Quick side note intro: First time poster here, finally registered to the forum after being a longtime lurker, been playing the game since beholding the crowd gathered around an original MK arcade cabinet at my 10th birthday party at Aladdin's Castle and have played every game since including supporting it faithfully during the often ridiculed 3d era.
Now that we got that out of the way, I wanted to attempt to get some opinions on the aftermath of the official KP2 announcement. Firstly, even though a lot of people are clearly irritated by the longer-than-expected wait, I just wanted to point out how nearly everyone seems to be assuming the DLC will be released in January/early 2016, while neglecting to really process the fact that they left it very open ended by saying "the first HALF of 2016", which could easily mean us not seeing the final character released (or can you imagine even the first of the four) as late as late June or early July, that time frame I feel would be ridiculous and hugely detrimental to sales performance.
Secondly, has anyone else been shocked at how drastically the announcement slowed the pace of discussion among this forum and others? It seemed to cause an immediate peak and since has just meandered into virtual obscurity except among the most eager and impatient of us fans. I can't help but think NRS and Boon are aware of this, even so far as to have Boon posting examples of fan backlash to twitter, so the question is, WHY? Why do NRS and Boon continue to remain ultimately silent since the fallout? In the business of entertainment it's pretty well common place to believe that aa lack of updates, promotion, and publicity can spell disaster for a product. Perhaps it wouldn't have seemed so shocking if it were gradual as opposed to going from constant Kombat Kasts and regular social media updates to nearly nothing but the random twitter troll from Special Ed. I for one think this is a massive mistake, and I can't wrap my head around why they built us up to this huge announcement only to hit us right in the crotch with "news" that we all pretty much already knew, and rub salt in the wound by giving us exactly ZERO details and in the ample time that has followed have not even announced a single fighter to this rabid fanbase. People WILL lose interest in what you're trying to sell them if you can't even directly portray what they're supposed to be buying!
I feel like the success this game has had as being the best selling game of the year thus far (I also believe this will change rather quickly with Halo 5 and other holiday releases immanent) has gone to Special Ed's head and fed his already over inflated ego to falsely believe that the MK fanbase will gobble up whatever slop they toss down to us without question and with a smile, have they so quickly forgotten the critical reception of the 3d era?
Bottom line is: the hungry fans need to be thrown a few appiteasers to hold us all over and get the casuals more amped up to spend their hard earned cash, ESPECIALLY with the failure of the last-gen release, the problematic PC release, and the abyssmal netcode.
Thoughts?
