With Capcom leaving out a lot of highly requested characters in the new Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, including Mega Man X (MVC3 is the only game in the series to have no incarnation of Mega Man present at all), who was the most requested character in virtually every official poll conducted by Capcom, as well as the lack of any new X-men characters (such as fan faves Gambit, Cyclopse, Psylocke and Cable), it's pretty obvious to people familiar with Capcom's practices that they are already planning ahead for a third edtion of MVC3. There's no way they'd listen to all the complaints about there being no Mega Man in MVC3 and seeing all the poll data, only to decide that they are in fact NEVER going to have Mega Man in this franchise, so either Capcom is disowning the Mega Man franchise completely, or Mega Man X is going to be fans' incentive to buy the final version of MVC3 after they've already bought UMVC3.
I am personally getting fed up with Capcom rushing out unfinished games only to release the finished version a few months later. We got countless versions of Street Fighter 2, 3 versions of Street Fighter 3, 3 versions of Street Fighter IV, and now it looks like we're getting 3 versions of MVC3. I feel like a sucker having bought the collector's edition all those months back, because not only was it a disappointing game but it will also be rendered obsolete soon since Capcom can't be bothered to release anything like balance patches for it. I am not going to buy Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, because I cannot say in good faith that it's going to be what MVC3 Vanilla should have been, and on top of that I already know that MVC3 Turbo / Arcade Edition / Electric Boogaloo is probably less than a year away.
Capcom is not going to stop at just 2 versions of a fighting game. They have NEVER stopped at just two versions. They either release only 1, or at least 3, and that means that there is at least one more version beyond Ultimate heading down the pipeline. For all we know Capcom is already working on it before Ultimate is even finished. My biggest regret is that I wasted $10 getting the Collector's Edition when I could have just saved my money and waited a year for the final edition that has Mega Man X and the other characters that Capcom keeps leaving out.
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