Don't do your own netcode, use GGPO
Hahaha, not in a million years would they use GGPO.
A lot of things hava already been said, my biggest complaint is these kombat code things, there stupid, should just have all the things in the options menu as a toggle so I could turn on what I like.
Also I want an option to turn off the god damn battle damage, I don't like seeing the female characters all ripped up and bloody, its kinda weird.
Yo, check this out. The PS3 version launched with 28 characters, and the retail price of the game when it was released was about $50. If you base the cost of the game on the amount of characters, each character costs about $1.80 and comes with AT LEAST 2 skins. Skarlet on the otherhand costs $5, has no alternate skin, and the compatibility pack to play her online isn't a forced download, meaning the vast majority of derp-tier players won't have her and all it takes is 1 person out of 8 in a KOTH to cause nobody to be able to play her.
NRS, if you're going to charge more than double what other characters were deemed worth when you retailed the game, maybe you could have the foresight and the courtesy to make the compatibility pack a REQUIRED, MANDATORY download for online play so people could actually play what they paid for.
DLC characters have to be more expensive then the perceived value of the retail characters, its a vastly different business model, I don't feel like going into how video games are budgeted, i'll just say that NRS has to prove that DLC characters are worth the effort. There are a lot of different factors going in to it, but mainly there is a very small pool of people who will buy the DLC, only like 1/6 of the people who have the game will buy the DLC, then the fact that DLC royalties are very high, MS and sony take a cut for every sale, selling a character for 2$ would simply not be worth the effort, and WB would just rather them start working on there next project. Its actually probably worse for fighting games because of how niche characters can be, and not everyone is going to want to play as scarlet.
As for why there not making it mandatory, since they want to release a character every two weeks, they can't include them in a title update, they have already used one free update, they only have one more, after that, they have to pay MS to update there game, and that would go into sales of the DLC.
I would expect after all 4 characters are out, there will be a title update with all the date for them so you won't need the compatibility pack anymore.
It just sucks all around, but that's how it has to be because consoles fucking suck.
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