Worst part of the further reduction of FM payout is in regards to Extra Battle costumes
When you got the 2500+ a week, the single 2500 made it so you essentially could get yourself a free outfit every month, even if you didn’t play all that much. Now unless you grind ranked/casual like crazy, you won’t be able to do that, not if you want to still afford characters and stages. So I’ll probably just be pretending the crossover costume stuff doesn’t exist from this point forward.
I really hope that fewer characters/stages this season is their justification 'cause this is getting ridiculous.
Tell that to the shills here and outside, since there’s no justification for this. I have a life outside, grinding that much with just 50 FM per win it’s just ridiculous.
No need for SF6 tbh, there’s no reason to start working on another one when they didn’t optimized SFV yet. They pretending from us to play like mfs while playing on a shitty netcode. The S4 characters lineup mystery it’s just the cherry on top, I’ve learned to hate the word ‘soon’.
There is a lot more to do in and a lot more to learn from the SF5 Experiment for Capcom. If you want the best possible SF6, then we should hope that SF5 becomes the best it can be and Capcom takes this experience and uses it for future entries.
People keep forgetting that SF5 is attempting a huge leap for the franchise. Mistakes are bound to happen as Capcom tries to strike a balance between consumer needs, gaming practices in 2019, and profit margins.
Honestly, after launch and the disaster that is MvCI, I expected SF5 to sink to the bottom of the ocean floor. Other fighting games came and went since, but here we still are. SF5 remains one of the better offerings of its generation IMO.
The rumor mill is that they will address that in 2019. Keep yourself cautiously optimistic.
Ultra was a cheap last-minute ‘effort’ to make a few more bucks out of an ageing game. SFIV was six years old by the time Ultra came around, SFV is now only nearing its third fourth year and already feels like it’s nobody’s priority at Capcom anymore.
I don’t see that evolution from the SF4 days if we talking about Capcom PR , they’re undoubtedly working hard on selling the product and the e-sports thing, but probably the old way of releasing updates,costumes, etc. was more honest. I didn’t believe them about the possibility to not spend a dime on the game extra stuff and I was right, the progressive FM lacking speaks loud enough.
They didn’t lie about that though. If you used FM exclusively for characters and nothing else, you’d have a complete roster and more than enough FM in the bank to afford S4.
The problem is that they keep luring you left and right with cosmetic stuff and thanks to a very generous dump of FM in the beginning you might think you’d be able to get a few costumes and stages here and there but by that point it’s too late.
Generally speaking though, getting everything ‘gameplay related’ (= characters) for free is totally possible.
They’ve talked about getting everything with FM iirc. The FM reduction looks like a clear attempt to getting more real money this system allowed people to don’t use them to get extra stuff, maybe they’ve overrated SFV at the launch. I’m used to pay with Benji’s for game updates/extras, like @Daemos said Capcom hopefully will learn from now on. If you want some, pay some. Straightforward enough to don’t give haters chances to say shit about the game.
The FM idea was good, but rushed and straight up gutted this season.
If you had more modes to gather FM from the jump and the cosmetic shit to distract you from buying only characters, it’d be fine.
S3 with less of a nerf to Weekly Missions would’ve worked. The money-exclusive content was a dumb way to not rip off FM from people too.
I don’t blame Capcom doing some experiments, but again, the FM reduction means them backpedaling big from their initial idea. If you can afford a PS4/PC you can definitely spend 10$/€ for updates of the game you play.
And they should stick to that completely, without the tempting distraction of offering non-gameplay related content for fight money. Such practices are sleazy (but fair game).
Capcom should be just straightforward about this whole thing, which they should’ve learned by now.
We know the game doesn’t pay for itself.
We have demonstrated that we are willing to pay within reason.
As long as we steer clear away from P2W, everything will be just peachy.
Capcom should just set their prices and stop beating around the bush with fight money for cosmetic nonsense.
Like don’t they see that, we’re not kids anymore, but we still like very much like them. Stop fucking up a good thing.
