“This process I’ve explained, it has nothing to do with Capcom or Backbone or anything,” he said. Sirlin went on to explain that the frustration of patching console was not specific to Capcom, but to all publishers and developers. I hope the answer is, definitely, we want to fix as much as we can and have this keep selling for many many many years. The question is, is the upside big enough to justify it? With Street Fighter I hope the answer is yes. For any console game there’s just these barriers to patching. I’m not saying anything bad about Capcom there.
“So all this testing and fees, they’re all barriers to patching. If you change one area of the game to fix a problem with it, as far as the publisher knows, they don’t know you didn’t make some mistake in some different part of the game, so they are pretty much obliged to do testing across the board. First of all you have to pay the console makers for each of these patches and second you have to do QA and bug testing on these patches. There’s a lot of difficulty in patching console games. When asked if he thought Capcom would support the game post release with patches, Sirlin replied: “It was very hard to get Puzzle Fighter patched at all. However, some fans have reported gameplay bugs, including music cutting out and difficulty obtaining the get Master of All Things Xbox LIVE Achievement, which requires players win an online ranked match with every character. Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, released on Xbox LIVE across all territories on November 26, ( the game has so far mysteriously not appeared on the EU PlayStation store), contains a completely new rebalanced gameplay mode as well as redrawn HD art. Speaking to in the second part of a mammoth post-mortem interview, due to be published tomorrow, Sirlin described patching as a problem so frustrating that if he were to make a new fighting game he would have “online tests on PCs the entire development process”, something developer Backbone “didn’t have” with HD Remix. David Sirlin, lead designer on Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, hopes that Capcom will patch its recently released downloadable fighting game, but revealed that cost may prevent such a move.
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