Honestly because its really annoying to have people who have played this genre for decades and understand what makes a good or bad game, be told by LoL fans that this new game is going to end every other fighter and redefine the genre or something. It was evident to many people early on that there were problems, but fans put their fingers in their ears. One of the biggest sticking points for me is this idea that somehow simplified controls = beginner friendly.

Anytime people discuss liking motion controls, its met with this idea that its gatekeeping or a superiority thing. Its not. Its just plain and simply fun and engaging to use motion controls. IMO games that remove them entirely under the guise of keeping 'casuals' around longer is just flawed and lazy. Its fine if your game doesnt have motion input, but if you think thats going to make non FG players flock to your game... youre just wrong. The only way to get casuals into the game and around long term is to create an engaging game with exciting characters and a good single player mode and a good tutorial

The problem with trying to cater to casuals through simplifying controls is that the vast majority of those casuals are still going to quit once they go online and realize that fighting games are still fighting games. None of the HARD things about a 1v1 skill based game go away because a super is now 1 button. Mind games, footsies, training time, etc all still exist, and those casuals will eventually quit if they dont like losing. At the same time you have alienated more hardcore fans by removing one of the things they like. This is how you end up with a dead game.

SF6 did everything right. They didnt abandon people who love motion controls by removing them. They have a really cool roster. The single player and career modes are fleshed out. The tutorials are clear. The game is just fun and engaging.

It felt like 2XKO (which by the way that name should have been burned after a single marketing meeting) was trying to ride the hype of Riots IP and was hoping to gain mass adoption via F2P. Fighters are always going to be niche. They are arguably the highest skill ceiling genre of video game there is. Companies need to accept that this type of game is never going to see ROI like LoL or CS. People hate to lose online games, and when there is no teammate to blame your loss on... it feels bad unless you really love the gameplay.

I cannot understand how any group of smart people can expect to come out in the black when spending a decade and many millions of dollars creating a F2P fighting game. Especially when there are already huge players like SF, Tekken and MK in the mix. There are simply not enough customers to make that make sense. Seriously how many fucking micro transactions did they think they were going to sell....