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While I do like the genre, fighting games are a niche nowadays, and you're always going up against Street Fighter, Tekken or Smash. I don't know what Riot expected. It has similar vibes to the Saudis investing millions into a single marketing event for CotW.
Even Mortal Kombat 1, while it was initially a commercial success, is basically no longer supported as far as I know. And that game isn't old either.
The visible audience (Twitter) is very picky and vocal; they'll tell you they want thing X, they get thing X, they'll tell you it's bad because Y. There is very little nuance it seems sometimes.
Remember when everyone complained there were no defensive options and everything was getting too easy? Them CotW came and nobody plays it because the menu sucks. Or they don't like the character that they don't have to pick.
I at least have a legitimate reason not to play 2XKO (kernel level anti cheat that won't work on Linux), but you don't see me complaining about that.
Anyhow, if you want to make a game that sells big numbers, don't make it a fighting game, because your audience will be comparably small and hate you.
Yeah I'm not playing a game when I'll have to see a real life rapist in the character select screen
What?
Are there fighting games with real people?
Def Jam New York is literally nothing but real world rappers.
The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan has Jackie Chan.
Samurai Showdown features a couple historical characters.
And if you wanna count them, every fight night, every UFC game, and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! although, I figure you were asking about Street Fighter/MK/Tekken type games.
That's fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.
I just thought of Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game and I guess technically it has real people too. But they're playing as fictional characters. You could still say that Jean Claude Van Dam is in it. lol