Rusted Blade
[14] Master
I feel like the hype is dying down at an incredibly fast rate. If they don't release them both at EVO next month then they might as well not release them at all. As much as i love this game, i can't deny that it's dead already lol.
I don't have any hopes for a season 2, or a sequel at all. Except maybe in 10 years if ever. At least this is a better game to end the franchise with than SCV.
Well, being as I'm questioning two people in a row now as to their gut assumptions on this topic, I want to be clear I'm not trying to be interrogative, but I'm genuinely wondering if you have information I don't (like say, very recent sales figures on the game or the DLC, or something else that is at least a little concrete) with regard to "the hype having died down at an incredibly fast rate," or is it just a matter of the "general sense" you get about the level of enthusiasm. Because I really think decent projections about what is and is not likely to come down the pipe are based a vague impressionistic reading of the rate of decline of excitment. That's problematic for at least three reasons: 1) it's just a poor quality variety of evidence, 2) decline always falls shortly after initial release of a game (unless you are talking about your rare Skyrim that ends up selling more on word of mouth than marketing budget) and that's alright, because your peripheral software is mostly planned for franchise loyalists and your sales / profit margin (and the amount that you have to sell to make the venture desirable) are projected accordingly, and 3) it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy (i.e. enough people delcare a franchise dead--which they've done for literally every single one of these five last games they've made in this franchise since SCIII!--then they can contribute to a drop engagement with the product and thus the liklihood of more extensive DLC content).
Anyway, from the figures I've seen so far, the game continues to sell well. Namco is still putting some marketing behind the game, and the devs are still engaged with the public about the forthcoming content and I continue to see a lot of social media chatter (though that's my own impressionistic evidence, of course) on platforms like Youtube and Twitter regarding the game. I'd say enthusiasm is above where you expect it to be for a fighter in 2019.