I will definitely buy and play it buy yeah, point taken. SF is the only fighter I have any real time for anymore. When I was younger, I could have spread the wealth, but now, pretty much impossible.
Yeah, I buy nearly every major fighting game release and try to get into the game because 1) fighting games are by far my favorite genre and 2) it's not unfathomable that my favorite franchise, Street Fighter, might take off 5-10 years in the near future. I want to have something to play in that scenario so I try to get as many series to "click" as possible.
The issue is, as opposed to when I was younger, is I have more money and less time so I really can't put a ton of effort into learning every fighting game. It's funny because SFV's business model is what I wished for when I was playing SF4. I got Dudley in SSF4 and I was miffed I had to continually drop $20 for updates so I keep playing with the playerbase. If SF4 was V I could have spent $60 and been done, only dropping money on costume packs.
Now with SFV I got my main, who isn't my ideal main but oh well, but I'm buying the season passes to screw around with the new characters. Playing the new DLC characters is genuinely a ton of fun and a stark contrast to SF4 where I'd call maybe 5 characters out of 44 playable for me.
I guess the upsideof making SFV more rushdown focused, which is the style I play, is half the cast is interesting to me. I lament the lack of zoning because I loved those match ups in SF4 because it was exhilarating to play Dudley and be at a huge disadvantage when I'm on the outside but finally getting in felt like I popped X-Factor 3. I don't get that feeling in SFV because it's more people trading off who gets to play dominant rushdown.
So I'm saying I wish SF4 didn't come out when I was a poor college student.