Things SEGA needs to do with VF5US to secure and sustain success

Bad timing and half-assed decisions by SEGA were always the things that in the end comprised them.

This is the time VF has got the attention of the worldwide FGC thanks to influencers and streamers that discovered the amazing deepness of this beloved franchise.

They need to take advantage of this momentum they are having and do this:

- Rollback netcode: For a fighting game that's not even a discussion. Specially for something that VF that needs such a precise input execution. If we want the best, give us the best because VF is the best.

- Completely free to play, multiplatform and crossplay: Maximize your playerbase, no platform exclusivity. Free to download. If newcomers like the game they are going to stay forever and buy cosmetics just because they love the game so much.

- Make customizables available for free with missions: Make players have a profile that they can level up their account with use of avatars and with the possibility to win prizes for free if they play enough. If players don't want to go through that they can always pay for it (like it is right now). But make newcomers stay and give them some sense of achievement not only by ranking up but also cosmetically.

With every level you gain some amount of Virtua currency that you can expend in cosmetics.

Players can also gain currency or special crates if they master a character they play.

So you could have account level and mastery level for characters. Both can give you currency to expend on items such as profile avatars, profile borders, emotes, mascots, customizable items etc.

- Fix the lobby invite system: One of the most fundamental things of multiplayer is an easy way to invite your friends to play. Make it easier not difficult.

- Release new characters by seasons: This has become the standard for all fighting games and it's a way to let know your playerbase that you care for them and their game and you are not letting it die. Everybody gets hyped with new characters.

Every time I write some of this the competition takes notes..I still love you SEGA.

 

Fix netcode and add rollback, and then keep releasing DLCs contents. But they need to do this ASAP while VF5US is on its momentum, or at least communicate about it, but with Sega who knows, we'll see.

 

I hope I'm not asking for too much but a way to invite friends to lobbies


Improving netplay/rollback and having training mode remember settings would be great too. If they looked at ps2 VF4 Evolution they could get a ton of great ideas.