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rexor0717 said:
"Flux vs Shampoo is a 10-0 matchup"
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For real though.
 
Can someone paste the message from watson about Arcade Relief that was posted on SRK? Can't get the site to load at all
 
kr2t0s said:
Can someone paste the message from watson about Arcade Relief that was posted on SRK? Can't get the site to load at all
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Here:

This past weekend was a complete emotional roller coaster at the event I tagged “Arcade Relief.” It was a charity fundraiser I came up with to help a dear friend named Ralph. As you know by now, Ralph is the owner of Family Fun Arcade and has come up on some extremely rough times these past couple years. Prostate cancer, nerve damage, a broken shoulder, you name it, it’s there. The saying “when it rains it pours” unfortunately holds true during bad times for many people and I wanted this event to be that sunshine after the storm. I wanted so bad for this event to be something monumental and memorable. So much so that it would stay in everyone’s heart forever, and put a stamp on the FGC. But most of all, I wanted this event to help Ralph turn his life around after he had done so much for the community in terms of innovation, hard work, and just being that landmark in the United States that held Street Fighter together during the good and dark years of the game.

The turnout at FFA was incredible on Saturday. Starting roughly at 1pm the place was getting jam packed and I was really excited that this was gonna be something so huge that it would blow the roof off the place. Be careful what you wish for, because approximately at 2am we had an issue with law enforcement and the city. Someone snitched out to the police and an officer came down to talk to Ralph about being way over capacity.

Good news– the community showed up full force to support my friend and make this a night to remember. Bad news– hot shot cop doing his job to the fullest and not giving the gentleman any slack for what technically is the “going away party” for FFA since it’s closing down at the end of the year.

Now there’s two sides to everything, and I do understand the problem of public safety. I understand that no life is worth that risk, so shutting down the place wasn’t a completely horrible move. We spend a lot of time handling safety issues involving power outlets and making sure we weren’t putting anyone in danger, but regardless of any effort used, it’s a moot point when the fire marshal sees over 250 people crammed into an arcade. So as most of you know, our 24 hour event was cut short at about 2:30AM and Ralph made his speech which can be seen above.

In the meantime, I was standing way in the back just trying to absorb the moment and realize all that has been happening. This guy is pouring his heart out; I can see him struggling while talking to all the patrons that night while holding back his emotions. Then we get a few chants of F-F-A and everyone seems very understanding that it’s time to go and we have no choice so we shut down. We succeeded in a sense that everyone that came showed their support and people seem to just be having fun playing games and entering tournaments. Now you might ask, what could be wrong? Well, here’s where I’m going to be brutally honest and I’ll probably take a lot of criticism for my comments, but I’m ready.

This event was intended to be a fundraiser/charity event to help relieve a person who has been, and is the longest standing pillar in the community. This event was supposed to help a person who has come across health issues and medical bills that are so large he can no longer live his current life and maintain his everyday tasks as an arcade operator, leading to the closing of this huge landmark in the community. This event was supposed to help open the eyes and offer a history lesson to the newer players and members of our beloved FGC.

And as a local event, I feel I succeeded to the fullest, but as a fundraiser I feel that I’ve failed him, and feel heart broken and flustered. We raised a good amount in person with the tourney donations, mind you there was no venue fee charged and all the money for tourneys went directly to the pot, and we also had a huge turnout which was good for the arcade in terms of people spending money on games and refreshments. What we didn’t do was raise enough money from online donations.

I feel the community has done a great job of supporting people during rough times and came out full force. Examples being the stick modder John Wade, who had a horrific accident and went blind in one eye, Chris Hu, who had his home burn down and lost not only his but his family belongings. Then we move on to Clockwork’s “Fight for Youth” charity event which raised money for less fortunate kids to go on field trips, and MYK who had an emergency room medical bill that he needed help with, and most recently Knives, whose mother lost her home to a fire and lost all their family belongings. All these donation drives earned enough to help these people out, and I’m damn proud of it. I even put aside my differences with TriForce and donated money to him so that he could travel to bury his mother. What’s my point you might be asking? Well this isn’t a typical rant or me just being me, aka getting old and bitter.

This is me asking the community for one last effort to help Ralph raise enough money to put a dent in his problems. I don’t want to sound like a beggar. I just want to give him one final send off after all he’s done.

Normally I wouldn’t even put out there how much was raised, but for paypal alone it was under $1,000. This number is so miniscule if you compare it to how important the issue is and how big a role Ralph has played through the years of molding the scene we have all grown to be a part of. Online raffles for sticks by so called “top players” get $500-$1000 dollars in donations, previous drives earned over $20,000 for people in need, Fight For Youth earned about $30,000, and this donation drive received under $1000?

Now go ahead and flame away, I totally understand people have the right to do whatever they want and donate to whatever cause they want. I totally understand that times are tough for a lot of people out there, and we all need to worry about ourselves before helping others, but please take into consideration my point. He’s done so much for this community for 38 years, and he deserves our help.

I hate to blatantly call people out but this is serious and he really needs your help. I have done everything in my power to make things better by throwing an event, entertaining the stream monsters, and sitting back hoping people will help. Now all I can do is wait and see what happens by the end of the year and if my words will change anything. Thank you all for showing up to our event, thanks to everyone who tuned in, and thank you to all of those who donated. Everything that has been done already is greatly, greatly appreciated and I am hoping this final push will send Ralph off into a better place.
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That's a whole lot of "I know I shouldn't complain, but here I go anyways."

Like he said, people can do anything they want with their money. $1000 is still a lot to come out of generous people's pockets, especially when there were two other Charity events that same week, even overlapping in cases. Plus it's harder to motivate stream monster Joe Blow to donate to helping a local arcade owner or arcade they had no personal relationship with vs. a charitable organization. That sounds about right for what I'd expect in terms of donations.

EDIT: Capcom says gems are not easier to select because they didn't have enough time. Lol SMH.
 
scytheavatar said:
Chances are they were referring to the time to add that idea to the patch. Not only do they need to design the controls for that they'll need to design the user interface and a way players could be taught how to use it intuitively.
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I don't know about you, but minimum 9 months after launch is enough time to do that for v2013 IMO.
 
Professor Beef said:
I thought we agreed to ban any non-news regarding Marvel?
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By all definitions it's news. Now it's clear that JoJos was his "next project" and not a side project, it also lets us know what the current status is of fighting game development is at Capcom. Now it's either unlikely Niitsuma is working on Darkstalkers, or it hasn't been greenlit yet, or they only have one team (Ayano-san's) actively working on something (v2013).

EDIT: Excluding Iron Galaxy.
 
No one really plays Yang now though, so it's really hard to tell exactly where he would fall.
Yun still has people that still do well.

Just on paper, it seems like he definitely got the ArcSys treatment though.
 
See my post above. If you don't care about what's going on development-wise at Capcom, I suppose it's not news, but if you do care, it is.
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It's not news because there is nothing concrete in there. It's a bunch of maybes and probabilities.

Basically the article is saying "maybe Nitsuma is working on some prototype... or maybe he isn't". So essentially no news that I can see here.
 
Dahbomb said:
It's not news because there is nothing concrete in there. It's a bunch of maybes and probabilities.

Basically the article is saying "maybe Nitsuma is working on some prototype... or maybe he isn't". So essentially no news that I can see here.
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The news is that the JoJo's port wasn't a side project he was supervising, it was his next project at the time, which there was uncertainty about before when it was stated fighting game teams had moved on to new games. Now we know it was just a port he was working on and not a full game. So currently we can deduce there's only one active fighting game development team at Capcom and it's Ayano-san's working on v2013 and possibly something else.
 
Karsticles said:
I actually wonder if Niitsuma is getting "punished" for UMvC3's sales performance.
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With Japanese companies, you have no idea. I still think UMvC3's sales did good for what it was and how much they did for it, just not enough to justify a third expansion. There were so many factors beyond Niitsuma's control that led to UMvC3 that I'm sure even higher ups are cognizant of.

Horseress said:
Thank you based enzo! That'll keep me entertained for tonight, since nobody is streaming something cool #streammonstersproblems
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The second video is especially nice. MarlinPie actually going toe to toe with Yipes, pulling out tricks, some very high damage Viper combos you don't see in actual matches, different infinites, etc. MarlinPie still got it, a lot in there is the best I've seen him play, but it still seems he performs much better outside of tournament pressure.
 
LeMaximilian said:
Yea, I think SFxT pushed around 1.5mil. UMVC3 did around 600k? I might be off by a few.

For some of you guys that didn't follow Watts story on SRK, I made a quick video about this situation as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paNgdoVoQgA
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1.5 for SFxT? No wonder Capcom think that shit is salvageable.

Lost Fragment said:
Da fuck @ the comments. How did so many idiots get the idea that you're asking for donations for yourself so you can buy arcade machines?
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YT comments are on another level of "WTF"
 
Lost Fragment said:
Da fuck @ the comments. How did so many idiots get the idea that you're asking for donations for yourself so you can buy arcade machines?
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I'm usually a fairly laid back person with this kind of stuff, and feel it a personal obligation to defend Watts charity, Ralph and FFA because I've been going there for so long and know Ralph personally. But the amount of social and moral depravity from people regarding certain situations at times can really set me over the edge.

People like this exist in every community of any kind, but if there's a chance to call them out or weed them out, going to do my best to make sure that happens.
 
Karsticles said:
I actually wonder if Niitsuma is getting "punished" for UMvC3's sales performance.
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Doubtful, the problems with that game are the same sales problems Extend had. Title updates in the modern age need to be add-ons, not replacements.

I do have to say, as a casual non-West Coast Stream Monster, that I had no idea what Arcade Relief was about, other than it was a donation drive because an long-time arcade was closing. "Why" people should send money wasn't really being broadcast well.
 
kirblar said:
I do have to say, as a casual non-West Coast Stream Monster, that I had no idea what Arcade Relief was about, other than it was a donation drive because an long-time arcade was closing. "Why" people should send money wasn't really being broadcast well.
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Yeah. I think part of it was, like Max said in his video, Ralph isn't a very well-known person to stream monsters. But I also don't think the "why" was communicated very well either. It took like an hour or so before I realized that they were even soliciting donations from stream monsters.
 
Lost Fragment said:
Yeah. I think part of it was, like Max said in his video, Ralph isn't a very well-known person to stream monsters. But I also don't think the "why" was communicated very well either. It took like an hour or so before I realized that they were even soliciting donations from stream monsters.
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I didn't know it was a donation drive. I thought it was a celebration before the arcade closed. Maybe they will advertise this during TRB to let people know about donating.
 
antikythera said:
Is Yang good in AE? I don't like how weak his rekkas feel compared to SF3.
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Like in SF3 he's super high execution and requires long combos to make up for his weak damage. The effort you need to put in to be good in Yang is why you rarely see Yang players do as well in tourneys as Yun players, who has less weaknesses for less effort. Mike Ross did mentioned that someone in Japan did a 100% combo on his Honda in the arcades with Yang..... so a good Yang is still ridiculous.
 
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