I feel like a lot of people seem to be taking it like it's a binary thing; they don't like the fact that there arent long combos so they don't like the game, or they love the change from the rush down heavy 5050 shenanigans mkx had. Looking at both sides (things you like and dislike about the game) would put things into a much better perspective and maybe help you to wait and see how it pans out on release.
We know for a fact that this game is not as fast paced as either mk9 or mkX, especially X. 11 doesn't have as long of combos as either as well; this is pretty much fact. Now, wether you like this or not is obviously dependent upon you. Taking myself into example, I liked the long combos from Mkx. I loved the aggressive play style. It was fun to play and fun to spectate, and completing a long/hard combo during a real match that you labbed for hours to learn was very satisfying.
Mk 11 in this regard is not what I like in particular. But we have to remember that it is an absolute fact that longer combos are going to be done when the game releases. The combos we are seeing right now are NOT the combos that we will see during professional matches; nobody has gotten an immense amount of time to learn them, and to double down on this, we don't even know the whole cast yet, so just like jade has run, there might be characters who are more combo heavy.
So on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no combos at all and 10 being mkx, everyone is seems to be getting up set that the game looks like a 3 or 4 on this scale right now, but after release it will probably end up somewhere between a 5-7.
So someone in my position may say "well this went from a 10 in combos to a 5-7, this sucks!" But what are we getting in return for this "down grade" in combos (if you liked mkx style combos)? We are getting a much more honest, neutral based game, that focuses more on footies and less on 5050's and just has less dirt than mkx overall. To me, even from someone who much prefers mkx style combos, this is just one minus with a bunch of pluses. Yes, it does suck knowing the game is going to be slower and less combo intensive that the previous two mk games, but it's also good for many other reasons (I mean remember pre patch Tanya and alien? Wtf kinda shit was that? Lol). Mkx's combo system itself single handedly killed the last match hype for me during the tekken master-sonic set of evo (screw armored launchers).
I think criticism of the game and voicing opinions now is perfectly fine though, I don't want anyone to think I'm saying this to shush other opinions, I'm saying this just to kind of calm the nerves of people who aren't to fond of what they are seeing as of now
