Street Fighter 6’s great new costumes are being sold in the worst way

polygon.com:

A big batch of new costumes just dropped for Street Fighter 6, with 18 fresh looks for the main roster coming as part of Capcom’s new “Outfit 3” DLC. Many of them are great, including Marisa’s new wedding dress, the return of Blanka-chan, and Juri in onesie pajamas. What’s not so great is how Capcom is selling them, and players are annoyed at the publisher’s handling of premium currency purchases.

Each of the new outfits added to Street Fighter 6 costs 300 Fighter Coins, the currency for that fighting game that can only be purchased with real-world money. But Capcom doesn’t sell Fighter Coins in batches of 300. The company instead sells them in quantities of 250, 610, 1,250, and 2,750. That means players need to spend at least $11.99 to buy any of the new costumes — and if they buy two with that amount of Fighter Coins, they’ll have a leftover balance of 10.

Players aren’t balking at the price, necessarily; other live-service games (e.g., Overwatch 2, Apex Legends, Valorant) sell skins for $10 to $20, sometimes more. It’s the monetization model through which players will be left with surplus coins and nothing to spend them on — a tactic designed to push them to purchase more coins, because they’ll always have a little left over.

Of course, some players are objecting to the cost of the skins, mainly in comparison to the cost of Street Fighter 6 itself. Buying enough Fighter Coins to acquire all 18 Outfit 3 costumes would cost $99.98.

Street Fighter 6’s costume DLC is also priced higher than equivalent cosmetics many other fighting games, including Tekken 7, which released cosmetics through a season pass, and Dead or Alive 6, which sold its many, many costumes piecemeal. Street Fighter 6’s costume DLC is more inline with M