From: StealThisSheen | #016
Characters should never be Day 1/on-disc DLC, I agree.
But saying characters should NEVER be DLC is kinda dumb.
Personally sometimes I think I would rather have a character not be in the game at all than have them be DLC. It's cool when they decide to put a new character as a way of continuing to support the game long after its release but that's not always the case. It's more of a 'let's withdraw essential content' so people (especially serious tourney players) are more or less forced to buy them because they're such a huge part of the game.
It just messes with s*** and it's more convenient to just not include them at all (or preferably, include them at the beginning!).
From a personal selfish note I haven't cared much about character DLC these past games because it hasn't affected me as much as there really hasn't been a character I wanted/liked. But there are actually some DLC characters in SFxT that I actually want and if I end up getting the game, I hate thinking that I might end up buying them.
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