As the community of Street Fighter 6 has noted before, it seems that the grass isn’t so green on Capcom’s side of the field. Street Fighter 6 has seen collaborations with various other pieces of media and beyond including ever-popular manga Baki the Grappler, Chipotle, Onitsuka Tiger, and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now, Street Fighter 6 has come clean with their latest collaboration, in the wake of an impressively animated advertisement the Spy x Family anime crossover has finally come to the game.
However, like all the collaborations before it, it seems that the Spy x Family crossover with Street Fighter 6 has been met with near-universal derision from the fighting game fanbase. Dissatisfaction with this crossover almost certainly stems from the fact that instead of Chun-li and Ryu costumes emulating Spy x Family leading characters Yor and Loid respectfully, instead players are greeted with even more bonus costumes for BattleHub and World Tour avatars instead.
On a slightly positive note, these avatar costumes at least come at the cheap price of Fighter Tickets, an in-game currency, rather than Fighter Coins which come from real money. But that’s little solace for players of Street Fighter 6, who are noticing more and more that Capcom’s post-launch strategy for the game is predatory at best and wringing any excitement players may have for the game dry. It’s bad enough for players that Ed and Akuma, highly anticipated DLC characters, seem to be pushed back indefinitely with only radio silence in response to constant questions of what these characters will play like or even when to expect them, players also have to deal with constant glorified in-game advertisements that don’t add much of anything to the game.
If anything, these constant crossovers deflate the hype around these updates, as the playerbase hypes themselves up for products that they may be excited for, like costumes for the actual characters, only to crash down to Earth with the reality that the bonus content in this game is almost entirely relegated to avatars, content that many don’t even find appealing.
As stated in articles before this, Capcom needs to reevaluate their strategy surrounding’s post-launch content, otherwise the game may shrivel and die in the wake of content drought.