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Capcom Receives Lower BBB Rating

The Gamer's voices has been heard and Capcom is eating humble pie.

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vortis5138d ago

Ahahahaha....ahahaha....I can't stop laughing. It's like that bully who steals your launch money for "protection" and then you finally tell the principal on him and he's like "so what, maggot" and then the principal is all like, "well I'm lowering your grade because you're a douche"

Yi-Long5138d ago

... the way they have been nickel-and-diming their fans has been a complete disgrace!

LOGICWINS5138d ago

This is awesome! I'm filing a complaint later on today. Hope more people do the same.

ps360wiihdera5138d ago (Edited 5138d ago )

Someone please list the misdeeds of capcom so everyone can see

vortis5138d ago

@ps360wiihdera

Dude, did you click the link and check out the links in the article? It's all there but if you want a list:

* more than 30% of SFxT's content is behind a pay wall

* hackers found out that the pay-wall is actually a really, really cheap hex-wall so it looks like Capcom stripped off the main game to re-sell to you later

* Asura's Wrath ending requires you to pay $7 to find out how it ends

* They advertised pair-play (sort of) but it wasn't in the Xbox 360 version but they didn't say anything until after the game released

* they lied about why pair-play wasn't in the Xbox 360 and changed the story a few times

* they refused to add pair-play in a patch and they won't add it to the PC version of SFxT but they're removing the on-disc DLC

* They disc-locked colors...dude...colors.

solidjun55138d ago

@vortis Man I was visibly furioius when I found out Scamcom had the nerve to create a DLC for the "true" ending of Asura Wrath. I was like "What?! are you serious?!" It's akin to finishing a book with a shitty ending only to pay for the "True ending" 4 months later. (note: I'm not saying Asura's wrath that a shitty ending)

I still think Crapcom most egregious act is the 'disc lock content' mess they pulled. I find it hilarious they would charge this and just to justify it. For example, Guy was in Super Street fighter 4, but we have to pay for him in Street fighter x tekken even thought they practically used the same engine? The way i see it, the next game they'll create have less characters and the rest, such as taking out one of the shotokan characters (akuma, ken) and adding them as disck lock content.

I hope crapscamcom gets what's comming to them.

Soldierone5138d ago

Lol I was done bothering with it after they pulled their resident evil crap. "Oh we didn't finish the multiplayer on time so it will be DLC" 1 Why not delay the game? 2 Oh it's not finished, yet the DLC was only like 10Kb and only unlocks content on the disc.....

lastdual5138d ago (Edited 5138d ago )

I agree that Capcom has dug their own grave, but let's be realistic:

How many video game customers actually check the BBB rating of a publisher before buying a game?

I'm guessing that number is pretty low. A BBB downgrade is more of a symbolic slap than anything that will really effect Capcom's sales. Now if gamers were to actually ignore RE6 when it came out, that would send a real message. But how likely is that to happen?

Sagetech5138d ago

In addition to what Vortis said which was mainly SFxT related:

*The original Marvel vs Capcom 3 had Shuma Gorath and Jill locked on disc (albeit Jill missing an audio line or two)

*Within a year of releasing said Marvel vs Capcom 3 released Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 which still didnt come with Jill and Shuma unlocked.

*Released Resident Evil The Mercenaries on 3ds as a full price release when it was just a port of the Mercenaries mode on PS3/360 Resident Evil 5 with additional content.

*Street Fighter 4, Super Street Fighter 4, Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition within two years.

On the Street Fighter point I'm well aware that capcom and many other fighting game companies have had this practice from ages ago but that was before high speed internet was available and updates werent practical but in this day and age that shouldnt be the case and you shouldnt be made to pay for simple game updates (I mean seriously you saw characters from SSF4 in SF4's intro -__- )

Soldierone5138d ago

@lastdual, the only way it will matter is if the news picks it up. However since this isn't about video games being violent or something similarly stupid, so that won't happen.

ChiVoLok05138d ago

Completely agree with everything you said and I also think a B is a bit high for Capcom at the moment.

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Simon_Brezhnev5138d ago

Best news i heard all year. LMFAO

Blackdeath_6635138d ago

totally agree, i hope this raises awarness to people. capcom has completely disregarded its fanbase on multiple occasions, usually i wouldn't give a s**t and just move on. but the only reason i care is because capcom is the company that made my favourite game of all time(DMC3) and i feel its just a waste that they are screwing them selves and the fans over like this.

SephirothX215137d ago

How dare these companies try to make money!! Everything must be free God dammit!! Only kidding but if company's make a small wrong move nowadays like putting a not so good ending at the end of their game, people go crazy. If those said people put as much energy into doing something productive as they do complaining, they might make something of themselves. Though they don't and therefore stay failures.

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Kamikaze1355138d ago

Good for them; they got what they deserve. I hope it goes even lower. I know not all of Capcom are responsible for it, but unless the higher ups begin to feel the pressure, nothing will change.

Darkieinthemist5138d ago

Aside from the 3 stupid posts here already, I need to point this out

"While the rating doesn't say a whole lot about Capcom,"

"While websites like IGN put us down for our sense of "entitlement", and people like Michael Pachter badgered us for our protests, it all amounted to something tangible in the end, kind of. "

SO what the hell does this even matter for?

Ninver5138d ago

Quick! get out your pitch forks and light your torches. I smell a Scamcom employee.

Regent_of_the_Mask5138d ago

BBB doesn't matter anyways. They can pay them again to get back a perfect rating anyways.

grailly5138d ago

I've never heard of BBB before, what do they do?

soundslike5138d ago (Edited 5138d ago )

BBB rates businesses based on how much money they pay them.

Its a scam. Its been proven a scam time and time again yet idiots still put their faith in it.

grailly5138d ago

I read up a bit on BBB, it looks like they have no power, it's basically companies paying for a label to paste on their products...
also it's only for the states. I guess this doesn't change anything, so stop being proud, people.

Megaton5138d ago (Edited 5138d ago )

Yup, my dad worked for BBB for awhile. It's meaningless. All they do is get companies to pay them to be rated by the BBB, so they can flaunt it around as some kind of badge of honor. I was surprised to see how much emphasis people around here put on their ratings. It's a dying racket. My dad had said that most small businesses they targeted didn't even know what the BBB was.

grailly5138d ago

People don't put emphasis on the BBB it's just that they want it to be hurting capcom so badly so they make it up to be an important corporation lol. I guess most didn't even know about the BBB before; my brother who has a masters degree in international business development never heard of it...

specialguest5138d ago

Aside from the BBB scam, even if they get a grade of an F, who actually reviews Capcom or any game company's BBB score before buying a game? I think it's unfortunately irrelevant when it comes to the purchase of games.

humbleopinion5138d ago

Exactly, nobody even heard about BBB nor do people pay them attention. This seems like another yet website seeking from hits running a crusade against a gaming company: in this case CinemaBlend even publicly admits they're on a crusade against Capcom.

As for the BBB itself, just for comparison:
Ubisoft hold a rank of A++ although there are 74 complaints against it compared to Capcom's 42. And remember it's ubisoft we're talking about with they're always-on DRM and previously the shoddy Starforce DRM...
http://www.bbb.org/greater-...

Sony Computer Entertainment on the other hand holds a rating of F:
http://www.bbb.org/greater-...

And before you say "well SCE had the YLOD and the network breach user leak fiasco", one should remember that The Xbox business had the even bigger RROD fiasco while they still retain a rating of A+:
http://www.bbb.org/western-...

So yeah... BBB ratings. That makes sense.

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Mirrikh5138d ago

With DLC publishers have found a way of charging an extra £20 chopping up there games. Some don't because of integrity others would stab you in the face for an extra £10. Capcom are standing in the carnage blood on their hands, clasping their face stabbing screwdriver proudly above their head, screeching 'YOU ENTITLED WHINERS, WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME!'

The extra characters in SFXT would've been available to unlock by gaming ten years ago. I can't understand how they can say they didn't have time to finish pair play on the 360 when they had time to finish and get the DLC on the disc. Maybe more people would buy your game if it had double the characters the first time around.

These tactics are hurting gamers, they aren't to combat piracy, sales of good games are higher than ever, they're trying to gouge us and the force they're using is getting ridiculous.

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Metacritic's 2026 Game Publisher Rankings

Jason Dietz: "We reveal the past year's best and worst video game publishers (based on their 2025 releases) in the 16th edition of our annual Game Publisher Rankings."

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Christopher45d ago

Take note, Sony, you're falling behind by a lot.

-Foxtrot45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

I was just going to say this, their biggest and top rated game here is TLOU2 for PC….it’s embarrassing.

Even Ubisoft and EA are ahead

Kind of surprised Nintendo is pretty low aswell, their biggest game is also a rerelease with the Switch 2 version of TotK.

StoneColdCrazy45d ago

That’s what happens when you start shutting down your own studios and forget what actually made you matter in the industry in the first place. Sony used to set the standard — now it feels like they’ve lost that identity. And if they decide to walk away from the PC market too, that’s going to be another huge mistake — that platform is only growing, and ignoring it now would just put them even further behind.

1Victor45d ago

@christopher:” Take note, Sony, you're falling behind by a lot.”
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Why single out Sony? Microsoft didn’t do any better than the year before 5th same as Sony 9th and they have acquired activision and other mayor titles that have boosted their score massively from a 9th and Sony a 4th the year before the acquisitions.
Sony does need to do better without a doubt and I do hope they do take note but not the note of buying publishers is the way to succeed.

Christopher45d ago

1. Microsoft didn't get worse.
2. Sony got way worse.
3. Because Sony needs the criticism the most considering their publishing output this generation has been propped up by last gen ports and third-party developers for the most part.

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thesoftware73045d ago

1Victor,

I don't wanna speak for Christopher, but like most of us we recognize that Sony's output this Gen has been way below their own standards.

Also Sony did buy a fair amount of Devs, I know you will say they were not publishers, and don't compare in size, but they had their fair share of Aquisitions, including the very well established Bungie.

The overall point is with their stellar first party track record of the past, they should not be going down, they are singled out because they are some of the best videogame devs/publisher on the planet...no matter what reasons we attribute to the situation, they are moving in the wrong direction... period.

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KyRo44d ago

Its widely accept that Sony this generation has been underwhelming. We've had more peripheral releases, controller variants, PS5 accessories than games it feels like. The exclusives were also PS4 and what little output they have put exclusively on PS5 is nowhere near as memorable as what came in every generation before that.

This isn't a Sony hate post but anyone who's older and has been around for a long time gaming will agree that PS5 is by far Sony's worst generation. As much as Xbox is in the gutter, I pray the do bounce back in the hope we get Sony to wake up again.

darthv7244d ago (Edited 44d ago )

If you want to critique MS... you are doing so towards their management. The games output and their hardware have been much better than PS this gen. Sadly... people still hold a grudge against XB because of MS. Thankfully i am not that petty... I've been enjoying their games output in the drought of PS. And add in some NS1/2 games as well to balance things out. Things will change for me once Wolverine hits, and I start using my 5 more. That one I'm looking forward to. And the Marvel fighter... I'm not a GTA player so that has no bearing on my view of things.

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Profchaos45d ago

Big part of that has been the live service push resulting in cancellation or flop after flop but when they put out the games their fans want we get amazing stuff like astro bot

Leadership really screwed the pooch trend chasing

1Victor45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

https://www.metacritic.com/...

https://www.metacritic.com/...
Well I apologize I was wrong about not doing worse but my statement of Microsoft getting a boost still stand 🤷🏿

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1Victor44d ago

Well OBSCURED unlike you I’m honorable enough to recognize when I’m wrong and apologize.
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@ The software you know there’s no comparison between what Microsoft acquired and what Sony acquired that’s why you tried to get ahead of the conversation, yes we all know Sony can do better than what they have done this gen but they inhaled the poison GAS they thought would bring money for years but we make sure they got the message and quite a few games got cancelled you know as well a hit like that take years to be corrected and by now they hopefully will have taken steps away from the GAS and slowed their approach to them.

bsingle4044d ago

You will say anything when you are in denial that your hardware is dead and nobody wants your platform. Good luck with Helix because nobody will buy it.

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SimulationDaily45d ago

But... but... the garbage-mongers always tell us that Square Enix is in trouble! 😂

Christopher45d ago

Square doesn't help that it fear mongers itself with ridiculous 'goals' that they can't reach and then they proclaim failure if they don't reach it. They're quite freaking profitable and people act like they're dying.

SimulationDaily45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

Keep in mind that these "proclamations" are usually third-hand bad translations from somedude who was at the investor conference, posted on Twitter, and picked up by press and youtubers like they were gold, and then when the official translation comes out, they're much softer statements, but at that point, the damage is done.

gold_drake45d ago

to be very fair

being number one on these things does not indicate how "well" their games do selling wise.

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Capcom Insists It Won't Use AI-Generated Assets in Its Games, Will Harness Tech during Development

Capcom has clarified its current stance on generative AI in its videogames. The major Japanese publisher and developer behind popular series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter has revealed that while it doesn't use gen-AI assets in their games, it is exploring ways to use generative AI to streamline the game development process.

Chocoburger45d ago

Using Artificial Intelligence (more like Realistic Stupidity) art assets in your games is a great way to get people to boycott your product. We don't need that ugly, unsophisticated, generic, fake art in our games, good on CAPCOM for not using that garbage.

blacktiger45d ago

Naw you can't fool us, You work with Nvidia, that's a fact! And here you wanted to advertise but now look stupid!