>when non-fighting game players like Kenny Omega picked up SFV they could barely get out of Gold
>every japanese vtuber who never played anything but JRPGs and minecraft until Capcom dropped a check in their lap is Master in dix

So are their ranks rigged or does 'Master' just not mean shit?

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They've gone balls out shilling the game locally in Japan - including paying vtubers to play it for their degenerate simps - which has led to a relatively large playerbase that's overwhelmingly asian. Meanwhile in the rest of the world where Capcom can't just buy towns and slap ads on city hall it's not any more popular than 5 was..