Fuck a PC port and netplay, and fuck more new characters. This is not smash where we take as many possible characters from our favorite franchises and see them duke it out because it'd be an "epic battle". As benny said they need to make other characters more viable and basically balance the fucking game so that people actually have to think and try out to find out who they want to play instead of saying "hey i played this char in mbac and two of the grooves are useless so i'm set"
as for a pc port and netplay, it would greatly benefit the casuals and randoms and get a lot of people to try the game out for a little bit but it would fuck over the tournament scene and shaft those who are dedicated enough to travel and teach others to create comp in this game. It makes no fucking sense to reward those who have sat there and played the game occasionally at home and fuck over those who have more or less mained this game for years. And yes, this IS coming from someone who is $100 and a 10 hour bus ride away from NYC, and HAS made that trip. Want to know a game that was stuck on PC and had tons of netplay going on but little tournament attention? Akatsuki Blitzkampf. There you fucking go. Would you want to see MB turned into netplay and nothing else? Because if it does, it goes from a competitive fighting game to a way to kill some time. If you're in europe and are complaining about language barriers and waters to cross sorry but that's one of the MANY issues you should have had to deal with by now for living there, whether it was your choice or not. They are making this game for japan where players are more accessible and don't give a jack shit about europe or USA and we're lucky enough to have a ps2 port period because if they wanted they could release everything arcade only. end rant
the -best- thing that could happen for this game would be for the sprite quality to be improved and the game released, with netplay, on XBLA and PSN. that's really the only way to please everyone (and i mean everyone). and they probably recognize this too but i'm sure we all know that this isn't going to happen unfortunately
as for good things that will come of MBAA:FT, anyone who plays a console only character will finally get their characters explored by real players so that everyone can just X-COPY them rather than struggling to create playstyle, setups, mixups, pressure strings, etc completely on their own. their also might be some slight tier shifts and some use of other characters (who are low tier) since there were quite a number of minor changes to more than a few characters to balance out some genuinely broken things (like that one akiha AD setup).