Street Fighter 6 is just about to celebrate its first anniversary since releasing last year with quite a bit more content available now with the DLC characters, Outfit 3 selection, new stages and more.
It appears, however, that some of the original content / offerings in the game are about to change or potentially even go away completely — although there may well be something else going on too.
As pointed out to us by PaperScissorsRockHoward, SF6’s in-game store recently updated to include a very curious expiration date.
All of the original character Outfit 1 “Colors 3–9” bundles for the launch cast list that they’re only available until June 3 at midnight PT / 3 a.m. ET.
It’d technically be even before that too, considering SF6 is scheduled to start server maintenance tomorrow at 8 p.m. PT / 11 p.m. ET, so the store won’t be available at all until the new update is live.
This does of course raise concerns that Capcom is about to remove the option to get some of their content at a discount since the colors themselves aren’t going anywhere.
At first we were a bit worried about that too, however, now it’s looking more like they may have something else planned instead of actually getting rid of the bundles.
The DLC characters of Rashid, A.K.I., Ed and Akuma don’t have the expiration date on their color bundles for Outfit 1, and there’s also something else different about them.
Those four characters all come with colors 3–10 while the base cast only offers colors 3–9.
If you can remember back to last year, that’s because color 10 was offered as special pre-order bonus exclusively, and it wasn’t even for all of the launch cast with only Ken, Juri, Jamie, Manon, Dee Jay, and Chun-Li.
Our best guess now is Capcom is going to release those color 10 options into SF6 proper for those fighters (and hopefully for all the ones who didn’t previously have one too), which can then be put together in an updated bundle to put all of the characters in parity heading into Season 2.
If that does end up being the case, the bundles will likely see a slight price hike to accommodate for the additional colors too going from 315 Fighter Coins (around $6.30) or 6,300 Drive Tickets to what the DLC characters are at with 360 FC (around $7.20) or 7,200 DT — so still like a 10% discount from buying them all individually.
スト61周年
『ストリートファイター6』は1周年を迎えました
スト6を遊んでいただき本当に本当にありがとうございますプレイヤーのみなさんに感謝を込めて
様々なイベントを開催しますのでお楽しみに#スト6一周年 pic.twitter.com/nSSGuXkkot— ストリートファイター / STREET FIGHTER (@StreetFighterJA) June 1, 2024
Capcom hasn’t confirmed this yet, but they have revealed special first anniversary events are about to come to SF6. Perhaps the colors and / or other new content could end up showing up in those too.
Either way, we’ll likely know more very shortly from the company or in the game itself with the new update incoming and anniversary events starting.
If you’ve been holding back on getting some colors you need until now and really want that discount, it might be a good idea to cash in on them just in case they do end up disappearing.
You can also check out our updated costumes and colors guide for SF6 to see their prices and how to unlock them in the game.