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If you're anything like me, you might be wondering why the hell the price is inflated that high. It's incredibly unlikely that speculation has hit Street Fighter 6 so badly as to inflate over 300% in the last six months, and while it is possible the active competitive scene has led to the market for this game treating it as a career investment instead of as an entertainment product, that shouldn't affect the price. Other competitive games haven't seen such an egregious rise in price, after all. So what is going on here? To answer that, we need only click that "See All" button just above the prices.

Fortunately, Street Fighter 6 in general isn't priced at such an obscene cost. Only the Collector's Editions are, and even then, only for certain storefronts (take note of Amazon offering the lowest price on these versions of the game). But that raises the question of why GameFAQs would list the highest possible price for this game; imply, albeit accidentally, that this represents a "deal", IE an advantageous price for you to jump on; and fail to disclose that far cheaper options are available.

The main answer I can think of is storefronts will offer video game sites to list affiliate links somewhere on relevant pages, and then pay them a percentage of any money users might spend on purchases made through these links. We know this because Eurogamer does exactly that. However, they also disclose as much both within their editorial policy and in any articles where said affiliate links are liable to appear. [Edit: MobyGames did this too before they moved those listings to an entirely separate page. How'd I miss that?] As far as I can tell, GameFAQs does neither. There's no disclosure on either page with those listings - indeed, no policy page I can find which would explain this feature of the site. (The GameFAQs site map is surprisingly unhelpful.)

Now does this necessarily mean that GameFAQs has designed this part of the site to funnel users toward the most expensive versions of a game being sold, much less that they're doing so to earn more money from users clicking through and buying said versions? Of course not. We don't have evidence that GameFAQs is participating in affiliate programs with digital storefronts. The main issue in all of this is we don't have enough information to definitely rule out any of these possibilities.

(By the way, for anyone wondering about the color scheme: scroll down to Change Colors and select Cotton Candy. It turns the site into the trans flag.)