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Alternate colors, that in the history of fighting games have been easily selectable by pressing a different button or scrolling thru them like MvC 3, AND in MvC3 had certain character colors function as alternate costumes if you were using Deadpool and Spidey. Yet in here, it’s just very basic recolors.

THIS is what everyone’s amazed about. Not say, unlocking the story mode characters, getting to play as the boss characters, secret modes or anything like that. Very, generic, lame, recolors.....which btw in a game like SFV you’d have to BUY them.

The PS1 version of MvC1 let you unlock Magneto/Onslaught’s fucking Magnetic Shockwave as a secret move among many others secret stuff. Alt characters that, yes were recolors but had different playstyles. ROLL being a secret character, the ability to play as Onslaught. THIS is what people think of fighting games these days ladies and gentlemen.

And everyone wonders when I say half of the numerous Dragon Ball Z/various anime fighting games are more worthwhile than modern E-Sports wanks fests by supposed big time publishers.

Its been a long time coming - mostly due to Capcom dragging its feet - but Super Street Fighter IV (and SFxT) are finally found a home, IGN's Pro League. Looks like the overwhelming popularity and success of the SF 25th Anniversary Tournament series convinced someone at Capcom that supporting the scene is a good idea.

Personally, I'm excited about this as it has the potential to grow the community and get some good players a little more change in their pocket. 

That being said, there are influential people on both sides of this development with differing opinions. Before this announcement Ben "Fishstix" Goldhaber tweeted the following:

This was responded to by notable voice in the FGC, Shoryuken.com's Keits:

Here's a fighting gamer's perspective on the new bill about to be passed by the United States government which is Bill S.978 or also known as "the anti streaming bill." I didn't know about this until Ultradavid's article was posted on shoryuken.com which is here: http://shoryuken.com/2011/06/29/trolling-the-stream-by-ultradavid/

Boy I love Ultradavid he's so smart, so sexy, but do I hate this anti streaming bill. I think passing this bill will really screw the communities for every single game out there, not just fighting games. Gamers can finally go online and have content on their favorite game online everyday. Now the government wants to take that away from us? That sucks.  What this is going to do is forbid streaming by lets say big streamers like iplaywinner/team sp00ky, level-up-series and mlg UNLESS they have a license from the big companies that produced the game, like Blizzard, Capcom, Aksyss, Namco etc. Now this is a HUGE problem for tournaments with a variety of games and it would not be view able to the general public and now tournaments won't be able to be in peoples' houses and people won't see what the competitive gaming community really is. Which is really a shame. I agree with UltraDavid saying that the government really doesn't know what they are doing, but Companies like Capcom now are understanding unlicensed streaming is really helping them by expanding the community. Now its not a bill yet but it does have bipartisan support. " I don’t know how to yell loud enough to the government that this is a huge mistake, but man, I really feel like we have to try." I feel you UltraDavid, all of us gamers need to unite, we have to try