Mortal Kombat 1 players are finding themselves quite upset this week following the announcement that paid Fatalities will soon be coming to the popular fighting game. With the last few Mortal Kombat installments, NetherRealm Studios has added paid content that players can choose to purchase outside of the main game. Not only has this additional content taken the form of DLC fighters and story expansions, but an in-game storefront has also been established that gives players new cosmetic options for various characters. Now, with Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm is tucking exclusive Fatalities behind a paywall too, and it’s not going over well with fans.
Frustration is the only reason people give them money. Fear of missing out, forced waiting, rolling the dice in vain - there’s endless ways to make people want something and not get it. Directly monetizing that manufactured desire is an abuse of why anyone plays games.
If you’re having fun without paying them, they’re losing money. Or at best - you’re the AI for paying players to treat like chumps.
I guess ‘you just don’t like it’ goes on the list of reasons people make up instead of addressing the argument.
Lol, instead of addressing what argument? Your argument is entirely “nuh-uh, you are frustrated. I know you are because my argument would fall apart if you weren’t, so you are. It’s just that you like being frustrated.”
It’s just not the case. There are rare good ones out there, and if that frustrates you into claiming I’m some masochist and therefore my enjoyment is somehow invalid, that’s your own whole subscription of issues.
I named three unambiguously commonplace examples of what I’m talking about. Every single game that squeezes money out of people, over and over, uses some equivalent tricks. That’s what squeezes the money out of people. If you can’t deal with that and want to make up a conversation, have it with yourself and leave me alone.
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