I am not saying that what Capcom is doing with this is particularly nefarious when compared to other devs out there, just that it is nefarious, period. And as for on-disc DLC, while I am sure there are valid reasons for its implementation, I think the practice just makes it way too easy for developers to progressively push the limits of what's okay and not okay, in the end screwing the customer. I'd prefer not to get into the entire "devs gotta do what they can in this crappy market" argument, and it is what it is, but I just don't think that a business model focused on taking advantage of the people who buy your games earliest (i.e. probably your biggest supporters) is not a healthy business model at all. Be a smart consumer, etc, yeah yeah.
I also guess Capcom's handling of SFxT bothers me more than other games because I fully supported them with SF4, SSF4, and SSF4 AE, and it seemed like they were one of the milder cases of DLC overload. It just comes as a bit of a disappointment.
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