Street Fighter V DLC characters can be earned by playing the game

[DerNebel]

Mr Puggsly said:

DerNebel said:
This is unexpected and actually pretty big news. It does still depend on how the whole ingame economy is balanced of course, but generally this is a very positive thing in todays gaming landscape.

To be fair, this is due to the relatively small cast the game is launching. Hence, its a similar rush to market strategy Killer Instainct was criticized for.

SFV can't be 16 chracters for $60, espeically after SFIV launched with 25.

Frankly, I'm okay with this strategy because I want to play SFV soon, but I don't want it rushed. So we can play what's ready now. However, this is also fodder for those who complain about incomplete games on the market.

That seems like literally the most negative possible way of looking at this and a quite frankly not really logical one. They are not revamping their entire DLC system because they launch with less characters than SFIV did.

Considering another comment of yours in this thread I'm not sure if you've got this news correctly: You can get all post-launch gameplay content either by playing or by paying.