Versus: 6 months later
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:49 pm
June 28th was 6 months ago! My how time flies! To people that have played it: how do ya feel about it now that the hype & "freshness" are gone?
Perception
Seems like lotsa people see this as just a bonus game. I'd strongly disagree with that but what can ya do given how they decided to market/sell the title.
Player Base
Judging from the leaderboards about 4,300 have connected to Online VS but prolly half or more haven't played a ranked match. In my experience it seems like there's usually at least 1 person around ta battle with. Or more appropriately - just mess around! Players are often up for at least a second match an more often than not they'll use a different character. Could it be that having only 8 characters has led to more variety an people just playing for fun?
Updates
None. If its not broken there's no need for fixes! Still would be nice to get a patch which allows ya to view alt colors in the model viewer (and every variety of Chim Chim, and doppelgangers, and stages!)~
DLC
None as expected!
Sales Data
Media Create
Week 1: 10th place, 16,664 copies sold.
Week 2: lower than 20th place, less than 3,081 copies sold.
Famitsu
Week 1: 09th place, 17,446 copies sold.
Week 2: 35th place, less than 5,714 copies sold.
This is obviously really low an coulda been a case of a marketing failure! Outta the whole series only frägment sold fewer copies. Now each .hack game has gotten a "The Best" re-release (outside of frägment) so the question is will Versus get one? Given how they decided to sell it prolly not.
International Release
Shot down because they "can't seperate the game and the movie" >_>
Perception
Seems like lotsa people see this as just a bonus game. I'd strongly disagree with that but what can ya do given how they decided to market/sell the title.
Player Base
Judging from the leaderboards about 4,300 have connected to Online VS but prolly half or more haven't played a ranked match. In my experience it seems like there's usually at least 1 person around ta battle with. Or more appropriately - just mess around! Players are often up for at least a second match an more often than not they'll use a different character. Could it be that having only 8 characters has led to more variety an people just playing for fun?
Updates
None. If its not broken there's no need for fixes! Still would be nice to get a patch which allows ya to view alt colors in the model viewer (and every variety of Chim Chim, and doppelgangers, and stages!)~
DLC
None as expected!
Sales Data
Media Create
Week 1: 10th place, 16,664 copies sold.
Week 2: lower than 20th place, less than 3,081 copies sold.
Famitsu
Week 1: 09th place, 17,446 copies sold.
Week 2: 35th place, less than 5,714 copies sold.
This is obviously really low an coulda been a case of a marketing failure! Outta the whole series only frägment sold fewer copies. Now each .hack game has gotten a "The Best" re-release (outside of frägment) so the question is will Versus get one? Given how they decided to sell it prolly not.
International Release
Shot down because they "can't seperate the game and the movie" >_>