Free Step Dodge

"I value the game's sales more than its technicality. Let's nerf the sidestep and backdash. Make throws become breakable by random punch buttons and make the throw break window much bigger. Let's make okizeme less rewarding for players who are so good at it because new players keep getting caught by it. Oh yes, my game sold 3 million. My previous game only sold 1.5 million because it was so deep and complicated."

Super profit!

Which game are you talking about ?

@Lulu Nah, it's just games nowadays. Fighting games from the past decade were more technical and all because they were all coming from the developers's ideas. But nowadays, fighting games are getting more simplified because of player feedback about something that's hard to deal with for a new player's perspective.

Well if you keep ignoring new player's Requests then you're going to run out of new players altogether.

I don't blame new players for being bad at the game. I blame the game for not teaching the players well. Most fighting games have pretty bad tutorial mode. Soul Calibur III is one of the few that has a good one. On my first 2 years of playing Tekken, it's just me button mashing until I started watching tournament matches for hours just to learn how people play the game with skill.

Unfortunately that only solves half the problem. Theres just some things you can't teach.

Yeah, before I didn't know how to read frame data. I didn't know what -10 is and what is "+5 on block" and whatnot until I just had to figure them out myself. And a lot more than what high level matches show. It just takes practice, knowledge, and a lot of patience and dedication. If I really love the game, I had to get better at it.

Let me give you an example....

One Frame Links.

Eh... I don't play Street Fighter. 2D fighting games aren't my thing, but I get the idea.

LoL... so you see what I mean... some things are way too difficult and these are legitimate complaints for a new player to have...

If things work out then I too also won't be playing Street Fighter....