{"id":4689,"date":"2026-02-14T05:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/capcom-restores-free-viewing-option-for-street-fighter-world-championship-after-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T05:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:02:16","slug":"capcom-restores-free-viewing-option-for-street-fighter-world-championship-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/capcom-restores-free-viewing-option-for-street-fighter-world-championship-after-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom Restores Free Viewing Option For Street Fighter World Championship After Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Capcom has announced that its plan for the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World Championship as a $40 pay-per-view have been reworked to include a cheaper price and a free viewing option following a backlash from Street Fighter 6 fans. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to this year, the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World Championship were free-to-watch events. However, Capcom&#8217;s decision to move the event to pay-per-view only triggered an angry response from fans. In the face of that response, Capcom backed down. <\/p>\n<p>Capcom&#8217;s eSports business department manager Tetsuya Tabuchi made the announcement on X (via GamesRadar) that the pay-per-view price is now $10. Players who own Street Fighter 6 will also be able to stream the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World Championship in-game. But the free option won&#8217;t include the commentary from the pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom has announced that its plan for the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World Championship as a $40 pay-per-view have been reworked to include a cheaper price and a free viewing option following a backlash from Street Fighter 6 fans. Prior to this year, the Capcom Cup finals and Street Fighter League World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4394,2901,4224,2562,78,4393,4391,2561,4392,1217],"class_list":{"0":"post-4689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-backlash","9":"tag-capcom","10":"tag-championship","11":"tag-fighter","12":"tag-free","13":"tag-option","14":"tag-restores","15":"tag-street","16":"tag-viewing","17":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}