"You need to flush the toilet after you shit in it."
"You need to update your thinking to the current environment of the bathroom. I believe you will come to find my turds are Cool, Actually™ and you will be grateful."

update your thinking to the current environment of game development

Yep

You ain't getting jack, shit or jackshit from me

<< me, updating my thinking to the current environment of game development

It’s ironic, I much prefer this sort of model with FTP games. There it’s like, I don’t have to pay any money to play the game, the microtransactions aren’t a pay to win mechanic, it’s like, if I feel like I got $40-60 of game out of it I can spend that on some skins. But if I already payed $60-70 just to play the game? Bump that, skins should be built into the base cost.

MTX? no thanks, imma head out. Have a nice life.

I'm not that peeved about paid cosmetic skins I won't need or buy that have 0 impact on gameplay to be honest

On the other hand, I fucking hate having to pay to be able to lab against DLC characters that I probably wont be playing (which also tend to be busted, hello T7 Leroy), like just let me be able to select them in practice mode

I'm also sure they will implement a predatory monetization which requires you to buy more coins than necessary to acquire that one skin you want (which sucks for people who want to buy just that one skin)

Fighting games in particular are a small enough niche that I could see many not even earning back the cost of development through base sales, nevermind being high enough to please porky.

I'm kinda fine with cosmetics, because mods exist while allowing people to support their game and competitive scene if they wanted to. SFV had >$1000 retail price worth of costumes and I did buy certain costumes here and there, but for flavor of the month stuff there is always either a bootleg modded version of a costume (e.g., Chun Li SFAlpha costume) or straight up costume swap to override the default costume with the DLC costume if you are so inclined. Like I modded and swapped default Bison into the Halloween demon Bison, got a kick out of it, and a month later I uninstalled it. It comes with slight annoyance having to manage mods and files, but that's fine as long as the base game and character unlock DLCs are reasonable.