The community over at VFDC is trying to convince Sega to port the latest version to console. If you’re a VF fan, you can do a lot to help them out by posting a reply to their petition thread explaining exactly why you want a console release.
Myke from VFDC wrote
I’m emailing you both in the hopes that you could lend a hand in a campaign we’re currently running over at VFDC. It’s the familiar tale of VF fans world-wide (specifically, outside Japan) wanting SEGA to port the latest incarnation of the VF series — Virtua Fighter 5R — to consoles. To date, VF5R is only available in Japanese arcades and SEGA have not even hinted at plans to bring it home.Recently, we at VFDC were approached by a reputable VFer in Japan, Kamaage, who also happens to run a popular Japnaese VF site. His recent interview with MSN News Japan caught SEGA’s attention, mainly due to the deficiencies he highlighted in how SEGA interact with the community. This resulted in an invitation by SEGA to discuss these matters further. Kamaage, recognising this as a valuable opportunity, invited VFDC to rally together to express their desire to have VF5R ported to console.
Kamaage suggested to us that if we could put together a document of around 100 pages with some background on our community, along with player messages expressing their desire for VF5R on console, then it would surely impress the SEGA rep he was meeting. The meeting with SEGA took place on the 28th January 2010, and while the document did impress, Kamaage informed us that it was simply not enough.
However, discussions between the SEGA rep and Kamaage led to the conclusion that if the document was 5 times larger (i.e. approx 500 pages) then it would have far greater impact. If we can put such a document together, then Kamaage has another opportunity to pass it onto the development team as well as the President of SEGA.
This is where you can help: If you could rally your respective communities to aid our cause, then I’d be ever so grateful. I’m not deluded into thinking that a 500 page fan-produced document is going to dictate how SEGA will spend their money, but I care enough to get a message across. And that message is that Fighting Game fans outside of Japan, from the casual to the hardcore, are tired of being treated as second rate citizens, and sometimes worse.
I thank you both for your time, and hope that we at VFDC may lean on the greater Fighting Game community during this time of need. If you need any more information regarding our plight, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Sincerely,
Mike Abdow
(Myke @ VFDC)
Thanks for the post snskid. You know I added to the thread.
I was confident that you would.
Yeah, seems to me what Mike Abdow is really talking about is a 500 page petition for VF5R. Assuming you can fit around 200 names on a side of A4, 500 pages would be around 100,000 names.
Personally, I’d rather wait for VF6, but I’d expect that to have everything 5R has and much more.
Why would SEGA even bother with making a VF6 is there’s no audience that wants VF5R? This is way of showing SEGA how many fans VF has globally. Fighting game fans and gamers in general need to stick together so we can get the games we want.
somebody needs to post this on N4G.
every gamer must help the cause!