Street Fighter V temporarily delisted and online functions turned off due to issues caused by last week's PHP security flaw

Though Street Fighter 6 has been the most popular fighting game in the world for three years running, there are still dedicated soldiers playing Street Fighter V right now. Be that due to its much larger character roster (thanks to many more years of updates, obviously, but I do personally miss G), its unique V-Skill and V-Trigger mechanics, or people just not liking Drive Rush or throw loops in 6, the playerbase is still very much there. Unfortunately, that playerbase is currently facing the consequences of the PHP programming language vulnerability and subsequent security-led shutdowns across online services from the last week onwards, as Street Fighter V's online functionality has been shut down until it can be ensured to be secure. It's also been temporarily delisted, effectively taking it off sale, from Steam.

In a statement posted to Twitter, developer-publishers Capcom stated that "Emergency maintenance is currently underway to address this issue. Until the fix has been completed, sales on the PlayStation Store and Steam will be suspended in stages." Capcom weren't specific in exactly how the game could be vulnerable, but considering the (seemingly unrelated) data breach the Capcom ID service suffered last week, perhaps they wish to stay tight-lipped on security vulnerabilities for the time being.

Street Fighter V remains accessible for those who already own it, minus the online functionality. No endless grinding away in ranked or buying costumes for now, which is probably for the best. There's still Arcade Mode! It took them three years to add it, but it's there now!

All this did also let me see a truly hilarious Twitter reply, which I do want to share: "You lying corpo cunts ain't gonna fix shit, you're trying to force us to play 6!" God, why didn't Capcom think of that before? Street Fighter 6 has totally, definitely been struggling for players, so the most appropriate response is to shut down Street Fighter V and use an internet-spanning security flaw as an excuse. A devious plan, indeed.