I'll be honest, I'm enjoying GGRev2 and Tekken 7 a lot, but what they've absolutely proven to me without a doubt is that the FGC has a personal vendetta against Capcom/SF. T7 is just about as barebones as SFV was from a single player perspective, and is missing a TON of QOL features that should have been there from the start. Lobbies are terrible and matchmaking/online is also apparently broken on PS4, yet we don't see nearly as much vitriol as we did with SFV. Overall, these games have kinda made me appreciate SFV more, as weird as that sounds.
Now if only we could get the balancing right...
Sorry, your post also deserves a full reply.
I do agree that SFV has become the whipping boy of the FGC, above and beyond the actual state of the current game. I don't know if the game can actually shake that reputation, but I do hope that Capcom keeps on improving on the game. Despite of my criticisms of the game, I still greatly enjoy the core gameplay.
But for reasons stated previously,I disagree with regards to single player in Tekken 7. I think the SP content is a big part of the reason why people are more lenient towards the game. That and the fact that you don't get kicked out of SP content due to the online issues, as was the case with SFV at launch. I do miss a trial mode, though.
That said, I agree that the online functionality in Tekken 7 is kinda whack, PS4 issues or not, which is made worse by the load times exceeding even SFV. It is, however, nice with proper Steam integration. The tournament mode also looks like a (potential) great addition, if the host quitting issue can be fixed.
Doesnt SFV do the same thing? It rewards you for playing various modes and encourages you to try different characters. Because you can get more Fight money by levelling up 10 characters to Level 20 than taking 1 character to level 100.
That's true.
The difference is that HotS has quests like "Play 3 matches as support" for a reward, vs SFV where you have to win increasing numbers of matches to level up a character. And you are increasingly forced to play characters that you don't care about. Not to mention that HotS also rewards leveling up individual characters.