Rashid is actually cool despite the shitty Story Mode and really horrible disc-locked costume(s) (He was going to be my main). The funny thing about him is that he's not that great of a character when it comes to tiers (he's meh or shit, but not Alex and Gief shit). Him taking the spotlight is bullshit with, you know, Ryu being the main fucking character.
I broke my conditioning 4 years ago after getting fed up with the SFxT bullshit, and how they really fucked up a dlc costume pack in UMvC3. I was actually going to support them again until I saw the piece of shit Jojo port, DmC, the Decrapre news in Ultra, and even Duck-Tales* (they tried to announce the Jojo port as a "big announcement" in Space Battle Opera…despite the Japanese already knew about it).
It's hard to break it, but it can be done. To be honest, I almost bought SFV until I realized they were trying to hide day one disc-locked shit (costumes and such) through a season pass that doesn't even give you everything.
*This game was meh as fuck once you got over the nostalgia.
Alex was proof that nostalgia is a hell of a drug when all the fgc fucktards kept obsessing over him despite never using him out of 3S casual games like 3S Sean (I remember making fun of people on SRK for whining about Sean not being in V. The butt-hurt was amazing).
Something about them doesn't feel right though.
The fgc will defend SFV because if it calls Capcom out, Capcom can pull the plug in its only opportunity to make a living out manchild-thug-like behavior, smoking weed, and playing shitty video games like SFV.
Shit, Tekken and Namco fanboys nearly apologized to Mike Murray when he bitched about not getting his ass kissed over fucking Tekken 7 tourney announcements (How do you get hype for a game you won't touch for 1-2 years while Japan and a few parts of California will get to enjoy it?).
Pros don't want to lose that weed money, so they have to praise that shitty game and Capcom's ass. You also have guys like Geoff the Hero who try to look legit via dick sucking despite Geoff somewhat hates the fgc and Geoff isn't in a much better spot (He made a great Cammy guide in SF4, but that's all he did out of trolling videos).
If anyone tells you tiers in SFV mean nothing, bring up how Nash can be all kinds of bullshit, and Gief is so bad a pro-player dropped him for Alex (another loser) or even Ryu, another top tier (Geoff didn't reply when I brought up Snakeeyes dropping Gief on a stream after saying tiers mean nothing).