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It has been a while since we've had a good example of micro-transactions done wrong in a triple A title. While easier fatalities is something people have wanted to see in Mortal Kombat for some time, I don't think anybody wanted to pay extra for them.
Mortal Kombat X launched today with a ton of day one DLC alongside micro-transactions that allow you to pull off ‘easy fatalities'. You can get five easy fatalities for $0.99 in the US or you can buy a pack of 30 for $4.99, this will allow you to pull off easy finishing moves with simplified inputs.
Right now, these micro-transactions only appear in the console versions of the game, there is no easy fatality pack listed on Steam at the current time of writing. It does look like Warner Bros was prepared for some backlash to this though, as it has included tokens in the game, which you can earn through playing and spend on two-button finishing moves.
Mortal Kombat launched today for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, with last generation console versions expected later this year. Right now, many PC users are having issues getting the game working. Ever since the series' inception back in the 90's, fatalities have been a selling point for the games.
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KitGuru Says: Micro-transactions are never good to see in triple A titles, especially when they launch at full price. Not only that, but there is already a big catalog of day one DLC available for Mortal Kombat X. Allowing players to buy easy finishing moves seems like a push too far really.
Too retarded to press a combination of buttons? We’ve got you covered!
Nailed it on the first comment.
Sigh, If it is ready to ship with the game it should be included in the game and not sold as day one DLC or micro transactions………is £35 not enough for a PC game …….. Greedy sods.
It is already in the game since you can do fatalities, this is just a shortcut, its nothing that is gamebreaking or offering advantages over players
Someone who doesn’t play MK commenting on MK?? Ignorant sod.
There’s no DLC here just a method for players who can’t pull off fatalities with cash. It’s a smart way of doing things instead where if you suck, you fork out money for easy mode. Cuz, you can’t pull it off the normal way
That’s not how it works.
DLC are not “just” a matter of time. Some content are decided early on to be budgeted as DLC. If not, there won’t be created at all.
Obviously, lots of game are abusing this system, even when the DLC is not day-1 (ie: Evolve).
Just to be clear :
1) the “easy fatalities” are consumable, that mean if you buy 30, after using those 30 easy fatalities you won’t have it anymore.
2) those easy fatalities are already unlockable in the game itself, without any additional money
but it should be how it works. I never buy games with day one DLC I wait untill the GOTY edition goes on sale and end up buying it for less than the cost of day one DLC.
I have been gaming for a very long time, longer than some of our community has been alive for, and the more I see of practices such as D1 DLC and crappy Early Access games (some EA games are great admittedly) that rip consumers off, the more I refuse to purchase full price games.
But that’s my opinion and obviously everyone is free to do as they please with their hard earned cash.
oh I’m sorry what is the character pack called ??
And don’t call me ignorant, I never insulted anyone and I have read enough about MK X to form and intelligent opinion of it. The game looks great but my principles dictate that I will not buy it purely due to day one DLC.
But that is my choice and my opinion. I have passed on several games of late due to day one DLC, as I said I’ll pick them up when the GOTY edition is on sale, I have no peers to impress by saying ” oohh look at me I got the latest MK game, now I fit right in……..”
I didn’t even do that with the very first MK in 1992 (due to me being to old to give a crap about any-ones opinion of me). And as for the Fatality microtransaction, that is something I would never buy anyway due to the fact that if you can’t press a few buttons in a certain order then it’s time to give up playing games like this.
Waiting for a GOTY (weather the DLC are day1 or not) is another matter, as for waiting for the 1st patch to fix all important issues.
People think if the content is ready, it should be in the game, but that’s not (always) true. Some contents cost money to make and doesn’t provide returns.
Putting 2 more characters / cars or whatever in a game won’t make it sell more, and you can’t sell the game more because of that, but that development had a cost.
That’s why, I judge from what the base game already have. If it’s something like Evolve with very few content and DLC (even not on DAY1), I will clearly wait for GOTY … if there is still people to play with.
If the base game has already lot and lots of content, I don’t care about how was funded the DLCs