Capcom has lastly supplied an replace on its determination to cost followers to look at on-line streams of upcoming Road Fighter 6 match finals, asserting that it has reduce the value.
It was introduced throughout final 12 months’s Tokyo Sport Present that the finals of Capcom Cup 12 and the SFL World Championship can be streaming reside by way of pay-per-view.
The unique announcement said that followers who needed to look at the match finals on-line must pay ¥4,000 ($27) to look at the Capcom Cup 12 Finals on March 14, 2026 and one other ¥4,000 ($27) to look at the SFL World Championship on March 15, 2026. Alternatively, a bundle was to be made accessible for ¥6,000 ($40) that allowed them to look at each finals.
This was met with backlash from Road Fighter followers, which led to Capcom saying it was “reviewing pricing”, with “up to date data relating to the PPV broadcast, together with remaining pricing and extra context” deliberate for the tip of October. When the tip of October arrived, Capcom stated it was nonetheless making ready pricing particulars however deliberate to promote pay-per-view streaming tickets from November 12 as deliberate.
Three months later, pay-per-view tickets have lastly gone on sale, albeit at a drastically lowered value from what was initially proposed.
Now, followers who need to watch Capcom Cup 12 and the SFL World Championship will pay ¥900 / $6 for every stream, or ¥1,500 / $10 for a bundle masking each days.
In a video assertion posted on X, Tetsuya Tabuchi – the deputy head and common supervisor of Capcom’s esports enterprise division – apologised to gamers for the time taken to achieve the brand new pricing determination, and defined the reasoning behind the value drop.
“Following the announcement that reside viewing for this occasion can be ticketed, we rigorously reviewed the numerous opinions and suggestions we obtained from the neighborhood,” Tabuchi stated.
“After thorough discussions throughout varied departments inside Capcom, we’ve got selected the next – to revise the pricing of reside viewing tickets, [and] to implement particular collaborative initiatives inside Road Fighter 6.
“On the time of the preliminary announcement, pricing was set primarily based on the home Japanese benchmark of the Road Fighter League single-day reside viewing ticket, which was priced at ¥4,000.
“Nonetheless, after reviewing pricing constructions and cost-of-living requirements throughout a variety of world content material, we’ve got re-evaluated the pricing to make sure that followers all over the world can extra simply benefit from the occasion. Consequently, we’ve got set unified pricing for each Japanese and English broadcasts.”
Tabuchi additionally introduced that in group stage matches for Capcom Cup 12 and day one of many SFL World Championship qualifiers – each of which occur between March 11 and March 13 – Capcom “will allow unrestricted co-streaming for anybody throughout this era”.
