10 Video Game DLCs That Burned Their Fanbase
6. Street Fighter X Tekken - Additional Characters (That Were Always There)
Unlocking additional characters has been the bread and butter of fighting games for decades. Of course, this was once simply achieved by playing through arcade and story modes of the titles in question and earning a new character and their story upon each completion.
Of course, publishers have since realised they can sell new combatants as DLC and players will lap it up. Later Mortal Kombat titles in particular hinge a huge amount of marketing on new characters that will be available for purchase, with crossovers such as Alien, Predator, Friday The 13th and The Terminator all having been touted.
Street Fighter X Tekken, Capcom and Namco's highly anticipated first half of a fighting game crossover that was disappointingly never completed, caused outrage with a particularly insulting practice. Capcom announced that the 12 previously PS Vita-exclusive fighters would later be sold as DLC on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game, and admitted that they were already on the disc. The work had already been done, no extra budget had needed to be spent on creating or porting the characters. The publishers simply locked the content off in order to net themselves an extra payday down the line.