Some publishers will be rubbing their hands with glee over the Street Fighter V launch

Tom from GamersFTW writes: "Now that it has been a few weeks since Street Fighter V launched to widespread critical acclaim but general consumer damnation, many of us have moved on to new topics to debate and games to look forward to. This article details why we shouldn’t be so quick to shrug our shoulders and forget about the Street Fighter V launch debacle, as there is a tangible risk that it will set an alarming precedent for video game releases."

[DarkOcelet]

Because Capcom is the one that started this with Street Fighter V, eh? Give me a break, Destiny started this crap and then we saw a slew of other games do the same.

But at least Capcom is giving us most of the upcoming content for free.

While Pieces of Crap like Bungie are telling us to pay for tons of content that should have been in the game.

[rdgneoz3]

I've moved on from Destiny, but dear god it had more content at launch that SFV will have for several months.

"But at least Capcom is giving us most of the upcoming content for free."

Content that they should have released at launch? What fighting game doesn't have arcade mode at launch? Hell, Story mode won't even launch till June...

They literally released a half finished game instead of waiting a bit longer to release a fully functioning product.

[DarkOcelet]

I agree with what you said. The game was clearly rushed for the Esport event in March.

The game right now is for Pro player who are going to participate in such events.

But if we can wait for a couple of months, it will get so much better.

[Rik_Mayall]

Character DLC unlocks are only free if you are willing to build up enough fight money to unlock them, 100k per character? okay sure good luck. This is even worse than EA's sneaky micro-transaction approach where you can gain weak battlepacks and rank up for free or skip all of that and unlock everything for real money. geez atleast with BF4 the content was offered in game not whored out as free DLC as an incentive for buying the game.

Story mode, arcade mode should have been implemented on disk, just like pretty much every SF game in the series. It shouldn't be regarded as a token gesture of gratitude for the benefit of the buyer.

Destiny had far more content on offer than SFV and even Destiny was lacking in areas which doesn't help your point.

[Majin-vegeta]

Just beat all tbe character story modes and you already have enougb for Alex.

[DarkOcelet]

Its not that hard to get 100k by the way.

And secondly, at least you have a choice on whether or not you get the content by using your skills or paying money.

While in Destiny, you had to shell out 140 bucks for the Full Experience.

[admiralvic]

"Character DLC unlocks are only free if you are willing to build up enough fight money to unlock them, 100k per character? okay sure good luck. "

This alone shows your ignorance.

You get something like 160,000 for beating every story, another 10k per characters survival mode you beat, with another 10k per difficulty you do it on, with hell giving, from what I understand, 32,000.

So even if you're terrible and unable to beat anything above normal, you can get 480,000, which is just 120,000 short of all the DLC characters.

[MaxCompiler]

Being a big fan of Capcom and SF5 i still had my doubts with this new system. Its true that obtain 100,000 fight money is pretty easy.

Right now i got 242,370 FM, mostly by playing the story mode, survival and a couple of ranked matches. But after completing all of the survival and stories how are you going to reach again 100k.

You need to win 2000 matches!! its seems quite out of reach. An thats only to get 1 character. Lets not forget about new outfits, stages and who knows what else (that maybe it a ton of new content like taunts, poses even classic movements)

Dont get me wrong I love the game, but im afraid of what Capcom would do with the store this month. Hopefully they prove me wrong and do the right thing this time around. (daily and weekly events, with an internet page just like Residentevil.net)

[DarkOcelet]

I believe that the story mode in June will have some really good FM bonus when we complete it.

And we have Arcade mode and VS CPU mode coming up soon so i bet those will give some good FM Bonus too.

I think Capcom will do the right thing here.

[Yukes]

I agree that Capcom by no means started this, but they have built upon the dubious foundations constructed by other companies. Activision is the publisher of Destiny, though, so they'll be the ones making those sort of business decisions.

The difference with Street Fighter V, in my opinion, is how it's completely divided critics and consumers, and yet will probably escape relatively unscathed. Regardless of whether the extra content is charged for or free, we are still being given a game with absolutely no single player campaign whatsoever at launch, and expected to pay full price for it.

[Liqu1d]

Why is that it's considered ok for shooters to cut out SP but not fighting games? I don't play fighting games so it's a genuine question.

[Yukes]

No, fair question. In my opinion it isn't ok for shooters, and pretty sure I'm not the only one. Look at Titanfall, for example, and the clamour for there to be a campaign in the sequel. The CoD games are all about the multiplayer, but if (when?) they try to release without a campaign at all, there will be a backlash, no doubt.

[sullynathan]

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[Kribwalker]

Release a quarter of the game, sell a bunch of copies, use that money to finance the remainder of the content. Sounds like a profit proof buisness plan that's terrible for consumers. Instead of the buisness paying interest on loans they can get the money interest free from the consumers.....

[NotoriousWhiz]

Only works if the consumers are willing to spend the money on an unfinished product. If the consumers don't agree with it, the consumers won't buy it. If the consumers are buying it, then it's a viable business plan.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Let's be serious and not act like this is something new, or something that will start some dangerous trend, just because Street Fight V has some issues. Some journalist always wants to pounce on the current problem and blow it up into something bigger, as if they were completely oblivious to the whole industry prior.

[iceman06]

While I don't agree with this practice, let's not act like this is the first and only game to do this. The precedent was started well before SF5. Also, let's not act like every publisher has a game with the history of Street Fighter. The fact that SF4 came out over 7 years ago has a lot to do with the fact that people are content with what they have gotten. It was a unique situation for them, due to the pro scene, that they rushed it (NOT to say that I trust Capcom not to have rushed it anyway). So, while we should remain vigilant about it, let's not go to defcon 5 over it just yet.

[Kribwalker]

Street fighter 4 may have come out 7 years ago, but the re-releases of it stopped last year. There were 3 released versions of sf4 on 360/PS3 alone ending in 2014 with ultimate street fighter 4,which then transferred to ps4 last year.

Now there was also iOS android 3ds versions as well, so saying that they waited 7 years to release an incomplete sf5 is a bit off, as they milked that cow dry

[iceman06]

Point being that people were waiting for a NEW Street Fighter. This, imo, causing people to be more lenient to the incomplete SF5. Once again, I'm not defensing Capcom or the practice. I'm just trying to provide a possible explanation.

[quent]

@admiral. Why should I grind for content that I own or pay capcom more money to unlock the content I already own ?