2 points
Yeah, it’s more a thing with the other companies and their games. His point still stands though, not just for fighting games and their characters. Games now often come with barebones / stripped progression and the stuff is then sold as overpriced DLC that immediately unlocks the content instead.
1 point
I think you’ll have a hard case to make to argue that Street Fighter 6 is a barebones package compared with what you got on the SNES or PS1, or even the PS3 or PS4, for that matter. There’s definitely overpriced DLC for SF6, but thankfully it’s been relegated to the Battle Hub mode that I couldn’t give less of a shit about, where people spend $15-$60 for TMNT costumes for their custom characters.