And here we go again. Capcom pulled this crap with Dragon's Dogma and now Namco is too?
What ever happened to trying to deliver a quality game with good value? Now everyone just wants to monetize everything at a time when everyones struggling due to inflation and the aftermath of the covid quarantines.
Capcom did it with Street Fighter 6, too. From the competitive player's perspective though, these battle passes have been totally irrelevant, since they have more to do with avatars than they do with playable characters.
I'd be alright with the battle pass if DLC characters became free instead. As it is right now, they are quadruple dipping on game sales, mtx store, battlepass and dlc.