SNK still interested in making Garou 2 and new Samurai Shodown; currently considering adding DLC characters to King of Fighters 14
Posted by Tony 'grumblebundle' Moore • September 21, 2016 at 11:56 a.m. PDT • Comments: 82
King of Fighters 14 is soon to receive a balance patch, but that may not be all that the developers want to do with the game. Even though it's been previously stated that there is no DLC planned for the game at this time, so many fans have asked about it that the team is considering ideas for what they could do for a major patch in the future.
One of their major causes of concern with adding more characters is the current size of the roster; 50 characters is quite the package to release with, and adding additional characters to the mix could not only cause issues with balancing the game, but also alienate fans who may not want to see additional characters come on board.
Unfortunately, nothing is set in stone at this time, but it is good to know that we could see more projects coming from SNK with enough support. You can check out a translation of what Oda and Neo G had to say below.
Statement on future plans from SNK
Well, I've been saying for a long time now that there's no DLC planned, but we've been asked so much about DLC that we've started thinking about what we maybe could do, and now we've started having ideas about what to do.
We've begun thinking "Wouldn't it be nice if we could make a pretty big update to the game?" There are a lot of characters we don't have in the game that people want, so of course we've been asked a lot about that, but there are also a lot of people who don't want us to put in any more because the game's roster is already up to 50 characters, as it is.
Of course, we have other IPs we want to work on games for as well... To be honest, nothing has been decided yet, either way, but when we did a poll to ask what people wanted, Samurai Shodown was the most requested game. So, there's nothing decided yet, but we're thinking about it.
We've said that we want to make Samurai Shodown, and we' ve said that we want to make Garou 2, but to be honest, there are a lot of different opinions within the company, so there's really nothing we've decided on making yet, so don't see ita s confirmation, we just have a lot of different potential projects to start on next.
