Talk:RWBY/@comment-26160399-20170814215542

Is anyone else worried about the impact RWBY will have on Blazblue Cross Tag Battle? I love Ruby's inclusion, even though it does feel a bit out of place, but after seeing how the RWBY fandom has reacted (mainly on youtube) I'm starting to feel as if there's going to be a problem.

Here's the thing: I feel as if RWBY fans are going to immediately jump to BBCTB solely because of RWBY, and for no other reason. When I see all the reaction/review videos, I barely see anyone hold any sort of knowledge for the other three games, but go insane over the inclusion of Ruby. That worries me. To me, when the game comes out, we're going to have a massive schism in the fandom, between two sides.

The first will be the mainstayers of any of the Japanese franchises, people who are high-level players and look for technicality over enjoyment (this isn't a bad thing in the slightest, fighting games generally tend to prioritize technicality and suitability for comp play over going for mass appeal, and I believe it should stay that way). People who care massively about the franchises and want difficult but rewarding gameplay. These are the original fighting game fans who are looking to BBCTB as they have been impressed by the games which it is incorporating.

The second, as you can probably tell, is going to be the RWBY fans who are only joining for the sake of the inclusion of RWBY characters, do not care about the other games or the massive amount of work put into them, and do not regularly play fighting games or care about the immense amounts of technicality and details that this game is likely to have.

As you can imagine, this could cause some problems (I'm not speaking for the entire RWBY fandom, and definitely not on this wiki, so this may not apply to you. I realize there are some fighting game fans who also like RWBY. I mainly began to reach this inclusion after watching the RWBY fandom react to the announcement, and it had me a bit worried).