The internet didn’t exist 
and some people says it’s a pain when you run tournaments (remember MVC2) but that’s an issue for the 5% of the player base.
Lol seriously this thread is pure gold, i can’t stop laughing, i had a tired day at work but the SFxT forums always make me laugh 
You misspelled chump, m’man. 
My thoughts on using Disc Locked Characters online is… Fuck Em After the way corporate money ruined this game I could care less what MS, Sony, Capcom, Namco, or Willy motherfucking Wonka have to say. Get your pirate on.
You misspelled chump, m’man.
Can… I add your quote to my sig…?
What this guy said.
if someone could consolidate all the hate for this game and put it in one thread…it would exceed the number of all post here on SRK about 100X over…
Yes. Blessings of internet angst be with you.
Fuck it I’m doin’ it.
holy shit dumb dumb, stop arguing for the sake of arguing. If somebody said the sky was blue, and the grass was green, and air was useful, you would have some fucktarded reason why they were wrong, and then you’d post an analogy that made no sense, followed by your opinion on the legality of hacking a game online vs offline.
I have SF4 on my iPhone, and I get new characters all the time. Characters that likely DO cost Capcom time and money. And they’re free, every one of them.
you stopped arguing valid points awhile ago, and went straight for insults and put downs aimed at me, and crafted with the 4 year old short bus logic you’re so fond of. Please tell me how I am caring whether or not you reply to me? I reply to you because it’s interesting to point out how low SRK has sunk. Dont give me attention then. Go post on gamefaqs. They love your kind over there.
fixed that for you.
I seriously hope you are joking…
1 day we both might find out lool
Man, I fucking love this thread. If people want to play their JTAG’d 360s online with characters, that’s on them. If people want to buy or not buy the DLC when it drops, that’s on them.
All y’all need to start acting like grownups and make some grownup decisions, instead of pitching bitch fits over semantics.
Alright this thread is fucking retarded but I still want to ask this question. Is this an argument over morality/ethics or legality?
Now I’m curious here, but what would a grownup do about all this situation?
Just from your perspective, since it seems like you think you’re smarter than everyone else.
To be honest, I’ve stated my thoughts on this before. It’s 100% understandable WHY they did what they did, from a programming standpoint. Now we just need to download a 10kb file when they unlock the characters, and they do’t have to worry about the complexity of people downloading characters and playing against other people who don’t have those characters. There were MANY MANY routes they could have went, and they picked one that bit them in the ass.
By putting the content on the disc, they’ve fully admitted it’s already done, and any extra costs incurred are non-existent, as my buying or not buying the DLC doesn’t prevent me from having the content. Just changes how I use the content, which is a major issue. Them telling us to wait, just seems like a stupid way to reward all these people who dropped money on their game on day one, or even pre-ordered it or got the special edition (that came with gems that may or may not become shitty or pointless or free anyways, and NO access to future DLC).
Then when people brought this issue up, Capcom accused the community of jumping to conclusions, and announces it will set shit straight. And how did they do that? By pretty much coming to the same conclusion we all did. They will charge us money for it, and allow us to access it much later. So we are stuck with a broken game, missing (and MUCH wanted) characters that are on the disc and completed, and already told we will need to spend more money on this game in the near future. At which point we just know shit will become broken again. Never mind the fact that when people DID unlock these characters, they were able to find ways they are broken (ie Megaman’s home planet needs him), thus HELPING CAPCOM.
If they had went the SSFIV route and released a later disc, or massive DLC pack, I would have been upset, and bitched and moaned and started the whole “Rainbow Ultimate Super Champion Edition” joke thing, but it would have been slightly more logical than what they did. People not mad enough at Capcom for this debacle, obviously haven’t been playing their games long enough. I’m no expert on Japanese, but I would hazard a guess that Capcom is Japanese for “Screwjob”
If this were any other form of media, how do you think people would react? If a DVD came with a time locked trailer for a movie you really wanted to see, every fucking one of you would go to Youtube or do whatever crack is necessary, to view it. And now some people did it with a video game. Sure, it’s somewhat of a bitch move for them to use the characters online. But I see where they’re coming from.
Which are?
off the top of my head (I know very little of MS’s or Sony’s download policies):
they had the route they went (including the content on the disc, download an unlock at a later time)
they could have had people download a giant patch at a later time, of just enough character info to allow you to still play people who use DLC characters
there may have been a way to load individual characters in a somewhat timely fashion using hard drive cache (or without it…not like the load times arent already brutal)
there’s a lot of routes they could have gone. They went the one that saved them the most money and caused them the most trouble.
Thing is though those characters are a by product of that Vita version. I guarantee if they never came out with a Vita version we would’ve gotten a “Super” version of the game just in a download only capability with those characters and whatever gameplay changes.