Street Fighter 6 Outfit 3 looks phenomenal – but there's no way I'm buying it
Street Fighter 6 has finally received the long-awaited Outfit 3 DLC after six months. While the costumes themselves are fantastic, the pricing scheme is ridiculous.
Fighting games and alternate costume DLC has gone hand-in-hand since 3D models replaced spirites as a standard; no longer did you have to redo an entire sprite when you can just slap a new costume on a 3D model and charge money for it. Street Fighter 4 and Street Fighter 5 both had a litany of bonus costumes across their respective lifetimes, which is why it was so surprising that Capcom hadn't released new costumes for Street Fighter 6 yet.
That changed today when the Outfit 3 DLC finally dropped with each character getting a brand new look. There's the phenomenal scholar Zangief and bridal Marisa costumes seen in their World Tour mode cutscenes, the Blanka-chan mascot costume, and Ken looking even more like yer da after the divorce. Everyone was so excited! At least they were in the time between reveal and release, when we finally found out how much these costumes would cost.
Capcom posted a hype video for the costumes on the Street Fighter Twitter, which was fine and dandy, until I noticed the reply from the account which said "Unlike Outfit 2, Outfit 3 is only available for purchase and cannot be unlocked via World Tour, hence the price difference" which immediately gave off bad vibes. For context, you can buy Outfit 2 for 50 Fighter Coins (which is roughly £0.79 / $0.99 / AU$1.51) so a bump up to 100 or even 150 Fighter Coins would be a fair jump. So tell me why these are 300 Fighter Coins each.
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Much like most in-game currencies you can only buy Fighter Coins in bundles of 250 (£3.99 / $4.99 / AU$7.55), 610 (£9.49 / £11.99 / AU$17.95), 1,250 (£18.99 / $23.99 / AU$35.95), and 2,750 (£39.99 / $49.99 / AU$75.95), which should already set off alarm bells. With the costumes being 300 Fighter Coins each, that means you'll need to pick up two packs of 250 Fighter Coins to be able to afford one costume – £7.98 / $9.98 / AU$15.10, for one outfit.
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Plus, 300 Fighter Coins a pop for all 18 base roster characters (the DLC fighters get them later, and thankfully get Outfit 3 as a part of the Ultimate Pass) adds up to 4,400 Fighter Coins, meaning the cheapest way to get every new costume is by picking up the 2,750 Fighter Coin bundle twice – That's £79.98 / $99.98 / AU$151.90 to get every Outfit 3 in the game. Which presumably means that much to get every Outfit 4, and 5 and so on. Bearing in mind Street Fighter 6 alone is £54.99 / $59.99 / AU$99 this seems absolutely ridiculous price for a model swap.
The two obvious retorts to this are ' Fortnite / Valorant / etc does this all the time' , which is true. But Fortnite doesn't cost a penny to play, nor does it charge for extra DLC fighters alongside cosmetic changes (which wouldn't make sense but you get what I mean). With the other one being ' just don't buy it then' which is true. But if it were that easy we wouldn't be having this conversation, because people will buy it. Hell, people bought those Street Fighter 6 X TMNT avatar costumes for 750 Fighter Coins each and those weren't even for the fighters themselves.
In Street Fighter 4 £3.99 would get you a costume pack featuring new outfits for four fighters. In Street Fighter 5 it was £2.99 per costume, but you could buy that costume outright and didn't have to deal with a daft currency. It's so disappointing to see the creative side of Capcom which is at the top of its game right now – with Street Fighter 6 being a bona-fide game of the year contender (no matter what Geoff Keighley tells you) – being undercut by the pure greed of the business side of the company leaving marks on the game. Props to Capcom's design team, the Outfit 3 DLC looks amazing, but I'm not buying it.
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