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In a post on the Capcom-Unity blog, Capcom's community manager Brett Elston confirmed that the game's crop of upcoming DLC characters are available on the game disc, and can only be unlocked through Xbox LIVE Marketplace or PlayStation Network. Pricing and timing of the characters' releases weren't revealed.
The 12 downloadable characters include Blanka, Cody, Dudley, Elena, Guy, and Sakura from the Street Fighter side, and Alisa Bosconovitch, Bryan Fury, Christie Monteiro, Jack, Lars Alexandersson, and Lei Wulong from the Tekken side. Packing in on-disc content and locking it behind an online purchase is an undoubtedly controversial move, and one that Capcom explains as a matter of compatibility and file size.
"By including these 12 characters on the disc, the idea was to ensure easy compatability [sic] between players who do and do not choose to download the characters when they arrive as DLC," Elston explained in the post. "For example, not buying costumes in the Street Fighter IV series means you will not see the costumes when playing another person who did buy them; on-disc characters avoid this issue and allow everyone to participate in the update without additional patches or hiccups. The update also saves on file size - instead of a massive download, there will be a much smaller unlock that brings the new content to the surface."
The announcement comes in the wake of reports that players were exploiting a glitch that made certain DLC characters available, revealing their presence on the disc.
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no, simply just NO! Your telling me we buy the disc and have to pay more to access more of it? Game companies are becoming bitches -_-
The 12 downloadable characters include Blanka, Cody, Dudley, Elena, Guy, and Sakura from the Street Fighter side, and Alisa Bosconovitch, Bryan Fury, Christie Monteiro, Jack, Lars Alexandersson, and Lei Wulong from the Tekken side. Packing in on-disc content and locking it behind an online purchase is an undoubtedly controversial move, and one that Capcom explains as a matter of compatibility and file size.
"By including these 12 characters on the disc, the idea was to ensure easy compatability [sic] between players who do and do not choose to download the characters when they arrive as DLC," Elston explained in the post. "For example, not buying costumes in the Street Fighter IV series means you will not see the costumes when playing another person who did buy them; on-disc characters avoid this issue and allow everyone to participate in the update without additional patches or hiccups. The update also saves on file size - instead of a massive download, there will be a much smaller unlock that brings the new content to the surface."
The announcement comes in the wake of reports that players were exploiting a glitch that made certain DLC characters available, revealing their presence on the disc.
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no, simply just NO! Your telling me we buy the disc and have to pay more to access more of it? Game companies are becoming bitches -_-
