Damn you just hit like all of the "Publisher predatory monetization apologist" bingo points right in a row.
No, I simply debunked your wrong statements/lies with facts.
Let me just ask you, why do the skins need to cost suspiciously 50 fighter coins more than the smallest amount you can buy?
I already explained it: because Fighter Coins is the premium currency used to buy a gazillion different things in the game, not only costumes. Having a premium currency allows you to make your own custom "bundles" mixing all these different items: to get a costume, some colors, a sticker etc. for a cheaper price than buying them separatedly one by one.
And also spending less money than as with the previous method of making predefined bundles of 4-6 costumes.
Do you feel that the 54 cents savings is a good reason to buy the 50 dollar pack?
It's .55 saving per costume, not for the 50 dollar pack. With the $49.99 pack you can get 9 costumes with a $4.95 discount + 50 extra fighter coins to spend elsewhere. I'd have personally applied a bigger discount, but it's in line with other recent popular GaaS.
I'd have also implemented an additional ways to unlock fighter coins, similarly to how in SFV you were able to unlock characters, but in this case applying it to everything that can be bought with this premium currency.
Do you feel that it's good that everything that used to be unlockables are now being stripped out and monetized?
I suggest you to play the game. You'll see that there are a ton of cosmetics unlockable for free. Like a costume for each character, tons of customization items, attacks, fighting styles, poses etc for your avatar, titles, stickers, and so on.
Why are cosmetics not worth discussing in the same arena as gameplay?
Because they are different things. Cosmetics are just visual things that don't affect the gameplay.
Are they not a highly desirable part of the whole package?
It depends on the player. Some don't care at all about the game. Some care about the game but don't care about the cosmetics, others care about getting a few specific ones, other want to get more and other ones would like to get all of them.
I also would like to have a Ferrari and a yatch. It doesn't mean they should sell them at a price I'd want/afford to pay for them. Or that they are scam because I don't want or can pay their price.
If they're just cosmetics, why would anybody ever buy them, by your logic?
Like any product, if the customer is interested on them enough, its price is ok for them and can afford it, they buy it. And if not, they don't.
I don't want to get too antagonistic about this, but in my eyes, everything Capcom has done with SF6 outside of the gameplay has been predatory to its playerbase. Costume 3 pricing and distribution was a big middle finger in general, but so many publishers have done stuff like this, apparently everybody is just coping about it and have just decided to suck it up and play nice.
It seems to me that you are just parroting what other people complained about it, without properly verifying it or thinking about it to see if they are right.
Similar to when people complained in SFV for having the option to unlock DLC characters by playing and the new game modes/features/mechanics/rebalances/ec for free, saying that it was better in the past, when you were charged in the past full price -and they were way more expensive applying inflation- for buying again the game to get all this but with less new characters.
The SFV system was clearly better and more consumer friendly -specially considering it kept all the users from all platforms and all versions in the same online- than previous iterations but dumb squareminded flat earthers kept complaining against it.
In SFV there were predefined bundles of costumes. If you were interested on a costume from bundle A, two costumes from bungle B and anoher one from bundle C you had to buy all 3 bundles "forcing" you to buy items you didn't want. Which was worse than the system of SF6, which is allowing you to make your own bundle with only items you want and having the remaining in premium currency you can spend in many things now or in the future. I think it's a better deal even if at the cost of getting less discount per "bundle".
Do you want to get everything and don't want to spend a lot of money? In that case it's better to be patient and wait, because pretty likely around a year or two after launch they'll relaunch the game adding previous content and may have an upgrade option to upgrade that bundles a lot of things.
Or who knows, maybe once they released all season 1 characters they may release costume bundle/s for the costumes of the season, or some day they may do -as did in SFV- discounts for their DLC stuff at some point.
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