First off, I HATE the stupid, pointless phrase of "If you don't like it, don't buy it."
That's like saying you bought a DVD, only to find that the extras are locked on the disc and you have to pay extra for them. Don't like it, don't buy it, right?
No, the thing is, we shouldn't HAVE to buy it.
Colors? It's a basic, commonly used feature that other games, INCLUDING OTHER STREET FIGHTER GAMES LIKE ALPHA 3, give out for free. SFA3 let you make your own colors even.
My problem with Capcom's DLC is there really is NO excuse for them to charge for this. What, did they run out of time? Out of money? The game was released in 1997! That's the N64 era! Ocarina of Time hadn't even been released yet! It's unbelievable they're charging DLC for a game that was not created with DLC in mind.
But this is Capcom's history. They asked for $20 for on-disc SF4 costumes when Dead or Alive Ultimate had over 120 free unlockable costumes. They had the nerve to charge for difficulty modes in Mega Man 9... which was only a basic feature every game included for free since the invention of multiple difficulty modes. They charges for on-disc Versus mode in Resident Evil 5, which was just turning on "friendly fire" and calling it a new mode. And then, of course, they screwed over every Marvel vs. Capcom 3 fan with on-disc characters, costumes, modes, and then ultimately said, screw it, buy a whole brand new game if you want all the fixes, balances, and features the original game SHOULD have had included.
"Don't like it, don't buy it"?
No. I want these features. And I would like them to be standardized and included in the initial purchase price, just as all modern cars come with windshield wipers, computers come with sound systems, and TVs come with channel changers.
And the fact that so many people keep saying "what's the big deal, it's only optional" has only motivated Capcom to do it again and again and again, year after year. I laugh at how originally they made laughably bad excuses and told outright lies like "it was beyond the scope of the initial game" or "we included them on-disc to make the DLC downloading times faster" or "it's only what the market demands". My personal favorite, straight from Capcom America: "Capcom in Japan is still coming to grips with DLC use and pricing. They're behind Western DLC policies, but we're sure they'll catch up." They said that in 2007, over 4 years ago.
I even remember them saying that they "could NOT do" Spectator Mode in MvC3 because "the game has too many on-screen characters"... and yet we see Spectator Mode is in the new version. I remember them saying "we thought about doing Phoenix Wright, but we decided he couldn't work in this game", and then turned around and held him hostage for an expansion. They blamed the Japanese earthquake for "changing their plans", but anybody whose ever studied game development knows that it's EASIER to create digital content than to spend much more time and money creating new boxes, discs, and shipping it out to retailers and stores. There's a reason Angry Birds and Minecraft are so cheap to send out to customers, so Capcom just lied to everyone, right to their faces, because they knew they could and people would pay $40 extra to play as Phoenix Wright, Strider, and Frank West.
Capcom's business model taints the whole industry, the industry I'm a part of. I hate the fact that good games are likely canceled by Capcom now because they can't figure out how to milk it (according to former Capcom-employee Keiji Inafune) or they betray the creator's wishes and modify their games endlessly for quick and easy cash (as Shinji Mikami stated), or they drive out their budding talent because their games aren't immediate smash hits (the entirety of Clover Studio) or because they aren't sequels to popular hits from the past (as Suda 51 claimed).
I hate it. I despise it. It's not the Capcom that used to exist, but the current one has driven away all their talent and has fallen back onto a mindset of taking advantage of customer's ignorance and/or brand loyalty because of how effective they USED to be.
This is not the same company that took risks and made beloved games like Power Stone, Onimusha, Strider, Captain Commando, Final Fight, Okami, Killer7, GodHand, Breath of Fire, Dino Crisis, Viewtiful Joe, Mega Man Legends, Maximo, Darkstalkers, Rival Schools, or Demon's Crest.
This is the company that, like Square Enix and their overbearing dependence on Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, can only release 900 iterations of Street Fighter (or Street Fighter crossovers) or Resident Evil. For the life of me, I can't name an original idea for any game they have in the making. It's all retreads preying off nostalgia and brand recognition and charging for features and modes other games, including their own, used to include at no additional charge.
And that's the antithesis of creating good games.
Gabe Newell of Valve fame proudly stated "our focus should be on the quality of a game, not the pricing model of a game." Someone should tell that to Capcom... maybe then they might stop selling broken, bare-bones games and charging people $40 for the expansion that addresses these problems that's incompatible with the version you bought.
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