Street Fighter 5 Pricing For Costumes and Characters Revealed

The Witcher 3 cost $60. This costs $60. Please, think about that for awhile.

... this whole thing is a disaster.

I paid $60 for The Witcher 3 and didn't like it. Judging on my past with fighters like SF IV, MK X and Smash I will get more hours of entertainment from my $60 with SF V than I had with The Witcher 3. Does that not count for anything? And getting good at SF V will be far more fulfilling for me than hitting The Witcher Sense button for 80 hours. That shit isn't "gaming" that's hand-holding and lazy game design but that's for another discussion.


EDIT: And lets not pretend that The Witcher is a model for cost effective and sustainable game design. If it weren't for consoles The Witcher 3 would not have been made. And how did it do sales wise? Not in the top 10 in sales in 2015. Let's see how The Witcher 4 looks.........

@R4gn4r0k: Thank God I have a huge backlog of games that don't milk me for money to play -__- I wonder if we will ever return to a time where a major release doesn't try to screw your wallet?

Street fighter was almost never complete. Minor and major revisions have been taking place since the series started. I do not care for this method but it gives the impression that there's just "Street Fighter 5".

I personally think rosters are TOO large. I'd prefer smaller, more distinct, balanced characters. Releasing a fighting game with 50 characters and expecting the developer to support game balance for 5 years is actually asking quite a bit.

@GoldenElementXL: Whether you liked the Witcher 3 or not you still have to admit there is a lot more to that game as far as the work that went into it goes and the games vast scope and they still didn't feel the need to whore it out with DLC from day one. Paying for costumes? Have fun with that.

P.s.

GoldenElementXL:

'If it weren't for consoles The Witcher 3 would not have been made."

-Don't any of you ever forget that!

Since this gen started we had games launch

- Absolutely broken (AC: Unity, Battlefield 4). But hey, at least we had DLC that we could pay for, DLC to use in our broken games

- Void of content (Battlefront and R6 Siege taking out the singleplayer). But hey, who needs a singleplayer anyway when you can pay an additional 30-50 dollars for a season pass for a multiplayer game that will be dead within a year anyway ?

- Filled with micro transactions (Forza 6). Freaking micro transactions in a 60 dollar racer to get some more cars.

And now this game... With it's in game store, lack of features, short as hell singleplayer, broken features. It's really taking all the BEST elements from this gen so far.

Oh, it's only going to get worse

and worse

and worse

"Don't worry guys, SF5 will totes not have paid DLC except it will." -Capcom.

Can you buy costumes with in game currency.

Welp, looks like Killer Instinct Season 1 and 2 is the better fighting game that even tells you that it's F2P while you're stuck playing a "has been" fighting game franchise that forces you to pay $60 with a F2P model inside! LOL

"Sorry we released this full price game so barebones, guys. Just pay some more money and we'll totally fix this (maybe not)"

Premium costumes, no. Regular costumes, yes.

That's what i got from GAF, anyway. Kind of hard to tell with all the outrage.

@GoldenElementXL: it's actually 90 dollars in Ontario, so yeah I'd be pissed at the lack of content, many Canadians will skip this

Should have released characters for free, and just charge for costumes. The community has shown that they will go apeshit for hats. See Dota, CS & Hearthstone.

Evolve v2.0?

40,000 FM for a costume I think you mean?

Yes, thanks, let me go fix that.

@charizard1605:

Thats still ridiculous.

@thendefender: No clue. Pretty sure he will atleast be dlc tho. (Hopefully free) Hes gonna be in the next tekken tho , so maybe thats why hell be late sfv lol... idk

@mark1974: one is not targeting a as big audience.. think about that. If you exapect bigger profits the budget will be bigger. Like star wars.. its still the same price for the movie ticket right ?

Im buying this game cuase its works for now and i know whats coming. They havent let me down yet. Loved Sf4 and dont have it on my ps4.

I could understand the individual issuses some of you guys have here but i garantee you the masses will not complain and that the future content will be aaa material.

They did what Turn 10 did with Forza 5, they made progressing more difficult than it should be naturally to drive people towards the micro-transactions in the game...

It's shitty man...

I just found out that you can only earn fight money online? Is this true?

Yes, because it has to be logged and checksumed against their servers for validity.

@nyadc: What the heck? So PS4 players have to pay to unlock stuff in the game, but PC players gets to unlock stuff for free.

No, they are setup the same, but you cannot progress in the game or attain anything when not connected to the network.

It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

@nyadc: What i mean is to play online you have to pay Sony first. Then you can unlock your SF5 PS4 content. But on PC its all free.

Oh, I didn't even think about that, yeah I guess you would have to have a PS+ subscription to even advance in the game in a single player capacity lol...

This is ridiculous.

2000 victories lol, this isn't much different from some of the past Forza games with the token system (otherwise with the expensive cars), I was cool with that though, it was just one of the things I liked about it for that genre. But it's a system where only the most hardcore or dedicated players of players will do this. I'm not entirely sure I'd like this in this genre.

Is it 2000 matches or rounds that have to be won?

Dem Zenny's to da ready am confirmed.

Lol, Cows, they just can't catch a break these dayzzz. :P

Only good thing about all this is you don't need to feel bad for pirating the game.

SFV is supposed to be more inviting to new players. Having a smaller payout for losses would go a long way towards keeping new players engaged as they learn the ropes.

@charizard1605: I was just giving the price i paid for Bayonetta. You could say that you made the deep analysis of my purchase rather than me.

Oh and i paid 7.80 dollars for Ryu, Cloud, Bayonetta if i remember right for the WiiU. Problem was Cloud is one of ky favourite rpgs, ryu is treet fighter (please be a capcom vs nintendo on nx), Bayonetta 2 is the probably the best beat em up game ive played since streets of rage and golden axe. I needed all 3.

Only as long as idiots keep buying into it. Which apparently they will.

No wonder they're called cows...

I accidentally put Forza 6 on there, while it should've been Forza 5.

Anyway, I'm responsible for buying some of those games as well: Battlefield 4 and AC Unity. But I only bought them at a way later date and they were patched up and playable by then... In fact they were good games.

But it's clear to me that the respect for consumers is gone from some companies. So I'm way more skeptical now when I buy a big budget game. In fact buying those at release sounds like a no-go.

2,000 Wins? And that price. Capcom learned nothing, did they?

@getyeryayasout: I agree with you. How did we go from megaman/turtles in time to this?

PC players are called cows? This is a multiplatform title developed by a third party company.

This whole $60 games being sold with free to play business models is a joke. Especially games like SFV, Evolve, Rainbow Six, Destiny and other games that barely have any content to begin with. These companies can't finish a game before release but they can sure as hell make sure to have their nickel and dime microtransaction system in place day 1.

Yeah it's pretty fucking ridiculous, also the game had four beta's and the network is still broken.

am not gonna lie.... I had to scratch my head a bit on that one too.

He must have been playing it with one hit kills or something........ even then though still :-I

The worst part is when this nonsense begins to infect even otherwise content complete AAA games- for example, we can't escape the fact that this microtransaction nonsense is in MGSV, or that it has adversely impacted game balance there. It is also in Forza and Gran Turismo, and in both those cases, the games suffered, simply because the microtransactions were there and skewed balance. Same with Halo 5: Guardians and Assassin's Creed Unity.

I guess my hope is that Uncharted 4 doesn't fall to this nonsense, but seeing how uncharted 3 already did, I honestly don't have much hope in this regard.

Nope, nope, nope...

Halo 5 has a very fleshed out balancing mechanic in place, something these other games do not have, also getting requisition packs is not hard and the micro-transactions are what is funding all of the post release DLC and helping fund tournaments.

Big difference there...

Yes I think about this all the time, along with Squaresoft. I miss the old days.

It's getting to the point where we are being charged $60 just to have the privilege of being nickel and dimed to access the content the $60 is supposed to grant us. This industry is so disgusting right now.

Yeah, it's shitty as f*ck.

Look, I understand that game development costs are escalating, and returns on investments needed to be made, but this either means:

a) Publishers need to be better about handling game budgets
b) They need to inculcate long term relationships with their customers, rather than try to seek short term gain and risk alienating their base

It's like all these major companies are being run by a group of short sighted monkeys.