Capcom Europe: “It’s a Shame the Fans Didn’t Want to Get More Involved”
Hoo-boy. This is just going to be one of those days.
Checking out the blog post of GeekSpeak Radio host and MMN alumni Bryan “DarkMoogle” Carr, who has been following this whole turn of events, I saw that Capcom Europe had been responding to some fans about the Mega Man Legends 3 cancellation on their Twitter. And since people were already beginning to talk about it in comments here, I figured we might as well post it.
After all, people said they wanted more than just apologetic notes, to see actual reasons, right? Well, hold on to your blue helmets, because as Carr puts it, “now the blame is shifted to the fans, huh?”
Things began (more or less) with a tweet from @dk_lance, who echoed a not-uncommon sentiment:
@CapcomEuro I’m sad to know Legends 3 was cancelled for 3DS. Someone making decisions at Capcom’s R&D HQ should get fired…
@CapcomEuro responded:
Some time after that, @kdawg3000 asked:
@CapcomEuro What would it take to get the executives to reconsider their decision?
And @CapcomEuro responded:
And there you have it.
Do you think that joining the Devroom should have been a prerequisite to the game being seen through to completion? Were any of you looking forward to the game, but didn’t join the Devroom, content to watch as things began to shape up? Share your thoughts on this turn of events in the comments below.
Tags: Capcom, Capcom Europe, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Legends 3, Rockman DASH, Rockman DASH 3, Twitter
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Capcom can lick the sweat on the underside of my belly.
That is RIDICULOUS! ¬¬
Blame us all you want, you just wanted too much for something we waited too long for.
This is the most ludicrous POS I’ve ever heard. I can’t believe just because some of us from the devroom didn’t really get a chance to “contribute” they shut it down, it’s NOT fair. I was looking forward to this game since I’ve been a HUGE fan of megaman since he first came out in japan like 2938749284 years ago. This is very upsetting.
of course Fans are not going to be very active about MegaMan on the internet and in the USA you shouldint even expect it lol people are very lazy now in this day and age and many people wanted legends 3 hold that thought or rather a New MegaMan game in General to be made they are the ones who want us to pay the money for the Video Game they are creating its nice and all they wanted fans to join in for it and give out ideas but now this just makes me think that capcom didint have any ideas to start with i was a proud fan of capcom ever sense MegaMan 1 have all the games on my wall for every system and other great capcom titles but if we are paying the money to buy your games then you come up with the ideas and not beg us and then just ditch out on it makes many fans think of capcom as fools and if they can do this to MegaMan they can do it to every other game they ever make so dont think your going to see the end of any of your fav games again from Capcom =/ i just dont have any faith in you anymore capcom you lost my support
Blatant lies! The contests got so many high quality entries! What exactly do they want?
Look, the only time MegaMan Legends has EVER been on a Nintendo console, it was the N64, and they didn’t even make The Misadventures of Tron Bonne 64 or MegaMan 64 2. Maybe it would’ve worked better on the PS3, since all three games were naturally on the PlayStation, to begin with. And if I wanted to choose between a Capcom game for PS3 or Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (or even Sonic Generations), I’ll go with the Blue Blur.
I can care less what CAPCOM does anymore.
@ YoshiAngemon: Same here though we should put CAPCOM through torture with Sonic 2006.
How many people did they want? How may people were there?
Capcom it has never been up to the fans to create the game only to purchase and support your community of which you have expressed and implied a highly lackadaisical attitude towards as well as a figurehead of corporate greed. you want some support make the F***ing game give us MegaMan universe when you begin something finish it regardless of the supposed low fan support. You used this method on the NES as well as the SNES, Playstation, and hell even the N64 (although i only ever saw a very small few titles on that last one but they were still there!!!!). How can you act so reprehensibly towards those fans who made you what you are as well as enjoyed the content you put out to its fullest with the cancellation of these titles as well as the many that have gone unnoticed prior to this high volume digital age? You ran off one of your greatest assets as well as one of the greatest assets to the video game community for what? I pray to God, Buddha, Allah, Zeus (insert religious figure here) that you realize your mistake and don’t go down the tube like all the other marvelous studios that were around in the beginning (i.e. Acclaim, 3DO, Accolade, Midway, to name my personal favorites).
I’m done with Crapcom now no more games I’ll buy from them with all this rehash crap
I didn’t even hear about the devroom until less than a month ago… and that was in the Nintendo Power mag. I think that statement made by Capcom Europe is a load of bull.
EXCUSES CAPCOM, EXCUSES!
So, you announce you’re going to release you long awaited game in a cheapa** gimmicky handheld toy, and then you complain many of us didn’t support your nonsense.
At least that’s the reason I didn’t support the game. We all know Legends deserved much more than that. But Capcom decided to go the cheap way (for them, of course, it’s not like they’re packaging 3DSs for free in your Frosted Mini Wheats, right?).
Well, some of us decided not to support such a cheap effort.
And then they said “If you’re going to do something, do it cheap or don’t do it at all”.
And they chose not to do it at all. If the thing got the AAA next-gen treatment for PS3 and X360 thay would have gotten a much better response. Don’t blame us for not supporting your bad and mediocre design choices, capcom. That ‘s very unprofessional.
Anyway. If you already decided to make it cheap, at least you could have completed it. Now you’ve let down a lot of people here who was legitimately waiting.
And many folks who bought a friggin 3DS just to play Legends 3.
Did you want MGS4-like support? For a cheap game for an expensive toy??? Really?
Who *were* legitimately waiting. My mistake
*pffft*
no point to play or watch or hope for this capcom i side be for , give us magaman back , it take what ? an other 10 years more ?!?!