Street Fighter 6’s Ninja Turtles DLC is stupid expensive – but fans are hilariously taking matters into their own hands

Capcom’s first main crossover content material in Avenue Fighter 6 is ridiculously priced, however followers are on the very least seeing the humorous facet.

Avenue Fighter 6’s Battle Hub and user-created avatar characters had been one of many parts of the sport that ended up most extremely praised in our 5/5 overview of the sport. It’s an excellent method to deliver gamers collectively – nevertheless it’s additionally an effective way for Capcom to cynically rake in some money, because it seems.

Whereas there’s loads of gear obtainable within the recreation via in-game foreign money, within the weeks since launch Capcom has provided a few premium content material drops of substances and cosmetics gamers can equip to their custom-made characters. New this week is SF6’s first huge cross-over – a tie-up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

It’s an ideal match, what with Avenue Fighter and TMNT being 90s icons about cool characters preventing evil baddies – however in order for you in, it’s costly.

Whereas this content material is bought with ‘Fighter Cash’, which may be earned in-game and on SF6’s flawed battle move, in actual phrases to afford coin purchases with any regularity you’ll have to whip out your bank card and purchase some additional cash. If you happen to wished to purchase the entire TMNT content material, it’ll set you again effectively over $100. A single costume that transforms your user-created character into one of many TMNT quartet visually would require forking out the higher a part of $15.

Let’s be actual: they’re taking the piss a bit. Even when Nickelodeon wants its pound of flesh for the TMNT license, this feels absurd. It additionally feels exceptionally foolish, given only a few weeks in the past I used to be praising Capcom’s preliminary DLC setup and roll-out of Rashid as glorious. Capcom has a superb factor going right here with SF6 – it must not let dangerous pricing drag it down.

If one factor may be relied on, nonetheless, it’s Avenue Fighter followers’ ingenuity and talent to get round having to pay out cash. It is a group that grew up on battered and bashed arcade cupboards with busted sticks, after all. I’ve seen folks at tournaments enjoying on arcade sticks made out of cereal containers. And so, some followers are… making their very own turtles.

Behold this heroic person, noticed within the Battle Hub and posted to reddit, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with one of many official TMNT costumes.

Unable or unwilling to fork out Capcom’s ridiculous king’s ransom for the duds of Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, or Michelangelo, they headed into character creation to make their very own. Physique paint, tight-fitting shorts, a wrestling belt, a necktie and a backpack all mix to create… the poverty turtle. Standing subsequent to the actual deal, it’s arduous to inform the distinction. Or a minimum of, that’s what I’m telling myself.

And so, at the same time as Capcom screws us with this pricing… We’ve got one other demonstration right here of why SF6’s Battle hub is so good, and why it provides a lot to the sport. This group is good. Due to that, it deserves to not be nickel-and-dimed – however a minimum of whether it is, it takes it on the chin with humor.