Not got the time to learn Mortal Kombat X's fairly straightforward fatalities? You'll be able to buy 'Easy Fatalities' from the PlayStation Store. The consumable – which, in fairness, can also be obtained in-game via the Krypt – will cost you $0.99 for five time saving finishers and $4.99 for 30 manoeuvres. Pretty darn gross, huh?
There are other add-ons available at launch, too: the Kombat Pack – which we already know about – grants early access to four playable characters for $29.99, including the Predator and Jason Voorhees; Goro, a pre-order bonus, can be purchased for $4.99; Blue Steel Sub-Zero is yours for $1.99; all Krypt items can be unlocked for $19.99.
NetherRealm's made a meaty game here – perhaps more so than any other first edition fighting game in recent memory – so it's hard to get too outraged over these optional transactions, but IGN points out that, in addition to the main game, you're looking at about $122.95 to get access to everything that the title has to offer. Vote with your wallets, guys.
[source uk.ign.com]
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I'm fairly certain that number will only increase down the line with additional skin packs and more characters, given Injustice had 6 extra characters I expect more than 4 for MKX by the end of it.
It's the main reason I didn't pick up this game on release, I'm a completionist who needs all the fighters but I'm not paying over the odds for them.
I don't mind them charging for extra characters to be honest, as it's not like — Goro aside — they've just ripped them off the disc; they're still being worked on.
And I guess the time saver pack and stuff is easy enough to ignore... I think it just looks bad.
Really doesn't look the best. I want to play MKX but will wait for a Komplete edition that will drop at some point.
I'm okay with charging for them if the cost isn't too bad which remains to be seen. I mean the Injustice characters were what... £4 a pop standard? Could we see £5 for a single character from here on in?
Given the season pass is £24.99 for 4 (and skin packs which lets face it aren't anywhere near as good as extra characters so they're probably only there to make the season pass look like better value) I think the least we can expect to pay for a solo character is a 5er, maybe heaven forbid even £6 or beyond....
Goro costs 5$, it's not that bad for a character in my opinion.
At the moment they haven't said anything about skins that really interests me, so I'll skip them.
I think lot of people missed a detail. Kombat pact is actually a season pass for 4 DLC pacts. For example the first DLC pact, which is the Horror one, has Jason and 4 ( or 3? ) costumes. If they sell that seperately and Jason is 5$ like Goro, is not that bad. Of course we will have to wait and see.
Pay to unlock the Krypt is in my opinion stupid, eventually you will gather the Koins for everything and only thing that really matters in it, gameplay wise, are the brutalities. Concerpt art, secondary skins and fatalities are not worth the real money. Skins can be unlocked with finishing the Klassik tower of the character you want, for fatalities just see a guide. I think this site has one! Brutalities need to be unlocked in order to use them.
As for the easy fatalities, like someother guys said, on other forums "If you cant perfom them, most probably you wont even win to do them", seriusly it's are too easy to do. them
By the way, in case you did not pre order for Goro and want to try him, he is in the premium (weekly) tower now.
If character prices stay the same from Injustice I won't be too annoyed but it just seems like they're going to be adding in Skins to justify charging more.
I already have good but I'd like Jason and stinky face but I ain't paying £25. I'm not interested in the rest. A real shame.
MKX has looooads of content, that's for sure, so this is essentially saying "here have some more, but you'll need to pay". Not sure how I feel about that.
What the actual F
Who cares, it doesn't allow you to get a boost over other players and is essentially just costume packs in the sense that they are all aesthetic changes applied to the game, just ignore them.
I imagine there are some people who do have difficulty with certain inputs or timing of presses and this could help them out to really get the most out of the game , alas this is 2015 so there must be something really petty to complain for any new release.
There's some pretty stupid DLC in there--pay to not play the game kind of crap. But, it's optional and I'm getting the GameStop limited edition with all the Season Pass stuff in it anyway, so I won't be paying anything else. I was sucker/MK fanboy enough to get the Season Pass, I can handle the unlocks myself.
I'd probably only get Goro and Sub Zero's skin. The rest I won't lose sleep over, and I would rather unlock all the krypt stuff myself.
Loved MK 9 and Injustice, will really enjoy MK X from what I've played and I'm a fan of NetherRealm studios, but no matter how you slice this, it's a bad look. Even with all the content on the disc, they are charging for the Kombat Pack and Goro is only available now if you pre-ordered (surely he'll be $5 or $6 down the line). The fatalities don't actually effect whether you can win a match or not so I this isn't like paying for a super weapon or something in shooter. Can't really kill NetherRealm for doing what a lot of other studios do but it is a bad look.
What does it cost to unlock the Wombat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZbEvxDwXQw
Since I spend sometimes 10 euros to buy a single skin for a champion in League of Legends...5 for a character isn't bad xD
Also, people only buy it if they want it...right?
Remember MK Armageddon?
Remember how much stuff it had?
Remember you only had to pay for the game to access it all?
What? Paying for finishers? When will we learn?
Nothing that makes you win easily.
Purely cosmetic or time saving.
Where's the problem?
@Scollurio I don't think it's really bad in comparison to other examples, but I think the thing is that it just seems unnecessary.
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