A lot of people are saying this is a rip-off. http://n4g.com/industrynews/News-403255.aspx Others are telling the haters to shut up http://www.destructoid.com/guide-how-to-stfu-about-super-street-fighter-iv-150353.phtml I just hope its gonna be worth the money

Journalists are always fine with everything...

well... or new adopters its nice.
but old they a screwed.. if they release some of the update via DLC. maybe.

They should have released it as downloadable content. Good for people who didn't buy the game, bad for people who did.

It's probably a little of both, getting a new game is better than nothing but of course downloadable content would have been a lot better!! Seeing as how we got multiple Street Fighter 2 games for the SNES that were basically the same game with 4 new characters in each game it does not surprise me one bit. We put up with this on Madden games and every other sports game every year, when I would imagine EA could just release an update every year online for $20 updating the rosters and whatever other updates are needed!!

I think this may be a bit different than the SNES releases.  Those were separated by much longer periods in between, weren't they?  And I feel like this time around it was a premeditated move to make people re-buy a full game just a year later.  Back in the day the characters of Super hadn't even been conceived yet when the original came out, and there was no possibility of making Super be DLC; you had to buy a new cartridge obviously, but no one was pissed because it was years later anyway.  This feels way different.  It's a dick move.

I personally don't see it as a rip-off. Maybe it could have been downloadable content, but as stated the game is going to be making some pretty big changes. It's on a disk and it won't be full price. The fact that it isn't full price, I'm very happy with, though I would've invested in it anyway. 8 new characters and new moves is a huge upgrade for a fighting game. I've already got a lot of mileage out of SFIV, definitely more than the $60 I paid for it.

I do have a bias though, I love Street Fighter a lot. The fans wanted an update and they gave us one. It makes sense for the fans and market wise.

Is it just me, or are half of Destructoid's articles complaining about other people complaining?

seems a bit more interesting. I didnt really like any of the characters in IV.

If it came out in 2011 I'd be more than happy. Considering it comes out 12 months after first game I think it's rip-off.
I'll wait few months till it price drops to acceptable levels.