"i pre-ordered before we knew what the DLC was. i thought it'd be something we hadn't seen yet -- at that time, nobody assumed the alt costumes would cost extra."
I'm not sure what else people thought it could be. We knew it wasn't going to be characters as Ono has spoken out against that since the beginning. I don't think extra stages as DLC even makes sense. While there's no gameplay altering difference from playing on one stage or another, what do you do if one person has the extra levels and the other doesn't? Do you have them playing on different stages on their respective screens? Do you just randomly pick a stage but only select from the stages that both players own? What's the point of having DLC that you can only use some of the time? Furthermore, who the fuck really cares about extra stages? It's neat to see once or twice and see cool shit in the background (Balrog dash uppering the plane door open on the Airfield), but after that, it's essentially just background noise.
I'm really just boggled by it all.
"we weren't dealing with namco, after all. sucks to see another publisher go into the deep end with ridiculous DLC"
The DLC is stupid, no doubt. All DLC on consoles is stupid. Most of the shit that gets charged for 1-5$ bucks would simply be including in a patch for a PC game. But honestly, I don't really care if they want to charge people for costumes because they're so wholly unimportant. AND, if charging dorks for costumes because they wanna see Rose's thonthothonthonthong subsidizes free, *substantial* updates like the Championship mode, replays, etc. then I am all for it.
Oh, can I also add in that all CEs are suckertraps as well? Because, I just did.