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| Top players (FC Jago, EG Ricky Ortiz) getting early and unfair advantage access to SFxT |
What has been going on for the past 3 years since SF4 came out is that certain players have been unfairly playing new fighting games before they come out. Why does this bother me? The fact is when a player gets to play a fighting game for 3 weeks before the release date, they automatically have an unfair advantage over other professional players in tournaments. Mike Ross, who is well known in the community, will have a definitive advantage over most players in the new game to be released March 6, Street Fighter X Tekken. I have no animosity toward Mike Ross, in fact, I love watching him play and goof off during tournaments. However, just because he's a known pseudo-celebrity, doesn't mean he should be able to play on the online reality show Cross Assault sponsered by Capcom. Right now he is getting free practice for tournaments that many people will be practicing all day and all night once the game comes out.
Now some of you are probably going to think that it won't make that much of a difference. But the fact is, Mike Ross is a professional player at the highest level. He is already at the top level, why does he have another advantage on top of that? Wow, I'm currently watching the Cross Assault Live stream (which is on just about all day in case you are interested) and they just announced that about 5 of the top competitive fighting game players are going to also get to play this game before release. Man, I really feel bad for some of those players who have to go up against these guys during the first few weeks this game is out and being played at major tournaments for major prize money.
Check out the live stream here, here, and the last stream here.
Yeah, you need to think about the time they put into this. Even the avid players of games like Skyrim have only put in a few hundred hours to it. These guys, at the professional level, put at least half of their waking time into the game. That's roughly 8 hours a day, multiplied by 21 days (3 weeks). 168-hour advantage, which is more than most players have on Skyrim!
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