I wish Konami would have realized this. While I was never a big fan of Capcom or Konami games personally, Konami was a great publisher that should never have ended up in the position they are now and their fans deserved better.

They should've waited until Marvel got the Fox characters back because the roster was pretty slim. Also the character models were horrible! I wished they would come up with an art style similar to the original games.

I still can't get over lost planet 3.

They should’ve spent time period developing the game into the best it could be.

Capcom regained the Marvel license in 2008 and spent 3 years developing MvC3. Capcom later regained the Marvel license in 2016 and spent 1 year developing MvC:I. The quality disparity is blatant to see as well as the budget allotted to each game.

There was no guarantee when development started that Fox would be bought by Disney and that shouldn’t have ever been a factor. Fighting series depend on their roster and cutting a bunch of longtime fan favorites is a bad idea. Capcom should’ve known this from the initial Street Fighter III and how rival Soul Calibur V was received.

And the new art direction is atrocious. Take any render or character portrait from the previous games and you always recognize it as being from Marvel vs Capcom. Doing so for this game makes audiences think it almost resembles how Marvel characters look in those mobile games.

This latest game felt almost ashamed of its legacy and fans reacted appropriately. I never thought I’d see the day where a Marvel vs Capcom game didn’t show its face at EVO and Marvel and Capcom only have themselves to blame for tarnishing this franchise’s great legacy cuz they wanted to MCU-ify it at the expense of its own storied identity.