Hopefully he stays involved in the fighting game community, he's invaluable.
Seth Killian
Current Man of Mystery. Formerly a designer at Sony Santa Monica and special advisor/community manager at Capcom US. He is one of the biggest names in the fighting game community, and the final boss of Divekick.
Seth Killian Leaving Capcom, Pens Goodbye Letter
"Strive to be your best selves, to share our magic with the next generation"
Ive never seen a more insular and closed off community in video games than that of the fighting variety. Hopeful words but never gonna happen.
Sad best front facing Capcom guy ever. With him being a face recognized he caught a lot of flak seeing that Capcom keeps pissing on all the good will they get with poor business practices I can't really blame anyone for not wanting to continue being employed by them and having to deal with all that everyday.
I wish the best to Seth. He did a great job helping bring back fighting games from obscurity, and had such an infectious passion for them. Good luck to him.
Don't leave me, Seth Killan. Can you make another Street Fighter game? I'll miss you. Why, Capcom, why?
@PulledaBrad said:
"Strive to be your best selves, to share our magic with the next generation"Ive never seen a more insular and closed off community in video games than that of the fighting variety. Hopeful words but never gonna happen.
Let me guess you've made this brilliant inference based on message boards, comment boards, online, and stream chat? Your comment sounds like you've never gone to a local weekly/ranbat. When he says "community", he means the people that actually make an effort to play in person at weeklies/ranbats/etc and tournaments.
If I judged the Giantbomb "community" solely based on article comments, I'd peg about a third of them as being complete idiots who would rather write something negative, then admit they really don't know shit about the topic of discussion.
The man is legitimately one of the best FG commentators out there. I will truly miss his passion for the FGC, his expertise and his top notch commentary. I hope he remains in the scene at least to some extent.
Pretty sad news, first gootecks quits cross counter then spooky says he's cutting back and Ono nearly dies and now Keith Sillian departs sigh there dropping like flies :'(
Good article @patrickklepek
@CornBREDX said:
Wow. That's kind of weird. Even though I'm not big on SF4 I watched a lot of tournaments online- which he often commentates. That's gonna be weird not seeing/hearing him as a commentator.
Not working for Capcom won't mean he stops commentating for FGC events, if anything, leaving Capcom means he'll commentate more of them.
@PulledaBrad said:
"Strive to be your best selves, to share our magic with the next generation"Ive never seen a more insular and closed off community in video games than that of the fighting variety. Hopeful words but never gonna happen.
How far does your knowledge of the FGC actually extend? I've seen words like insular and closed off lazily thrown around in reference to the FGC many times by people who know a lot less than they think they do.
That is sad news to hear. Seth help make Street Fighter relevant again and revitalize the fighting genre. It is not his fault that Capcom went back to it's old business practices. Selling the same game over and over again. Then nickle and dime consumers with their lousy DLC. Maybe he wants to do something different that doesn't involve fighting. Best of luck to him.
Good for him...I hate to say but Capcom has been failing for a while. Miss the Breath of Fire, Megaman Legends and Ghouls 'N Ghost's series :-(
@FLStyle said:
Good article @patrickklepek
@CornBREDX said:
Wow. That's kind of weird. Even though I'm not big on SF4 I watched a lot of tournaments online- which he often commentates. That's gonna be weird not seeing/hearing him as a commentator.
Not working for Capcom won't mean he stops commentating for FGC events, if anything, leaving Capcom means he'll commentate more of them.
@PulledaBrad said:
"Strive to be your best selves, to share our magic with the next generation"Ive never seen a more insular and closed off community in video games than that of the fighting variety. Hopeful words but never gonna happen.
How far does your knowledge of the FGC actually extend? I've seen words like insular and closed off lazily thrown around in reference to the FGC many times by people who know a lot less than they think they do.
Im going to go with unreasonably defensive as well.
Ono talks, makes it easy for them to make him leave.
Seth leaves, then talks.
I don't know how much you know about Japanese society, but Capcom has shot themselves in the foot.
Didn't know who this dude was till he became the face of Capcom but he made himself a fan. Hope wherever he's going things go well for him.
Can't say I'm surprised. Capcom was using him as a PR middle man to the community, even going so far as having him spout misinformation about their upcoming games to the fans who look to Seth as someone from their own competitive community who they could trust. It was a shitty deal, both for Seth and for Capcom fans.
Hope he goes into game design in some capacity. I think he'd be great at it.
I'm sad that Seth is leaving :(
I hope he is planning to work on fighting games for a different company
Seth has done a great job as the public face for Capcom. As a "special advisor", he has done work outside of the fighting game genre and I think it has improved Capcom's game output to some extent. I will definitely miss seeing his face in interviews for upcoming Capcom games and I am excited to see where he ends up next.
I just hope he'll keep doing commentary at EVO and such. Also that's a big blow to capcom's fighting games imo, he was the face of fighting games over there and pretty much anyone who's even moderately into the fgc knows him.
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