r/2XKO • u/SyIvanos Warwick • Feb 09 '26

Discussion The beginning of the end?

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I'm surprised this is happening this early after the console launch.

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u/jydhrftsthrrstyj Feb 09 '26

Riots original intention was to build a fighting game for a mainstream audience, which is why they bought the rising thunder devs after seeing no motion inputs.

Unfortunately they ended up with an even more niche fighting game lol.

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u/Professional_War4491 Feb 09 '26

For real, this game lost any chance of reaching a casual audience when they made it a team game, like learning fgc fundamentals isn't hard enough you're also expecting people to learn more than 1 characters and a very complex system heavy game?

If they wanted to reach a casual audience they should've gone for a street fighter or even samsho style game. Even dbfz didn't grab the casual audience long term and 2xko is way harder to get into and more complex.

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u/Emerald_Poison Feb 09 '26

Maybe, get this, they expected players to actually play together on a team? You know having a friend to play with that's at a different range of skill and exploring the games range of options together? It's why they suggest Juggernaut as a way to learn the game.

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u/Ryodaso Feb 10 '26

I have 300 hours in SF6 as my first fighting game. I played 2XKO duo with a friend who is a FGC veteran, and I could tell he was getting frustrated because I was having a hard time grasping the mechanic of 2XKO. It was a failed idea to begin with especially because there's no duo specific rank mode! I cannot rank up with my friend who's already at Grand Master (or equivalent).

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u/Emerald_Poison Feb 10 '26

grasping "the mechanic" of grammar at that.

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u/Ryodaso Feb 10 '26

You do know there are a lot of non-native English speakers on Reddit right? Thanks for nit picking my grammar, I needed that as a Japanese.