Is the Character Pass worth it?

[SofaKingA]

Never bought the pass for a game before. How many additional characters do you get for the price?

[KaraPenguin]

With this particular pass, you'll get four characters that will be periodically releasing over the course of the next year. The fourth character comes out winter of next year, unless the roadmap speeds up.

If you were to buy the pass right now, you'll get the new character Rashid, released at the end of July. Once the others come out, you'll receive them as a part of the pass.

While it is technically a little bit cheaper to buy the characters individually using the ingame currency, the pass also comes with all of the character's colors and some extra drive tickets to be used in game (currency).

[SofaKingA]

Originally posted by Tofu:

With this particular pass, you'll get four characters that will be periodically releasing over the course of the next year. The fourth character comes out winter of next year, unless the roadmap speeds up.

If you were to buy the pass right now, you'll get the new character Rashid, released at the end of July. Once the others come out, you'll receive them as a part of the pass.

While it is technically a little bit cheaper to buy the characters individually using the ingame currency, the pass also comes with all of the character's colors and some extra drive tickets to be used in game (currency).

You answered everything I needed to know. Much appreciated!

[Asuterisuku]

Originally posted by Tofu:

With this particular pass, you'll get four characters that will be periodically releasing over the course of the next year. The fourth character comes out winter of next year, unless the roadmap speeds up.

If you were to buy the pass right now, you'll get the new character Rashid, released at the end of July. Once the others come out, you'll receive them as a part of the pass.

While it is technically a little bit cheaper to buy the characters individually using the ingame currency, the pass also comes with all of the character's colors and some extra drive tickets to be used in game (currency).

The fourth character actually comes out in SPRING of next year. Winter is January-March.

[Castyles]

Honestly, if Capcom doesn't add new, interesting, stuff such as other game modes like tag and SFV survival or expand World Tour, the game will pretty much die and only have room for the hardcore edgy tryhard sweatlords.

Waiting a whole year for four characters to get released with the same ♥♥♥♥ everyday i.e an army of Kens and Cammy's on Ranked, no matches on Casual, total one sided matches on the Battle Hub, nothing to do after you beat World Tour, busted Tournaments and 100% offline mode completion when new - albeit ♥♥♥♥♥♥ - AAA fighting games are just around the corner is suicide.

I've been playing pretty much everyday for like a month and I'm bored already. Mods are what is saving the game for me. Almost 500 to come up in a month. Imagine what will be like in 5 years.

[Samvega]

Originally posted by Castyles:

I've been playing pretty much everyday for like a month and I'm bored already.

You have some rare achievements for SF6 that less than 1% of players have (the lowest being 0.3%).

You've played the game a lot, I suspect. So, you got your money's worth, yes? You have <30 hours in Samurai Shodown but give that a thumbs up. So I think that, if you got >30 hours of fun in SF6, you're positive about that, too.

Originally posted by Castyles:

Honestly, if Capcom doesn't add new, interesting, stuff such as other game modes like tag and SFV survival or expand World Tour, the game will pretty much die...

It's very possible that the game could fail to interest you any longer and yet not die. This is because you don't represent the statistical mean average person, because such a person does not exist.

[breast milk🥛]

Personally, I'd say no. Only if you plan on using every character. If you only plan on playing certain ones, I'd just buy individually

[ryu600RR]

not for me, ea char is 350 fight coins, deduct that and you're paying for the colors outfits and drive tickets
i dont' care for those

[Holografix]

Every Character Pass is worth it. Every Fighters Pass is worth it. The Outfits are worth it too. This game is amazing.

[xtcrefugee]

Originally posted by Castyles:

Honestly, if Capcom doesn't add new, interesting, stuff such as other game modes like tag and SFV survival or expand World Tour, the game will pretty much die and only have room for the hardcore edgy tryhard sweatlords.

They do seem to have expanded World Tour a bit with the Rahid update actually, not only Rashid himself as a trainer but also new tournaments at both the Haggar Stadium and the Suval'hal Arena. I'm not sure why Capcom hasn't mentioned it, the Suval'hal one isn't even on the map, you need to go into the basement area to start it. I guess they think people only really care about new competitive content.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Samvega:

You have some rare achievements for SF6 that less than 1% of players have (the lowest being 0.3%).

You've played the game a lot, I suspect. So, you got your money's worth, yes? You have <30 hours in Samurai Shodown but give that a thumbs up. So I think that, if you got >30 hours of fun in SF6, you're positive about that, too.

Of course. I haven't been hyped for a fighting game since MK9, UMvC3 and TvSF, hence why I acquired SF6 on release, which is something that I never do, with any game, for like a decade. One day I'll write a proper SF6 review, by the way. Stay tuned.

As for SamSho, trouble is the online, which is pretty bad, connection-wise and a complete wasteland, when it comes to the playerbase. Not to mention the final boss, which is not only totally unfair but also a total chore to play against. Way too boring.

I'd place more than 30 hours on it if SNK provided fixes and/or pulled marketing stunts to revive the game, content-wise, which is something that I think Capcom must do with every character update, at least for the next 2 years, otherwise we'll get the same player-count pretty much forever, a huge spike for only a couple of weeks when a new character emerges and return to the former player-count of before. Hell, Microsoft is doing it with Killer Instinct after five years.

Offline Survival mode with perks and save-states, like the one on SFV, would help keep the flame of passion and commitment of the casuals who only bought it for World Tour, than the dead on arrival and casual noob trap that is Battle Hub.

It's very possible that the game could fail to interest you any longer and yet not die. This is because you don't represent the statistical mean average person, because such a person does not exist.

Fair enough. I get the game is still new but, from a general perspective, I honestly don't really think SF6 will be able to hold the attention of the general public for that long with what Capcom is currently doing. That's one of the reasons the Battle Pass crap exists, in the first place. They know.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by xtcrefugee:

They do seem to have expanded World Tour a bit with the Rahid update actually, not only Rashid himself as a trainer but also new tournaments at both the Haggar Stadium and the Suval'hal Arena. I'm not sure why Capcom hasn't mentioned it, the Suval'hal one isn't even on the map, you need to go into the basement area to start it. I guess they think people only really care about new competitive content.

Yes, I know. I finished everything that came up with Rashid in two days for my character was already at level 90+.

What World Tour needs, to keep everything fresh, imo, is random content. Radiant-quests, if you may. Fighting on a tournament everyday offers no benefit to those who already finished everything.