I think I know what's with the updates..!

[Galvanic]

I notice people on here have been complaining of how stupid the updates have been, although I don't see any explanation or discussion why.

What're your theories for the downplay in updates? Mine; filler-time due to the release date change. A bunch of good updates were probably slotted but they can't come until closer to the game's due date, wherein the hype needs to be the greatest.

In fact, I think that Sonic would have been told a lot later, maybe even in the week before the game, if not for the new launch.

 

[Gilgamesh]

Sonic was used to soften the blow from the delay.

Viewed from a commercial POV, giving many exciting updates right now would accomplish nothing. My theory is that updates will keep being subpar throught november and the first half of december, with only occasional exciting news. Then, towards the end of Dec and throught January, the updates will become increasingly hot to fuel anticipation.

 

[Galvanic]

Sonic was used to soften the blow from the delay.

Viewed from a commercial POV, giving many exciting updates right now would accomplish nothing. My theory is that updates will keep being subpar throught november and the first half of december, with only occasional exciting news. Then, towards the end of Dec and throught January, the updates will become increasingly hot to fuel anticipation.

^^My thoughts exactly^^

 

[SonicLuigi]

i think that the updates suck because they're saving the good updates for later???? i hope so....

 

[BuSHiDo]

I think there wasn't really any discussion about it because EVERYONE felt that it was because of the delay.

 

[Mario & Sonic Guy]

People want character updates. You can't expect a new character every week. The last two weeks revealed no new fighters whatsoever.

 

[soviet prince]

it is defintly becuse of the delay, but I hope we get something soon becuse frankly I am tired of reading a page full of wineing(sp)

 

[launchpadmcqak13]

They have alot of stuff to go through and were on top of the schedule, then it got delayed, now they need filler so thats why they are giving us stuff like,

Metaknight's same moves! We know you've seen them at E for all, and already showed you all the other stuff about him, but, um, yeah maybe more screenshots atleast!?

 

[bob-e]

I think it's filler because of the delay. The extra time from the delay will most likely going to be spent fine tuning and debugging the game rather than creating more content. I really hope we get something worth while soon. Lucas' special moves have been the only important update in 2 weeks.

 

[soviet prince]

we need wario final smash,

 

[Youkai Master]

I don't understand why people think the 3rd party characters would be announced right before the game comes out of even after it.

Revealing them earlier is much wiser because it helps build up the hype more and drive more interest to the game, get the people talking and get more reserves or launch date sales. Just like Snake did.

If you reveal them after launch you lose a lot of potential buyers and impact, while showing them right before it, doesn't give people enough time to make a decision to buy the game right then. It's smarter to reveal them now.

/offtopicrant

 

[KirbyWorshipper2465]

Revealing them earlier is much wiser because it helps build up the hype more and drive more interest to the game, get the people talking and get more reserves or launch date sales. Just like Snake did.

If you reveal them after launch you lose a lot of potential buyers and impact, while showing them right before it, doesn't give people enough time to make a decision to buy the game right then. It's smarter to reveal them now.

/offtopicrant

Speaking of which, they should probably reveal the "3rd" 3rd-party character before Christmas...

 

[Pluvia's other account]

People want character updates. You can't expect a new character every week. The last two weeks revealed no new fighters whatsoever.

That just increases Captain Olimar's chances even more tonight in my view!

 

[2007]

I notice people on here have been complaining of how stupid the updates have been, although I don't see any explanation or discussion why.

What're your theories for the downplay in updates? Mine; filler-time due to the release date change. A bunch of good updates were probably slotted but they can't come until closer to the game's due date, wherein the hype needs to be the greatest.

In fact, I think that Sonic would have been told a lot later, maybe even in the week before the game, if not for the new launch.

I guarentee that they only showed Sonic to to soften the blow of the delay.

=2007=

 

[Vex]

I thought there were some good announcements right after Sonic was announced. Such as creating your own levels, that's incredible awsome. I wanna build and original Donkey Kong game level. Hopefully I can get barrels to roll down.
Or being able to do 3 taunts and have a little custom caption for each taunts. That's good stuff.
I'm also excited about the Summit level. Seems like a cool idea for a level.
That's all good stuff that's been released since the Sonic Announcement, and they still havn't announced MegaMan yet.

 

[silver777]

In peoples eyes, Every update other than characters sucks.

 

[xbrinkx]

I don't think there's going be a "3rd" third party character. It probably just prolong the release even more because of copywrights and other stuff like that...

 

[Pluvia's other account]

In peoples eyes, Every update other than characters sucks.

Sadly, in most peoples, yes.

Even though I don't think he will, I won't understand Sakurai if he waits till after January 25th to show us all the Characters.

It just completely ruins the point of the Dojo.

 

[blizzard18]

I don't think there's going be a "3rd" third party character. It probably just prolong the release even more because of copywrights and other stuff like that...

I think there will definitely be a 3rd third party character. Sakurai would never have said 2-3 third party charactors, he would have said 1 or 2.He would know we would expect the high end of the offer.

 

[SirroMinus1]

the only reason i get mad is because i cant get to sleep. i want to be sleep during that time. and if im awake i want to be sleep (lol i did not have to point out that last part XD). so im kinda of asking to much when i want a good update for me being awake.
i dont care though weather or not its a so called bad update.

 

[Super_alex2]

I made a thread like this yesterday. It's gonna get closed.

On a lighter note, I have realized my wrong doings and have decided to complain no longer.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

I define a good update as something that incites a lot of good discussion, but the wars from Lucas' specials died pretty fast, faster than I thought, so maybe that's why these updates are sub par. I mean who really cared what update was days after Sonic, because we still had Sonic to discuss, it isn't the case the last few weeks.

 

[miller483]

Let's not forget about "Mega Monday".

 

[harpuia190]

A SSE movie would be cool, like some more teams, but really only something amazing with online play or a character can save this week

 

[Red&Silver]

instead of putting useless stuff -cough-metaknightsmove-cough- why not put a video of the stage creater and stuff like that you know what i mean?

 

[Akiak]

I don't see anything wrong with the updates. Yeah well I guess for example ZS samuses specials was very boring but for a samus main no!
I like finding out the moves of my favourite chars. I like items and even music! Today's Kirby music was spectacular for me. But I'm waiting for a char.

 

[Xerroo]

I'm pretty sure the reason for these "Lackluster" updates is because Sakurai and Inafune want to wait until the 19th to possibly announce Mega Man.

Why do I say this?

On November 18th, Capcom is hosting a special Rockman 20th anniversary event to celebrate his birthday. If any day was the perfect day to announce Mega Man in Brawl, this would be it. So if this is true, then on Monday, we should get Mega Man as an update. I would also expect a 3rd party character to be announced next due to the lack of character updates aside from moves and final smashes.

It's way too coincedental that there is a lack of character updates and Mega Man's celebration on the 18th.

 

[miller483]

I'm pretty sure the reason for these "Lackluster" updates is because Sakurai and Inafune want to wait until the 19th to possibly announce Mega Man.

Why do I say this?

On November 18th, Capcom is hosting a special Rockman 20th anniversary event to celebrate his birthday. If any day was the perfect day to announce Mega Man in Brawl, this would be it. So if this is true, then on Monday, we should get Mega Man as an update. I would also expect a 3rd party character to be announced next due to the lack of character updates aside from moves and final smashes.

It's way too coincedental that there is a lack of character updates and Mega Man's celebration on the 18th.

I mentioned Mega Monday a few posts back. But yeah, here's hoping for one hell of a Monday!

 

[shipoffools]

i said this in todays dojo update thread but ill say it again..

they palnned out all the updates (you're crazy if you think they didnt) for the game to be released in december 3rd. december 3rd less than 19 days from today, and 11 updates, not including that monday. no doubt they want to release the same amount of worthwhile information reguardless of when its released. now that the game is a little over 86 days away, theres now about 4-5x as many updates they need to fill in, so theyre filling that up right now with these fillers. with that much extra time, as you can see, they are spreading the butter pretty thin.

 

[Superstarmario]

I'm pretty sure the reason for these "Lackluster" updates is because Sakurai and Inafune want to wait until the 19th to possibly announce Mega Man.

Why do I say this?

On November 18th, Capcom is hosting a special Rockman 20th anniversary event to celebrate his birthday. If any day was the perfect day to announce Mega Man in Brawl, this would be it. So if this is true, then on Monday, we should get Mega Man as an update. I would also expect a 3rd party character to be announced next due to the lack of character updates aside from moves and final smashes.

It's way too coincedental that there is a lack of character updates and Mega Man's celebration on the 18th.

Biiiiig problem with your theroy here buddy.

Sakurai

 

[Brenco55]

When did the site ever garuntee you "quality updates"? the freequency of confirmed characters could change to none for a month to two in a week.

 

[Your Hero]

I personally wish they'd show the rest of the characters movesets and release one or two more characters. They (hopefully) won't show all the secret characters because if they do I will be PISSED.

 

[Xerroo]

Biiiiig problem with your theroy here buddy.

Still it's very possible. Sakurai could show up as a guest and announce Mega Man's inclusion right then and there.

 

[FaceGuy]

I'm pretty sure the reason for these "Lackluster" updates is because Sakurai and Inafune want to wait until the 19th to possibly announce Mega Man.

Why do I say this?

On November 18th, Capcom is hosting a special Rockman 20th anniversary event to celebrate his birthday. If any day was the perfect day to announce Mega Man in Brawl, this would be it. So if this is true, then on Monday, we should get Mega Man as an update. I would also expect a 3rd party character to be announced next due to the lack of character updates aside from moves and final smashes.

It's way too coincedental that there is a lack of character updates and Mega Man's celebration on the 18th.

Wow, I didn't know about that. Yeah, I think if Megaman doesn't get announced at that then he's not in. Sonic was announced at a Sega event and Snake was 're-confirmed' at a Konami one so it makes sense.

It has gotten to the point where it is obvious that updates are being made that wouldn't have been if it weren't for the delay. Hopefully the opportunity will be taken to confirm some returning characters.

In fact, even though this seems highly unlikely, I would be happy just with an update confirming which characters aren't coming back, just to end the debates and so that we actually know. It seems like this would have a much higher chance of reducing sales numbers rather than increasing them, so I would be surprised if an update like that was ever made.

 

[Seikishidan Soru]

I love music updates myself.

 

[brawl1994]

i think sakuari is done announcing things that are in the game that are NOT unlockables

 

[Magnacor]

Isn't it obvious? The site was so awesome it had to be watered down with these lame updates. Sakurai is going to reveal Captain Falcon tommorow now that it has been watered dow. My logic cannot fail!