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Street Fighter V players: Would you buy a yearly "Costumes Season Pass"?
- Thread starter Son Of Sparda
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Hoya Destroyer
Member
I'd be pretty unlikely to pay for a season costume pass. I'd only buy the sexy stuff for the girls and the cool stuff (occasionally) for the guys.
There are too many weird, ugly or boring outfits in between, so it'd be safer for me to pick and choose instead.
There are too many weird, ugly or boring outfits in between, so it'd be safer for me to pick and choose instead.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
No, but I'd buy story mode episodes every year.
Yeah. I don't know if I can grind for all characters and even if I doubt I'd have the will to grind for stages and other stuff. I'm considering buying the season pass because of this but it just feels wrong considering that I don't play SF V much.
I'd pay $60 for something like that. Based on the prices everything's at right now, that's actually a great deal! But that's the problem; it'd save you a lot of money over buying everything individually, so there's no way Capcom would do it.
Son Of Sparda
Member
I see that a few members have misunderstood me.
I'm not saying that they should remove the option to buy costumes separately, or make us buy them all blindly. I'm suggesting that they add new options to buy costumes after they are released.
Maybe I should have said used the word "Bundles" instead of Season Pass?
I'm not saying that they should remove the option to buy costumes separately, or make us buy them all blindly. I'm suggesting that they add new options to buy costumes after they are released.
Maybe I should have said used the word "Bundles" instead of Season Pass?
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Deleted member 752119
Unconfirmed Member
I bought it long ago. I'd rather get the characters than hassle with the shitty single player content. And I'd rather toss them some money each year so they keep supporting the game.
Stallion Dan
Member
The prices are all disgusting and I will not pay a thing. Kinda glad the game is underperforming because fuck off does this deserve success with a 500% price hike on costumes compared to SFIV.
This.
I would consider paying to NIT see some of those
Which is why DoAXBV, Bayonetta and the last Soul Calibur sold 10 million each, right?
Oh wait they sold like SHIT
Allforce
Member
I would be open to it, but I'm also OK with how they've set it up now. 4 bucks a pop isn't too bad to pick and choose your favorites, I can't see myself buying them all but every has their own preferences. I sold the premium Bison costume code I got for pre-ordering the game on eBay for almost 30 bucks alone. Cammy codes were going for 60 bucks. People love this stuff so no reason for Capcom to change it.
Concrete Charlie
Member
Nope, I'm fine with the default costumes.
Brian_FETO
Banned
I'm generally fine with the default costumes. I've played Cammy since launch and her blue/white pallet swap is all I need for her
I haven't really dug the premium costumes for any of the characters I can actually play.
I have a good amount of fight money accumulated, and I'm only grabbing Juri from this year. If they continue adding (good) costumes regularly I may be more inclined but yea
Tbh I think Juri's default is super rad, and waaaaay better than her story/premium costume
I haven't really dug the premium costumes for any of the characters I can actually play.
I have a good amount of fight money accumulated, and I'm only grabbing Juri from this year. If they continue adding (good) costumes regularly I may be more inclined but yea
Tbh I think Juri's default is super rad, and waaaaay better than her story/premium costume
Salty Hippo
Member
I just saw they are selling day periods for existing stages for 40k a pop. Holy shit.
The existing season pass should have included all of this stuff from the get go. The prices charged for this stuff or the grind to get them in pretty dumb for a full priced $60 game. This is THE example of F2P economics infecting a full priced game for the worse. Then when you do buy them, you have to grind out the colors too?
It's pretty terrible.
It's pretty terrible.
RecRoulette
Member
Since SFV is going the DOA route of pricing, the season pass would probably match too. That means $90 for a season. At that price? Fuck that.
Edit: DOA's season passes had 70-80 costumes in each, but they came out twice a year
People just have to accept that getting everything in SFV isn't going to happen unless you bleed your wallet dry. (This coming from someone who bought EVERYTHING in SF4)
Edit: DOA's season passes had 70-80 costumes in each, but they came out twice a year
People just have to accept that getting everything in SFV isn't going to happen unless you bleed your wallet dry. (This coming from someone who bought EVERYTHING in SF4)
Exactly. I'd be looking to engage with most of this if SFV was a F2P but so far I've been ignoring it all because that's what I do with crappy F2P schemes in full priced games.
Yea, DoA5 has been doing something like this for awhile. I believe there are four different season passes currently, like $92 each. You get lots of costumes in each one though. Still unfathomably overpriced though.
This whole concept has turned me so far off of SFV. I am now hoping for a Super edition a year from now just so I could get everything in one package.
Subpar Scrub
Banned
Noooope.
Eolz
Member
As a matter of comparison, since DOA5 came on topic:
- Costumes are 2$ each, apart from the collaborations (Falcom, Senran Kagura, Tatsunoko, etc) costumes being 3$ each. SFV costumes are 4$ each.
- Costumes can be bought per pack, usually with around 16 costumes per pack. Usually priced 19$ (regular pack), 28$ (collaboration/special) or 32$ (most of the roster).
- Currently at its fourth season pass, with the fifth one likely announced next month. Each pass is at 93$, including 5 costumes packs, for 78 to 101 costumes. Season pass 3 included a character, season pass 4 is including a stage. (edit: each season pass also includes an exclusive costume, but it's usually just some recolor, so no point in counting that)
I'm not saying one is better than the other, both have lessons to take from each other (DOA6 should have a fight money system, while SFV's costumes are way too expensive and not available in packs), but DOA5 actually is less expensive per costume, it's just that there's tons of them.
Last Round launched with around 400 costumes included by the way, even if it seems not as big since it was its third release with 34 characters, it's still more than USFIV.
It's just interesting to look at this if you want SFV to have season passes for costumes. DOA5's season passes are way too expensive, but you also get a lot more than some costumes every 3 months or so.
- Costumes are 2$ each, apart from the collaborations (Falcom, Senran Kagura, Tatsunoko, etc) costumes being 3$ each. SFV costumes are 4$ each.
- Costumes can be bought per pack, usually with around 16 costumes per pack. Usually priced 19$ (regular pack), 28$ (collaboration/special) or 32$ (most of the roster).
- Currently at its fourth season pass, with the fifth one likely announced next month. Each pass is at 93$, including 5 costumes packs, for 78 to 101 costumes. Season pass 3 included a character, season pass 4 is including a stage. (edit: each season pass also includes an exclusive costume, but it's usually just some recolor, so no point in counting that)
I'm not saying one is better than the other, both have lessons to take from each other (DOA6 should have a fight money system, while SFV's costumes are way too expensive and not available in packs), but DOA5 actually is less expensive per costume, it's just that there's tons of them.
Last Round launched with around 400 costumes included by the way, even if it seems not as big since it was its third release with 34 characters, it's still more than USFIV.
It's just interesting to look at this if you want SFV to have season passes for costumes. DOA5's season passes are way too expensive, but you also get a lot more than some costumes every 3 months or so.
zackmorris
Member
Yep. If you pay it should unlock everything.
Yes I would buy a bundle of all the costumes instead of this $4 per costume nonsense. But I do want to buy it at the start of the season, and get it when it releases. I don't see why I should have to wait.
If anything, Capcom would want to lock in as many pre-purchases of the costumes while the game is hot at a season start.
If anything, Capcom would want to lock in as many pre-purchases of the costumes while the game is hot at a season start.
Glitter and Gold
Banned
Not sure I'd buy a Season Pass up front for SFV given how the first one went
I wouldn't but...
...they absolutely should not be free. If whales that need all the cosmetics are helping to keep the game profitable and supported by the dev that's fine by me.
...they absolutely should not be free. If whales that need all the cosmetics are helping to keep the game profitable and supported by the dev that's fine by me.
I mean, how has the first one gone? There was delay, I know, but everything has been delivered as promised.
Strangelove77
Member
...And so it's come to this.
Glitter and Gold
Banned
Sure it's probably a good deal now, and it's still for sale.
Had I bought it upfront though I'd probably have felt I paid extra for nothing for those months it was delayed. So I'm not likely to pay for any future packs up front.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
Honestly, I don't like many of the costumes. They seem to alter the character too much. I feel like much of their personality is contained within the original. i would buy costumes but only if they were not a radical departure from the base outfit.
It didn't go that badly at all. Ibuki was a month and a day late, the story mode was a day late, and Balrog was set to release in July and he released on July 1st.
Glitter and Gold
Banned
Yes in hindsight.
Talk to people that had paid for it when Alex had dropped though. lol
My point is that for the first few months of content delivery, the Season Pass had no value. Which isn't how a Season Pass is supposed to work.
As ridiculously high as the prices are in SFV, I'd rather earn them all in-game (even if the prices are far more expensive) than having to pay $4 for 1 Premium Costume. Let alone, no pack? That's insane to me. See, this isn't acceptable grinding at all. First they give you that ridiculous Survival Mode and then this crap comes into play, you factor in the additional colors, then the costumes, just, ugh. Man. A yearly costume season pass thing only makes sense to me if you get all of the costumes for the characters at a reasonable price. Say for "Season 1" of costumes they can sell the pass for $15-20 and I'd be completely fine with it.
But $4 for 1 costume is bugging. Nah bruh, nah. This is why I love Namco's deal with Tekken. I never have to worry about this.
But $4 for 1 costume is bugging. Nah bruh, nah. This is why I love Namco's deal with Tekken. I never have to worry about this.
I don't agree with that at all and I imagine all the people who bitch about "day 1 DLC" or "on-disc DLC" would disagree with you as well. The season pass essentially says "if you pay x amount of dollars you will get this content specifically" which is way more specific than most season passes that just promise you'll get DLC and maybe a vague listing of how many pieces of DLC without being specific of what DLC you'll get.
The SFV season pass is different than most season passes in that it's essentially just a "bundle" but some of the content isn't available yet (like a season pass). But there's no question what was going to be included in that season pass as soon as it was announced and anything else in it was a bonus added later.
Really, I think I spend 90% of my time on GAF arguing about DLC because there is no "perfect" way people agree on how it should be done aside from maybe "just make it all free" (and even people bitched about it when Splatoon did that). So when you say that a season pass entitles you to a sizeable amount of DLC up front just know that there are thousands of posts on this forum complaining that additional content is being sold too close to launch.
Rabid Dwarf 76
Member
No. Not for this game.
I think you're getting it wrong. It does sell, but to the current audience. Like, you'll have a higher chance of selling a sexy Chun-Li costume over a reserved one to the SF community, not that you'll bring in any new players.
Augemitbutter
Member
i'd prefer if they made everything unlockable in the future via hard/extreme modes. arcade and survival or other hard version trials. make people actually play your game. offer additional unlockable colors as well.
currently only interested in 1-2 costumes.
currently only interested in 1-2 costumes.
How so
Yeah, I'd rather have a full priced "Street Fighter V 2017 edition" retail/digital release, that includes EVERYTHING that's been released up till that point, rather than separate costume or stage season passes.
Of course, it's not going to be like Super, as the base game is the same. And people who own the original and don't care much for stuff, or want stuff just for their character, can spend money on just those items and be done with it.
30yearsofhurt
Member
For more sexy Chun Li I would do anything.