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Capcom Suspends Street Fighter V Sales on PlayStation Store and Steam
Capcom has suspended sales of Street Fighter V on PlayStation Store and Steam while it applies emergency maintenance fixes.
Reporting from 1 source: GAME Watch (Impress).
Why it matters
A runtime upgrade on the server side, not a bug in the game, is what made Street Fighter V unpurchasable, which shows how much of a fighting game's sellable state sits on plumbing players never see.
The stated cause is security hardening around the PHP programming language used in the PS4 and Steam versions, which left content using online features unavailable. Sales stop sequentially until the fixes are complete. Anyone who already owns the game can still play offline matches and other features that do not use the internet.
The same PHP version upgrade also took down Capcom's Resident Evil portal, which the company says is under maintenance with various pages unreadable, alongside an apology for how long the outage has run. For Street Fighter V the split is sharp: offline matches work on copies already bought, online features do not, and new copies cannot be bought at all. Capcom called the suspension temporary and said it would proceed sequentially across PlayStation Store and Steam, with no date given for when the last fix lands.
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Sources
- GAME Watch (Impress) 「ストリートファイターV」が販売を順次停止。PHPに関するセキュリティ強化のため