Wow... SF4 costumes are most downloaded PSN items?

When people are willing to pay for costumes that would ordinarily be unlocked by beating the game, you can't be surprised that Capcom decided to go ahead and charge for a multiplayer mode.

DLC will be the end of my joy with video games. Especially whenyou have to pay for alternate costumes when, as you've said, would normally unlock it by beating the game. Personally I blame the kids buying this crap.

yea it's pretty ridiculous, i'm still not buying the costumes though :P lol

When people are willing to pay for costumes that would ordinarily be unlocked by beating the game, you can't be surprised that Capcom decided to go ahead and charge for a multiplayer mode.

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Yeah, it's just stupid.

Not really stupid. Some people are hardcore Street Fighter fans and would pay that. Not everyone that plays Resident Evil 5 plays SF4 and vise versa. You guys aren't looking at it like that. You may want to argue but, in SF case we are getting an Arcade Perfect game plus NEW CHARECTERS that weren't their before console. If they wanna charge for costumes let em ;p

I think its a rip off and ridiculous... They're just giving us a bare game and charging for all the what we used to call unlockables. DLC is a big mistake and hurting gamers who don't have money to throw around for it.

Unreal Tournament 3, Midnight Club LA, and Burnout Paradise are primes examples of FREE DLC done right. Although the amount of DLC that Burnout is selling also raises an eyebrow... knicknut17

Unreal Tournament 3, Midnight Club LA, and Burnout Paradise are primes examples of FREE DLC done right. Although the amount of DLC that Burnout is selling also raises an eyebrow... knicknut17

I bought them.

I don't feel bad and my wallet doesn't either.

Tells us something, huh?

tis a shame i can't afford em, i say if they make a difference to the game play then it should be free, but if its pure vanity then whatever, charge away.daveydag

From a gamer's standpoint, it's more fun to unlock costumes that to just buy them.

But from an industry standpoint, ridiculous DLC may end up being good for the consumers. Games, when sold in physical format, most profits goes to the publishers and retailers. Since marketing is expensive, so is brick and mortar leases at prime locations. Developers who worked hard to deliver, don't get much. DLC cuts the medium handler by a lot.

If publishers start shifting more marketing to the web and PSN, and DLC eliminates the retail cut, developers would be willing to pump more resources into a $60 game.

In the case of SFIV, I think they should have left the new characters as DLC, and costumes for players to unlock.

Is there a link? I can't imagine this getting more downloads than the FREE LBP costumes...I think I have every single one so far!

Some DLC are worth the cash and some aren't. Charging for costumes is idiotic but charging for more levels, map extensions is OK... mostly. Really, it all goes down to quality/price terms.