Since I'm all done with the character unlocking and all.... are the costumes worth it? (those to be bought from the PSN :\ )

They're nice for variety but thats it. If you mean "do they look badass?" Some do, some don't.
Sagat's costume are just tights on the other hand bison looks kinda badass with battle damaged clothing and so does ryu. Ken has a costume thats hardly noticeably, while Dan has a funny sparring outfit. And all the girls show more skin with their outfit (except cammy)
Really depends if your just have the money laying around, I play with friends and online so the costumes are pretty nice to have for casual play and the extra colors also add more variety.

Holy fuckshit, the sticks are STILL NO WHERE TO BE SEEN UP HERE.

"End of March" they say. Yeah, end of March my asshole. No one knows when they'll be in now. I wonder if Hantei's had any luck.

I actually got my SE stick a couple weeks ago. Man, that one female clerk there is such a pain in the ass to deal with, the same one I had to deal with when making the pre-order for the TE stick. When I went in to pick up my stick (didn't have my pre-order receipt, as it was on the same slip as the game and when I went to pick up the game it got destroyed by the clerk there), she said that apparenty they had already filled in all pre-orders for sticks, and well long story short luckily the other male clerk (same one when I pre-ordered the TE, I think they usually work together) there was much more rational and helpful.

It was kind of a messed up situation, according to him apparently the clerk that called the day before said that I "didn't want it". Which is a flat out lie, as I wasn't home when they made the call, and had to check caller ID when I got home to find out that they had called. I had an inking suspicion that the clerk who called was trying scalp it, or hold it a friend of his when I failed to answer. Luckily they hadn't sold or put it away yet, and I was able to pick up my stick.

Anyway, the stick is kinda fucked up. When I first plugged it in the up on the stick wouldn't register until I got a few good hours of play into. Unfortunately as the up direction issue got fixed, my stick started to "stick". Also, isn't the Home button supposed to light up when it's plugged in and the console is on? Cause, if so, I don't think my LED is working. I'll keep plugging away on the stick, till the warranty is up before I swap out for Sanwas. Just incase anything else goes wrong. I would take it back to exchange it in for another, but unfortunately mine was the last (maybe the only) one there. And seeing as how these stupid sticks are almost impossible to find up here, I'm probably better off keeping it and replacing the parts than returning it and trying to hunt for a new one. Oh, and for some reason the screws on the case are stripped, so it might be a bitch to open. I wonder if they did that on purpose to prevent people from modding it, even though it had been openly advertised by Seth Killian that it's easy to mod.

Oh, and it ended up costing me $104.99 (+tax, 99.99 without) for the PS3 version ($20 more than what I preorder at), I imagine the 360 SE is +10. Thanks to the shitty dollar. I think I'll be cancelling my pre-order for the TE, the wait is getting ridiculous and now that rational thinking has settled in I could probably spend the $200 (well 210 after tax) on better things.

Jesus. The standard has THAT MANY ISSUES for you? I've heard of various niggling bits and pieces like the occasional missed input, or so on, but never an entire direction missing for several hours of hands on use. What the fuck?

What I'm waiting on now is the TE's myself, since after getting fucked over like everyone else with the whole issue of what the fuck we're actually getting for accessories, I ended up with a TE preorder that I just resigned to keeping.

Only it's still not here. Every week, it's been pushed back to the "next monday". I don't know what's going on. No one seems to. Not EB, not Mad Catz, not any of the suppliers, it's fucking disasterous.

At this point, it's not worth it, and if it's still not here after my exams are done in a week and change I'm just going to get my money back. Fuck all this.

Oh, and about the scalping? I've seen it here for the fightpads. That very same issue. Identical. My friend wasn't able to take his call for his pad, so by the time he got the message and went down they had "already sold it". More than likely to a clerk.

Looks like next Friday will see the arrival of the Championship Mode DLC (which I believe is supposed to be free):

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It had better have lobbies. This laughable attempt at "matchmaking" has gone on long enough. I'd also like to see the "Sagat doesn't rape everyone anymore" patch down the line. That's just wishful thinking though...

If any of you guys are on 360 and want to play my Live name is 'Man Chest' I'm always up for some matches :)

And if you're looking for arcade sticks, the second run of HORI sticks are up for preorder here -

360 - Hori Real Arcade Pro Ex for XBOX 360

PS3 - Hori's Real Arcade Pro 3 (HRAP 3) for Sony PS3 and PC

Anybody hear when it will be released on pc?

Capcom just announced today that it will be released for PC in July.

IGN: Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter IV Coming to PCs

Sooo, anybody tried out the championship patch?
I was able to manage a lot of wins compared to the ranked matches for some reason, probably because I just got up to G2. I was hoping for lobbies with the tournament matches but still nothing, even the ability to save replays is dumbed down since I thought it was going to be similar to the 3rd strike version that was released for consoles

just wanted to give a heads up for people wanting to buy one of the SE sticks
they are showing up in stock in many online stores now.

I would like to start playing with arcade sticks.
Has anybody tried or heard any good things about the madcatz 70 dollar fightstick? Or would it be worth spending the extra cash on the hori pro 3

I'm no fighting game or arcade stick expert, but that's what I've been using to play the game and it works fine for me. For the amount that I play the game and the price I paid for the stick, I'm satisfied with it.