Did you people defend POP 2008's DLC only ending?
That game's DLC coda was a disappointment and not actually worth the price that was charged for it. Comparing DLC content like that to FG characters, who are primary components and see infinite hours of play, is something of a misleading analogy.
On the side the "you defense force people" thing is cute, as someone else said, but it's false to paint everyone who is
not expressing infinite outrage and hatred at Capcom as "defense force".
A whole lot of the people here who are not simply freaking out, are more expressing understanding of the situation. Not everyone fully approves of it.
It's the same way that the pricing thing is getting conflated badly with the controversy over DLC.
Let's say that SFxT had 52 characters unlocked by default, over half of which were new and not even imported from SF4, and was priced at $80. That would be an incredible value
by the standards that some compare with - the past, when we paid eighty bucks for cartridge games with 12-16 game characters and no online play, no options, and no other content.
DLC confuses the issue, so people can argue that a $60 game (that still has a lot of content) should be the "real" game and the maximum price any such game is ever worth, so any characters beyond that are a rip-off, etc. But they're really two different topics that the DLC issue is interweaving.
The reason some other people aren't freaking out, is because at the end of the day the game and its full roster is worth the money to them. Even people who think so, seem to largely be rolling their eyes at the way the content is deployed, etc. They get painted as corporate stooges and "bend overs" because they're spending their money on content that's worth it because others are angry over the way the content is delivered.
Come to think of it, drama like this is common in many areas of gaming; the MMORPG world and the F2P game world gets attacked in a very similar way by plenty of people. They say it's stupid to ever pay a fee to play a game, stupid to ever pay for X bobble in a F2P game, etc, and refuse to acknowledge that the content may be legit and worth it for people who get value out if it.
For myself personally, I know I'm going to play the hell out of this game and experiment with all the characters. I'll get more bang for my buck than out of most $60 epic AAA games that you play once then shelve. By that light, who's dumber? Someone who buys a 10 hour long $60 game that they play once and never again, or someone who pays a total of $80 for a game that they will play for the next five years? And clock thousands of hours in?
This stuff isn't as simplistic as people make it out to be.
