Free Step Dodge

As a result, there's no such thing anymore as the DOA we grew up with today.
Been through every stage of grief and now it's time to accept it.

What being a fan from the West feels like right now:

If you showed this picture to your past self from not so long ago, would they recognize this as being a DOA game?

I will agree that it killed DOA6 but not the whole franchise.

The thirst of the twitter fans done more harm to DOA than anything else, imo ‍‍

If it is "dead", which I disagree that it is (too early to say, maybe if no word of an FG release by the end of next year), then KT is the one that killed it out of blinding greed.

click baiting youtuber yong yea and jim sterling feeding off fans criticism

Speak for yourselves.

But I refuse to be a doomer.

So do I, but it is what it is.
Now it feels like a game made by Japanese whose target audience is only Japanese more than ever now. Those who want to play it now have to circumvent a fourth region-lock.
Western fans have been treated like an exception since DOAX3.

All I aspire regarding this series is to be pleasantly surprised again with what I see (for a change).

These two had conflicting views, envisioning DOA a different way once in charge of it (both had worked on this IP for nearly two decades).
One left and the other one is now free to handle most of what's left of this series. I feel concerned.

I honestly don't care if there's too many hurdles to play Prism because nothing about it so far makes it a must-play for me. We don't even know what the "gameplay" will be like, however much of it there is. I only got into VV cuz it's free, on steam, they added Tina, and I only needed to use VPN once.

I mean fine, just make DOA7 for the west then. Two different audiences happy. Profit.

Nah, DOA 6 killed itself by being DOA 6.