I completely 100% agree with you on the tourney stuff not mattering to more people and the people wanting the game. What I don't agree with is the arcade operators portion since T7 has done so well chances are they don't need that especially considering the same money that T7 made was used to bring FR to their arcades in the first place. T7 did gangbusters money-wise. Arcade operators don't hold a gun to Namco's head in this case because T7 is doing amazing.
Also the WizardWorld tourneys nah, I don't think Namco's like Capcom in which they're structuring an entire game around a major tourney like that which hasn't released. Knowing these guys they'll release it when is and that's contributed to the fact that they're not bring T7FR to every major tourney they can.
Again, the only thing I agree with is how most of this tourney, around the world play T7FR for arcade stuff doesn't help most of us and the fact we've waited this long with no info. Not only is that a bad business model but that's exactly why a lot of companies shoot themselves in the foot. We want to hear info on how the console versions are being developed, what's being planned and exactly how things are coming along. Even if Namco gives us an update every 2 weeks with something as similar as "we're adjusting the costumes" we'd be fine but we need actual updates. Nobody wants to be in the dark about stuff like this especially when you have a game coming out. Look at how SFV sold. It didn't have extra content attached to it like Tekken games but what's even more striking is the fact that it didn't have Arcade or a VS CPU. Sure, Capcom might have said something about it weeks prior to release but most of the public had no idea of it considering they randomly threw it out there before release, people bought the game not knowing that.
The point I'm making is unless they start having a rollout where we know what'll be in the game then we could have bad sales due to the fact that most won't know. You can't spring that upon people like that, it's bad business.
lol you really think arcade owners have a mindset of "we already profited enough off of vanilla T7....no worries namco, you go ahead and release FR only 5 months after we purchase multiple $15,000 cabinets from you."
In regards to SFV, Capcom wanted the game to release
before an event. In T7's case, it's the opposite. They are holding trade show type events to showcase the game and there wouldn't be any reason for having those after the game releases. So I'm expecting November 2016 at earliest and even that's being way too optimistic.
I think this is hitting you guys hard because you folks were still so invested in Tekken through TTT2's timeline. I've abandoned hope for a while now so I'm not really anticipating "good" news ever. But whenever I do see a gaming side Tekken thread or when I periodically check here, I sometimes feel a bit of joy (not today though ha).
Don't watch their streams, don't follow their tweets. Make them know you're no longer interested. Otherwise, they have you right where they want you... helping spread hype with your uber anticipation skills.
That's what I've been doing......ignoring the game. I tuned in last night because the "major announcement" tease piqued my curiosity. And I wish I hadn't tuned in because I only left madder. I have absolutely zero interest in watching the game being played for another year. I think the number of stream views is also indicative that other people hold similar sentiments.
Tekken 7 was starting to reach 10,000-20,000 views after the FR reveal. And then everyone realized this game is releasing in July 2016 in arcades and we'll be waiting another long year before we even get to play it. And all interest died down.
Nina was the last thing to hype me up - and even that was a practical lie. They held off releasing her in vanilla saying they were revamping her moveset and the end result was her playing exactly the same as previous iterations with three new moves.
