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Street Fighter: Resurrection creators outraged by Amazon Prime

Joey Ansah's team blames the distributor and producer Machinima, apologises for the huge "foul up".

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After 2013 miniseries Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist gained acclaim (here's an interview with its director), last year Street Fighter: Resurrection was released, a new production by the same creators, with live action martial artists, and acting as a prologue to Street Fighter V's plot.

However, unlike Ryu and Ken's origins story, which was easily viewable on YouTube and even got a Blu-ray release, accessing the SFV prequel chapters has been rather tricky. And when it looked like things were getting cleared, fans got a counter punch in form of a championship blunder.

In a lengthy Facebook post at the SFAF and SFR official page, the team explains the mess involving distributor Amazon Prime and production partner Machinima.

It looks like SFR was available to watch via Amazon Prime in regions such as UK, Japan or Germany, but all was due "an upload error by Machinima/Amazon", which then caused the removal of the series shortly after, in other words keeping it limited to US viewers.

The team isn't hiding their indignation, asks "how such an upload error is even possible on such a huge platform" and plans to investigate "how such a foul up happened". Besides, they further explain that "unlike SFAF, Machinima fully financed SFR and as a result control all international distribution". The team also defends that "we were initially led to believe during production of SFR that the series would be as easily viewable internationally by our fans as SFAF was", but it obviously wasn't the case "despite continued protests by us".

Joey Ansah' team is aware of how "frustrating, strange, restrictive and disenfranchising the release of SFR has been to the people who matter: YOU, our fans". Then they apologise, thank supporters and share frustration with this mess as they "have long since gone collectively bald from tearing our hair out". But they finish with a promise: "We have learnt (...) and assure you any future SF live action productions from us will NOT be in partnership with companies that cannot guarantee a transparent, easy to access distribution".

Have you seen either Assassin's Fist or Resurrection yet?

Street Fighter: Resurrection creators outraged by Amazon Prime


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