While Street Fighter 6 is a success with followers of Capcom’s well-known combating sport collection, its monetisation has prompted an uproar. The newest offender is the hotly anticipated Outfit 3 launch, which supplies every of the 18 launch characters an attention grabbing new costume to put on.
Each Outfit 3 is obtainable for 300 Fighter Coins (Street Fighter 6’s premium forex) and consists of all 10 accessible colors. Unlike Outfit 2, Outfit 3 is just accessible for buy with real-world cash and can’t be unlocked by way of World Tour mode.
The downside right here is that Capcom solely sells Fighter Coins in bundles of 250 for £3.99 / $4.99, 610 for £9.49 / $11.99, 1,250 for £18.99 / $23.99, and a couple of,750 for £39.99 / $49.99. This means there’s no manner to purchase 300 Fighter Coins, or spend round $6, on one Outfit 3. You must spend round $10 or extra, relying on the bundle you go for.
Perhaps worse, Capcom isn’t promoting an Outfit 3 bundle that features some or all of the costumes at a reduced value. That means if you wish to purchase all Outfit 3 costumes for all 18 launch characters, you’ll want 5,400 Fighter Coins, which is able to set you again an eye-watering £80 / $100 (2,750 Fighter Coins x 2). That’s far more costly than Street Fighter 6 itself.
As you’d count on, the Street Fighter group is in uproar over the price of these outfits. One thread on the Street Fighter subreddit, titled, “Do not purchase the costumes,” requires a boycott. “Capcom cannot be allowed to have that slide and get the win,” redditor Soul699 mentioned. “Because in any other case it is going to worsen sooner or later.
“Sure, Mortal Kombat is doing worse, however that does not change it is nonetheless unhealthy. I do know lots of people will not care, and can preserve feeding the firms as a result of they only gave up and submitted, however if you wish to do one thing sensible, don’t purchase the costumes. I do know they’re principally nice wanting, however resist. Do not let Capcom get away so simply.”
Another thread known as the monetisation “insane for a $60 sport”. “Yep, it’s sucks that they did the ‘outfit prices 300 however there isn’t any 300 coin choice’,” redditor Vahallen added. “It’s not a brand new follow, but it surely does suck.”
It was an analogous sentiment on social media. Here’s a snippet:
No bundle choice for the SF6 costumes and the worth is a fucking joke. Lads, not like this. https://t.co/yDoEfrVSt0
— Alex Donaldson (@APZonerunner) December 1, 2023
So, these costumes are 300 FIGHTER COINS every, however the smallest quantity you should purchase is 250 for £3.99, so it’s a must to spend minimal £9.49 to purchase 610 cash.
To purchase all of them, you may want 5400 cash, which suggests you’d want 2 x 2750 coin batches for a complete of EIGHTY QUID.
No thanks. https://t.co/KjJZBFqERI
— Andi Hamilton (@andihero) December 1, 2023
We had been this near Capgod (assuming we weren’t there already which we kinda had been), however Capcom needed to muck all of it up with the Outfit 3 Prices for Street Fighter 6. We cannot have good issues can we? or a minimum of have them moderately priced and/or in a bundle pic.twitter.com/DrRQWurscW
— Dan/Carly W ?️? (@Nightwing2xxy) December 1, 2023
All the great will SF6 constructed simply to slap the gamers and followers with a 108 greenback value for all of the character costume 3 outfits with no bundle to be cheaper.
Id truthfully pay 30 possibly even 40 max for all of the outfits which is inline with there packs from 4 n 5 and people got here with
— Mikai (@Mikaidesu) December 1, 2023
“108 {dollars} for costumes, Capcom?” pic.twitter.com/Z44YaoSKI5
— Hydro (@Hydro_236) December 1, 2023
Capcom has kind on the subject of aggressive monetisation, after all. In August, it got here beneath fireplace for the excessive price of Street Fighter 6’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DLC, which, sure, suffered the identical problem the place it’s inconceivable to spend the precise quantity for a single costume. It does not seem like the backlash it suffered on the time put Capcom off giving the identical follow one other shot.
IGN’s Street Fighter 6 evaluation returned a 9/10. We mentioned: “Street Fighter 6 is essentially the most feature-rich a Street Fighter has ever been at launch, however even past that, it is roster of 18 characters is great, the brand new mechanics revitalize the one-on-one combating components, and it completely nails the entire little issues that make for a stellar combating sport.” Street Fighter 6 has gone on to promote over two million copies since its launch in June.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
