#Sega shat the bed sometime around 2013 and sold off a bunch of IPs and ASW was able to buy back the rights to Guilty Gear

[solradguy]

about that most iconic fighting game protag. it’s so weird every time i see how popular gg is and then like. no one cares. you never see gg merch at cons and like. gg doesn’t get in smash at all it’s like. damn

Guilty Gear's in this weird spot where it was decently "big" over in Japan since day 1 but was this strange, quirky, underground thing here in the west until Strive where suddenly it's the headliner game at major tournaments like EVO. I think the Sammy-Sega merger putting the entire franchise into IP hell for most of the 2010s didn't help too... Maybe if that had never happened we would have gotten a GG character into Smash...

Strive really has kicked the frontdoor down here in the west though. I bet the amount of GG merch at cons and stuff is going to go way up between now and the next game in the series haha

also I don't think most other fighting games have a community on here the same way GG does? and following my blog is like being exposed to the elephant's foot of GG content rofl so there may be some kind of data bias there hahahah

#asks #The Sammy-Sega merger happened around Overture (2005?) when Sega bought out Sammy who was the publisher for GG games #Something happened with that where ASW had to go through Sega to make GG games and they didn't have access to all the IP during that time #So that's how we got Blazblue and Overture and why Overture introduced so many new characters #Sega shat the bed sometime around 2013 and sold off a bunch of IPs and ASW was able to buy back the rights to Guilty Gear #....and then ASW bravely decided to kickstart the series with a pachislot machine. Let's goooooo Vastedge !