Capcom Bans Street Fighter 5 Stage From Its Own Tournament

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23 Nov 2016

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Dizzying heights indeed.

By Matt Porter

Capcom has banned the Street Fighter V stage Skies of Honor from both the Capcom Cup 2016 and the entire Capcom Pro Tour 2017 season.

"Due to being too distracting for tournament play, the #SFV Skies of Honor stage will not be used for Capcom Cup 2016 and the CPT2017 Season," says a Tweet from the Capcom Fighters official account.

The stage features an ever-changing background as it takes place on top of an airplane flying above a representation of Dubai. Pro player Keoma M. Pacheco recently voiced his concerns over the stage in a blog post.

"The composition is actually beautiful, but unfortunately, extremely distractive [sic]," said Pacheco. Not only that, but there have been complaints of motion sickness while playing the stage due to the static foreground and moving background.

"When we move the characters across the screen or jump, for example, the camera scrolls and follow the characters in the Foreground," he continued. "Not only there"s horizontal scrolling but there"s a slight vertical scroll to follow the jumps." Players" eyes are generally focused on the central point of the foreground, and the moving background causes them to lose focus.

The next playable character to join Street Fighter V will be Akuma, joining the likes of Juri and Urien who were added earlier this year.

Matt Porter is a freelance writer based in London. Make sure to visit what he thinks is the best website in the world, but is actually just his Twitter page.

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