Street Fighter 6 "shocked" by Capcom's decision on Paywall Capcom Cup

Capcomho announcement that Capcom Cup and SFL: The World Championship would be events with the payment of per-view-the era of the Esports-in-the-line era.

Even more mysterious is that, according to SF6 director Takayuki Nakayama, the development team was not aware that Capcom would pay the biggest events Esports Stretight Street.

The user responded to the older place where Nakayama said that Esports and Development Divisions were completely separate and asked if this department was the reason for the Capcom Cup controversy.

Blind

“It may sound strange, but it's true,” Nakayama replied. “The objectives of income and assigned tasks are basically different according to the department. Even the development team was surprised by this announcement (at least [Shuhei] Matsumoto and I were shocked at the venue). This means that because this matter has occurred in the same society, we are currently discussing it. We apologize for any concerns that it could have caused. ”

Nakayama and Matsumoto were on the game show in Tokyo when the announcement happened live, which for the couple could not be a pleasant surprise.

Nakayama admits that he does not pull the line of society by publicly talking about controversy and saying that he does some “bad movements as an employee, but he is sorry to become controversy. He also added:” If I get to work, I will remove the above comment. “

M. Bison with crossed hands and grinning in Street Fighter 6.

According to Nakayam, Capcom is currently organizing an internal discussion of the controversy of paid people. There is no doubt that accounting for the most devoted viewers who follow the event will lead to a short -term increase in income, but in the long run this could damage the visibility and popularity of esport, which hurts the ecosystem as a whole.

In the flourishing of Starcraft: Brood War and ONGamenet (OGN), Esports was usually an experience of paying for a look. However, the organizers and developers gradually moved away from this format. For organizers, revenue increases by other means such as sponsorship and optional subscription. For developers, Esports is often considered marketing costs that bring players towards the game.

Only time will tell how this saga ends, but complete reversal of paid perspective seems unlikely at this point.