Street Fighter 6

No complaint turns up more often in negative reviews. More than a fifth of them raise it, and it also appears as a caveat in positive ones. The same grievances come up in review after review:

• Half the roster costs extra. Reviewers say a year's character pass costs about half the price of the base game for four fighters, and some feel the full package costs far more than the box price.
• Fighter Coins never match prices. According to reviewers, characters cost 350 coins, but for most of the game's life the bundles came in 250 and 610, leaving leftovers: "Seriously i need to buy some coins 2 times for 11$ to buy one character, im only interested in?" One reviewer later reported a fix: "They added the ability to buy smaller denominations of Fighter Coins (paid-currency) on July 1, 2026."
• Misleading bundles. Buyers expected the Ultimate edition to include everything ("why do you call it ultimate if you don't include the chr pass 2"), and existing owners were angry that the Years 1-2 Fighters Edition, which reviewers say came out in June 2025, offered them no upgrade discount.
• You can't practice against characters you don't own. "Being unable to lab against a character without buying the 30 dollar fighter pack is insane." Reviewers say the rental tickets last one hour of real time.
• Paid extras in a full-price game. Reviewers list battle passes, paid colors for the base roster, paid outfit 3s, music, and paid HUD designs they say arrived in December 2025 ("Greedy Capcom selling hud re-skins."). One reviewer summed it up: "Limited Time Battle Passes and Premium Currency is unacceptable in a Fighting Game."

A minority defend the model: cosmetics are optional, stages and some colors can be earned with Drive Tickets, and the base game goes on sale often. Their advice is to buy the base game or a bundle on sale and skip the shop.

This is the main gameplay complaint, and it comes mostly from experienced players with hundreds or thousands of hours. They describe matches that come down to strike/throw guesses and corner pressure: "drive rush to corner, loop throw pressure, every round", or as another put it, "the optimal mix in the corner 90% of the time is to normal throw into looping strike/throw its so lame dude". Other recurring targets are crouching medium kick into Drive Rush, long level 3 super animations, high combo damage and wake-up reversals. Some of these complaints sit in positive reviews whose writers still enjoy the game and want the system toned down.

Two kinds of complaint come up. Some players in busy regions hit connection errors and long waits: "Can only get 1 match every 5-10 minutes, after getting a bunch of "match found" which immediately get cancelled due to an error." Players in Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, South America and Russia describe empty queues or high-ping opponents: "By far the worst online experience you can get in any game if you live outside of the US/Japan/Western Europe." Smaller complaints are Wi-Fi opponents, casual matches that pair beginners with Diamond and Master players, and yellow or red disconnect cards handed out for the game's own connection drops.

Long-term players say the post-launch content goes to the wrong place. They count four characters a year, roster outfits arriving rarely, no new stages in the Year 4 pass, and cosmetics aimed mostly at Battle Hub avatars. One wrote that it "feels like they're putting all their effort into making lame player avatar cosmetics as opposed to more substantial things". Several reviewers say they would happily pay for classic costumes if Capcom sold them.

Requests for Sakura, Makoto, Dudley, Vega, Balrog, R. Mika, Ibuki, Urien and other returning characters come up throughout, along with objections to guest fighters. Reviewers describe the Year 4 reveal in June 2026 as Yasmine, Arjun, the guest Tifa and the World Tour character Bosch, and it set off a negative wave: the week it was announced fell to 56% positive. One player called it "one guest character and three random, generic Overwatch-like newcomers spread across an entire year, with no new stages or World Tour content, yet priced the same as previous seasons." Others pushed back: "Let's give new characters a chance to shine and see what they are about before spreading negativity."

According to reviewers, Alex's release in March 2026 brought a story in which he marries and has a child with Patricia, whom they describe as his cousin and adoptive sister. More than half of the negative reviews written in the second half of March 2026 mention Alex or the storyline, and the week of March 16 fell to 41% positive, the lowest of any busy week. One reviewer from that fortnight was "stunned and confused by the decision to include incest in a street fighter game." Some reviewers later report that the relationship was walked back to a more distant one, and a few liked the romance.

Technical complaints are less common but come in clusters after updates. After the March 2026 Alex patch, reviewers reported that "performance has taken a serious hit and FPS is wildly unstable on any map that's not the training stage", especially on Steam Deck and handhelds, and later reviews say a follow-up patch fixed it. Other reports include fatal D3D errors, crashes after a patch, resolution resetting to windowed 1080p, slow shader loading and a World Tour save corruption with no backup ("There is no backup or restore option so everything is just gone like that."). Ultrawide and 16:10 players complain about black bars, and others want the frame cap raised above 60.

Players report opponents using scripts or macros for auto anti-airs, Drive Impact counters and parries, with no visible bans: "Game has a ridiculous amount of blatant cheaters running scripts or auto drives and grapples". Smurfs and boosters in Platinum and Diamond come up alongside them, as do opponents who rage quit or lag out without real penalty.

New players often describe their first hour as a fight with the interface: a long unskippable intro and avatar creation before any match, starting in windowed mode, settings that are hard to find, and no simple way to quit to the desktop. "This is the most obtuse menu you will ever see." Several veterans agree the UI is the weakest part of an otherwise polished game, though a few say later updates improved it.

Smaller groups object to the required Capcom ID and account linking, Denuvo and later Enigma anti-tamper, the lack of a true offline mode, an install reviewers put at roughly 85 to 100 GB, and updates that need about the same amount of free space again. Reviewers also note the game dropped Windows 10 support in late 2025.

A group of experienced players says inputs come out wrong: dragon punches when they wanted a fireball, supers that fail, Drive Rush eating directions. One summed it up: "I'm fighting the game more then my opponent and that's not good." Others say it is a buffer they have learned to work with.

A handful of reviews objected to a collaboration commentator voiced with generative AI, added in July 2025 according to reviewers.