Posted on: Friday, March 16th, 2012
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SFxT DLC Character Pricing Announced
Capcom has announced the pricing for their upcoming DLC in Street Fighter X Tekken. See how much you will be paying to unlock your characters.
First Up, Releasing on April 3rd, are the Costume Packs and Color Palette Swaps:
A few weeks afterwards you get more gems and tournament improvements:
Finally, coming “soon” after the Sony PSVita Version (6 months or so?), your 12 Locked characters can be unlocked for the low low price of only $20!
No Brelston, we werent worried so much about the cost as we were about already having PAID FOR THE CHARACTERS THAT ARE ON THE DAMN DISC!
Brelston addresses these cost concerns upfront because previously Capcom had priced characters at $3 each, which would have came out to an additional $36 on top of your $60 for all 12 characters, that’s a ridiculous total of $96 for the “complete” Street Fighter x Tekken. Now it’s “only” going to cost you $80. Up that another $12-20 if you want the costume packs, so $100. Gee, thanks considering we already paid for this content once (both on the disc). WHAT. A. STEAL!
Finally, you have to consider that the cost really is $40, not $20. If the PSVita didn’t exist that is. That version gets the additional 12 characters for free for the $39.99 Vita Game. It’s for reasons like this that I’m more likely to HATE the Vita than buy one.
Morality issues aside, $20 for 12 Characters is a pretty good deal. However, I think the new pricing has more to do with the recent uproar and the Vita version than anything else. So I like to think this happened because of our push back.
Source: Capcom Blog
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104 thoughts on “SFxT DLC Character Pricing Announced”
To me, this looks like an ongoing experiment to find out what the fanbase will and won’t put up with in terms of shenanigans like this. Unless the outcry against these practices impacts the bottom line, the powers that be won’t stop doing this.
Voting with our dollars is the only way to get our point across. And I salute the Angry Army for not letting up on this issue!
Capcom , I give you 1 more chance , and thats chance’s name is Dragons Dogma , if capcom fails me there then capcom will be no more !
yeah and nice to be a part of the angry army !
I dont think capcoms understands whats going on here, I’ll just wait till I can get the game for chea, maybe like 10 bucks if I’m gonna have to pay for the characters, but I’m so furious about it I probably won’t buy it at all just to spite capcom.
12 characters for 20$ is a good deal? I don’t think so.
“Color Palette Swaps”…
wait… people pay for this?!
What the hell is wrong these times?!?!
I stopped caring about the Street Fighter franchise years ago…. One more reason to do so, right?
This practice is grotesque, but it’s not the VITA’s fault.
thats capcom,always was always will ,just give up.
I never bought a Capcom game in my life. Now, I will never buy their games ever.
BULLLLLLLLCRAAPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
If you bought the game knowing there was 38 characters aside from exclusives. Then you certainly got what you paid for. I think the 20 bucks for the 15 characters is a representation of Capcom trying to ease all the controversy surrounding the characters. You’d be kidding yourself if you thought it was gonna free.
I heard a nasty rumor that on PC, all the characters may be unlocked in advance to prevent hacking them in. So that’s another kick in the teeth for console owners.
This is why A.) I don’t by fighting games, and B.) why I hate Capcom and EA right now.
Games are falling more and more into political issues now than they were about 2 years ago. Disk locked content? Bulls*** pre-order “bonuses”? Online Pass codes? The inexcusable dumbing down of unique franchises to appeal to “A wider audience”? (A.k.a, children buying M-Rated games)
The list goes on! Will it stop, or ever change? Not from what I see. It’s the “1984″ of video games if you have to ask me. Everything becoming the same, passcodes and verification are REQUIRED to play certain games, people are being milked by without knowing it, and companies keep making up excuse, after excuse, after excuse, after excuse… actually it matches both “1984″ and “They Live”.
@Valhalla
That’s why we have developers like CDProjekt…
but why you hate capcom and then you know that you like ti review an angry rant on street fighter x tekken and ultimate marvel vs capcom
I understand you completely Joe,but don’t go hating on the vita because of this.and no i don’t have a vita.
“The biggest additions come soon after the PlayStation Vita version launches later this year – the 12 characters debuting on Vita will come to consoles”
Don’t you just love it how they make it sound like the characters would actually be _downloaded_ into the console… instead of, you know, unlocked? This is false advertising, and videogame companies shouldn’t have the right to do shit like this.
Go f*ck yourself, Capcom.
fucking exactly. i wonder what the laws would say about this. like every one has been saying, we did indeed buy the disk. does that not mean legally its entirety should be ours and available? thats just what logically makes sense to me. interesting thought to ponder.
I’ve already issued a complain with the Better Business Bureau, if you have the time and the grammar skills you may want to do the same.
i can be professional when need be lol. and that is a good plan. i will do so.
Good One lol but I Think holdin dem at Gun Point is betta, they’ll get the msg thn! WE ARE THE ARMY AFTA ALL
Even if $20 was a pushed back price because of the uproar, this is fucking bull shit, that, we all know. but CAPCOM should have had the decency to man the fuck up and drop the price to FREE just based on morals, given the situation. let alone fixing this absolutely retarded business plan and the amount of favor and forgiveness they would have gained from the fans. this could have put them in a better position than before this issue ever arose by letting us know they can admit to being douches and just giving us what we fucking paid for in the first place. in the end, no body likes getting a knife in the back, but CAPCOM takes it a few steps further, looks you in the eye, stabs you in said eye, “ooo sorry about that”, and stabs the other eye, walks away thinking, damn we are so good to our fans
, thinking you’ll be happy now that your eye gouges at least match…. no way im buying that DLC. fuck you CAPCOM.
Stop buying capcom games.Let us make them think twise before doings things like that again!
agree, or return the games, go to our local shops and demand got our money back
This is just mass murder of out money. God no NO NO i wont buy this shit!
i’m not going to get this but my friend wants to get it… I NEED TO STOP HIM
Still waiting for them to put in those features in the 360 version they promised us and then cut out because “they ran out of time” (yet had time for 12 on-disc DLC charactes).
Are they actually trying to charge for DLC before they even FINISH the game?
the DLC costs half the price of the vita version which has the DLC on it. It’s like a paradox of scamming and I’m getting sucked into it! Help!
no one can help you but you man lol. dont even touch that dlc. i would even go as far as to refuse buying the vita version. fuck capcom. and its not easy for me to say that, i looove their games. but please listen to joe and the rest of us and refuse!
oh i meant ‘sucked into it’ in the temporal distortion vortex manner, obviously I’m not buying it, not until it is available *complete* and for a price within the realm or reason
$20 for all the characters? Damn. How about we only pay them half that and then have the other half unlock at later point.
The game itself plays awesome, but I will not pay an extra fee for content already on the disc. I hope capcom will soon change their ways, or they will soon run out of customers and we will lose a company that makes good games.
I am boycotting this because that is ridiculous to have to pay $20 more for something on a disc that you have already paid for. Capcom are idiots thinking people are going to put up with this.
Capcom dropped the ball so hard with this game. First they leave an ton of content on the disc. Content that was completed with their budget and production time. Capcom loses nothing by giving us these characters at launch but decided to lock them on disc and sell them later as DLC anyway. So now they can sit back, not do anything for 6 months, sell you their 100kb codes and rake in the cash. 20 dollars for 12 characters is a good deal but it doesn’t change the fact that they’re charging you for stuff that’s already there. Capcom isn’t improving your experiencing by giving you more. They’re simply unlocking content that’s already there for you. Imagine you go into a restaurant with your buddies and order a burger. The waiter then brings out your burger and sets it down in front of you. He then starts taking all the condiments and toppings off and refuses to give them back unless you pay an additional fee. That’s what Capcom is doing here.
The online for this game is dreadful too. I don’t know about you guys but not only do my inputs lag; the sound constantly drops when I play online. To my knowledge there’s still no confirmation of when a patch is coming. It’s sad to see this happen to such a good game.
I agree, the lag and the sound popping was a problem. The game is a broken rip off mess. And 20 dollars for content on the disc, screw that. Here is the solution, trade in your game for ms points and get something else worth playing. Like Skullgirls, Arkham City packs, MW3 map packs, or SF HD Remix (yeah the good SF game).
Silly, MW3 is not worth it.
You know what I decided? I am not going to buy another Capcom fighting game.
“However, I think the new pricing has more to do with the recent uproar and the Vita version than anything else. So I like to think this happened because of our push back.”
The sense of entitlement in the fan makes it so they can never be wrong and deserve everything free. People didn’t complain that $60 for 30+ characters but only are angry about it now. So quickly do they want freebies in 12 characters when majority of owners barely even touched the Tekken side of roster. The only real difference is if you had to download 500MB worth of data vs a key, which I have heard from some gaming press that it incurs more fees from MS/Sony and thus could also drive up the cost of DLC content, not to mention the supposed compatibility issues that MK9 had with their method of single character DLC and issues with people not downloading costume packs in SSF4 so that you don’t see what costumes the other person has purchased.
the mortal kombat guys took care of their dlc character issue. all the characters up until freddy had “problems” the “problem” wasnt even technical, it was douche bag players refusing to download the compatibility packs. they fixed it with a patch for freddy when he came out. every one that owns that game and an internet connection has compatibility with freddy. never will he be un-select able if you bought him contrary to the other dlc guys. this proves that post release actual DLC does not have problems. if they can do it, so can capcom whether its characters or costumes. there is no excuse for this bull shit. its the principle of the thing. i dont care about any of the dlc characters anyways but fuck this, wrong is wrong. like every one has said, we bought the disk and its data, everything on that disk is OURS now and we should have access to its entirety game play wise. this user *Dead Man Walking* put it best- “order a burger. The waiter then brings out your burger and sets it down in front of you. He then starts taking all the condiments and toppings off and refuses to give them back unless you pay an additional fee.” that, is bullshit sir.
Man, I wanted this game to be good. And it is, don’t get me wrong. But again with Capcom giving players the screw. I don’t mind DLC costumes and characters…hey, they’re optional. But after finding out they’re in the game waiting to be unlocked at a later date for more money is ludicrous. Some of the characters I wanted the game for, I have to shell out an extra $20 to get as part of a bundle? Plus, the costumes we’ve seen advertised are silly cross-game cosplays, so I won’t personally put down any money for those. I’ve been finding it hard enough to get into the game more as is, which is a shame, as it does have some great ideas and solid potential.
Ah 20 bucks so you can download a small file that unlocks the characters that are already on the disk.
The whole situation sucks, but this should ease some of your pain: http://www.skullgirls.com
the “unconfirmed” release date is April 4th on XBLA (it was leaked by Microsoft, so I think it’s likely accurate) & likely April 3rd for PSN.
Okay, so by the time these DLC characters come out, SFxT would probably get a price drop, say around $39.99 (that’s the best situation), I would have spent around full price for the full game. So yeah, I might buy this game. Good thing I caught the leak at the right time, and decided not to buy it so soon.
Who’d pay $100 just for the “complete” game?
Geez, Capcom is worse than I thought…
So, when’s the “Super” Edition of the game coming out?
That’s it. I’m getting a refund for this game. The ongoing bullcrap surrounding crapcom makes me uneasy and uncomfortable playing the newer crapcom games especially with the mega man legends 3 fallout.
The vita looks good, but I don’t think I’ll buy one now. I think I’ll just save $100 and buy a 3ds system because of this.
Regardless, this was going to be the last crapcom game I’ll ever buy new, and now I plan to stick to that promise and only buy them used.
Honestly, I’m fine without the stupid costumes and without the other characters.
If I really cared about the “complete package” I would have just waited for the complete or collectors edition further down the road.
It’s a big F U to people that bought the game, but that’s what DLC has done to console games to begin with anyways.
People shouldnt buy this game…and everyone that did, should go online, and rant the shit out of the gamers who play as DLC characters. I know its not entirely fair…but lets make people who paid for the DLC really regret it and spread the word that no one wants to play with em .
That’s pretty counter-productive.
If it’s a game where I just know they will hammer me with DLC in the near future, then I just rent/borrow the game to see if it’s enjoyable and wait for the GOTY edition or what-have-you. New Vegas/Fallout 3 were prime examples of that. But the way I see this “on-disc” extra content is like a painting you buy. You buy the painting expecting the whole picture, but little bits are cut out that you have to pay extra for later. Now if it was a smaller extension to the painting itself I’d be okay with it.
Eat shit and die already Capcom, you are embarrassing yourself and making fans that stuck with you all those years by buying your games want to not play franchises they love JUST because you’re behaving like a hooker that does penguin blowjobs to their customers. Fuck you Capcom, i hope you die slooow and financially painful death.
angryjoe honestly at this point ppl need to do what i do wait out the DLC and buy the complete edtion for way less, i bet ya there are are alot of games you didn’t have time to play now is the time to pick them up and play them saves you ALOT of money and frustration over companys fucking you over with DLC
P.S my local gamestop in sweden charges me 120 usd just for street figer x tekken
just saying joe it could be worse
This is bull shit. Again this is the very reason why I’m not buying anything from them that isn’t complete when I buy it. I AM NOT PAYING OVER $100 DAMN DOLLARS FOR A FUCKING FIGHTING GAME! You want to know what I got lately? Gargoyles Quest for $3.50. Hours of fun, complete game, and I’m doing a review of it this next week. Also I haven’t played it yet, but by looking at it I’m sure I would like it better then an unfinished fighting game. Majesty 2 complete with DLC for $4.99. Again screw paying 100 for a not finished game. I got one for $5, and it’s pretty RTS. So ya the more I hear about this, the more I’m not going to buy current Gen games from Capcom.
In the last 5 years I haven’t bought a Capcom game new. Capcom has gone beyond ridicules with it’s dlc. This month has been filled with really bad trends with all this disc locked crap and companies basically telling us bend over and smile. One comforting note, looking at the week one sales of SF x Tekken, sales have been fairly piss poor. Though even if the game sells poorly, it won’t stop Capcom. Then again no one pays attentions learned from Midway or Akklaim. THQ may even become part of the past soon enough also the way it’s going.
Uh, Akklaim is still around. It’s by far not the power house it used to be. But some one picked up the peaces and has started putting it together again about 8 years back now.
It will send a message out at least.
“No Capcom, we will not accept your Trolling us with Fat Guy In Blue/Yellow Suit, we don’t have to accept your practices, and we will not readily accept every game you throw at us.”
It helps if a game is a bit of a flop.
Yeah, how dare they make us pay for extra content! I mean..
Except it’s not extra content but part of the finished game, made within the main game’s development schedule and budget…
This goes to every person who plans on paying extra for a incomplete game…Your screwing it up for the rest of us…Capcom will never release a complete fighting game if you show them that you love paying for content that should already be on the disc (including content that’s already on the disc)
Its easy to get mad at Capcom but honestly how many people aren’t going to honestly buy everything because its their money and they think its worth it?
Honestly Crapcom is only doing what they know they can get away with.
I can go on and on about Capcom being greedy and rightfully accuse them of double dipping.. but instead, I simply won’t buy their products. How further does Capcom have to go before we say “enough”? Will Capcom have to charge people extra for endings? Will they have to just not finish games and sell you pieces of the rest at $20 a pop? Will they just have to bill you for playing their games? Where does it end? We have a way to defend ourselves from their pillaging of our hard earned cash. That would be our wallets, of course.
My plan is this, wait for the game to go down in price, around $40 should do. Then once I buy it, I get all of the dlc characters and end up spending around the same I would normally for the entire game. Problem solved.
I’d agree more if the Characters were just like the costumes; not bundled, and you can just pick and choose. Not ENTIRELY, since the characters are bloody well to do completed, but it’d be a much more agreeable practice if they simply released new characters instead of a whole new damn game in ACTUAL DLC (I’m looking at Jill and Shuma Gorath), but even then its pretty steep to pay five bucks a character. I know its the running price these days, even Mortal Kombat 9 has done characters like Kruger at $5, but I’d prefer single/mini-bundle/full bundles at reasonable prices. Like singles for $3, A bundle of 6 (you pick) for $12 (buy 4 get 2 free), and the full bundle at $20 (Buy 12 and get their original price, 36, at a $16 off price).
There, I just introduced a way of micro-transactions so bloody simple, its been done BY VALVE. Who sold starter packs for classes (a free hat and some of the first-gen weapon releases) at a BUCK EACH. A fair price for stuff that drops at long intervals for the new free-to-play crowd coming on.
This isn’t rocket science. I know it means that some characters aren’t going to be as purchased as others, but thats the price you pay sometimes. I’d rather just get 6 of those characters that I’d want (Dudley, Jack, Lei, Sakura, Guy, And Cody) than all 12 and get some duds that I’ll NEVER use.
Put me in coach! I’m ready for the game!
The Vita isn’t that bad Joe but I see your anger.
What they should have done was release the DLC characters earlier and make them cheaper then add 2 guest characters to the Vita version. (Drake and the chick from Gravity Rush for example)
Colors and Gems being free is a good thing but I still wish the characters were cheaper. Plus 1 buck costumes is a improvement over the 5 buck packs in SF4 and MvC3
I’d like to get real mad at this shit, but goddamn it… they’re giving me Sakura to be playable! Ugh… well, one thing is for sure. I ain’t buying this game for X360, it’s the worst version. Might buy for PC, though. It better be a lot better than the crap they put out for 360.
Hmmm there was no mention of Mega Men or Pacman.
Mega Man and Pac Man should be out this or next week free for everyone I believe.
Yes sir I agree. WHERE IS MEGAMAN AND PACMAN FOR THE 360 AS FREE DLC????
I just don’t get the point of Disc Locked Content, is that what they think DLC stands for or something, I don’t get it. I mean at the end of the day, information downloaded can change anything. Day One DLC doesn’t bother me as much as it being on the disc because if it’s on the disc, they’re ASKING for piracy in the first place.
If it’s on the disc then clearly it’s not something they “came up with later in development after the game was finished” it’s something they locked from the original game to make you pay for it. That’s bullcrap.
Nintendo are starting to do their own DLC for the 3DS and Wii U this coming year, I really hope they can learn from the mistakes of others. Hopefully they will because until now they didn’t want to give DLC because they felt they owed it to their fans to give them the whole package they paid for. That being said so did Square Enix when they released FFXIII (even if said game wasn’t very good, it contained all it’s content), then along comes XIII-2, oh look DLC, but it’s all bullshit stuff that should have been included in the original game but they’ve cut it and given it a coating of a “New Character”.
I think that’s the point. They do this shit because they want people to pirate, the more pirates the more the public is willing to believe this sob story about evil gamers and music fans “taking their jobs” and stealing from the poor defenseless corporations.
Like the bad guy in a western trying to bait the rancher into picking up the gun.
“Pick it up.”
“I don’t want no trouble sir”
“I said pick it up!”
Joe, I know it’s really screwed up about the Vita and this game, but don’t hold the system accountable for Capcom’s crap. I really enjoy my Vita, I have Mod Nation, Katamari, and Rayman Origins on it, and can’t wait for the Metal Gear Solid Collection and Final Fantasy X Remastered Version for it. I know these are all ports and remakes I’m listing, but being able to play these games on the go is really awesome. Plus I hear the Uncharted game is pretty good, I just don’t have the money for it right now.