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Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite: Alt Costume got shown (Cowboy Ghost Rider, Donte, etc)
- Thread starter IntelliHeath
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Aside from Injustice, Tekken was another current gen game that had free costumes.
DOA5 even gives a ton of free costumes in the F2P version of the game. Was really surprised at how many.
None of those games give you ALL costumes for free, and SFV buying costumes with FM is practically a waste because that FM is best invested in full characters.
Let's stop using this as a blanket excuse to give a pass to huge pricing increases on anything. We're talking about extra skins here. I have a hard time believing the cost of making an extra skin for this game costs multiple times more than one for the previous game. Alternate texture colors are trivial, so having four colors instead of one doesn't account for it. They gave us 20 colors in USFIV for each costume in a pack that was $20 for 44 costumes.
The bolded is exactly how they get away with jacking up the prices so much.
At what price increase does the "I'll be playing it for years" reasoning stop holding up? How do you gauge what that is? Isn't it reasonable to look at the same company's own previous offerings?
Has the technology required to make extra skins really become that more difficult and expensive? Haven't tools gotten better/more efficient too?
Valkerionseven
Member
Cannon wise shes always been Scottish, just never had a English voice actor/lines in games until MvC3, so it made sense to give her the accent.
PhantomThief
Banned
Are the costumes 4 euros in those games as well?
Ridiculous pricing and a spat in the face of MvC fans.
EYEL1NER
Member
I'm gonna miss "Shadow Braid" so much...
I'll just add it to the list of "Stuff I Want Morrigan to Have Again:"
- A new full Darkstalkers game for her to headline again.
- Her Eternal Slumber lvl3 hyper combo
- Her Japanese voice actor
Yes, SFV also charges $4 for premium costumes.
DR2K
Banned
DOA5 gave around 6 to12 unique costumes per character for free. They just had to be unlocked. Tekken 7 gives free gear pieces as does Injustice 2. Capcom gave some costumes away because of how terrible SFV was at launch.
Jimmyfenix
Member
people here still foolishly dreaming of DMC 5
Can't wait for DmC 2 announcement the superior Dante
Can't wait for DmC 2 announcement the superior Dante
Karsticles
Member
You think Morrigan looks Asian in MvC1 or Darkstalkers 3 cover?
PhantomThief
Banned
Hahahahahaha fucking capcom, no wonder their shit bombs. They deserve it too. Half finished games with tons of dlc priced at 4 bucks a piece. Goddamn ridiculous and just SAD.
Not saying the prices aren't outrageous, but pointing out that demanding they be free just because this is MVCI is an exaggeration.
So you would rather defend MVCI's bullshit rather than commend other games for doing good?
Better tools doesn't mean modeling gets any easier. We can't automate the creation models so it's not really helping with cost. Current gen models have polygon counts have increased by well over 4x since last gen. Meaning even more detail for your modelers to work on. Which means they cost more to make. Some of the skins(dorammau) are pretty much remodels lol
PhantomThief
Banned
I never said they should be free.
But they should be free.
And if not free, 1 dollar/euro at max.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Paying for alt costumes, pathetic, including the dumb dante
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Injustice 2 and SFV is grasping. Tekken 7's recent free DLC pack was just items you could equip. Nothing substantial so far and they just dropped some real costumes that you have to pay for. DOA5 I'll give you.
PhantomThief
Banned
I disagree with this notion. Stop defending this crap.
lucebuce12
Member
It can still be justified in SFV because of the existence of the FM system.
The fact is it's possible to just buy the game and then never have to pay a single cent for anything that affects gameplay and that includes characters and stages.
So costumes being 4$ is understandable since that's the only incentive a lot of the dedicated community has to spend money. Plus most of those costumes are high quality AF so spending that much money on them doesn't sting so much.
Same excuse doesn't apply for MvC:I though.
Lights and Waves
Member
This reads as asian IMO
This looks white; almost like Emma Stone with a wig on
She's my queen regardless.
You disagree with hard facts about game development? Lmao ok, keep being heated over somrthing you're ignorant about
Actually, Id rather pay $5.99 for a character and save my FM for stages and color packs.
No, i would rather point out that other games also are trying to milk players dry of their money, it's ridiculous that people want to push a narrative where somehow MVCI is the only game doing any wrong doing.
Why do you think im still waiting for a complete edition of Injustice 2 (which by the way has fucking lootboxes)? Why do you think people are waiting for SFV Arcade edition?
I feel that in recent years the only fighting game that isn't actively trying to milk players out of their money is KoF 14.
That just looks anime.
Gotta admit though, Capcom has made it pretty damn easy for people to see it this way with MVCI.
Tools have gotten better and would have gotten more efficient if the same amount of effort was involved into making a model, but it isn't. Instead those tools have opened the way to more elaborate models and materials, so even though the efficiency has improved the amount of work necessary has gone up at a faster rate.
Lights and Waves
Member
All anime characters read asian to me, lol.
PhantomThief
Banned
WB is one of the greediest companies out there, so thats no surprise at all. Exactly the reason I havent bought Injustice 2 is the amount of bs surrounding it. Three different editions at over 100 bucks.. ridiculous pricing. They can stuff it, even if I really liked the first game.
7DollarHagane
Banned
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Looks like an anime come to life to me. Darkstalkers established that she was from Scotland.
Because you're just filling the blanks due to anime being made in japan and often set in japan, but characters in anime style often don't look asian and non asian characters ofte look just like the characters we are told are asian.
Just look at Alpha era street fighter, all characters are drawn in that anime style.
So were many of the costumes for UMvC3 and USFIV.
Sorry, but I don't believe they're charging multiple times more out of necessity based on dev cost.
What if these were $6 a skin or $10? How would we know how difficult/expensive they were to make and if the price was warranted? At what point would you think something didn't seem friendly with their pricing? Should we just take any pricing they choose at face value?
EYEL1NER
Member
Was it ever confirmed that Major Marvel was or wasn't a timed or permanent exclusive to PS4? I remember asking in the pre-release Infinite thread if it was Sony-exclusive forever, because wording I saw in different articles/ads made it seem that way to me, but I never saw where anyone replied.
decisions
Member
lol. So true.
1. Doom the franchise by making a shitty reboot to follow-up the fastest-selling game in the franchise.
2. Put Donte in PSAS.
3. Make MvCI Dante look like a meth addict, unfaithful to the original.
4. Make Donte in MvCI look like his normal self, faithful to the original.
5. Frank West Dante.
PhantomThief
Banned
You understand that by paying 30 bucks, they might just make it cost 40 bucks next time?
Why not just wait u till the costumes are on sale? What are you missing out on? Seriously?
Lights and Waves
Member
Speaking of Morrigan, her Lilith alt. colors in this game are flawless. Wish they'd give her a Lilith skin!
I'm not a fan of new Dante, but there are obviously a lot who are, so this actually seems like a smart move to sell this one to cater to that group.
PhantomThief
Banned
Yes.
I like it. Not as much as OG Dante, and I wouldnt pay real money to have it as an alt, but I dont mind the design. He kind of even looks like your av.
Capcom's price gouging is pretty bonkers. I was only partly joking earlier about milking hardcore fans to make up for a disaster launch, but it looks like it's true.
At least the costumes look good.
I'll have a good laugh if the year-later GOTY bundle doesn't include the costumes though.
At least the costumes look good.
I'll have a good laugh if the year-later GOTY bundle doesn't include the costumes though.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
pls no
Check the OT a lot of people there are happy about Donte.
EYEL1NER
Member
I'm one of them. Not saying I prefer him to Dante, but Donte's game was entertaining and I didn't think his cheesy awful lines were any worse than things Dante has said in the past. Considering how shit the Dante model in this game looks (must have cost a lot for them to make him look that bad too, considering how much more games cost now!), I'm thrilled to have Donte in the game since he looks so good/authentic.
The new version of SFV isn't going to come with any premium costumes or stages, is it? If not, I wouldn't expect Ultimate MvC:I (or whatever) to have any, especially with the way they are pricing them and the vibe that gives off.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Sephzilla hasn't respond. I hope he's ok.