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[-] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 84 points 9 months ago

what really bugs me are fighting games with dlc characters. i know fighting games arent as profitable, but twenty years ago you could unlock every character by actually playing the game. locking content behind paywalls are a slap to poor gamers. that's on top of a $60 price tag

[-] sdcSpade@lemmy.zip 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

20 years ago, they sold every Street Fighter three times with more characters in each new iteration. Microtransactions suck, but simple DLC is a less shitty than what used to be normal.

[-] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 9 months ago

What? You didn't like buying SUPER Street Fighter II TURBO Championship Edition?

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I actually did, because once I bought it they couldn't shut down the dlc servers on me when they released the next one.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This was more a way for them to keep people putting in quarters at the arcades and selling machines to arcade ops.

It translated to some home games, but wasn't the focus of putting out all these new versions. It made some sense at the time.

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