Again, i didn't say it was. I used it as an example to illustrate that glitches and infinites are not exclusive to NRS. Also, in the original post that no one read but comments on anyway, i presented the caveat that i had found that and an infinite Omen had on Aganos after a very brief Google search. Nothing too in depth.
Yes glitches, mistakes, etc. are in everything everywhere. Here's my point:
I label NRS as a producer of a casual fighting game because of the way they approach balancing their games. Balance changes historically have been to completely nerf characters into the ground to be unusable in a tournament setting (Injustice Scorpion, MK9 Sub Zero and Scorpion, MKX: TBD). They lack a sense of finesse and it shows. (No, I'm not listing all instances of poor patches - there are too many, I don't remember all of them, and don't care enough to go track them down. But we all lived through it and the point I'm making is accurate).
On another point that was excellently posted is that character tools in MKX don't generally synergize with each other. This backs up my claim about NRS being more interested in selling to more casual players through flash and the 'wow' factor (OH COOOOL [insert favorite character] CAN DO [insert special move]!!! SWEET!). They're all just moves that the dev team thought would be cool...and that's it.
Ed Boon has said over and over they want to top their previous game, and you know he means theatrically. Look at the netcode. You want to know how much NRS listens to us? I can't imagine how many posts there were about how the netcode holds back the tournament scene and here we are yet again without rollback netcode. That's a casual mentality - most people (non-TYM people) do not care at all about frame data. At all. They blame lag when they whiff or gets stuffed, get angry for a minute, then keep playing. That's who NRS appeals to. Not people who say "Holy shit, he just punished a 5 frame window, that was good play."
As for KI...I love it.
The Omen "infinite" is Omen chaining together throws. On normal sized characters, even Glacius, this isn't possible in the corner, but yes - Omen gets an almost-kindof 50/50 off his throw in the corner vs Aganos. Hardly the gamebreaking infinite you clearly want it to be since Aganos's standing LP is fast so even if Omen tries to attack instead of throw again he can get stuffed.
As others pointed out, the Hisako ultra-infinite has no bearing on gameplay or balance. And has been patched.
So what it comes down to is that when a new patch comes out (like today, for KI - Cinder now playable) there will likely be some things that need to be patched. I know that Iron Galaxy will fix what needs fixing in a short time and that they are often already aware of issues before players find them. They take their game seriously and their internal QA/balancing process reflects that.
Who knows how long it'll take for Kitana's infinite to be removed.
