This is one key reason why I enjoy/feel NRS>>>>Capcom fighting games.
Why charge for extra content that you can originally put into the game to begin with?
Of course I'm sure they'll have DLC, but how cool would it be if the only DLC were more characters and their skins or perhaps new stages? Yet, the rest of the alternates are already in the game!!
The color customization and KAK in a game like this means little to personally, to have 3 or 4 alternates in the game besides the initial costume alone is epic!
The XP system I trust won't be "too difficult" like in COD or other games, this is a fighting game afterall I'm sure it'll be good.