>literally 9bucks
>nobody gives a fuck
if sex sells, why did this one flop?

because it's a fighting game

>>714754352 (OP)
Thanks for the heads up anon, DOA as a series never had the mainstream pull or community that something like Tekken has. With VF6 on the way, there is still hope for the genre

>>714754352 (OP)
i only buy marie rose beach volleyball

dead or alive more like dead on arrival am I right fellas?
*holds up hand for high 5*

>>714754352 (OP)
DOA 6 is serious fighter, it has no sex appeal

>>714754352 (OP)
>if sex sells, why did this one flop?
Same reason First Descendant isn't doing well, the basic game is just shit.

>>714754443
fpbp

noone cares about fightans these days

>>714754676
that's probably because you make it that way

>>714754352 (OP)
shit netcode
and the micro dlcs cost atleast 1 million dollars

>>714754710
>shit netcode
you don't need online to jerk off though
>and the micro dlcs cost atleast 1 million dollars
just creamapi lol

>>714754352 (OP)
>"this time we're making SERIOUS fighter for MANLY MEN instead of the SICK and PERVERTED PORN that we're making before"
>flops
>"i-it was a prank, gomenasai, here's 10 million dlcs of marie rose barely wearing anything, please buy our game and all the dlcs!"
how embarrassing

>>714754352 (OP)
because they removed the sex

>>714754352 (OP)
I literally only know the characters from porn. I didn't even know it was a game

>>714754352 (OP)
6 removed the sex
don't make me post the burkas

>>714754352 (OP)
isn't there still like 1k worth of micro transactions to get all the content

>>714754352 (OP)
Cause there is no sex , next question!

>>714754912
>>714755158
>>714755237
>>714755520
cope
all DoA games flopped

Just get the free version and unlock the DLC, also the netcode is bad and most of the community doesn't like the changes done in 6. Sucks since 6 is the only one that works on PC since 5 doesn't have lobbies on PC.

>>714755623
DOA had dedicated fanbase, then 6 drove them off with it's retarded marketing

>>714754352 (OP)
>why did this one flop?

>>714754352 (OP)
Less characters than 5, which I already own with a ton of dlc, 6 is redundant. DOA has always been additive with each iteration until 5, which sucked, but then they patched it and updated it and with LR, it’s perfect. 6 never fixed shit.

>>714754352 (OP)
>>714754443
>Download nude mods
>Set COM vs COM
>Fap
>Uninstall

>>714755780
Dickdicated fanbase. When the penis rises, it also lifts up what it enjoys.

>>714754468
I hate so much they got rid of the volleyball now in the newest one

>>714755973
>6 never fixed shit.
Which is sad. A "Final Edition" of 6 that baked in the DLC characters/costumes and toned down the Street Fighter style additions like supers could have saved the game. Just make it obvious that they learned from the disastrous launch and won't try to chase two opposing fanbases in the future.
The Core Values jokes would subside once players noticed that hey, Rachel and her giant tits are back in the game.

>>714756378
Tecmo Koei are too jewy for complete editions. Even with DOA 5LR, you could get the ultimate dlc pack, which contained all dlc from before LR for like $90. It goes on sale for like $42 sometimes, but that’s still a lot of fucking money for costumes.

Released with bad netcode at the time when the other franchises were getting their shit together

Gives a game zero longevity, zero reason to play it over competitors, zero reason for people to recommend it to others. Same thing happened to the KOFs before they improved the netcode there too.

The EVO pedophile doing performative outrage over it and life banning it from the tournament was also retarded bad publicity

>>714757760
We need a competitor to Tekken now more than ever
God I hate that it's literally the only 3d fighting game that people are playing right now

>>714754352 (OP)
>why did this one flop?
CORE VALUES

>>714754352 (OP)
A concerted effort by games media and influencers to shit on the game about its optional costume DLCs combined with no rollback right when it became mandatory and CORE VALUES all as a triple threat and it sucks because DOA6 is great

>>714754352 (OP)
Is censored as fuck.
Just go and see how flat is Ayane.
Blame Tom Lee and the FSD forum for convince Team Ninja than DEI would help to well.
They even reused the "I Am a Fighter" meme again.

>>714754352 (OP)
Too much retarded ninja gaiden sci-fi drama as usual.
Not enough funny story with Brad and Eliot (or Hitomi and Leifang for that matter).

>>714754352 (OP)
Removes tag mode
Predatory DLC practices
Flipfloped between wanting to be work safe and fan service
Unlocking outfits was incredibly tedious at the time

I think the game is still very fun to play and enjoy the meter mechanic but I can see why it failed.

I love Kasumi!

>>714759848
SEX
with kasumis big BOOBS

>>714754352 (OP)
Because it's literally censored.
People who want lewd are either playing 5LR or VV and this is even reflected in the modding community.

>>714754352 (OP)
the internet killed fightans
people have to be playing it for people to play it

>>714754352 (OP)
Wait, I thought it was the one time they tried to remove all the sexy stuff to be considered a serious fighting game, and get a chance at EVO. And that didn't work well

>>714761038
left is a bad design

>>714761667
Left is why 5LR outsold 6.

>>714761751
rachel shouldn't be in doa in the first place

>>714761830
Remove Hayabusa first then.

>>714761038
right is hotter

>>714761897
When didn't you buy the game then?

>>714754352 (OP)
>buy waifu game
>first thing that shows up is a god damn nigger
what did they mean by this?

>>714754352 (OP)
Literally a comedy of errors by Koei-Tecmo:
-Give Trump-hating California gook Tom Lee second chance to prove his 'I'm a Fighter' promotional campaign of desexualization and emphasis on 'cool' would work despite it failing with DOA5 because THIS TIME hot women were all but eliminated in AAA western games
-Pander to eSports and fgc fags who had always hated DOA while all but telling the traditional fans they were no longer needed ("We're appealing to MODERN AUDIENCES")
-As part of this pandering, cut out tag mode because that isn't played at tournaments
-Rush out a demo for EVO which has no titty physics, leading to the belief that is has been cut due to the stated shift away from fanservice, as well as 3 of the 4 playable characters not having their full move sets available. Only Tom Lee's personal design new character and Travis Touchdown rip-off, Diego, literally made to "increase Hispanic representation" because California, had his full move set. Naturally the few people who play the demo choose him because new character and why pick a handicapped character?
-All starting costumes for the female characters are conservative and boring. Chests for popular asian characters like Kasumi and Ayane are smaller
-Introduce meters and Mortal Kombat style slow motion attacks, bruising and blood to emphasize brutality (later scaled back for Japanese waifu characters Marie Rose, Honoka and NiCO). Memes about women shown being pummeled in the face by male characters while wearing bikinis is no longer allowed, later culminating in the 'Core Values' fiasco
-Starting outfits are literally just palette swaps.
-Game releases with each character having only a single intro/win pose
-Gen Fu, Leon, and Ein cut, the first time since DOA2 that a non-boss, non-guest character has been cut from the roster
-Shitty lighting
-Fewer arenas and just general content than DOA5
-Smaller overall roster than DOA5
-Shitty netcode
So much went wrong it won't even fit in one post.

>>714754352 (OP)
They toned down the sexiness and tried to make themselves appealing to the faggots in the FGC. In reality, we just wanted cute girls fighting eachother like the previous DOAs. The DLC isn't a breaking point as 5 had it as well. The breaking point is destroying the main point of the franchise and telling your audience to fuck off. They did. Now they pivoted to DOA Venus and guess what? It actually sells.

Who would have thought the game about sexy women sells more when you actually don't try and censor them?

>>714754352 (OP)
Honestly should have just been a porn game
>Early 2000s
>Get a cheap copy of DOA 2
>The fighting is actually really simplisitic
>The boobs don't bounce, huh?
>Look at the settings
>There's an age slider
>Find out quickly it's actually a boob bounce slider and the devs just did that to get past the dumbfuck western censors of something
>Set it to 99
>Still find the gameplay boring but fap to half the female cast bouncing around like the fist of the north star
It should have tripled down on the sex appeal for later entries, not get all ashamed of it. Imagine if Senran Kagura suddenly covered up the girls, shrunk the tits and tried to be a series spy drama.

>>714756000
Is it hotter to see the girls fight?

>>714762773
*series spy drama
FUCK, I meant serious.

>>714754352 (OP)
It's not as exadgerated and 3D-anime-esque as the old ones.
Where did those bangs popping out of the head go?

>>714762826
Maybe, but I'd like there to be a mod where they get fucked up and show pain. Ryona is boring if they just take the damage.

>>714754352 (OP)
Because they chased the retarded FGC that ruined so many games. Sex sells, but they "had to" tone it down to get acceptance into tournaments which pissed off fans before it even launched. And then it came out and was bare bones as fuck. Had one of those modern shitty "story modes" that's just cutscenes and 25 second fights between them and a mission mode that's boring that doles out tiny amounts of ingame currency that isn't enough to buy costumes with, requiring you to grind the hell out of the online mode. And inevitably the FGC don't play it, long time fans hate it and just like 5 they put out $500 worth of DLC to make money off the whales.
The only thing that's amusing about it is the nude mods require specific costume unlocks and even if you do EVERY mission there's no guarantee you'll get the costume parts for the one you need to get Kasumi naked. Why did the mod author do this? Fuck you, that's why.

Koei-Tecmo bought the rhetoric, fed to them by Tom Lee, that fighting games and the West in general no longer accepted women being dressed in revealing outfits and having big boobs (the director infamously said in an interview that "large-breasted women aren't human"). The desire to appeal to eSports, where revealing costumes were typically not allowed to be used, fed that narrative, as well as just the general trend at the time of California taking over and censoring games, which DOA had already had experience with when the new US bosses at Sony HQ forced them to censor DOAX3's VR mode. All the early promo stuff followed this trend of trying to make DOA6 look like just another generic Tekken/Street Fighter. Of course this wasn't popular with the Japanese fans, so they tried to dance on the knife edge of obeying California's new censorship demands while also dropping hints in Japanese interviews and game shows that there was still fanservice to be had. Naturally, in the age of the Internet, the Western gaming journalists found out about thus immediately, as well as the ultimate sin against their attempts to force their standards on the entire gaming industry - Venus Vacation - at thr time only available in Japan, which was held up as proof that despite the rhetoric about toning down the fanservice in DOA6, the CULTURE OF OBJECTIFICATION still existed at Koei-Tecmo, who were thus no longer in compliance with California's rules on how to depict women, at the time the early proto-form of the DEI/ESG requirements that would evolve later and which KT signed on to.