Colors DLC is B.S

[Nathan]

So no one is talking about this? In Rev 2 you were able to buy colors with in game currency, but now you have to pay for the DLC colors? You gotta be f***ing with us

[JeffreyFo]

i dont necessarily mind color dlc, but i dont think ive ever played a fighting game with as few starting color options as this one. it is pretty jarring coming from basic any other "anime fg".

[Josef]

I remember the good old days when u would unlock alternate color palettes with game time and skill, now u have to pay for them....

Recoloring models/sprites requires little to no effort and they're charging $15? oof, and what makes it worse is that they don't even let you buy for specific characters, instead u gotta pay up for characters u'll never use.

inb4 white knights come to defend this horrible business practice.

[Nathan]

Originally posted by Josef:

I remember the good old days where u would unlock alternate color palettes with game time and skill, now u have to pay for them.

recoloring requires little to no effort and they're charging $15? oof

inb4 white knights come to defend this horrible business practice.

Right!?!?!?!?!?!

[Pecsi]

tbf color palettes are just about aesthetics, so there's no reason to get them anyway

[moulala2]

Unfortunately Arcsys can't do alternate costumes, so they need something to sell that takes less time and effort than a whole ass character. It is kind of a rip off, especially since you have to buy them all for twenty bucks instead of just spending two or three on the characters you actually use.

[Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG]

Originally posted by Mightfo:

i dont necessarily mind color dlc, but i dont think ive ever played a fighting game with as few starting color options as this one. it is pretty jarring coming from basic any other "anime fg".

SFV had like 2 colors per character when it just came out

[Pecsi]

Originally posted by moulala2:

Unfortunately Arcsys can't do alternate costumes, so they need something to sell that takes less time and effort than a whole ass character. It is kind of a rip off, especially since you have to buy them all for twenty bucks instead of just spending two or three on the characters you actually use.

they have this practice since sign, at least there you could get the colors you'd specifically like. This time they're selling off the whole package.

[Nathan]

Originally posted by Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG:

Originally posted by Mightfo:

i dont necessarily mind color dlc, but i dont think ive ever played a fighting game with as few starting color options as this one. it is pretty jarring coming from basic any other "anime fg".

SFV had like 2 colors per character when it just came out

You could unlock the colors beating the survival mode

[Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG]

Originally posted by Nathan:

Originally posted by Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG:

SFV had like 2 colors per character when it just came out

You could unlock the colors beating the survival mode

And you could unlock colors in GGEZ another way, what's your point?

[Nathan]

Originally posted by Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG:

Originally posted by Nathan:

You could unlock the colors beating the survival mode

And you could unlock colors in GGEZ another way, what's your point?

My point is that you could unlock colors going through game's content, not paying for them

[Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG]

Originally posted by Nathan:

Originally posted by Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG:

And you could unlock colors in GGEZ another way, what's your point?

My point is that you could unlock colors going through game's content, not paying for them

Survival mode is horrible. You could earn the dosh to unlock the colors in GGEZ in a fraction of the time it takes to clear survival mode. Also your original point was about the least amount of available colors at launch, not how they're unlocked. Regardless of how they're unlocked, SFV had 2.

[osutin]

I agree. DLC should be alternate *costumes*, not colors.

It's a small thing, but its nice to have something to unlock. DBFZ does this with its equivalent of GGST's fishing game, but in Strive all you get is stuff for your avatar. I would prefer a return to DBFZ's format.

[HighLanderPony]

Yeah, it is BS (blazing). At least it's ignorable, somewhat. Still BS.

[Kovacs]

Originally posted by moulala2:

Unfortunately Arcsys can't do alternate costumes, so they need something to sell that takes less time and effort than a whole ass character. It is kind of a rip off, especially since you have to buy them all for twenty bucks instead of just spending two or three on the characters you actually use.

how come they can't do alternate costumes?

[JeffreyFo]

Originally posted by Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG:

Originally posted by Mightfo:

i dont necessarily mind color dlc, but i dont think ive ever played a fighting game with as few starting color options as this one. it is pretty jarring coming from basic any other "anime fg".

SFV had like 2 colors per character when it just came out

I didnt play SF5. My perspective is mostly from games like BB, GGAC, Persona, UNIST, Arcana, Melty.

Of course, you're right that perhaps more than 1-2 games had such a limited set, but it is still jarring coming from "anime FGs".

I have fond memories of people in my local scene and in other scenes being attached to particular colors for particular characters- it was a nice expression of personality and so on. Only 6 colors pretty much culls that, and $15 is pretty steep for the color DLC's size.

I understand and accepting having DLC, including having lots of DLC- DLC is an inevitability because game development costs continue to rise, inflation continues, while game prices stay stagnant. Simple math- developers need to figure out something to help them make more revenue. But $15 for a moderate amount of mere colors seems excessive to me, especially compared to games where $10 gets you 1 or more characters/factions/mechanics/etc.