Capcom Is Gonna Take You For A Ride With DLC

Want Shuma Gorath and Jill Valentine in your Marvel VS Capcom 3 roster and didn’t get the special edition? Prepare to shell out 5 bucks a character because Capcom has decided to monetize unlockable characters in a fighting game, which is probably the most ridiculous thing they’ve done this generation. The sad thing is they can get away with stuff like this because the fans just never learn.

[GodsHand]

Yeah, I was pretty surprised at the cost for one character. I will vote on this not being acceptable pricing structure, buy not buying said DLC.

[Yi-Long]

... which is a huge reason why I haven't bought this game.

The people who knew about the DLC-milking, and still went out and bought it, really have no right to complain about it right now.

Just don't support companies who DLC-scam us, and maybe 1 day they'll learn. But sadly there are too many idiots out there who are more to happy to waste their money to support this kinda DLC-milking.

Just wait on a complete edition to come out in a year orso.

[dorron]

I'm not buying this game till a Ultimate Edition gets released or it is near the 20€ price tag, then decide if it is worth buying the DLC characters.

[kingdavid]

In agreeance with dorron here.

[NYC_Gamer]

wow,talk about greed.

[BabyTownFrolics]

wow, talk about naivete

:)

[Vherostar]

They need to make the money up somehow as its sold very poorly compared to what they expected.

[BlackTar187]

ROFL thats all i have to say.

so if it sold more you think this DLC would be cheaper LOL

[RockmanII7]

I didn't know 750,000+ units in 2 weeks was poor.

[Blasphemy]

@ Vherostar Maybe if they wouldn't have left characters off the roster it would have sold more?

[NiKK_419]

or if capcom didn't do this everytime they release a game, maybe it would have sold more, it's a known fact that capcom always does this

[Rampaged Death]

I'm totally against this. It's a damn fighting game for goodness sake and your expecting people to pay for more characters ? No way in hell Capcom !!

[ceedubya9]

Well, they either do it this way, wait and release a "Super" edition, or just save all of the new characters and additions for a Marvel vs Capcom 4. Either way, someone will be complaining about whichever method they use.

[Vherostar]

This is the curse of DLC it was supposed to be a great thing but just like everything else developers abuse it.

[BlackTar187]

i don't mind paying for DLC character if its 3-4 for $5 still expensive but 1 character for 5 is fricken ridiculous

[BubbleSniper]

yeh they takin the consumer for a ride with these price

driving ms. daisy in.

[Led-Zeppelin]

Capcom is the devil of the gaming industry...Right next to Activition. I hope i don't get banned for 72 hours now.

[BubbleSniper]

they gonna charge you for that 72 hr ban too

[Urrakia34]

Yea 5 bucks for every hour......

[Der_Kommandant]

One of the most atrocious dlc robbery since Oblivion's Horse Armor

[Urrakia34]

Way too much for just one character.

[DeleteThisxx]

All these casual scrubs need to shut the hell up. Don't buy the damn characters, you won't be playing the game next month anyway.

[BlackTar187]

im not casual i will be playing the game next month and the pricing is ridiculous if this is something you support then that suxs for you.

[DeleteThisxx]

Actually, I'll get to enjoy playing Jill and Shuma, along with numerous other people..you won't. Enlighten me, how does this suck for me?

Your petty attempts to somehow "get back" at Capcom will inevitably fail. Don't like the price, you're not going to buy it. Is it going to hurt Capcom? Hell no. The fighting game community is EXTREMELY strong and Capcom won't be impacted by the few casual fighting game fans that refuse to buy their DLC.

You already gave them $60 for the game, they don't need anything else from you.

Oh, by the way...I bought the special edition. Jill and Shuma were merely extras with the awesome steel book/shirt I got.

[BlackTar187]

I felt you deserved a response. It sucks that your willing to pay a 12th of the price for one character.It sucks that you think that people who think something is overpriced is somehow some way to show they are casual. I have been playing fighters for 20+ years, i would assume your comment is not reflective of anyone but yourself. Yes you have the 2 but that will be worthless for future characters. "GetBack" at capcom? is this some high school crush for you? Get back what do you mean get back
"is it going to hurt Capcom? Hell no" me personally no i will not personally hurt Capcom but i guess your not very good at business and i urge you never to start one.

So im a casual fighting fan huh. I have nearly 1000 online fights on sf4 and nearly 700 on SSF4 so i find that far form casual i would assume i have close to 200 on MVC3 already.
'You already gave them $60 for the game, they don't need anything else from you. " this is true but then why charge for DLC they don't NEED anything from me but they would love it if they got more. Hence why you should never operate a business this mindset spells bankruptcy for anyone but brands with loyal followings. Did you support getting 4-5 costumes for $5 on SSF4 and SF4?

Anyways no matter what you say $5 for 1 character is a ripoff nothing you are gonna say is gonna make the MAJORITY of people agree with you. it just won't please enlighten me on how $5 for 1 character is justifable can you list good though out reasons?

Ohh BTW i got the SE as well. Does that mean i am not aloud to call BS on something priced this way?

[CommonCent]

ProjectSiK your going full retard. You never go full retard.

[DeleteThisxx]

Aw, I'm flattered by this pathetic rebuttal. Listen sweetheart, it doesn't matter how much time you have in SFIV or Marvel. What matters is what you do with the content that is included with these games. If you really aren't a casual fighter than you would certainly know that you could get far more than 24+ hours learning a SINGLE character. I guess you don't know that since you're, well...a casual fighter. You know? The people who don't look past the standard BnB combos?

I'm not very good at business? Yeah, I guess you could totally come to that conclusion by my posts :( You know, businesses totally struggled more back in the pre-DLC age! DLC is a way to keep the game FRESH, Capcom of all businesses DOES NOT need DLC to get by. I could understand developers who are just emerging into the video game industry but...lmfao..I'm sorry...You really think Capcom needs these precious DLC sales to get by. I recommend you do some research on business before you attack someone else regarding a subject you clearly know nothing about.

Listen, no need to be condescending. I understand you need your precious $5/10. You want me to list one good reason to pay a measly 5 bucks for a character? Opening up your options, expanding your team, LEARNING. Check what I posted earlier in this post. Learning a character does not take 15 minutes, this isn't like Dead Space 2 DLC where you can complete it in 2 hours. Characters take TIME and DEDICATION...unless you're a casual. If all you're going to do with the character is the standard L,M,H,S,M,M,H,P1,Hyper then I can understand why you wouldn't want to pay 5 dollars, hell, I wouldn't want to either.

Take this conversation over to SRK, lets see who the minority is over there, shall we? Post a link to your thread and I'll be more than happy to join the conversation.

[BlackTar187]

I am at work and i am sick of responding/reading your garbage.

My only point i want to make is you say this "Listen, no need to be condescending" then you go on a tirade of being condensing to everyone your talking to /about

Your a moron obv. so arguing with you is like throwing Crap at a wall. You are very good at Assumption which is another tell tale sign of an idiot. You assume all day in your post you contradict your self in the same post. You lost its plain and simple.

if i could ever pin point a arrogant little kid its you.

Did i ever say they needed these sales to get by? Are you that retarded . the problem is you read what i wrote and you respond on what you think it meant.

No where did i ever sya they needed them i said your stupid if you think they don't want them. Charging $3 a character would get them more money then $5 to a less ranged audience. Your sticking up for content thats already ont he disk give me a break i aealy am dumb,

if your not making crazy assumptions or contradicting yourself its hard to even flesh out much of an argument at all why your willing to pay a 12th of the full game price for one character when the whole game came with 34 characters for 60 with all the other modes as well. I think its time for you to take your meds.

Man its so ridiculous you dedicated a whole paragraph to something i didn't say but something you were unable to c0omprehend. Its quite ridiculous and im out of bubbles. int he future don't make wild assumptions based on how awesome you think you are or contradict yourself in the same post.

You lose unfortnatley.

BTW whats your name on SRK?

God i just can't get over how arrogant your posts are its in away disgusting the assumptions on every level are ridiculous.

[DeleteThisxx]

1. I don't care that you're at work, irrelevant.

2. You're not sick of responding, apparently.

3. You didn't make any point, wasn't the irony in my statement funny?

4. I'm far from a moron, you failed to prove me wrong in anyway, shape or form. Who's the moron?

5. I have good reason to make my assumptions. You don't get value out of a $5 character, this tells me that you're a casual fighting fan. Refer to my aforementioned reasoning.

6. Assuming makes me an idiot? I guess all the greatest inventors, doctors, scientists, philosophers are idiots too. According to your logic, of course.

7. How did I contradict myself? You speak out of your ass and don't back anything up. That makes YOU a moron.

8. Again, YOU lost because you fail to make any valid points nor do you return with a decent rebuttal.

9. Yes, I'm an arrogant little kid. Why? Because I owned you in this debate? Typical fashion from an N4G loser. Can't come up with anything good to say so you resort to ridiculous insults hoping it will make you look better, loser.

10. I thought you were sick of reading my replies;)

I'll answer though:

Wolverine/X-23/Dante
Captain America/Ryu/Iron Man
Deadpool/Dante/Chris
X-23/Spiderman/Thor
Skrull/Hulk/Wolverine
Jill/Shuma/Wesker (Still experimenting)

Sometimes I'll throw Sentinel into one of those teams every now and then.

[lee_ten]

capcom needs to fix the netcode, not charge an arm and a leg for characters. but enjoy being raped. people like you is part of the reason why capcom is like this.

[Liamario]

I think you'd be struggling to find anyone who doesn't think that €5 for a character isn't a complete rip.
Unfortunately, it won't be so difficult to find the same people spending that amount of money on a character.
People will never learn and Capcom are a disgrace.

[ceedubya9]

Doesn't seem that bad. At least we aren't forced to buy it in order to finish the game. If we don't like it, the best way to counter such things is to answer with our wallets. It seems, though, that people are willing pay whatever for what they want. And as long as that continues, so will these prices.

[ssj3goku87]

fuck capcom, MVC3 is incomplete to begin with, it has the shittiest endings EVER. All that CG they used to hype up the game was stupid, there isn't even any CG animations for ANY character openings or endings in arcade mode. And no spectator mode??? WTF And now they're charging us $5 per character?? even though they are already ON THE DISK!! Fuck this game, MK9 next month.

[Redempteur]

just a reminder that they aren't on the disk .the version on the disc is very incomplete , without the voices, the effects and without the proper hitboxes

[CernaML]

Then why is the download only 100KB?

[Redempteur]

because the rest was added later with patches ..

1.01 patch to be exact

That's also why there was a "checking downloadable content" starting with it

[NotSoSilentBob]

Anyone stupid enough to buy CapCom games knows full well that CC is a company that abuses the hell out of "DLC"(Disc loaded Content).

[christheredhead]

i agree. paying for part of the game and then unlocking the rest later. this is not the first time nor the last for capcom.

[Krakn3Dfx]

Everyone will forget this game exists once Mortal Kombat hits anyway.

Ed Boon to MvC3 players: "Get over here!"

[CommonCent]

Can't wait. Haven't been this excited for a MK Game since Trilogy.

[Roper316]

this is exactly why I stopped supporting Capcom in anyway after the butcher job they did to RE5 and then the BS with the locked MP that they charged extra for.

[bebojet]

Lol why am I not surprised.

[DeleteThisxx]

I wonder how you people reacted to blazblues 8 dollar characters.

Or even better...CoD's 15 dollar map packs.....which he majority of you probably bought.

[Rocket Sauce]

I've been waiting for someone to use that headline. Well played, my man!

[ptcoakley]

And I have been waiting for someone to comment. The circle is complete.

[pcz]

next they will be charging us for something as trivial as a new costume... oh wait. shit!

i remember when these things they charge us for now now would be your reward and motivation for playing the game! to unlock the extras.

who gives a shit about that though when you could simply charge 'idiot gamers' £5 to buy the content instead.

[SnakeMustDie]

More Costumes and On-Disk locked DLCs. Thank you Capcom

[RockmanII7]

Well to be fair other games have charged for DLC characters and some of them charged more than MvC3 is charging. The Makoto DLC for BlazBlue cost $7/560 points and all of the SoulCaliber IV DLC characters cost $5. But go ahead, call Capcom evil for things many other companies have done.

[Fallouts]

wow 5 bucks for 1 fighter....

the sad part is it looks like some ppl are ok with that. i blame ms the most for this scam, they are the ones that allow it when i clearly remember them saying they would keep dlc in check. then we got the horse armor dlc lol and capcom has been going rampant with this shit this gen.

dah well, i stopped supporting capcom this gen, you clowns that feel 1 fighter is worth 5 bucks then have at it, just dont start crying when next gen you buy capcom games for 60 bucks bthen have to pay another 60 to unlock the entire game..

[midgard227]

see what MS started. it was a good idea in the begining but devs decided to take advantage and abuse the system. not saying ms cheated like these guys do now. but i think most devs do it now.

[Fallouts]

yup... abuse is exactly what they are doing with dlc, and ms the ppl that said they would keep in in check, just sits back and lets it happen..

its going to be interesting on next gens pricing, cause its clear a lot gamers likes the butt fuck.

wouldnt be surprised if games next gen cost 100 bucks. i also remeber the excuse on why games price went up they said it was cause the new gan games was expensive to make, we are over 5 years into this gen talking about the next consoles, all the major game companies have had a engine going for some time now so why cant we go back to the 49.99? and i will nver understand how all games are 60, we got games like kz3, ds2 etc that cost 60 at launch but shit games still cost 60 too? thats why a lot of games just sit on the shelves, price your shit accordingly you know if you have a great game or not so if its not dont go asking for full damn price!

sorry bout the rant its just when i get to talking about prices it kinda annoys me, even more when gamers dont wake the fuck up and realize that the real reason games cost 60 now is cause last gen everyone ran for the damn le version and that was just a set up to see if we would pay it. i read that in a gameinformer mag a long time ago. and here we go again telling them that dlc like this that used to be unlockebles is ok to pay for

[Ddouble]

After hearing that SF4 Arcade Edition might be coming (Hopefully as free DLC),I'm not even going to bother getting getting this until an updated version comes out.

From what i'm hearing there's hardly much things to do in the game at the moment so an updated version with more things to do along with the DLC characters will probably come out down the lin.

There games are becoming like DS models.