Capcom has issued an official statement that Street Fighter V will not be a fighting game that utilises pay-to-win mechanics. The Japanese publisher said:
"A certain media organization carried an interview with Capcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto. Regarding the reference to a pay system in the interview article, Haruhiro Tsujimoto did not make any comments on adjusting strength of characters in the game by using this type of system."
They did this in response to several rumours that sprouted from an article in a Japanese newspaper, Sponichi Annex, in which plans for implementing such a system in the next Street Fighter game had been mentioned.