I think if they want to go the hard way with microtansations, they need the game to be F2P. At this point, very few new players buy the game anyways. As F2P at least they could give it a try, and if they get hooked, they will probably pay for costumes and so forth.

Well, Capcom dipped their toes into the cesspool, pulled their feet to their face, sniffed, and found it smelled like shit. Just testing! These scat merchants will be back.

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2018/12/26/in-game-street-fighter-5-ads-quietly-disabled/#/slide/1

weren't the ads for capcoms pro tour? boy gamers sure find the stupidest shit to complain about

That can only justify it for a very small portion of the userbase,the others still have to look at adds they got nothing with after purshasing a 60 bucks game, or experience a more grindy game. I wish they just bring a more complete game at the start for the next streetfighter and they might sell better.

Guiles advert costume has the Logo where his American Flag Tattoo would be on his arm... so the patriotic army man Guile would replace the flag with an advert... doesn't really fit, also Dhalsim has a logo on one of the skulls around his neck, I'm fairly sure they're skulls of kids that were killed in his village... now he is selling advertising space on them? That's fairly out of place to me.