Thread 717473548

Why is everyone already writing this game off as a flop? From what I can tell, people are upset that:
>It's taken too long to release
Plenty of games take 9+ years to come out, but none have shown off as much of their development for so long as 2XKO has. The hype shouldn't be dying for anyone with enough IQ to realize this. The game was never even delayed or given a release date until recently.
>The roster's too small
It's a tag fighter. There'll be 1024 combinations of teams to play the game with, and the same amount of combinations to play against. And that's not even counting how many combinations with fuses you could have.
>Marvel Tokon will eat its lunch
Ignoring that Tokon comes out next year and not this year, this isn't even an issue. SF and KOF have existed with big playerbases alongside each other forever.
>The name sucks
>I don't like Vi's super animation
Nigga who cares

>>717473548 (OP)
It looks too cheap for how much money is behind it and how long its been in development.

>>717473548 (OP)
2nd Alpha turned it into a timeout game which was a massive hit to it's reputation, 1st Alpha was way better received.

>>717473548 (OP)
I just dont like any of the chatacters

Because it looks like shit by just about every metric, lame roster, lame specials, the lamest cinematic supers on the market, and because it's Riot you know the monetization will be cancer.

>>717473548 (OP)
It being a tag fighter is exactly why it needs a bigger roster. It also has horrible choices for the roster aside from Jinx and Darius. It looks like dogshit to play.

>>717473548 (OP)
>who cares
Non retards. Presentation is everything, and nobody with a mote of taste would trust a game attached to a super that trash to be anything but trash as well.

>>717473548 (OP)
Because in the 9 years this game was in development I stopped giving a shit about League, Arcane, and Riot in general.
No character that I like is in Arcane, so they won't be part of the game's roster.
The appeal has lost its shine, I'm just not interested in it anymore. I have other games to play including other fighting games.

>>717473548 (OP)
Tokon has already shown as many characters as 2XKO

the monetization will be the final nail
>$15 characters (or grind 40h for each like valorant on launch)
>$5 colors
>$20+ costumes

>>717473548 (OP)
>weird control scheme
abandoning motion inputs just to have 2 separate special move buttons is fucking weird. It's a decision that's at odds with
>active tag
this mechanic is HYPER degenerate unless you put big restrictions on it like Tokon evidently has.
>Roster
League of Legends has a bunch of weirdos. They've got aylmaos, yordles, big ass robots, angels, etc. The 2XKO roster is 6 humans and 1 human with fox tails so far. I doubt they'll be launching with Blitzcrank or Teemo.

>>717473548 (OP)
>It's a tag fighter. There'll be 1024 combinations of teams to play the game with
no you motherfucker the problem is people will be seeing the same fucking characters multiple times. Nearly most teams will have an Ahri because she's a really good support so imagine watching a fighting game where most people are always playing the same fucking characters

This is why every fucking team and tag fighter had huge fucking rosters in the past. you NEED that variety.

>>717473548 (OP)
>SF and KOF have existed with big playerbases alongside each other forever.
KoF is a tag fighter unlike SF, and if you have to do a tag fighter because you don't want to balance your game, you at least need a large roster to make up for it.

>>717473548 (OP)
no one cares about fighting games outside of their already small community. riot wasted their resources on this.

>>717473548 (OP)
Kernel level anti-cheat for a fighting game

>>717473548 (OP)
>The game was never even delayed or given a release date
>have shown off as much of their development
that's the problem
expectations are created whether devs want them or not
>1024 combinations
mathematically speaking, that's just wrong
fuses are not a notable enough distinction, not when they are just tag-focused SFA ISMs
>isn't even an issue
true, it is silly to think tag fighters specifically compete among each other, but as far as big fanservicey fighters go, the issue loops back around to roster size
>who cares
pathetic non-excuse, as if branding and aesthetics have no impact

I'm looking forward to trying it out but the roster looks like shit.

>1024 combinations of teams to play the game with
source?

>>717473548 (OP)
Because
>it has taken too long to release
>the roster is too small
>the name sucks
>vi's super animation looks like a joke
>there are other, better tag fighters to choose from

>>717473548 (OP)
>It's a tag fighter
I have literally never seen a tag fighter launch with less than 20 characters. This game is Dead On Arrival, especially when half the fucking appeal behind "we're making a league fighting game" should be "we have a giant fucking roster so you can play as your favorite obscure league weirdo in a fighting game".

NO TAHM
NO PLAY

TL:DR Development hell and also Riot games have properly just given up all hope with it and just want to make some money back

Project was horribly mismanaged from an early stage, in dev way too long, unironically swapped out a decent name for an awful name, and an upper management basically throwing in the towel to release "whatever the fuck we have at this point"

And with like 5 other WAY BETTER LOOKING tag fighters coming out now, it's just way too late. Like who TF would wanna invest in getting good at this one, when it'll probably only have a few thousand active players post launch month?

>>717478535
>unironically swapped out a decent name for an awful name
I still maintain that 2XKO could've been a great name if they'd clarified that it's pronounced "Double Knockout" instead of "Two Ecks Kay Oh".

>>717473548 (OP)
Simple. It has a terrible roster selection when the main appeal of fighters are the characters. A hundred characters to choose from and that's who they went with?

>1 gorilion possible combination
lmao. LoL has 200 champion and you see the same 10 champs every balance patch. you'll see the same 4 champs in this game at most with Riot prioritizing the ones with populars skins.

Riot are not game developers
they're just another modern corporate millenial daycare funded by investors
so long as they never release, they'll never have to show their failure, and they sunken-cost money tap will keep flowing

>>717473548 (OP)
>Plenty of games take 9+ years to come out
Because the whole industry is rotten. It doesn't mean that it's normal or the way things should be.
>but none have shown off as much of their development for so long as 2XKO has.
Wrong.
>The hype shouldn't be dying for anyone with enough IQ to realize this.
lol
>The game was never even delayed or given a release date until recently.
Yeah, because the devs were smart enough to realize that they're in development hell.
>There'll be 1024 combinations of teams to play the game with, and the same amount of combinations to play against.
Now count how many combinations MvC2 has, a game released in 2000.
>SF and KOF have existed with big playerbases alongside each other forever.
>KOF
>big playerbase
lol
>Nigga who cares
Yeah, who cares about 2XKO.