See, Core Fighters is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it's pretty much the full game sans Story Mode and majority of the cast is locked, so you pretty much get the full game with a missing feature and limited access to the cast. However, at the same time, a lot of the talent on PSN is sparse and even going to lobbies doesn't help these days. But I'm not saying that F2P = bad players, it's just there are a lot more of them who aren't willing to learn the game because, let's be honest, it's free and they can delete it anytime they want. I guess it depends on how you look at it, because CF was enough to tide me over until I got the full version of the game. CF is so limiting.I like to think the answer is "yes" to both of those questions, but I have always been a little bitter that the 360 never got Core Fighters.