Capcom announced on Monday that the game would be getting a TMNT crossover, which would include new costumes, accessories, emotes, stamps and more.
At the time of the announcement Capcom neglected to including pricing information, but now that the new content is available in the game its various costs are clear.
Players can buy four full Turtle costumes for their in-game avatar, with each costing 750 Fighter Coins, which are the game’s premium currency. If they just want the coloured Turtle masks for their avatar, those cost 250 Fighter Coins each.
The game also includes sticker sets (priced at 100 Fighter Coins), taunts (250), in-game camera frames (100) and in-game device wallpapers (100), at a total cost of 1300.
In all, then, the total cost of all the TMNT content is 5300 Fighter Coins. While these can be earned, they’re mostly bought with real money.
Fighter Coins are sold in bundles of 250, 610, 1250 and 2750. Assuming a player has no Fighter Coins, then, the cheapest way to buy all the TMNT content would be to buy two bundles of 2750 Fighter Coins.
This has a total cost of $99.98 / £79.96, significantly more than the full game’s price of $59.99 / £54.98.
A player wishing to buy a single Turtle costume at 750 Fighter Coins would have to buy a bundle of 1250, costing $23.99 / £18.98. It costs $100 to unlock all of Street Fighter 6’s TMNT content
It should be noted that these costumes aren’t new playable fighters – instead, they’re skins for the player’s avatar, who’s mainly used in the game’s World Tour mode.
In comparison, when the TMNT were added to Warner Bros‘ DC fighting game Injustice 2, the fighter pack cost $19.99 / £15.99 and contained all four Turtles as separate, fully-fledged fighters, as well as two extra fighters, Atom and Enchantress.
The Street Fighter 6 collaboration is designed to tie in with the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the latest TMNT feature film, which is currently in cinemas.
It should be noted that these costumes aren’t new playable fighters – instead, they’re skins for the player’s avatar, who’s mainly used in the game’s World Tour mode.
In comparison, when the TMNT were added to Warner Bros‘ DC fighting game Injustice 2, the fighter pack cost $19.99 / £15.99 and contained all four Turtles as separate, fully-fledged fighters, as well as two extra fighters, Atom and Enchantress.
The Street Fighter 6 collaboration is designed to tie in with the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the latest TMNT feature film, which is currently in cinemas.
Would you prefer buying SF6 Ultra and then SF6 Turbo for 60 bucks a pop? OR would you prefer paying 150 dollars over that same time for less content, since that’s JUST the characters?
I’d much rather buying a complete game, playing it, and then being able to move on to another game after a couple years. This idea that games have to linger for 5-10 years is awful. Shit like Destiny where they “Sunset” content, instead of just making Destiny 3 make no sense, except from corporate greed. Seeing GTA 5 exist for 10 years, almost the same amount of time that GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, AND GTA 4 came out in? That’s better? Since when?
“On going support and development” is just a way they get people to defend this shitty practice. Because you’re paying more for less now. And the companies get more money for doing less. That’s why all these companies are hoping on the Games as Service models, it’s not for the customer’s benefit, it’s for the developers/publishers, who are making shit tons more when putting out less content.
These are just designed as skinner boxes, which almost could be fine, except people like you are defending the practice watching others paying out the noise, and claiming “At least I don’t have to pay for ‘Support’”… Quite gross.