Well, MKX has $100,000 tournaments, and got a complete netcode rewrite less than a year into the game's life -- I don't think there's any question about NRS' level of support!
Aww shit, I only saw Arbiter's Sanghelios stage so I assumed all guests would get one, oh well. Also Rare Replay does come with KI Gold
Eh... saying they got a "complete rewrite" less than a year into the game's life really just reflects NRS doing what they should to fix their problems. If it came more than a year out, it would seem unnecessary and an afterthought.
Just like you could say KI should have had additional characters/content (and I suppose MK needed $100,000 tournaments as well, right?Eh... saying they got a "complete rewrite" less than a year into the game's life really just reflects NRS doing what they should to fix their problems. If it came more than a year out, it would seem unnecessary and an afterthought.
Not to mention the fact that MKX needed a rewrite. It's not like KI nailed netcode back in 2013 or other games haven't had stability as a launch option or anything.
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Come on Crimson, I know you can do better than that. MKX needed a serious amount of balancing and netcode overhaul at launch. They don't need to support tournaments, but they can if they want. That really wasn't the point of my post, now was it?
Is that if you buy KI Gold from the store? I bought the Complete Edition of KI in December which netted me the current game and both of the classic KI games so I don't think I got rare replay with it.
And KI needed a several more characters and a good deal more content at launch. Yet when KI adds additional characters, it's "KI has better support than any NRS game will get".. But when MK revamps the netcode, it's "Well they shouldn't get credit for supporting the game, it should have been there anyway".
I think he meant that buying the Rare Replay gives you some KI Gold currency for funsies as part of the purchase.
Isnt KI Gold the name of the original KI? Thats what I meant, Rare Replay comes with the original oldschool KI game
Not really. Killer Instinct was always intended to be a multi-season, free-to-play base game. We knew that each year would yield new content and that the only pricing model that came close to a "full-price game" would include the content coming down the pipe. Microsoft and Iron Galaxy (Double Helix at the start) never lied or mislead anyone about this.
But no one's saying that KI somehow misled the public -- only that adding characters over time isn't some unusual form of support; it's what the game always needed to become a 'complete' and fully fleshed-out fighting game title.
Fair enough. Before continuing, I would like stated that I did not post that original comment about NRS's support vs. IG's support, though. The comment I did make about NRS learning from KI was more regarding things that we already discussed, like netcode stability. And though it's subjective, I think IG does a much better job balancing their game, but this is subjective and we don't need to waste time arguing that unless we just really wanted to.
KI Gold was the name of the N64 release of KI2 IIRC, but I already have that game as it was included with the Complete Edition of KI2013.
A nice, respectful person on TYM who respects my opinion? WHAT IS THIS!?
There's a sickness which started spreading around 2012, (MK9 awesomeness's fault) which made ppl want every game that has the words "mortal kombat" in it's title, to have EVERY character from the entire storyline and 24 year history available in the character select screen. They will never play them... but they demand to feel their presence.