1 1/2 years to release 4 Characters?

[Skarik]

Anyone else thinks this is Abysmal Slow Progress?
2 Characters this Year and 2 next Year?
I mean Season 1 characters are utterly boring this means i have to wait till 2025 before i can enjoy the game

[Castyles]

Yes. Pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Good thing none of them really matters to me, anyway.

[Lunar Shower]

I think you misread, or likely misinterpreted the release windows of these characters. The latest one is Akuma in Spring 2024.

Sure, if Ed were to come out a full 3/4 of a year after Akuma, maybe you'd be right, but Winter 2024 likely means January/February, as far as I know Akuma is confirmed to be the final character coming in the season, therefore making Ed release in the early winter months of 2024, not December 2024.

[Cin]

Seasons last around a year so you could consider getting one DLC character every 3 months. Latest being Akuma possibly June 2024.

[Skarik]

Originally posted by Lunar Shower:

I think you misread, or likely misinterpreted the release windows of these characters. The latest one is Akuma in Spring 2024.

Sure, if Ed were to come out a full 3/4 of a year after Akuma, maybe you'd be right, but Winter 2024 likely means January/February, as far as I know Akuma is confirmed to be the final character coming in the season, therefore making Ed release in the early winter months of 2024, not December 2024.

Rashid Summer 2023
Aki Autumn 2023
Akuma Spring 2024
Ed Winter 2024

Guess they needed a vaccation from Spring to Winter 2024...

[Skarik]

I hope atleast Ed gets a badass reskin, *hope* ...

[itzDerrio]

Originally posted by Cin:

Seasons last around a year so you could consider getting one DLC character every 3 months. Latest being Akuma possibly June 2024.

the old way of them releasing SF4 and then Super was way better

this new ♥♥♥♥ they’re doing sucks ass. the waits too long

[Danny DeVito with a Gun]

Originally posted by Skarik:

Originally posted by Lunar Shower:

I think you misread, or likely misinterpreted the release windows of these characters. The latest one is Akuma in Spring 2024.

Sure, if Ed were to come out a full 3/4 of a year after Akuma, maybe you'd be right, but Winter 2024 likely means January/February, as far as I know Akuma is confirmed to be the final character coming in the season, therefore making Ed release in the early winter months of 2024, not December 2024.

Rashid Summer 2023
Aki Autumn 2023
Akuma Spring 2024
Ed Winter 2024

Guess they needed a vaccation from Spring to Winter 2024...

There was a whole argument in another thread about this but Ed is coming out before Akuma. By Winter 2024, they mean Jan-Feb

Poorly worded but Capcom has confirmed Akuma is the last S1 character

[GrizzGolf]

I think that’s pretty poor but I just want more fighters

[Lunar Shower]

Originally posted by itzDerrio:

Originally posted by Cin:

Seasons last around a year so you could consider getting one DLC character every 3 months. Latest being Akuma possibly June 2024.

the old way of them releasing SF4 and then Super was way better

this new ♥♥♥♥ they’re doing sucks ass. the waits too long

You're high asf. Who would want to pay for BALANCE changes of all things?

If you don't like the characters, don't need to buy them. The waits no longer, and in a lot of cases is shorter than what you would have gotten in SF4 for dlc characters, plus, no need to pay for balance changes. Its a win win really.

[Ahriman]

Originally posted by itzDerrio:

Originally posted by Cin:

Seasons last around a year so you could consider getting one DLC character every 3 months. Latest being Akuma possibly June 2024.

the old way of them releasing SF4 and then Super was way better

this new ♥♥♥♥ they’re doing sucks ass. the waits too long

ok derrio they should unrelease sf6 now and only make it available in arcades for a year and half, then release it on PC again with all the season 1 DLC characters. get it together dude lol....

[PapaStoic]

I have truly seen the disgusting side of Steam and the SF6 community today... So many whining about the most trivial of things imaginable... some of you haven't gone through anything of true importance or relevance in life, you find these things matter less and less once you have... and you'll find joys in simpler things, like, the fact the game works and looks so great... just be happy you have a wonderful distraction.

Could it be improved upon? Surely, do we need to moan and whine about every little thing we dislike? I'd rather we not... be less entitled my steam-goers...

[itzDerrio]

Originally posted by Lunar Shower:

Originally posted by itzDerrio:

the old way of them releasing SF4 and then Super was way better

this new ♥♥♥♥ they’re doing sucks ass. the waits too long

You're high asf. Who would want to pay for BALANCE changes of all things?

If you don't like the characters, don't need to buy them. The waits no longer, and in a lot of cases is shorter than what you would have gotten in SF4 for dlc characters, plus, no need to pay for balance changes. Its a win win really.

man im talking about characters , you know i was talking about characters and not no damn balance patches

[Orzeker]

I really hope they go back to at least 5 or 6 characters for next season because the price for season 1 is REALLY high for just 4.

[Zoid13]

Originally posted by itzDerrio:

Originally posted by Lunar Shower:

You're high asf. Who would want to pay for BALANCE changes of all things?

If you don't like the characters, don't need to buy them. The waits no longer, and in a lot of cases is shorter than what you would have gotten in SF4 for dlc characters, plus, no need to pay for balance changes. Its a win win really.

man im talking about characters , you know i was talking about characters and not no damn balance patches

/facepalm

sf4 2008 arcade launch - 17 characters
usf4 2014 44 characters
7 years to gain 27 characters
and if you wanna get technical because 2008 was the arcade only release and the 2009 console release came with 25 characters.
so really 6 years and 4 full price games got you +19 characters....

lets look at SF5 since its using the same model as sf6
sf5 2016 - 16 characters
sf5 2021 - 46 characters
6 years.
30 DLC characters in 5 seasons.

the new model gave you more characters faster than the old sf4 model and you didnt need to re-buy a full priced game 4 times (sf4, ssf4, ssf4:ae, usf4) to get the characters and balance changes as they released lol

sf6 has also only just come out and not even the 1st DLC has dropped. you have no way of telling what else capcom has planned for characters outside of the official 4 that were announced. they might have other stuff in mind and surprises to announce +2 at events and other things to make it like sf5's 6 a year. just need to wait and see.

and even if it is 4 a year in SF6 thats still faster than sf4 as 6 years would net +24 characters vs sf4's +19

its all been win win since SF4 in terms of characters and how capcom changed 'new version' from new game purchase to DLC

[Castyles]

On a side note, it would be nice if you could actually unlock at least a single extra just by playing the game. Like, you know, lots of old games used to do.

Hell, in Mortal Kombat 11 you had the option to unlock Frost by playing or by paying plus Capcom already offered both options for skins. A single character wouldn't hurt and it would be refreshing cause that kind of thing is getting more and more rare.