After remaining silent on the price of the much-anticipated new skins for all 18Street Fighter 6 launch characters, we finally know how much each alternate costume will cost, and fans of the 2D fighter aren’t too happy about the prices they’re seeing.
The company announced on November 21 that all 18 Street Fighter 6 characters will get a brand-new costume. Called Outfit 3, each skin was, according to Capcom, “inspired by in-game illustrations, various cultures, and pure fun.” They look dope, especially the ninja-inspired garb for my main Kimberly, but there was one question on everyone’s mind: How much would these costumes run for? Well, now that the alternate skins have dropped, the prices are exorbitant. Specifically,one outfit for one character costs you 300 Fighter Coins, the game’s premium currency you can only buy with real money. 300 Fighter Coins is nominally equivalent to $6. However, it ain’t that simple.
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Street Fighter 6 skin prices are ‘outrageous’
While shelling out 300 FC for one character’s Outfit 3 skin nets you the costume and nine additional colorways, there are two problems with the monetization here: You can’t buy exactly 300 FC through microtransactions and these specific skins can only be unlocked by forking over IRL money, not through playing the game. While the second problem sucks, it’s the first problem that’s pissing folks off.
All STREET FIGHTER 6 Costume 3 costs $99.98 in total💀 pic.twitter.com/foWMOD2qGi
— Fighting-Games Daily (@FGC_Daily) December 1, 2023
I can't believe Street Fighter 6 gets so much right with its gameplay, but then its monetization is the most scummy of free-to-play bullshit.
It's actually crazy. https://t.co/vE9nXd5kdC— Frankentank (@Frankentank9) December 1, 2023
If you wanted to get just one skin for your main—in my case, Kimberly—you would need to spend $10 to get two separate FC bundles containing 250 FC each. That can easily rack up since there are 18 Outfit 3 skins you can buy in Street Fighter 6, and since Capcom isn’t offering a complete bundle or a discount for purchasing more than one skin, if you wanted to collect them all, you’d have to subtract about $100 from your bank account. This monetization is what has folks riled up across Reddit and X/Twitter.
If you want all 18 outfits you are going to spend over $60. If you have 0 fighter coins, you have to buy two packs of $5 sets for 250 coins for a single outfit.
Love this game with all my heart but this is EXTREMELY predatory.
— Fitt3dcap (@Dayvon_p) December 1, 2023
no wonder they were so quiet about pricing Outfit 3, how can they not read the room about pricing skins 😭
please reevaluate and actually speak up to higher ups about pricing. like it's been a week seeing all the comments about the price and nothing lol
Capcom really missed here— BAESUKI (@baettv) December 1, 2023
A single outfit 3 costs 300 Fight coins which is slightly above the 250 Fight coins bundle so you have to buy two of those to purchase it. Outfit 3 actually costs 10 bucks/euros, and no bundles. Still going on with low quality free2play predatory monetization aren't we?
— SYG | Hgodie/Diego (@Hgodie_SFV) December 1, 2023
So the costumes are about 6 dollars a piece but you have to use fighter coins to buy them and can only purchase the required coins in 10 dollar increments and there is no bundle option for them. I can’t believe they fumbled something that shoulda been easy to drop. https://t.co/lvmqcHZUsz
— Ultima 🔜 EVO (@UltimaShadowX) December 1, 2023
The sentiment is the same on the Street Fighter subreddit, too. Redditor Unlucky-Chair76 said the pricing is “insane” for a $60 game, while another user claimed Capcom is “out of their minds” for charging this much for skins. Soul699 posted in the subreddit that folks should not buy the costumes because the prices are “outrageous.” Meanwhile, redditor Edgelordguydude said that though they think the pricing is fine, the real problem is the lack of a bundled discount. Ultimately, as user oneizm put it, all you can do is “vote with your wallet.”
Kotaku reached out to Capcom for comment.
Street Fighter 6 has been quite successful since it launched on June 2. It’s easilythe most approachable fighting game out right now, what with its modern controls andtraining mode that makes understanding fighting game mechanics so much easier for newcomers. It’s just a bummer that Capcom is tainting such a hit with aggressively bad monetization practices.
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