

A cast of selectable characters with their own abilities, head-to-head competitive games, practically entirely online… Yeah, that’s fighting games. MOBAs are something I hate, but they fit fighting games perfectly.

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But the template for free to play games like this is already in place. Street Fighter 6 could very well be the best game ever, but I would not be able to convince most of my friends to buy it at full price, because they’ve already been burned by the fires of Bronze rank.
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Related: See Virtua Fighter 5's HD Upgrade In Latest Trailer Of course, how can anyone resist a “free” game, and how can anyone resist one they’ve technically already paid for? Saying that Virtua Fighter 5 is going to attract a lot of players feels like stating the obvious, but I feel like the fighting game publishers of the world need the obvious stated because fighting game monetisation needs an overhaul to succeed. Virtua Fighter 5 is a game from 2006, and despite being around for 15 years now, it will still have a huge number of players when the new version releases June 1 as a PS+ title. Even if they don’t end up liking it, we will play together, for better or worse. But with a game like Apex Legends, I can just pester one of my friends to download it, and eventually, they will. It’s fine, they don’t play games as often as me and don’t necessarily like the same kinds of games, and I’ve long since adjusted to playing most games either by myself or with strangers.

Regardless of how excited I am for a game, it’s very unlikely that I’ll be able to convince one of my friends to pay launch retail prices for a game they’re not sure they care for. All of this is because Apex Legends is free-to-play. Any fighting game fans will love the nostalgic world of Street Fighter. It’s a game I’ve played with my boss, with my online friends, with my real-life friends, and my most common Apex partner - my girlfriend, who wouldn’t usually play a battle royale game at all. Street Fighter 2 is a PC adaptation from the 1991 classic from Capcom. I picked it up the day it launched, as many did since it’s free-to-play, and I’ve been playing it regularly ever since, buying up battle passes and screaming at Ranked leagues late into the night.
