I was kind of arguing the topic elsewhere. I really don't mind a few days lag on balances, of which this is the only time that's happened. Partly I don't mind because I have it on PS4, and it doesn't impact my characters, but it's also because when you get right down to it, people that actually play at the level that all this stuff matters are very rare. Like, you can probably name half of them kind of rare.
Most of those people aren't playing on PC exclusively, and most of the rest of us are going to win and lose by our own short comings and not the characters', or because someone else's character is broken. I'm not going to be changing much over the course of a few days, and I can learn stuff then just as well as I can today.
Maybe it's old man patience, but for a few days I'm willing to be sympathetic to the technical hurdles of how the patches have to be delivered given there was significant forward progress for this game. IJ2 came out months late and still had character delays, and it's not like we weren't told early on stuff would be delayed by a few days as the norm.
For content, I'm still patient. I'm probably going to be very eager to try Sindel, but I tend to be more looking forward to the experience than angry it's not in the here and now. There is a limit to how far stuff can get delayed before the sucks meter does rise sharply, but a week ain't it. It's objectively not ideal, and falling behind new norms, but outrage needs to fit the situation, and a few days behind only warrants a little grumbling in my book.
On another note, I will say I'm not a big believer in voting with your wallet. In this case, they already have most of that wallet money and their isn't a lot of abstaining one has left as an option. Also, not buying something doesn't send a focused message. Lost sales are hard to see, and harder to quantify. It's hard to know what is going to sell, and why, and who didn't buy and why. Is it because of the DRM, the SJW initiative, because the characters are all lame, because the game is a projectile spam fest, Scorpion is broken, the game is slow, the game is not MK, violence taken too far, all the sexy is gone, or maybe IJ2 was late, MKX was a mess and late so we don't trust WB/NRS games on PC? All of those are things people say.
If all someone has is a lower than expected number, then they get to start drawing their own conclusions about why it is the way it is without any real way to prove much. While it's important that people don't just complain, while buying up everything which sends conflicting messages, they do have to state their issues or someone is going to just invent reasons, and that's only when something doesn't sell well. If MK11 sold really well, then who is going to see a nosale? What does that look like? Do you even care at that point, because it sold to or past expectations.
AND I'm now rambling, tired and should be going to bed. This probably doesn't even make sense.
But I dunno. I'm monitoring the situation. The patch this week w/ Nightwolf would be cool enough. Maybe I should just not take it as serious, just play online and in the future if I go to those weeklies/monthlies a patch behind just try to have fun anyway. That's generally my problem - I tend to forget games are just about having fun.
. The patch probably should be included, wouldnt make sense otherwise but lets hope for the best.
