Lets talk about the pricing of SF6

[GameJayRemy]

I see posts every once in a while of people who complain about how much the fighting game DLC's cost.

Here's a couple quick questions before I go into my thing.
Do you personally think the DLC's are to expensive?
If yes, how much do you think they should cost?
Do you like or dislike the micro transaction?
What changes would you like to see made to the pricing structure?

If you haven't kept up with the higher ups of capcom, or the video game industry in general when it comes to pricing, the general idea is that companies don't think they charge enough for video games, period. It's not just Street FIghter or Capcom.

A Capcom Executive was quoted saying "The budgets for games have more than tripled while the sales cost has not changed in that same amount of time. I would like to see the base prices increased by $10 at minimum."

my biggest problem is I couldn't find any way to even guesstimate the budget for SF6 and I even looked into SF5. Similiarly, any recent fighting game isn't very public about its budget and it seems like this a trend with Capcom in general.

However, the project cost for Mega Man, Capcoms first video game released for home consoles is between 10-20 million dollars. This only includes the cost of making, not advertising, shipping or any costs associated with travel/storage.

The price to buy Mega Man new would have been $85 (Both figures are based on today's price index, not what it would have been the year Mega Man was released.)

That means Street Fighter 6 has a base price lower than Mega Man at $60
So what would they HAVE charged for Street Fighter 6 if the proportionately increased the selling price to the developing price difference between mega man and street fighter?
No one would buy it. SF6 isn't more expensive than SF5 or SF4

SF4 came out with Ultra which only added four new character, had a balance patch and added a red focus attack. It was $30. They did add weird Ultra alternate power levels for all the characters but that was just to gauge reactions for the RnD of SF5

Then they have the deluxe and ultimate editions which are $85 and $105 respectively.
But without an official budget or even a similar games budget just for guesstimate , I wont attempt to guess how many copies it would take to break even. But comparing it to mega Man, that means the Deluxe edition is similarly priced.

GTA's next game is going to cost $70 for the base edition and will likely be the standard for other games from other companies as well.

Now lets look at the DLCs real quick
They're selling four characters for $30 , so roughly $7.50 a character.
The standard for the longest time has been about $5 for DLC characters, so thats a $2.50 increase per character. $10.00 overall for the entire pack.
You could wait until Season 3 and get the DLC for half off, so how much is it worth to be able to have the characters when every one else does?


The battle pass, if you get all levels, breaks even. If you spent the money for the coins to buy the premium battle pass and get all levels, you will have the same amount of coins before you did before purchasing the season pass. Which is easily the friendless battle pass I've ever come across. Not to mention the games that come with it, that's good value IMO

Where Capcom is really making their money back is outfits.
Character Skins and the players individual pieces of clothing.
It's the easiest to make, the cheapest to make and by far has the highest mark up value of anything related to Street Fighter 6.
They were also plentiful and expensive in SF4. I didn't buy them until they started development for SF5
I don't really care about the player's stuff and personally think its a waste, I'd rather see more skins for the cast but people seem to spend money on it.

The game needs more resources now, it used to just be battle lobbies and ranked matches. Now we have the battle hub , which I've gone back and forth on but overall I think its nice addition.

All in All, the pricing hasn't changed in a drastic way.
The base game costs the same.
If you want the deluxe or elite editions, that's up to you but its not require and if anything is more about a show of support to the company.

The pricing for DLC's may have increased but its really negligible for the base versions.
The deluxe editions are more expensive, they do have more stuff. But you don't HAVE to have the 2 extra stages and the 4 alt costumes for the characters. Not to mention we have the opportunity to use Drive tickets for the stages.

Games are going to cost more. Period.
Think about what you paid for this game compared to the time you've put in.
What other activity could you do for the same amount of time for same price or less?
A day at an arcade, its easy to blow through $40
A two hour movie costs $15 dollars for a ticket.

Capcom seems to have added all the extra player character clothing to make up the difference so they didn't have to raise their prices (yet)

I personally think the way their approaching SF6 is fine. If you don't, how would you change the way they price their IP's ? Would you remove certain items, add certain items?

[The Trippy Pyro (MPH! MPH! MPH!)]

to be perfectly honest, i wouldnt know. i do know though that as long as one character interests me, i'll buy.
i am interested in all 4 characters this time, as opposed to one.

i will say: i do hope in time there will be an "arcade edition" that offers the dlc as well as past battle pass content at a discount.
i actually do like the avatar system in sf6 and i'm fine with the cosmetics.

[ShadowSplit]

Originally posted by GameJayRemy:

That kinda leans into my thought though, doesn't it? While the Value of SF6 doesn't personally live up to the Value of SF5 for you, it does hold up when compared to other activities. Not to mention, your comparing essentially year 1 of SF6 to the lifespan of SF5

I feel the opposite however, and my hours are somewhere in the 300-400 range I believe.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't dislike or hate SFV but I do think SF6 is a better game by the standards of time since release. By the end of its life, SFV had improved greatly and while I don't consider SF6 the best street fight to ever be released, I DO feel it was the most solid street fighter game ON release. So for me, it could easily be the best SF as the game finds it direction, that also mean it could get worse however.

While sales help understand the value of inital interest in the game, I think a better representation in this point and time for actual long term interest would the engagement for content creators. People Like J Wong, Brian F , Punk ect

To a degree, yes.

I was talking about SCIV not V. I see the direction most of fighting games are going, and that is not something I'm really fond of.

Comparing SFV, SF6 is way better. Comparing SFIV, nope. From overall feel to gameplay, SFIV is totally next level.

I don't know. I don't think people like me are target audience for SF6. It is not interesting, and is the last Street Fighter game I'm going to buy and play.

[GameJayRemy]

Originally posted by ShadowSplit:

To a degree, yes.

I was talking about SCIV not V. I see the direction most of fighting games are going, and that is not something I'm really fond of.

Comparing SFV, SF6 is way better. Comparing SFIV, nope. From overall feel to gameplay, SFIV is totally next level.

I don't know. I don't think people like me are target audience for SF6. It is not interesting, and is the last Street Fighter game I'm going to buy and play.

Sorry, I miss-read.

It sounds less like a problem with pricing and more with a problem of how the games feels to you in particular. So its less of a questions of what the game costs and more of your disenchantment of the genre as whole.

If its not your cup of tea that's a totally different story and it is very much your choice to support the franchise or not. As everyone has different taste I wouldn't try to convince you other wise. You like what you like.

[ShadowSplit]

Originally posted by GameJayRemy:

Sorry, I miss-read.

It sounds less like a problem with pricing and more with a problem of how the games feels to you in particular. So its less of a questions of what the game costs and more of your disenchantment of the genre as whole.

If its not your cup of tea that's a totally different story and it is very much your choice to support the franchise or not. As everyone has different taste I wouldn't try to convince you other wise. You like what you like.

No problem.

They are about the same. The whole policies surounding how games like SF6 or T8 are made pushed the scale on the negative side of, how you call it, disenchantment.

I do think SF6 is good game, which means average, and not something outworldly. Despite what I feel personally, I think it's an honest assessment.

[TheG]

They are too expensive. If you buy all the DLC on release over expected lifetime of the game, that is 250 bucks.

If this was an RPG with significant DLC that adds much new content every year, it would be justified. The new Elden Ring DLC is much more content that four characters, for instance.

At some point I will need to buy the DLC so I can test against other characters, even though I don't want to play them.

To be competitive, you really need the other characters. Maybe once you reach Masters you will absolutely need them all to test against.

So the real price is 30-60$ (depending on sale) for entry version of the game. If you want to play a particular character, just pay 7.50, except that its not enough coins, so I guess pay 10$.

But if you want to be competitive, you have to pay 250$. At that point you have 1000+ hours in the game, so argument could be made that its money well spent.

[Wolves]

OH NO I HAD TO SPEND 54 WEEKS SAVING $11 FOR AKUMA AND KENS OUTFIT 3!!! WHAT A SCAM!!!!


Please apply for jobs guys.

[GameJayRemy]

Originally posted by TheG:

They are too expensive. If you buy all the DLC on release over expected lifetime of the game, that is 250 bucks.

If this was an RPG with significant DLC that adds much new content every year, it would be justified. The new Elden Ring DLC is much more content that four characters, for instance.

At some point I will need to buy the DLC so I can test against other characters, even though I don't want to play them.

To be competitive, you really need the other characters. Maybe once you reach Masters you will absolutely need them all to test against.

So the real price is 30-60$ (depending on sale) for entry version of the game. If you want to play a particular character, just pay 7.50, except that its not enough coins, so I guess pay 10$.

But if you want to be competitive, you have to pay 250$. At that point you have 1000+ hours in the game, so argument could be made that its money well spent.

If you buy the pass it averages out to 7.50
If you buy individual characters, then yes you'll spend a little more due to the extra fight coins left over.
Everyone has a problem with the Fight Coins and no one is defending them.

I'd say a better use of your time is playing someone with said character.
That's never been easier will all the community apps we have at our disposal.
But I've seen people do that Via these forums and in chat at the battle hub.


All games will cost more. Games like Elden Ring included, and Elden Ring is probably one of, if not my favorite from the soul like games from soft has done. For as much as I like Elden Ring though, I hate how they did multiplayer.


250 doesn't really round out but it would be close to 33 additional characters in total.
That also gives the game a life span of 8 years.

[XGear]

Originally posted by Wolves:

OH NO I HAD TO SPEND 54 WEEKS SAVING $11 FOR AKUMA AND KENS OUTFIT 3!!! WHAT A SCAM!!!!


Please apply for jobs guys.

You are the reason of Season Pass and DLC's exist. Becouse of players like you, these companies are always extracting more and more from players even after ask for tons of money for the base game.
Everybody here have money to buy these DLCs, just becouse you cant understand how scam and stupid it looks, dont think people dont have a job or cant pay for this. If you are insulting us like "get a job and pay for the scam" we also could say for you to stop to ask for us act based on the shamefull conduct you used to adopt buying these bandit season / char passes.

[The DudeBro]

I wouldnt recommend buying characters youre not going to even play. Akuma is worth $7.5 but the other characters dont interest me at all.

Likewise, I only plan on buying Mai during the next DLC

[EmmetOtter]

Originally posted by XGear:

Everybody here have money to buy these DLCs, just becouse you cant understand how scam and stupid it looks, dont think people dont have a job or cant pay for this. If you are insulting us like "get a job and pay for the scam" we also could say for you to stop to ask for us act based on the shamefull conduct you used to adopt buying these bandit season / char passes.

We all know its a scam. I also agree that SF6 DLC is way overpriced. The price per character ratio between the base game and a single DLC is absurd. There is not much we all can do about it. Some people even say we should 'boycott' and not buy them is CERTAINLY not gonna help. The gaming industry is exponentially growing. They don't care if you won't buy them cause a million others will. Buying games less or waiting for cheaper prices just puts you back from enjoying them early on. If you can wait out for another year lets say, how much would you be truly saving on these DLC characters? Is a few more bucks really gonna put a dent in that wallet? And hour or two of overtime at work should easily cover that difference in price from buying it on release and that year later in savings. I picked up the ultimate pass. I was not going to stress myself out over a few more dollars. Does it suck...yeah, will it starve me...no. This is one of the pass times that I enjoy so i'm willing to pay the price for it.