You can still spend money to advance the Fighter Road, though. Since you can’t save up fighter currency for characters before they release anymore (since all future fighter road exp you get with all characters unlocked goes into battlepass exp instead,) you’ll have to grind for each new character that releases, encouraging longtime players to spend money if they’re impatient. (This won’t happen for a while since most veterans still have legacy character tickets and/or legacy fighter currency to spend, but it seems to be their plan.)