Capcom announced on Monday that the game would be getting a TMNT crossover, which would include new costumes, accessories, emotes, stamps and more.
At the time of the announcement Capcom neglected to including pricing information, but now that the new content is available in the game its various costs are clear.
Players can buy four full Turtle costumes for their in-game avatar, with each costing 750 Fighter Coins, which are the game’s premium currency. If they just want the coloured Turtle masks for their avatar, those cost 250 Fighter Coins each.
The game also includes sticker sets (priced at 100 Fighter Coins), taunts (250), in-game camera frames (100) and in-game device wallpapers (100), at a total cost of 1300.
In all, then, the total cost of all the TMNT content is 5300 Fighter Coins. While these can be earned, they’re mostly bought with real money.
Fighter Coins are sold in bundles of 250, 610, 1250 and 2750. Assuming a player has no Fighter Coins, then, the cheapest way to buy all the TMNT content would be to buy two bundles of 2750 Fighter Coins.
This has a total cost of $99.98 / £79.96, significantly more than the full game’s price of $59.99 / £54.98.
A player wishing to buy a single Turtle costume at 750 Fighter Coins would have to buy a bundle of 1250, costing $23.99 / £18.98. It costs $100 to unlock all of Street Fighter 6’s TMNT content
It should be noted that these costumes aren’t new playable fighters – instead, they’re skins for the player’s avatar, who’s mainly used in the game’s World Tour mode.
In comparison, when the TMNT were added to Warner Bros‘ DC fighting game Injustice 2, the fighter pack cost $19.99 / £15.99 and contained all four Turtles as separate, fully-fledged fighters, as well as two extra fighters, Atom and Enchantress.
The Street Fighter 6 collaboration is designed to tie in with the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the latest TMNT feature film, which is currently in cinemas.
It should be noted that these costumes aren’t new playable fighters – instead, they’re skins for the player’s avatar, who’s mainly used in the game’s World Tour mode.
In comparison, when the TMNT were added to Warner Bros‘ DC fighting game Injustice 2, the fighter pack cost $19.99 / £15.99 and contained all four Turtles as separate, fully-fledged fighters, as well as two extra fighters, Atom and Enchantress.
The Street Fighter 6 collaboration is designed to tie in with the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the latest TMNT feature film, which is currently in cinemas.
100% pure greed and shitty monetization once again to fleece gamers.
Yes, but these are all entirely optional cosmetics that don’t effect gameplay right?
It’s not made for people to feel the need to buy all of it.
Can you defend the 750 coin price when you can only buy 650 or 1250 coins
how is this fleecing anyone? Do you not want anything sold for money?
Competitive gaming is the worst thing that happened to fighting games. Now they’re all going to be like this, geared towards that group of people who are willing to pay for all this bullshit.
Their greed and bullshit has nothing to do with competitive gaming.
Evo and other tourney scenes are not the reason behind these mtx schemes
Wasn’t…competitive gaming pretty much always part of fighting games? I mean, what’s the alternative, playing them purely single-player?
You know what I mean. Playing Street fighter in a stadium, surrounded by dorks watching you play.
you guys dont even know what you’re complaining about anymore. this is cosmetics, how on earth does it target competitive players?
There is an argument to be made that competitive players will be more invested in the game so will be more inclined to purchase this stuff. I think that’d be a stupid argument, but it could be made.
The real issue is that this kind of thing has become a plague on gaming. You can’t just buy a game anymore (with a rare few exceptions, like Baldur’s Gate 3) and get all the content. They nickel and dime you for anything you might want. I wish we could go back before Pandora’s Box was opened, but we can’t. We can try to reduce the damage by not participating in this and calling it out for being particularly bad.