I think the issue is nowadays there's so much free content, the floor is actually rather hard to beat. Could an event like that be entertaining? Sure -- but it has to significantly beat whatever free options are available, and that's hard when there's 23545425252 other streams and 54326457637632643 cat videos online.
The difference with this is that you don't see players of this caliber play in an extended set for a bunch of money all of the time, and there's plenty of people who are interested in watching it. The question is whether the entertainment value is worth their money versus finding a free/illegal restream or YouTube rip.
Plus the majority of streams nowadays either have a subscription or ask for donations or run commercials, so some cost is being attributed to somebody. Plus there's no other streams to beat since there's nothing else going on fighting game wise on that weekend.
But the short answer is people are cheap and if they can avoid paying for something, they will.
I guess I can see what you mean. I just don't make that connection myself, because it is tied to the same style of rage mechanic that was in Tekken 6, which means that you can completely avoid having to deal with the move simply by avoiding your opponent's rage portion of his/her health bar.
The connection is that the vast majority of fighting games have some type of super attack/meter in them, so they must be needed which is my point to those who say that a game like SCV doesn't need them.
Rage arts is still tied to being at 20% of your lifebar, but now they've added a more accessible, emphasized, stylized comeback mechanic since you can press a couple of buttons and land an attack that does a huge grip of damage.
Practically, you can't avoid that portion of an opponent's health bar. Eventually you are going to have to deal with rage, and putting someone in rage happens more often than not. People said the same thing about rage in Tekken 6, but you watch enough high level matches and you see that it's not the case, especially now that people prefer to do 3/5 sets.
Also next weeks FGW title should be about the new tekken character or topanga 4500bp challenge imo. What other notable shit happened?l
Uncle Valle acting a fool on WNF:OE
FGCNN
coming through with some nail-biting journalism
Or the classic FGW | Nothing Happened: 2015 Edition