Quote Originally Posted by Slothy View Post
With guys like Capcom I've loved the recent RE titles but the crap they've been pulling with Street Fighter is downright offensive.
Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition released to overwhelmingly positive reception. It currently sits at about an 88 on Metacritic which is a superb score, and it brought many features that fans had been asking for such as single player content and second V-triggers. So I'm really not sure what you're referring to.

Even with FromSoft there's precisely one guy managing to direct consistently good titles there. So I guess I have faith in him. Literally no company though.
I have no idea what your argument is. Hidetaka Miyazaki is literally the president of FromSoftware. To say that you have faith in him is to more or less say that you have faith in FromSoftware as a developer because, you know, he runs the show there.

He's also been responsible for directing 5 of FromSoftware's last 6 major releases, and even the supposed black sheep of the series (Dark Souls II) was very well received. So all of your comments would suggest that you do, in fact, have faith in FromSoftware.

Frankly the entire concept of having faith in any company in any industry strikes me as ludicrous these days.
What about it strikes you as ludicrous? Can you elaborate on this?

Certainly am done pre-ordering games from any company and have been for a while. Pre-orders only ever benefit the company, never the consumer.
Preorders almost always give some benefit to the consumer via in-game content, and they are available at most places completely for free. Just this week I was able to preorder Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers at no cost to myself, and I got a code for some in game items in Final Fantasy XIV that I've been able to use. So yeah, I would say I benefited quite a bit from preordering.

Also, if you're a fan of a game or a series of games created by a company, wouldn't you want to support them so they could continue producing games you enjoy? Preorder numbers are sometimes used by companies to showcase consumer interest in a product, which will appease shareholders. Making your shareholders happy could allow you to get a bigger budget for the next game in the series, resulting in a better game that fans of your series could enjoy. It's a complicated topic, but to say that preorders never benefit the consumer isn't true.