[UPDATE] Fire Pro Wrestling World Future DLC & Updates

we should get a Taichi patch soon

I love the bit about him urging Matsumoto to remake his moveset. Hopefully they do and also assign the missing moves that were added later, like the jumping back elbow in the corner (Okada) and standing Texas Cloverleaf (Tanahashi).

That translation has me a bit hopeful.

Did Taichi say which of his moves he was angry about not having?

And that would be great if any the very end they had a nice tool for move creation. Something slightly in the realm of user friendly or at least with a more visual interface.

It sounds to me like they're trying to give Matsumoto more manpower... All this trouble came about because they've lacked sufficient personnel, I think. A team of 10 guys just seems too small for a game by an actual publisher in this Era.

My guess is that in the future we'll find out two things:

1) What Matsumoto thought was a fair estimated time and cost of FPW.
2) How much less time and money Spike was willing to give him to create it.

Although mistakes do happen in the course of creating games (or in the course of human...or Human behavior), my suspicion is that more than 50% of the problems with FPW are a result of the disconnect between 1 and 2.

I doubt that Matsumoto has had a good night sleep since like Fall 2017 as the entirety of fan disappointment has to go through him even though I doubt he was given the proper resources for this project or was even given the ability to make certain executive decisions involving resources.  And I can't state enough how important time is as a resource. The game was rushed out of Early Access and I doubt it was his choice or fault.  He's continually had to make tough decisions on a time frame that I doubt he wanted to make. I don't know who came up with the initial idea or the final choice to get NJPW involved.  Maybe it was him and maybe that was a poor choice given how thin they were already stretched. While I think far more good than bad came out of it, you will run into trouble any time you split your already hobbled resources by adding a new goal.   Again though, I do think we got FAR more good from the NJPW release than bad. 

I also don't know if the silence coming out of Spike was his choice.  I'm not saying it wasn't, but it's really not out of the realm of possibility for a company to say "this situation has completely shit the bed - I don't want anyone talking to the public until we can find some way forward."  The whole thing was a mess.

And yet, we still have the best Fire Pro game by far with some assurance that the DLC will continue.  So even with all the botches and wounded (but not entirely broken) promises, we still have a lot to be happy about.  Even if I was able to spend more time on Fire Pro than I typically get to, I'd still be really happy with what we have.  I think it's fine to lament Spike's mismanagement but still remember, at the end of the day, that this reality is 1000X better than the one we faced at the start of 2017.  It doesn't look like Spike is done either even if they will continue at a slow and delayed pace and even if what they continue to give us (or continue to fail to fix out of what they've already given us)  is far less than what we'd expect from them. 

Hell, I'm still hurting from the lack of OBVIOUS addition of chaining priorities into Standing Attacks.  It's like a glaring omission that smacks me in the face every time I go into edit mode. But then I remember everything else the game can do that is better than FPR and I don't look back.  At the end of the day, mistakes were made, but we're still in a better position with FPW than FPR even if sooooooo much potential was squandered.


TLDR: Geese has mixed feelings but is mostly happy with news. Geese is from the land of wind and ghosts 👻