Oh my God! (That's right I didn't just type OMG, I typed the whole phrase because this deserves it!)

Capcom... *sigh*. Does Capcom understand the concept of DLC at all? Oh wait, instead of releasing DLC, they release the whole game AGAIN, with extra content.

Exhibit A) Street Fighter 4. Street Fighter 4 is a great game. The graphics are great, the game has a lot of depth, certainly more depth than most other fighting games and it has a good online system. I had a good time with the game and I couldn't wait for the DL.....wait. Oh no you didn't!!

That's right, Capcom re-released the whole game again with some extra content and called it Super Street Fighter 4. Get it?? Just Like Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo?? This isn't the Super NES era Capcom, then you would have an excuse to re-release the game because there was no other way to get extra content into the game without re-releasing it, but today there is something called DLC. I mean why is Capcom wasting it's money, burning more disks, printing new manuals and box art and totally overpricing the so called *Super* edition of it's game? This would be acceptable 15 years ago, but today it's a joke.

Now, what about Marvel vs. Capcom 3? Some people consider the game a failure since it never lived up to Marvel vs. Capcom 2, which was an epic game in it's own right, and they would be right, but I still enjoyed the game. Again, the online is great and the graphics are really good and the cast of characters is ok, a little lacking, but pretty good. Capcom did release DLC for the game adding some new characters, which what they should have done with Street Fighter 4. Now, I can kind of see the nostalgia by Capcom releasing a *Super* version of it's latest Street Fighter game simply because that's what they always have done. What I think might have been a better decision is to release DLC that turns your original Street Fighter 4 game into the *Super* version, but when the game loads up, you get a choice to play the *Super* version or the Original Street Fighter 4. With Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Capcom did the right thing and released DLC for it which saved gamers money and downloaded the characters they wanted.

But...Guess what????? Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is coming out!!! New stages and characters and only $40 dollars!! Why, oh Why do this Capcom!? This *Ultimate* version doesn't even come with the DLC characters. You have to buy those apart from the Ultimate edition . Capcom just walked up to gamers and slapped them in the face with this announcement. Why not make this DLC?? It doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm not a hardcore fighting game fan. I guess the same thing goes with every other fan of any other genre. A perfect example is Halo ODST, which was gonna be DLC, then at the last minute, Microsoft said not to release it as DLC but as a retail release and include all the maps from Halo 3 multiplayer and charge $60. If you were a Halo fanboy, you would have been on that like a fat kid on a Smartie, just as the Capcom fanboys are with this ridiculous Ulitmalte Marvel vs. Capcom 3 announcement.

Now to be fair, Capcom is not the only one guilty of such money sucking schemes, but DLC does exist for a reason. It adds content to your game at an affordable price, not just for the consumer, but for the developer. There are no costs for the disks, cases and manuals and no retail store gets a cut of your profit. I just find it hard to believe that a developer can re-release the same game again with extra content and not rip of it's customers.

The sad truth is, people will still buy these games for some personal reason or another. I think it's time to make a Business decision. I hope that people in the future see through this BS and not purchase something as ridiculous as this.

Thanks for Reading!