sites like this one. Because they are taking a lot of benefits from majors and FG sites.
#4, really interesting idea but not sure about EVERYONE, do you know how many characters capcom have? Not only fighters; Imagine characers from old games like Captain Commando, Cadillacs Dinosaurs, Final Fight, Punisher, Knights of the Round... + Characters from DMC, Resident Evil, Asura... lol

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TheMeth90 said on January 1, 2013 at 4:48 p.m.

Make CvS2 Online HD Edition, i think it will makes good sales like 3s OE.

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caruga said on January 1, 2013 at 5:13 p.m.

That sounds 10% likely.

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UncleBibby said on January 1, 2013 at 5:22 p.m.

I think they're gonna have a brand new fighting game property, to separate the gameplay from the brands that casual players avoid (like Street Fighter or Marvel VS), and it's gonna be completely different from EVERY other fighting game.

1. No combos (all moves have hitstun and blockstun but you can always block stuff)
2. no meters other than the health meter
3. no character choice, EVERYBODY plays as the same guy (or girl) but he/she can be extremely customized.
4. no menus: you choose whether you wanna play online or use training mode or whatever simply by guiding your character to ingame buildings, such as a dojo (in order to train) or a dirty old pub (in order to fight people online) or a sport arena (in order to do arcade mode)
5. No sound. The entire game is silent.
6. No controller. You simply shout at the tv to tell your character what to do, like you're his trainer.
7. No graphics: the entire game is just a black screen.

In fact, this game is already pre-installed on all game consoles; you just turn off your console and it starts up!

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RedRapperSux said on January 1, 2013 at 5:42 p.m.

Cool

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shinclimax said on January 1, 2013 at 6:07 p.m.

Stuff Capcom can help with:
1) E-sports. If we can get fighting games to be on TV a lot (not just once or twice a month or year), we can get more viewers. Hopefully some of these viewers will turn into gamers.

Stuff Capcom probably can't help with
2) ARCADES. A lot of us started because of arcades. It gives us a place to meet and learn.

3) Removing the beef and stupidity. Hype is good, but we can all still be friends.

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F_Groove said on January 1, 2013 at 6:08 p.m.

We might actually see that 10% increase considering AE and SFxT have been relatively dirt cheap these last couple of months. There could be a big influx of new players coming in 2013. Hell, AE is free for PSN+ users no?

Couple that with the IPL partnership and Capcom seems to be really pushing hard for the Fighting Game scene.

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BumblebeeCody said on January 1, 2013 at 6:17 p.m.

I thought it said "Ono looking to increase power by 10%" as if he's a Saiyan.
Good lick to Capcom on their mission but I see it being "How can we add more gimmicks to let newcomers into our game"

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DustinFong said on January 1, 2013 at 6:27 p.m.

I can see two ways of doing this:

1. Make Capcom FGs esports and attract the "I want to be esports and make lots of money!" nitwits. Maybe that will happen.

2. Make a new good game. Unlikely.

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BlankaBeast said on January 1, 2013 at 6:48 p.m.

I think we can do 20%

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HooliganComboFTW said on January 1, 2013 at 7:09 p.m.

10% increase sounds feasible

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OhYouDontSayThat said on January 1, 2013 at 7:45 p.m.

update marvel and they will come.

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thegoldencat said on January 1, 2013 at 7:47 p.m.

Free hat.

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Erichful said on January 1, 2013 at 7:52 p.m.

How many people are there in the FGC now?

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Roll_tier said on January 1, 2013 at 8:11 p.m.

I hope it raises by 8.95% Kappa

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Smorgasboard said on January 1, 2013 at 8:23 p.m.

There are many ways to increase the player base by 10%. Not all of them are related to tournaments though.

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Aluppoj said on January 1, 2013 at 8:31 p.m.

Update SF4 to include Mike Haggar = 100,000,000,000% increase in the power/population of the fgc.

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WarLoRd23 said on January 1, 2013 at 8:54 p.m.

why would they put sfxt instead of marvel

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Jookey said on January 1, 2013 at 9:48 p.m.

@16

But only on PC, right!?

PC FTW!

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werewolfgold said on January 2, 2013 at 1:43 a.m.

We need to kick out some of the existing community members first... kappa

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rosy said on January 2, 2013 at 2:27 a.m.

Make it happen UMVC3 and Darkstalkers 4 to PC and you will get more than 10%

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sdfgewiousdyfgwu said on January 2, 2013 at 3:34 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

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old_school_rival said on January 2, 2013 at 6:39 a.m.

Bring out a new Powerstone game or a Capcom crossover game that is similar to Powerstone 2. Stick characters in it from various popular franchises including fighting games, easy to grasp, fun as hell; 10% increase with no problem.

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AnaboliChris said on January 2, 2013 at 7:10 a.m.

Bringing in people is not hard, its keeping them. Party games will attract kids but will not keep their attention.

Bring some deep "real" fighting games to the table and you will be able to keep peoples attention.

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ElHiznahn said on January 2, 2013 at 7:15 a.m.

There's only one change he needs to do to reach that goal: stop recycling the ugly bloated garbage character models from SFIV. Easy, simple.

Better yet, also not have jump arcs so goddamn narrow and not have the screen move vertically every time someone jumps. Awful mechanics.

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N0_0NE_SPECIAL said on January 2, 2013 at 7:22 a.m.

10% increase to FGC?

PUT IN CHARACTERS WE WANT. RESOLUTION ACHIEVED.

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old_school_rival said on January 2, 2013 at 7:43 a.m.

@30 a percentage of those people will be retain their interest in fighting games. Having party games is better than watering down your mainstream hardcore fighter. The latter appears to be a lose/lose situation.

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hesap12 said on January 2, 2013 at 9:26 a.m.

WHAT CHANGES THE NATURE OF A MAN?

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Model_M said on January 2, 2013 at 10:12 a.m.

@23 lol yes, because I've been seeing people in every comment thread crying for Haggar in SF4...

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SuperiorTech said on January 2, 2013 at 2:54 p.m.

An all capcom roster that plays like marvel,SF reps are a given, throw in some male darkstalkers like Talbain,Jedah,L.Raptor. some reps from the following, powerstone ,breath of fire ,god hand, chaos legion, asura's wrath, project justice, tech romancer, that chick from remember me, MEGAMAN and any other franchise that people have been asking for. No DLC stunts, a ton of modes,and they'll get way more than 10%.

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KissofPoison said on January 2, 2013 at 3:32 p.m.

They will fail at this until the producers of products stop picking crap that they want to see in it, and start doing stuff the COMMUNITY wants to see in it...

Until they put us first their will never be a chance.

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hesap12 said on January 2, 2013 at 3:39 p.m.

Shin Hakan

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Sankoukai said on January 3, 2013 at 2:22 a.m.

just use a gem :) +10% increase FGC !!!

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