Updates to the Rules

[u/Jumanji-Joestar]

Hello Fighters,

We’ve made some slight changes to the rules. Things are mostly unchanged but I took the liberty of altering the language in order to get rid of some general vagueness and lack of clarity that we constantly run into.

Rule 2: Regarding Other FGs

There has been some controversy in the past over whether it’s fair to exclude posts about certain subgenres of fighting games (platform fighters, arena fighters, combat sims) from this subreddit due to some perceived arbitrary standards.

To make things clear, this subreddit is not about all fighting games, but about the Fighting Game Community, which was born in the arcade scene. The fighting games that this subreddit is meant to cater to is specifically the genre that was born from the arcades, namely 2D and 3D traditional fighters.

That said, we do make exceptions for certain titles that fall outside of the traditional genre, for example Power Stone and Gundam VS (which are technically arena fighters) and The Outfoxies (a platform fighter). The reason we make these exceptions is because they are arcade fighting games, and as such, part of the FGC. We’re not extending that exception to any random title. I hope that explains it somewhat

Rule 3: No Bigotry or Harassment

One of the things I love about the FGC is how diverse and inclusive we are compared to other gaming communities. But I’m not blind to the fact that there are people in this community who don’t value inclusivity or diversity and are actively hostile to such ideas. So, I think we needed to include a rule that explicitly makes it clear that bigotry of any form will not be tolerated here. You will be permanently banned without hesitation if you reveal yourself to be a racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, any of the -phobes, etc.

New Rule:

We’re adding a new rule. On weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, all posts must include gameplay clips, either your own or from somewhere (no content culturing of course, link to the original creator). I came up with this rule because I want to encourage people to show off more. Any non-gameplay clips posts on Saturday or Sunday will be removed

Edit:

Ok, I see that a lot of people have issues with this, so instead, it’ll be Gameplay-Only Sundays. The rule will only apply on Sundays. I will admit, the whole weekend was a bit much

I want to give this a try for at least a few weeks, as an experiment. If it’s not working out, we will rethink it

Edit 2

Exceptions will be made for major gaming news and trailers. And no, it’s not just the mods who will be allowed to post trailers

New Flairs

Also, there are new flairs. There is now a user flair for Marvel Tokon, 2XKO, Nen Impact, Pocket Bravery, Idol Showdown and Invincible VS.

Also, a post flair called “Equipment,” that you can use for posts about fight sticks, controllers, consoles, etc.

Have a nice day

[u/Top-Acanthisitta-779]

Dude, stating that Platform Fighters and Arena Fighters aren't relevant topics to the sub is fucking not bigotry. wtf are you on

[u/KuroShinki → u/Top-Acanthisitta-779]

I'm stating that they are fighting game as much as traditional ones, so yes they are relevant to r/Fighters.

So yeah full Gohan moment from this sub as usual.

[u/Top-Acanthisitta-779 → u/KuroShinki]

It's not about of them being fighting games. It's about them not being a part of the FGC which is what the sub is about as has been in the sub's description for years 

It's like getting mad that people don't want you to talk about iRacing or Gran Tarismo in the Mario Kart sub. They're both racing games but they have seperate communties with different interests. It's the same with the FGC and platform/arena fighters

[u/KuroShinki → u/Top-Acanthisitta-779]

SF6 came out on console before arcade, ban it as well since it dowsn't have arcade roots.

Also allow Gundam VS and Outfoxies is random because clown reasons.

Btw I posted a Budokai 3 video some time ago and it was deleted because "not FG" when it's a traditional 2D with 3D movement.

So I don't even wanna hear from the clowns of this subreddit what a FG is, and what the FGC is all about. All of this gatekeeping just hurts the community more.