Does Virtua Fighter Still Exist?

So I've always been interested in Virtua Fighter and wanted to get into it more competitively, but the scene seems pretty dead. Can someone prove me otherwise? Are there still active tournaments that people are playing at?

 

Short answer. Nope.

As someone who attempted to organize offline events. Vf players are scarce and extremely dodgey. You will get a small 10 man tops side tourney once a year.

Only real offline vf event is NYG

 

Dead game with players that dodge money matches and unless you live in New York you can entirely forget about offline.

 

It's quite alive in NYC area and online through here. it just takes a little more effort to organize vf playdates. Watch the videos on the site and get real comfortable with dojo mode.

 

Game is more dead than a vampire stabbed by a garlic-infused stake. Please look forward to SF5 next week.

 

"The legend will never die"

 

VF seems to be a niche little game and I've always enjoyed the series. I am from upstate New York I've played other competitive fighters like King of Fighters and Super Smash Bros. Melee. The smash series has had tournaments all over the place and the community just seems to be growing. So in comparison VF seems kind of lack luster. I can still really respect you guys still being here on this website in 2016. I was hoping there would be kind of scene for this game because I used to play this game all the time. I'd prefer offline play over online play any day.

 

NYC and Toronto are pretty much the only thriving offline scenes in NA to my knowledge, everywhere else is kinda dead. I know @VFhayato runs things at his store, maybe go check with him?

 

It's an absolute shame that the scene is so dead. VF is one of the best 3D fighters of all time.

 

It is a shame. I didn't start checking out VF until somewhat recently, and I was studying for the CPA exam at the time, so I really didn't have a chance to take the time to actually learn how to be a competent player. Now that I'm done with the CPA, I traded in my PS3 for a PS4 so I could pick up SFV. I really hope that some version of VF makes it's way onto PS4, I'd pick that game up in a heartbeat.

 

Do you think a new game in the series might revive the scene? Or am I being to hopeful?

 

It couldn't hurt, but I'm not overly hopeful for a VF6. Sega doesn't seem too interested in making another VF, and even if they were, the Sega that made solid VF games in the past is not the same Sega of today, so there's no gaurantee that a new VF would even be good. The 3D fighter scene seems pretty down lately, so I'm not sure how much demand there would be for a new VF, other than amongst current VF players. I think best case scenerio is that Tekken 7 comes out and reignites the 3D scene, and then some other company buys the rights to VF and makes a new VF game.

 

Sega hasn't supported it's products since 1993 and a new game isn't coming. They just toss out increasingly inferior products and then abandon them and wonder why they are failing. As sad as this is... A proven fact from Final Showdown's release is that SEGA will only sponser Street Fighter players instead of actual VF players like Denkai, GT, or others. So you have this horrid disaster of a company that doesn't care about it's own fans or products and absolutely will not support it's own players and you ask what hope is there for a new game or a larger scene? There is no hope unless Sega sells VF to a more competent company that actually knows how to promote a game and support it's players.

 

It's always a start.

I wouldn't say this.
It's just that things changed now and what made VF successful in the past isn't going to be enough now or wasn't enough for VF5 (even in Japan).
That goes for any fighting games in general, adding tons of superficial and flashy stuff is what's primordial now.
Not regarding the trivial crap, assuming there is a VF6 planned, I think the choices they made recently and the direction they took with FS shows at least that they are already aware they need to make changes.

There is never a guarantee any new game is going to be good, see the feelings toward SF5 or Tekken 7 that are widely mixed, not that it means anything yet foretelling the series future, and most likely Tekken 7 can't profit to anything but it's own brand and SF, nothing that can hype up 3D fighters in general.

There is a chance a new Virtua Fighter can work, Sega just needs to make the right decisions this time.

 

I am really just angry because it looks like I am far too late to be able to be part of the scene before it died. From the looks of it VF had a great fanbase for many years but it eventually died out over time. For what reason? Maybe simply because VF thrived on the freshness on new entries in the series? VF isn't particularly flashy compared to other fighters so maybe to some people this freshness compensated for that somewhat.

 

i live in buffalo if you wanna get some games in.

 

VF IS STILL ALIVE IN OUR HEARTS At least in a heart of the japanese ranked mode where I often hang on since my internet is so OP. I may loose this opportunity in half a year though since I'm gonna move and that makes me sad.

 

VF died bacause you let it die