Game has a PAID BATTLE PASS SYSTEM

[|OMEGA|]

Just a general warning for people, pretty damn disgusted that Capcom have chosen to hide this from us until after all the positive reviews have been released. Serious thought being given if I'm keeping my preorder.

And yes, I'm well aware that some of you won't care.

https://www.videogamer.com/news/street-fighter-6-battle-pass/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/comments/13vvll5/according_to_destructoids_review_of_the_game_sf6/

Edit: I forgot to cancel my third party preorder :X
At least I got a discount to make up for this ridiculous excessive monetisation but still, I messed up.

Hopefully it's not as bad as many of us were expecting. And if it is, don't let them off the hook. You can keep the pressure up by speaking out against it.

Edit: Please stop posting here, I don't care anymore and I can't delete the thread. I dropped the game. Thanks.

[Farthest Yuggyth]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, when did they Hire Ono back?

[Shadowlet]

Additional music is locked to the paid version of the SF6 Battle Pass https://imgur.com/WDLaZmT

Fighting pass
"Playing Street Fighter 6 will make you win points, which will get you different rewards depending on the level you've reached.

Fighting passes have a start and end date, with rewards fitting the month of the pass.
(In the future, we plan to implement a paid, premium tier with even better rewards)"

So it seems like
1) Pass will be monthly
2) Works as usual battle passes
3) First pass seems to be free OR you buy the bottom section with drive tickets, so you have free pass, drive pass or some ♥♥♥♥ and premium paid only pass.

[Bumblescrump]

Originally posted by Natz:

Damn, for real?
I used to play gacha games and it doesnt end well for my wallet, I got addicted to it and got screwed both mentally and financially. So I vow to avoid games that have crappy microtransactions like a plague,
Shame that this game will be one of them, I loved the beta a lot

I mean, that is why I avoid games like Magic, I am too tempted to spend money, but if it's just cosmetics in a fighting game that is easy to resist for me, but I for sure can understand.

[Dr Nighty]

Guys, battle pass is the reason why fortnite is not a dead game, if done right it can literally keep SF alive for years to come buuuuut .... it's capcom.

in fortnite if you finish the battle pass you get your currency back so that you can buy the next ''battle pass'' for free without having to throw 10$ at your screen every season , hope capcom does the same here.

[wrathdeathclaw]

Originally posted by Natz:

Damn, for real?
I used to play gacha games and it doesnt end well for my wallet, I got addicted to it and got screwed both mentally and financially. So I vow to avoid games that have crappy microtransactions like a plague,
Shame that this game will be one of them, I loved the beta a lot

well its not like a gacha or anything the difference is that once you buy a battlepass thats it you dont have to buy anything else the purpose is to get you to play more not to buy more, whether or not it was a good idea is up to you and even then its just skins you can still buy the characters normally

[Vault Traveler]

The good thing is I really dont care, I use the base colors and simply fight 1vs1 like 30 years ago.

[Shadowlet]

Originally posted by 9 lives:

Guys, battle pass is the reason why fortnite is not a dead game, if done right it can literally keep SF alive for years to come buuuuut .... it's capcom.

SF6 already has Season Passes.

Originally posted by 9 lives:

in fortnite if you finish the battle pass you get your currency back so that you can buy the next ''battle pass'' for free without having to throw 10$ at your screen every season , hope capcom does the same here.

Fortnite is an exception to this. Better pray instead that you can still earn the rewards after the pass ends either by backtracking or from elsewhere.

[wrathdeathclaw]

Originally posted by Bloop21:

A battlepass in a paid game is so scummy,If im paying full price for a game i dont want content like character costumes chopped out and put behind another paywall. If they released a battlepass in a later season i wouldnt mind because obviously they need to be paid for their work but the game isnt even released yet and they have a battlepass made thats just bs.

you were going to pay seperatley for the skins battle pass or not its just a matter of do you want to pay 5.99 per skin or do you want to pay 10 and earn every available skin by doing the thing you wanted to do in the first place that being playing the game

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Originally posted by 9 lives:

Guys, battle pass is the reason why fortnite is not a dead game, if done right it can literally keep SF alive for years to come buuuuut .... it's capcom.

in fortnite if you finish the battle pass you get your currency back so that you can buy the next ''battle pass'' for free without having to throw 10$ at your screen every season , hope capcom does the same here.

The battle pass was added after the game had hundreds of thousands of players already. People play it because its fun and appeals to a large demographic including kids. fortnite would have kept itself alive just fine on skin sales and didnt need a predatory system that tries to convince people to play more than they normally would or spend money to progress.

[Shadowlet]

Game honestly has equal monetization as Diablo 4 at this point, if not worse seeing how BP's in SF6 are MONTHLY and includes legacy music.

* Season Passes
* Day 1 Battle Pass
* Other Microtransactions
* Possible Storefront DLCs

We don't even know how the non-BP microtransaction situation is going to be yet Blizzard was awfully transparent about theirs.

Better hope to god SF6 let's you earn rewards after the monthly BP expires through backtracking or from elsewhere.

[𓅃 スノ 𓅃]

you paying for denuvo. stop it

[Tim, the Enchanter]

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

Game honestly has equal monetization as Diablo 4 at this point, if not worse seeing how BP's in SF6 are MONTHLY and includes legacy music.

* Season Passes
* Day 1 Battle Pass
* Other Microtransactions
* Possible Storefront DLCs

We don't even know how the non-BP microtransaction situation is going to be yet Blizzard was awfully transparent about theirs.

Better hope to god SF6 let's you earn rewards after the monthly BP expires through backtracking or from elsewhere.

Ok, I can understand being iffy on the battlepass. But all that other stuff is bog standard for a street fighter game, or any of the big fighting games for that matter, for the last few generations of them. They have always sold characters (season pass), stages, costumes, costume colors, and sometimes (though rarely) music.

[Maiden Lightlina]

Originally posted by Tim, the Enchanter:

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

Game honestly has equal monetization as Diablo 4 at this point, if not worse seeing how BP's in SF6 are MONTHLY and includes legacy music.

* Season Passes
* Day 1 Battle Pass
* Other Microtransactions
* Possible Storefront DLCs

We don't even know how the non-BP microtransaction situation is going to be yet Blizzard was awfully transparent about theirs.

Better hope to god SF6 let's you earn rewards after the monthly BP expires through backtracking or from elsewhere.

Ok, I can understand being iffy on the battlepass. But all that other stuff is bog standard for a street fighter game, or any of the big fighting games for that matter, for the last few generations of them. They have always sold characters (season pass), stages, costumes, costume colors, and sometimes (though rarely) music.

They have been doing it for a while, just in different ways, at first they would just release different versions of the same game with new characters, now you just buy them all.

[Shadowlet]

Originally posted by Tim, the Enchanter:

Originally posted by Shadowlet:

Game honestly has equal monetization as Diablo 4 at this point, if not worse seeing how BP's in SF6 are MONTHLY and includes legacy music.

* Season Passes
* Day 1 Battle Pass
* Other Microtransactions
* Possible Storefront DLCs

We don't even know how the non-BP microtransaction situation is going to be yet Blizzard was awfully transparent about theirs.

Better hope to god SF6 let's you earn rewards after the monthly BP expires through backtracking or from elsewhere.

Ok, I can understand being iffy on the battlepass. But all that other stuff is bog standard for a street fighter game, or any of the big fighting games for that matter, for the last few generations of them. They have always sold characters (season pass), stages, costumes, costume colors, and sometimes (though rarely) music.

I remember r/pcgaming and even r/Games just yesterday and throughout the past few months ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on D4 for being monetized as such. Meanwhile today all their eyes glow up after seeing the SF6 reviews. Zero talk of SF6 microtransactions and BPs anywhere in today's threads.

Limited time cosmetics (Battle Passes, etc.) are fairly new to fighting games. Granblue had Battle Passes, NRS games are monetized to heck, and SF5 had the crossover challenges with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AI.

Cosmetics that can no longer be obtained is new to Street Fighter. MONTHLY Battle Passes just makes Capcom seem scummier than other companies that implement them.

[Natz]

Originally posted by wrathdeathclaw:

well its not like a gacha or anything the difference is that once you buy a battlepass thats it you dont have to buy anything else the purpose is to get you to play more not to buy more, whether or not it was a good idea is up to you and even then its just skins you can still buy the characters normally

Yeah I know I used to buy battlepasses too on Shooters like PUBG, I bought them even when I know I dont have the time to complete the battlepass. Maybe people can resist it but I dont, especially if Im already too hooked on the game, Sorry just my personal isue
But still I will wait for some weeks to get a proper review of the battle pass,