The Lamonster
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Can somebody please explain the Capcom jokes to me?
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Mortal Kombat X is selling "Easy Fatalities" for money [Also unlockable w/ Krypt]
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E the Shaggy
Junior Member
So to clarify, does this mean you can make any 30 fatalities permanently "easy" to pull off or just be able to do easy fatalities 30 times?
Capcom always has a ton of microtransactions.
You think so?
I'd imagine that some people play MK couch co-op style with casual gamers. It's a pretty ubiquitous IP that most would nostalgically remember whether they were ever good at the game or not.
Given that the game plays just fine as a button-masher, I could totally see someone wanting one-button Fatalities unlocked for fun casual gameplay sessions with friends or family.
The fact that the cheat unlock likely costs less than a cup of coffee also speaks to the fact that time is more valuable than money to some. Many adults have full-time jobs and family duties, so unlocking the cheat is prohibitive on a time : money continuum.
This is why that paid fast-track actually works out for most with busy lifestyles who might want the option without putting in all the legwork to unlock the feature. It's free for those with more time than money, and nominally priced for those on the flip side.
Seems like a win:win situation to me, but I understand that we like in a reactionary-outrage culture these days. I blame the 24hr. cable news outlets.
mullet2000
Member
People think that they are funny.
Journey
Banned
Megatron
Member
This is really the best response to this.
To me selling digital consumables just feels gross and more intentionally exploitative than just a fixed piece of content. People have wildly different views of DLC, and I'm generally more tolerant if work is seemingly involved in fixed DLC content creation, but digital consumables just cross a line for me. I feel like at that point the pub lost any sense of shame.
If I understand correctly, it's not a cheat or one-time unlock, it's a consumable. If you buy 30, and do 30 easy fatalities, they're gone.
I see what you're saying, and get the time/money tradeoff for a single one-time unlock, but that doesn't seem to be how these work.
LordBaztion
Member
I'm ok with having options
You don't get it. I don't have time to press buttons.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Wow, just... wow.
This is how I imagine the 'casual gameplay sessions' argument-scenario plays out:
Bobby: "Hey wanna play the new Mortal Kombat?"
Chuck: "Sure!"
<5 minutes later, "FINISH HIM!">
Bobby: "Check this out" -button input-
Chuck: "Gross! How'd you do that?"
CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE:
1)
Bobby: "Down-back-down-back, B."
Chuck: "Sweet, if I win I'm going to try that!"
Bobby: "It's different for every character, so look at your movelist first."
2)
Bobby: "I paid extra money so I only had to press one button! But only for the next five fatalities, then I have to pay more money again."
Chuck: "Wow Bobby, I don't think we can be friends anymore!"
/ENDSCENE
Bobby: "Hey wanna play the new Mortal Kombat?"
Chuck: "Sure!"
<5 minutes later, "FINISH HIM!">
Bobby: "Check this out" -button input-
Chuck: "Gross! How'd you do that?"
CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE:
1)
Bobby: "Down-back-down-back, B."
Chuck: "Sweet, if I win I'm going to try that!"
Bobby: "It's different for every character, so look at your movelist first."
2)
Bobby: "I paid extra money so I only had to press one button! But only for the next five fatalities, then I have to pay more money again."
Chuck: "Wow Bobby, I don't think we can be friends anymore!"
/ENDSCENE
Chû Totoro
Member
Sadly so true :'(
That's not how gaming should work. Making the progress boring and feel like grinding to force some people to buy these things is a bad practice. And even if you say me that you always have the choice then yeah the only choice is not to buy the game. I don't want to spend 5$ for sh*t like this and I don't want to play 5 hours grinding since it's not fun and 5 hours of my life have way more value than that.
I keep the MK X example because we're in this thread but all these sort of dlc is sh*t and should die. No it's not a viable alternative because IT BREAKS THE GAMES !!!
Allforce
Member
The fact that now the game was DESIGNED for a grind instead of just unlocking these things throws the whole "normal play" notion out the window. They're making it artificially difficult to obtain these perks in the hopes that X number of consumers will just throw their hands up in frustration and flat-out pay for them. That's shitty design.
Chû Totoro;160074121 said:
But...you don't grind for these. There's no reason to grind for these. It turns a 3-5 button input to a 1-3 button one. That is it. That is all these things do.
It's stupid to charge for them, stupid to buy them, and stupid to dismiss the game entirely because of them.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
But there's nothing difficult about getting these tokens at all. There's no artificial difficulty.
But it wasn't. What are you talking about.
It wasn't DESIGNED this way. You don't need this bullshit. It tells you how to do every fatality in the menu.
This isn't a "perk." It's a shortcut for something that is already easy to do.
Yeah, but to me it just makes them look disrespectful to their audience to try to take advantage of the perhaps not-so-informed portion.
RipperGrim
Member
It's a stupid thing to spend money on, I mean how lazy do you have to be for this? damn.
It's also not really something people should be boycotting the game for.....
It's also not really something people should be boycotting the game for.....
Live Free or Die
Banned
Agreed. It's all optional.
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
Why Capcom jokes and not Arc System Works jokes? They're way more greedy than Capcom. Charge $8 per character, then release an updated version which can't just be patched into the old version so you have to buy the disc and oh yeah, it has those characters you bought 3 months ago. Also, expensive system voice and color palette DLC.
If I lost to someone who is so inept at the game they'd have to pay money to use a fatality rather than be physically capable of doing it on their own I'd feel like I was a trash player.
I think the announcer should call them Payalities as mentioned earlier so people can use them to disrespect the people they beat, lol.
Allforce
Member
Literally the definition of a perk. Like someone posted above, they reduced the payout of coins in a day one patch in order to slow down your progress in obtaining the perk. It's a design choice.
I don't care if you buy them or not but it's a cash grab by calculated design.
The only real thing that bugs me about this is that fact that they're consumables rather than just unlocking the ability to have easy fatalities period.
Other than that i don't find anything offensive about it
-Its not giving anyone a competitive edge
-You can still earn easy fatalities in the game if you don't want to go this route of paying for it
-Im surprised they don't let you buy skip fight tokens which are also in the game
People are generally upset on principle and i understand it but it's 2015 and with the ever increasing popularity of mobile games, it's clear to see that people have more money than time. NRS/Warner Bros aren't the first to do it nor will the be the last.
At the very least people should be thankful it doesn't even really affect gameplay.
Other than that i don't find anything offensive about it
-Its not giving anyone a competitive edge
-You can still earn easy fatalities in the game if you don't want to go this route of paying for it
-Im surprised they don't let you buy skip fight tokens which are also in the game
People are generally upset on principle and i understand it but it's 2015 and with the ever increasing popularity of mobile games, it's clear to see that people have more money than time. NRS/Warner Bros aren't the first to do it nor will the be the last.
At the very least people should be thankful it doesn't even really affect gameplay.
It's been said many times and seems to be ignored, but they LOWERED the amount of Koins you get for various activities. How does not seem like something down to push for microtransactions? Same shit happened in Forza.
Chinbo37
Member
Personally Im not outraged, I just think its lame.
DR2K
Banned
Not if you weren't going to buy it anyways.
You think it would be worse if the new version made new players rebuy the dlc characters like Capcom did in UMVC3 which they released 8 months later? It's also a handful of characters, often developed after for the arcade, not a large chunk of the roster locked on disc like SFxT was.
They also gave the Continuum Shift 2 upgrade for free but people seem to forget about that. Ultimately people who play fighting games a lot want new versions after a while. Arcsys puts out a new version around the timeframe I want them to and the system changes are usually pretty substantial.
If it's not worth it to you don't buy it, it's not like it's splitting the playerbase of a game that been dead for months at that point anyway.
skLaFarebear
Member
This is near the bottom of the list of gross fighting game DLC practices to get angry about. Surprised? Sure, but nothing worth canceling an order over, unless you're the type of person to be overreactive to every possibly negative thing you might hear about a game you're excited for.
Phat Michael
Banned
Or maybe they lowered it because they had thought it was simply too easy to obtain them and whatever else you can buy with Koins in the first place. Reducing a payout doesn't automatically mean they are trying to sell you shit. Is it stupid? Sure, but let's not pretend like they are sitting there waiting for you bleed money.
Most people in this thread see the word microtransaction and jump the every conclusion possible at how its destroying the game and the gaming industry, it's just sad and annoying
This is one of the cases where it's done well
I understand that i agree that it's shitty but in relation to these easy fatalities (which i'm addressing as a slightly different issue) what does that even really effect?
Pinko Marx
Banned
Of all the things to be outraged over...
You gamers will argue about anything.
You gamers will argue about anything.
The lack of perspective here is amazing.
Did you guys miss the part about the day one patch making it harder to get Koins?
Why do you think they did that?
If it's unlockable in the game it's a total non issue to me.
"FINISH HIM!"
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*crouch*
*tiny kick*
"CASSIE CAGE WINS!"
Because nothing is more sad to watch than
"FINISH HIM!"
*crouch*
*crouch*
*tiny kick*
"CASSIE CAGE WINS!"
DannyDanger
Member
What about waiting is gonna change anything?
It's not like you cant do fatalities at all
It just seems very similar to Forza where the progression was designed with microtransactions in mind. It's just the nature of the beat. If it's there, they want you to buy it and they will subtly push their audience to think about it.
In a vacuum, easy fatalities are no big deal; I just can't help but look at the big picture.