Being someone who bought this game day one, I feel taken advantage of and I'm totally devastated that this title makes the version I paid for (with interest I might add) totally obsolete and irrelevant. I cannot even fathom they would consider not making this something I can download. It's things like this that makes me not want to buy anything new again. It makes no sense buying day one if I'm always having to buy the other half of the game for another full game price. Yes I know its 40 bucks, but thats thew whole point. I can get the full version months later for the same price if I'm just patient. This only makes me that much more reluctant in the future.

I don't like what Capcom is doing but a CEO's primary objective is raising the value of its shares for sharholders. News about strong profits do just that supplementing that the shareholders get a nice chunk of the profits as well.

A private company like Valve, doesn't have to nickel and dime customers to make great quarterly earning for its investors and that is why Valve is the most respected and arguable, the most loved entertainment software and technology company in the business.

I don't like this as a gamer (Street Fighter IV was the last game I purchased from Capcom) and I show it with my money but I can't imagine the pressure of having a job that depends on an ability to make huge quarterly profits and not pissing customers off.

EA, Capcom, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft etc are in the business of making as money as often as possible for as little as possible for their shareholders or Executives will be replaced with someone that can.

Why are you still supporting Crapcom???

I'm only happy about this game because I never bought MvC3 and now I can do so and get to play as Phoenix Wright. For anyone who's already payed for the game though, this is an absolute rip off. What happened to DLC?

I'm going to play devil's advocate here. The reason why this is happening is because "Gamers" demand it to be this way. When MvC3 was in development and being released people couldn't get enough of it and couldn't stop saying "We need this game now" and seeing as Capcom does not have that many successful IP's, they made a very craft business decision. They stopped development early, polished it as much as they could (or felt was necessary) and released it to our waiting hands and you know what? We bit hard.

The game IMO was not good as a fighter, to be honest I felt it's a great party fighter game easy to pick up, do combos and specials and seeing a bunch of boyhood characters duke it out its a blast. But there is just something missing that keeps it from Greatness (again my views only). And now with people complaining about balance, characters that have gone missing (Mainly Strider) Capcom saw another chance to make some more money to those same people who bought the first game and know what? they'll succeed yet again. Why? Because gamers don't know how to be patient.

If the OG MvC3 wasn't plagued with leaks and people shouting from the rooftops that this game "Looks fine as is and we want it now" than guess what? the game would've spent more time in development getting refined and possibly had included a few more characters that we wanted (Again mainly Strider) and had a later release date. For all we know November could've been the targeted date all along but seeing as people are impatient the game was released to make money and have a successful business quarter and it worked. Now Capcom is releasing what is really an expansion to a game that should really still be in its closing months of development and when its released it will sell another million units and there will probably be talks about another expansion similar to what we see with the SF series and we only have ourselves to blame. People need to learn to how to be patient, if you feel a game is not ready to be bought, then don't buy it. Its that simple. If MvC3 didn't sell as well as it did then 1 of 2 things happens. Support for the franchise gets scraped or they try to recoup the franchise with UMvC3 but they start doing everything possible to make sure the "Ultimate" tag is not just a marketing ploy.

Impatient consumers is what has caused the market to be what it is today. Why do you think there's a Call of Duty game every year? multiple expansions or upgrades to games that released just months earlier, because consumers now-a-days what the latest and greatest super quick and are willing to pay top dollar for the "privilege". What company in their right mind wouldn't release product on a accelerated cycle if it means more money. That's business "take what you can now, because later might be too late."
EA did it with madden in the PS2 days, Activision has done it Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero and now Call of Duty. Capcom is doing it with their Fighters and whatever the next trend is that next company will do the same. Know how we stop that? put your money away and stop spending it on stuff that you shouldn't be paying for. Stop buying map packs, stop buying yearly titles that don't change, stop buying costumes for you characters and stop buying characters, WTF is that all about? These things used to be included back in the day and if not we saw a pretty long development cycle before hand to at least justify the cost in our eyes. The more money you keep giving these companies the more money they will take from you, its that simple.

21 comments and it's still not been approved :p

Kinda funny seeing comments blasting sony for their highest rated game being a remaster (forgetting they published goty contenders yotei and ds2 as well) and comments congratulating square for being number 1 just releasing ports, remasters and remakes. Cool.

im not all too surprised about Sony, they havent rly given us any games recently

square also surprised me but dragon quest has been brilliant

Within the span of 10 months, we will have gotten Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yōtei, Marathon and Saros. To be continued by Wolverine and Phantom Blade Zero coming from Sony's CHP in the 2nd half of this year alone.

I don't know what kind of lineup some of you need.

Congratulations to SE and Capcom! And damn Microsoft with 21 titles?!