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Tony Loiseleur's avatar

I'm glad we're still talking about the KSA's ownership of SNK and how it is directly affecting the development of the first real sequel of a beloved game that fans have been waiting just over twenty-five years for. These same fans are comprised overwhelmingly of gamers in the FGC--the fighting game community--who've been known to be, shall we say, very passionate about their specific gaming genre.

Case in point, here's one of the FGC's biggest commentators and influencers, Sajam, reacting to SNK's "special exhibition" of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves: https://www.twitch.tv/sajam/v/2428497626?sr=a&t=3276s

Sajam can be snarky, but he's authentic and genuinely invested in the success of fighting games; it's his passion just as much as it's how he makes his living. As such, it's really jarring to hear just how down and angry he sounds about the game's inclusion of two real life celebs with really close ties to SNK's new owners when they have no game-related reason being there--and again, for a sequel fans have had to wait a quarter of a century for. Sajam straight up points out just how rushed and awful looking these characters are, almost as if...SNK were ordered at the twelfth hour to include them for whatever arbitrary reason.

If you watch further, you'll notice that he has nothing but praise for the Fatal Fury-native characters demoed in the game later on; he's just brutally honest about these two celeb randos because they very clearly were rushed into the game.

What I also find interesting is how his audience is backing him up in the comments. It's not just Sajam's audience though; I'm seeing a lot of the same sentiment in the fighting game Discord servers I'm a part of too. I think there's a lesson here for combat sports fans. They could really learn a lesson or two about standing up to capture, advocating for the sport they love, just like gamers are doing for their fighting games now.

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Ian Flanagan's avatar

Aren’t longer term low oil prices unlikely given that OPEC (which KSA is the major player) can just reduce production and raise prices at will?

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