Capcom and Nickelodeon revealed a pleasant collaboration for Avenue Fighter 6 at Evo 2023 this weekend, letting gamers gown up their avatars because the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Far much less pleasant for Avenue Fighter followers was the worth of these TMNT outfits: Each prices roughly the equal of $15 in Avenue Fighter 6’s in-game forex, Fighter Cash.
Whereas that’s just about par for the course in relation to beauty skins in trendy, live-service video video games, SF6 gamers are balking on the prospect of paying almost $60 for a full workforce of Ninja Turtles. Some gamers are taking the DIY route, utilizing Avenue Fighter 6’s avatar creation instruments to make their very own off-brand, dollar-store costumes.
On the Avenue Fighter subreddit, gamers are displaying off their cost-saving costumes:
Positive sufficient, logging into Avenue Fighter 6 myself this morning, I bumped into a pair gamers on PlayStation 5 lounging across the Battle Hub in home made turtle gear. However the variety of paying gamers in official TMNT gear was a lot increased. For each inexperienced man sporting a large, upside-down hockey masks on his again, I noticed three or 4 formally licensed turtles strolling across the hub. These Ninja Turtle costumes are promoting, even at 750 Fighter Cash apiece.
Fighter Cash are a premium, real-money forex, and are offered in batches of 250 ($4.99), 610 ($11.99), 1,250 ($23.99), or 2,750 ($49.99), as seen on Sony’s PlayStation Retailer. Meaning an funding of about $55 if you wish to gown up as Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Capcom is promoting extra than simply costumes, although. If you need all of the TMNT stickers, emotes, equipment, and picture mode frames, that would push the overall expense to just about $100, as VGC reports.
Avenue Fighter followers are used to this sort of pricing, although inflation has seen beauty prices bounce from Avenue Fighter 4 to 5 to 6, considerably dramatically. There may be one potential cost-savings measure accessible, nevertheless: Chipotle is handing out 250 Fighter Coins in the event you order meals on-line (however just for a restricted time and just for the primary 5,000 orders) as a part of an total Evo promotion.