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Playstation Blog Update.

Just confirmed at the panel at EVO. Still ongoing but this is huge news and points towards the ideal LoL post-launch support model for fighting games.

Stolen from the other thread:

Images courtesy of GAFer Unlucky and LI Joe.

 

[Shmuppers]

Daaamn.

 

[Jaeger]

How its supposed to be

 

[BossRush]

MY FIGHT MONEY

 

[Cody_D165]

Capcom gonna Capc--

wait

what

 

[delSai]

Amazing. Thats how it should be

 

[Drencrom]

Holy shit

 

[spindashing]

shieet

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

How good this news is depends heavily on how much time you have to spend playing the game to be able to buy a character and how expensive a character is if you want to just buy them with real money.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Nice, But goodluck unlocking Oni by ranking to grandmaster

 

[Alcoholikaust]

awesome thank you Capcom

 

[Ken]

Missed opportunity to stylize the V in Service.

 

[slick7rick]

This is such a great precedent, thank you Capcpom!

 

[Kevinroc]

This sounds amazing!

 

[FullMetaltech]

Takes me back to the good old days of unlocking characters.

 

[jbug617]

 

[Kouichi]

This is really awesome. Good job Capcom.

 

[Valkerionseven]

Hope they let you try out the characters in a training mode esque setting before spending our fight money on them. That would be the cherry on top of this awesome news.

 

[Skunkers]

How ferocious the grind, though?

 

[PSGames]

How good this news is depends heavily on how much time you have to spend playing the game to be able to buy a character and how expensive a character is if you want to just buy them with real money.

My thoughts exactly. Why charge at all if its something anyone could do in a reasonable amount of time?

 

[gundamkyoukai]

great news.

 

[Newtype-001]

soooo damn gooood.

 

[Tyraniboah]

Here I was thinking Capcom would charge us 4.99 a character or something absurd like that. This will probably solidify a day one purchase for me. I wonder if sony had any influence on this decision...

 

[Lulubop]

16 Characters are confirmed at launch with new ones being added

 

[Guymelef]

Ummm I don't see "characters" on that image.

 

[Alec]

Gameplay related content? So not costumes, maybe? They're not really "gameplay" related, I feel...

 

[OricWindstar]

Probably worth mentioning the starting roster is 16, with 4 new characters:

 

[Doctor_Thomas]

Thank you, Sony.

Spoiler

 

[Order]

This is great, this is how games are supposed to be

 

[Tizoc]

I suspect the in-game price of characters may be high, but discounted on release.
Really though if you play the game alot you're bound to have more Bison Dollars that you don't know what to do with them.

 

[Astarte]

PC day 1

 

[Zalman]

Assuming this is a good as it sounds, my hype for this game just increased exponentially.

 

[Mcdohl]

Win to pay?

In all seriousness though,
Great job Capcom!

 

[Neoxon]

This is actually awesome.

 

[Reule]

Surprising to me. Wow. I was pretty much on board to get SFV but this cemented it.

 

[UnluckyKate]

I suspect the in-game price of characters may be high, but discounted on release.
Really though if you play the game alot you're bound to have more Bison Dollars that you don't know what to do with them.

Well, look at popular Free2Play like LoL or Warframe or even Heroes of the Storm and you can have a good idea of the average new character at launch...

 

[Alcoholikaust]

Takes me back to the good old days of unlocking characters.

exactly -too many fighters start off with way too many characters unlocked at start.

 

[Primethius]

This is a fantastic. Honestly didn't think Capcom would do it but man, I'm surprised and impressed.

 

[Cheat Code]

So basically the dedicated that were the most likely to buy the DLC anyway will be able to earn them quite easily.

Not bad.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

I suspect the in-game price of characters may be high, but discounted on release.
Really though if you play the game alot you're bound to have more Bison Dollars that you don't know what to do with them.

I will guarantee you that this will not be the case for 99.9% of the players.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Yeah sounds great but if that means you have to grind arcade mode 100 times to buy a char or get it you might as well throw some cash.

 

[UnluckyKate]

Probably worth mentioning the starting roster is 16, with 4 new characters:

I don't get this. 6 characters core ? But there are seven here ? It that Birdie on the bottom right ?

 

[Alienous]

 

[Fat4all]

So its the LoL route, where there's two currency types.

Good, I always liked that. The option to earn content for free is always good.

 

[Tizoc]

Well, look at popular Free2Play like LoL or Warframe or even Heroes of the Storm and you can have a good idea of the average new character at launch...

Oh I am well aware, I just said eff it and dropped 6K+ IP on the new LoL champ XD

 

[Coffee Dog]

lol, shit yeah grinding in street fighter.

 

[Mechazawa]

Shooters offering free DLC maps, fighting games offering free DLC characters.

Pandemonium.

PANDEMONIUM.

 

[Seven Force]

Good news.

Only concern is that working to unlock said contentt will be an pretty long grind (Sin in GGXrd comes to mind), but we'll see.

 

[Tizoc]

^Not for me, Story mode is short at 3 hours-ish and earns you 100K Points
Then there's trials+Tutorial mode which covered the rest for me.

lol, shit yeah grinding in street fighter.

It's nothing new, MvC2 did this, and it was in the arcade ver. of the game to begin with.

 

[OricWindstar]

I don't get this. 6 characters core ? But there are seven here ? It that Birdie on the bottom right ?

It's cut off. It's 16. And yeah, that's Birdie.