CountBlack
Member
dudes are indirectly (or directly?) paying off sonic fox' tuition and any bills he'll have for the next couple years lmao
eat young man eat
eat young man eat
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Ed Boon teasing big Mortal Kombat news for tomorrow ($500K MK prize pool)
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Leafhopper
Banned
Don't know how people that paid for MKX on PC that have a game that still is more or less broken and not getting support at all is funny.
Waylon Drums
Member
We need to teach these people how to properly hype something. What a waste.
Mechanized
Member
To my understanding he also tweeted "500,000", which is how many copies the PC version of mkx reportedly sold.
Leafhopper
Banned
Yep.
Gunslinger
Member
Oh trust me I am not laughing at them I am laughing at how badly WB fails at handling this PC failure...
DryEyeRelief
Member
All the top players in the US have to really ask themselves, how much do you really like Street Fighter?
Placing second to Sonic Fox pays a hell of a lot more than getting 9th place at Capcom Cup.
Placing second to Sonic Fox pays a hell of a lot more than getting 9th place at Capcom Cup.
Are you familiar with how he does things? You can't look at one post in a vacuum here. The difference here is Boon's shtick is giving vague, leading hints and teases about upcoming content. Given the context of his tweets over the years, him specifically highlighting a tweet referring to a PC version following a tweet teasing a big announcement follows his patterns. Him even referring to the PC version at all is especially notable after they purposefully buried their head in the sand and went completely silent on the PC topic to minimize backlash. Them announcing something on the PC front would have completely followed his patterns.
Gunslinger
Member
This will certainly be interesting. We will now find out if SFV becoming super big in the tournament scene because of cash money or people really love the game...cause now there's a new challenger in town offering similar amount of cash money.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
also:
"putting out the Kombat Pack 2 and the online fixes on PC isn't worth it, there's not enough money to be made in doing that.
now, let's give away $500k in an esport"
"putting out the Kombat Pack 2 and the online fixes on PC isn't worth it, there's not enough money to be made in doing that.
now, let's give away $500k in an esport"
Why would Ed Boon tweet the number of copies PC sold? Just think about it, that one's not even a hint to PC.
why people assume its his fault? they are owned by WB. or do you guys think he doesnt want for people play his game?
Skyward Sheep
Banned
Because Ed Boon is notorious for posting vague, often trolly tweets.
Edit: And as seen below, he's tweeted about it before. So yeah, seems pretty reasonable people would jump to the conclusion of it being a PC hint.
dugdug
Banned
That's not the only tweet, though? He, like, *directly* references the number of PC copies sold right here:
https://twitter.com/noobde/status/714927802051653633
Oh, if it was actually just one tweet... but it wasn't. Check his fucking twitter feed.
He's a twat and perfectly knew what shit he was doing.
Nobody should buy games made by NRS while that jackass is at the helm.
His twitter isn't run by WB.
SF5 is still going to absolutely demolish it in the competitive scene.
Jawmuncher
Member
Yep that's the biggest thing here.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
From his Twitter feed:
He knows what he's doing. (First person to Rubio this post gets punched in the crotch)
He knows what he's doing. (First person to Rubio this post gets punched in the crotch)
NeoRaider
Member
He promised same experience for both PC and Console players. We on PC never got that. I don't really care if it's WB or NRS or Ed. They are all disrespecting more than 500k ppl that paid for crappy, unfinished product with no support.
Plus he should just shut the fuck up and stop making things even worse with his childish behaviour and trolling online.
GusZamboni
Member
what is apocalipse pack?
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
A costume pack with skins for Takeda Takahashi, D'Vorah, and Erron Black similar to raider gear found in fallout 4.
Also, as others have said, competitive MKX has been dominated by a single player (Sonicfox) since release and that's very likely not going to change no matter how much money you throw at it.
twozerotwo
Member
Lmao I don't know why this made me laugh out loud.
Also, I second changing the name of the events to "SonicFox's College Fund".
ramoisdead
Member
I just knew it had to be something stupid as a esports prize pool. Fuck you Ed, NRS, and WB especially with all the misleading folks with those retweets on the PC sales count. Seriously.
ghosttouchdowns
Member
I see one retweet that is addressing the use of a rival, Capcom, character to celebrate PC sales. People need to stop thinking everything is a hint. You set yourselves up and then act like its everyone else's fault when you are mistaken.
Someone in reddit linked to Ed literally saying "No" to a mention of Rain being added to MKX and people responded with theories of when Rain is coming to MKX.
This is out of control.
Someone in reddit linked to Ed literally saying "No" to a mention of Rain being added to MKX and people responded with theories of when Rain is coming to MKX.
This is out of control.
Retrofluxed
Member
You can't blame people for inferring that we were getting a fixed port after this tweet: https://twitter.com/noobde/status/713121382058471424
ghosttouchdowns
Member
Yes, I can. The tweet to which he responded suggests that it is Ed's decision regarding PC support and that it he made a money grab. His response does not directly mention further PC support. He said the person was uninformed.
Like MK's gameplay, this response was a 50/50. It could mean they are uninformed and that a PC port fix is coming OR it could mean that the poster is uninformed as to how business decisions are made regarding the game. It seems many may have guessed wrong on this 50/50.
But was it really a 50/50 considering the context?
The tweet was a personal attack against Ed and he responded with a personal attack in return defending against the accusations made against him. If you want to extrapolate a PC port fix from this response tweet and disregard the official press release then you should probably stop reading tweets all together.
Finally, this whole tweet thing seems to be connected to a tribute post to Gary Shandling. I don't blame Ed one bit for "trolling" if this is the kind of personal attacks he is receiving on a tweet wholly and unequivocally unrelated to MKX.
Retrofluxed
Member
Why would they bother creating a MAC port of a version of the game that is no longer supported? Anyone could take that as proof of a fixed PC version is in the works.
Eh, I already did it earlier.
Sometimes his trolling is brilliant. Sometimes it's just MEAN, man.
Dick Justice
Banned
Was it WB who accessed his Twitter account and blatantly trolled the PC fanbase over the lack of support?
Yeah, it's basically his playground. He's the Michael Jordan of Mortal Kombat.
I might be wrong, but I'm *pretty* sure he's won every single NRS tournament he's entered for the past like 3 or 4 years.
I saw him lose a couple times, but the guy adapts so quickly that whatever beat him yesterday, he counters today.
Tallshortman
Member
FGC has never been driven mainly by money. FGC prize pools are straight up poverty day job having level unless you're one of the few top players with good sponsors, even then most of them have full time jobs.
Even Evo is peanuts. Being like top 4 in CPT is the only way to do this full time without big sponsor support.
Gumbie
Member
Retrofluxed
Member
I really hope someone in the media covers this and takes Ed to task.
Yup, that's the one I remember. It blew me away.