It has been eight years since Avenue Fighter V first appeared on the scene, and to rejoice the massive birthday Capcom took to Twitter to say thanks for sticking with it—and, y’know, sorry for the entire thing.
Avenue Fighter V has a “largely optimistic” consumer ranking on Steam and a good 77 combination rating on Metacritic, so it is simple to neglect that it was not precisely in combating form at launch. We discovered the underlying sport fairly good for skilled gamers however “miserably mild on content material,” and “merely abysmal” for newcomers to the collection. Server points (which Capcom additionally apologized for) and rage quitters have been large issues too.
It was all finally sorted out however these early days weren’t nice, and Capcom has not forgotten.
“From the start to the center of the discharge, there have been community points, lack of content material, and so on,” the StreetfighterJA account tweeted (through RPS). “We’re actually sorry for the content material that didn’t meet the expectations of lots of you.
“From the center to the top of the sport, the Avenue Fighter V growth group did lots of self-reflection and labored arduous to resolve the problems as a lot as doable.”
After all, the ending was comfortable: Fixes have been made, extra characters and content material have been added, and participant counts went up “considerably” after the launch of season 4. Classes realized from Avenue Fighter V have been utilized to Avenue Fighter 6, and it confirmed: We mentioned in our 89% overview that the latest sport within the collection is “among the finest combating video games we have seen within the final decade,” and it was an enormous gross sales hit too.