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Wondering how dead the game is

Here is the EVO Tournament Stream Schedule

https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/evo-2023-schedule-all-start-times-and-where-to-watch

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We've heard plenty of things like, "even without motions, they're just going to get frustrated with losing and find some other excuse", as well as just a general sentiment that Street Fighter wouldn't be Street Fighter if you got rid of motions (despite the existence of Ed and Falke), or that it would be too difficult to balance without them.

While there are a non-zero number of people who definitely do just find some other excuse for losing, I think we've seen demonstrably that it opened this game up to people who hadn't been playing fighting games before. We've seen that Street Fighter is still Street Fighter without motions. And we've seen the game balanced, even with the new controls versus the old, just with a 20% damage penalty to moves that typically used motions; it's such a non-issue that you rarely come across modern control players at the higher ranks at all.

This is not a petition to remove motion controls from fighting games forever, but I think it shows how unnecessary they are to making a good fighting game if you're not bound by the legacy of your franchise. It's also why I think you'd have to be crazy if you're making a brand new fighting game (like Project L) with motions when you don't have to, unless it's somehow super important to your vision for the game, as it's just going to limit your audience.

I believe this is the first time seeing Smoke, Rain, and Kung Lao in the game, as well as kameos for Frost, Cyrax, Sektor, Scorpion, and Kung Lao. In the livestream, devs acknowledged that they've received the feedback on the movement speed and are working on it. You can also use kameos for movement, like equipping Kung Lao's kameo to give a character a teleport that wouldn't normally have one.

Rad Chad recently uploaded a great analysis of Happy Chaos as a character. Thoughts?

With CEO 2023 this upcoming weekend, I thought it would be fun to discuss it. Are you going to watch it? why or why not ? What game are you most excited to watch? What player do you think is going to win what game and why?