10 Times Video Game Publishers Insulted Their Fans

10. Street Fighter X Tekken's On-Disc DLC

What do you expect to find on the disc of a game you've just dropped full retail price for? A complete package where everything present is accessible through normal gameplay, or that exact same deal, only with half of what you paid for locked behind an additional fee?

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If you'd asked Capcom which scenario represented consumer friendly back in 2012, it'd have shot straight for the second, because that's exactly what it did for Street Fighter X Tekken. An additional 12 characters were present from day one in the crossover brawler but not for free, oh no. You'd have to pay half the original asking price to access the likes of Blanka, Cody, Jack and Bryan Fury because, well, greed.

Capcom, of course, attempted to perform some damage control after being caught with its pants down, though it only dug its hole deeper with a limp excuse to do with saving hard drive space. Frustratingly, the collaboration between itself and Namco turned out to be a solid fighter, but this stain, along with poor sales, killed any enthusiasm for Namco's intended sequel.

Too bad. Tekken X Street Fighter could have been even better.

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