Honestly I agree. I understand the concept of not having to unlock characters but that was always half the fun. In some games there weren't even that many characters to unlock in fact. Take killer instinct, the only real character to unlock was the boss but this was back when people actually sat next each other to play. Unlocking characters was fun except for MvC2 which was more fulfilling when you finally bought the last character, after weeks of playing constantly. I do miss unlocking characters. Fighting games these days don't have anything else to do either than play online or play arcade mode. Naruto Generations started you off with about 8 out of maybe 35 -45 characters which could be unlock through first playing the story mode. I had fun unlocking them too. My thing is fighting game are fairly boring today because there is nothing to do but to play but not every player plays competitively. Some just want to play the game, for fun, which is what video games in general are meant for. There is no fun in repetitive play in versus mode, expecially where there is noone to play against.