These days it seems you can't buy a complete, stand-alone fighting title - at least not from Japanese developers. Be it alternative costumes or those extra characters, it seems the developer is always looking to squeeze out additional revenue from it’s loyal customer base with a bevy of paid-for “additional” content.
Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs. Capcom (and Marvel vs. Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one enormous image.
Makes me despise Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite that much more
So much wasted potential
As common as it is today, it is hard to believe that there was a time where gaming franchises crossing over was just a pipe dream. Capcom broke down the wall, but they took the combination of some of the most unlikely of franchises and made it the norm.
Whether it was a colossal successful partnership with Marvel Comics or a collaboration with rivals Namco and SNK, the “Vs.” series brought unforgettable experiences to the fighting genre.
Marvel doesn't just have a bright future ahead of it in films, but in the gaming realm as well. Some exciting new titles are showing up on all hardware, so does that mean gamers are finally catching up with the MCU?
I can understand paid DLC in far as that capital, time and resources have been put into making the DLC.
The problem, as evident by Capcom time and time again, is that this DLC seems to already exist before the main game is released. Making ppl pay for content that is finished by the games release is just underhanded imho.
You know what would make me smile? If gamers could unite and do NOT support this dlc. Don't make any purchase outside the content in the disc, I say, and that would send them a mensage.
Capcom nickle and dimes as much as Activision, too bad not as many people buy this shit
Capcom has earned a spot next to Activision in my book. If I ever buy another one of their titles, it will be used.
Capcom also defended the Resident Evil 5 DLC, and they defended that they ignored the early adapters of RE5 with the Move update. They also defended Super Street Fighter IV and they gave Dante to Ninja Theory, they can also defend all they want, it just makes them look stupid ( and rich! lol )