A giant batch of latest costumes simply dropped for Avenue Fighter 6, with 18 contemporary appears to be like for the principle roster coming as a part of Capcom’s new “Outfit 3” DLC. Lots of them are nice, together with Marisa’s new marriage ceremony costume, the return of Blanka-chan, and Juri in onesie pajamas. What’s not so nice is how Capcom is promoting them, and gamers are aggravated on the writer’s dealing with of premium forex purchases.
Every of the brand new outfits added to Avenue Fighter 6 prices 300 Fighter Cash, the forex for that preventing recreation that may solely be bought with real-world cash. However Capcom doesn’t promote Fighter Cash in batches of 300. The corporate as an alternative sells them in portions of 250, 610, 1,250, and a couple of,750. Which means gamers must spend a minimum of $11.99 to purchase any of the brand new costumes — and in the event that they purchase two with that quantity of Fighter Cash, they’ll have a leftover stability of 10.
Gamers aren’t balking on the value, essentially; different live-service video games (e.g., Overwatch 2, Apex Legends, Valorant) promote skins for $10 to $20, generally extra. It’s the monetization mannequin by way of which gamers can be left with surplus cash and nothing to spend them on — a tactic designed to push them to buy extra cash, as a result of they’ll all the time have a bit of left over.
After all, some players are objecting to the cost of the skins, primarily compared to the price of Avenue Fighter 6 itself. Shopping for sufficient Fighter Cash to accumulate all 18 Outfit 3 costumes would value $99.98.
Avenue Fighter 6’s costume DLC can be priced larger than equal cosmetics many different preventing video games, together with Tekken 7, which launched cosmetics by way of a season cross, and Lifeless or Alive 6, which bought its many, many costumes piecemeal. Avenue Fighter 6’s costume DLC is extra inline with Mortal Kombat 1’s aggressive pricing, which MK followers have expressed frustration with.
Naturally, these beauty objects aren’t core to Avenue Fighter 6’s gameplay. However the option to promote additional content material on this trend stands out like a sore thumb in a recreation the place Capcom is doing so many issues proper.
Avenue Fighter 6 followers have been right here earlier than. Again in August, Capcom added Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles outfits that might be worn by gamers’ avatars. These cosmetics value a whopping 750 Fighter Cash every, the equal of about $15.