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Thinking of buying a new Capcom game? Resi games, Street Fighter X Tekken, upcoming Dragons Dogma? You may want to think twice. From what I have to say here is aimed at the higher-ups of Capcom, NOT the developers. So please don't spit fire at the public faces of Capcom, developers Yoshinori Onochin (who recently stepped down as developer) & Ayano-san. Not that many people knew about Capcoms business practices when they released Street Fighter IV. They eventually kept releasing newer, updated versions & in some cases, overcharged DLC. The game is finally finished now, 2-3 years later, leaving it to Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition version 2012. [street Fighter IV => Super Street Fighter IV => Super Street Fighter IV: Aracde Edition => Super Street Fighter IV: Aracde Edition v2012*] They kept bringing out new versions as people were unhappy about characters being "overpowered" & people kept "tier-whoring". In a way, I was frustrated that most of these unhappy players were all scrubs, but I'm glad they opened their mouths as I was finally able to play against a variety of characters. It's great that all the matches I find & join are not all Ryu/Sagat players, Yun/Yang. I now get Ryu & Blanka players. Blanka balls are more dangerous and Ryu's low forward is now +frames again. But that was about the updates. I'm not going to go into more detail about my gameplay experience. Street Fighter X Tekken was announced at GamesCom in Germany, fall, last year. Ono-san originally said he'd finish & release the game in 2013. Too bad one of the guys from the higher-ups of Capcom called him into the office and ordered him to release it by march 2012 (also mentioning they wanted it out before the world ends on 21-12-12, or 12/21/12. Which is absolutely ridiculous!). Ono-san and the dev team worked day and night. If Ono-san wasnt in the office developing, he was in a different country playing an alpha version of the game in a different country. Eventually, March came. Some people were able to break the street release of the game in their local Gamestop/Best buy and got it early. A bit unfair, as I tried myself & got told off. But I'm glad some certain individuals got it first. Hackers, to be exact. Yup, they hacked the disc and found lots of goodies! LOTS. 12 complete (COMPLETE) characters were locked on the disc, no way of accessing them without a dlc code that is supposed to be released in Fall, 2012. Alternate costumes were also on the disc. All of them. All gems were there too, along with gem slots, and complete color palettes. Why would they do such a thing? Selling us half a game at full price and selling the rest later? If everything was added up, when everything is finally released, everything would cost $120.00+ (That's IF you do decide to purchase DLC, alot of people will). Capcom: "We put the dlc on disc to save HDD space & you could view a characters alt costume if you didn't buy it but the other player has". Hmmm... Something isn't right. I can't put my mind to it. Choidoken walks into McDonalds. He orders a large Big Mac meal, Coke being his choice of drink. Now, the guy/girl at the till, says €9.00 (let's just say). Cooks everything. Puts everything on the tray. Fine. Meal paid. Before I'm handed the food, the manager comes along and takes half of my fries, takes the meat out of the burger and pours the entire Coke back into the machine. Manager then proceeds to say, "If you want the rest, it'll be another €10.00." That's kind of what it feels like. Yes, €9.00 isn't alot but when you are talking about a damn disc being €60 and then being asked to pay an extra €60,70,80 for the rest seems a bit overwhelming, no? Maybe Capcom have finally learned their lesson. But you never know because? It's Capcom. The developers didn't have enough time; New netcode needs to be fixed, fix the timer, sort out the Disc-Locked Content, the game itself still needs to be polished. Nothing was play-tested. I feel like we only have the beta version. They said that there won't be a "super" version. I'll hold you to it. For now, I'll use my copy to collect dust. Will Capcom have Disc-Locked Content for Dragons Dogma & future games? *v2012 was a free update but Arcade edition was released at €15.00 on PSN, while the disc version of AE was priced at €25.00 months later.