I would almost be willing to believe that if NRS put a turd in a box some of you would defend it and pre-order the box for $60.
Yes everyone knows you don't "have to buy it". Yes you don't have to preorder. Yes most likely the majority of people on this site as myself will buy it regardless. Yet all of that is irrelevant to the point some guys are making.
1) I don't think I've ever seen a game where they told you what a Day1 DLC was, showed you images and even the character on the select screen, and yet still don't show what you'll be getting with repeated responses about "soon". It puts you in a situation that if you don't pre-order who knows when or how you get Goro? Have they said how much he'll cost? When he'll be available to non pre-orders? Anything? No. Now one can say that "they'll tell us eventually" but when is that? If they weren't gonna show him why announce the DLC MONTHS AGO? No one does this and with good reason not to. For Example, when Bruce Lee was a Day1 DLC for UFC, they let you know you could pay $5.99 without a pre-order or defeat the entire career to unlock him while also showing you clips of him in action. So I'll it again. They announced DLC, months ago, showed you who it was, showed you they're available, while at the same time showing you nothing at all. First time I've EVER seen that happen in ANY game. But maybe someone can think of that one random time it's happened out of the other 99 it doesn't. That is absurd and it still amazes me some people are defending this.
2) There's 7 weeks left and half the roster is still "hidden" from us. No info on the story. No info on online except the unexplained factions. Etc etc. Like others have said I actually want to SEE what I'm buying. I am buying it because I personally expect the game to be amazing, but that doesn't mean this couldn't be better handled. I don't know whether some people only play NRS games exclusively but that is not the norm. Hell even Injustice had that character tournament revealing new characters and showing off their moves in acceptable levels of gameplay every week. Not scrubby play being our one and only means of seeing gameplay. The Kano/Raiden/QC reveals need to come back over what they're doing now. But instead they rather act like it's too secret to do or say anything like "oh no don't place it over Reptile. Oh noooo don't!". Lol. Like seriously? What they're doing now is a tremendous step backwards and mixes massive hype with massive aggravation.
These points I agree with. I'm not gonna keep going on, but those are two major points I think people are not grasping because their NRS shades are too thick for whatever reason. They may not "owe us" anything until right before release, but we don't "owe" them anything either when we're the ones shelling out $60, + future DLC packs, + comic purchases. If anything, we are "owed" a certain level of information on the product we are investing in, which I'm sure we'll get as it draws closer, but don't act like the way they are doing it isn't going to rub some people the wrong way.
:16Bit
