Ion3008 Wrote:
I'm sorry but Fujin and Li Mei have even less of a chance of selling than the NPCs already in game. At least they have a general recognition from not just the old trilogy but MK9 as well.
But say you bring in those characters throw in a Ninja who has most of his shit taken and given to other characters in game already so why even waste the time and the only important one being a character who was not at all in Story mode much like Noob Saibot. Might as well just call it the Cyrax pack instead.
Pretty fucked up to hint at a story pack and not include any of the NPCs that were fightable in Story.
It pisses people off either way you slice it so you might as well just do what people have come to expect: Work on the NPCs in game and throw in a surprise character.
Except we now live in a world where demand = high probability. Tremor is all the proof you need of that. He wasn't involved or even mentioned in the story AT ALL and yet people bitched and moaned about him and we got him. Same thing with the guests. People loved Freddy last time so now we got two of them instead of actual MK characters.
Now add in the amount of people bitching about characters like Fujin, Cyrax, Noob, Smoke ect. on Twitter which is pretty much constant daily and compare them to the people bitching about Baraka and Sindel. It's not even close. In fact, unless you're a member of one of the boards I don't think I've seen a good chunk of people bitching and moaning about wanting Baraka and Sindel as DLC since the first week the game came out. After that it's died off considerably. Those others I mentioned have been constant and those are who I'd imagine they'd look at as contenders. So why take a character like Noob who is heavily requested but not featured in the story and who has moves shared with pre-existing roster characters and put him in the game? Same reason we have multiple telekinetic users, multiple fireballs users, multiple teleport users, multiple weaponry users. Because they're popular and they sell.
Also, it's only fucked up if that's how you perceived what a Story Pack would've included. A "story pack" could be anything with any character featured in the game, fightable or not. Now if he had said "Story NPC pack" or "Story Kombatable pack" then it'd be more obvious but thats not what we got.
Anyways, believe what you will but all I'm saying is just don't expect all 3 of them to make it because they won't. It's the same as expecting the first Kombat Pack to have been all MK characters before it was announced who was in it. It's just not gonna happen. There are too many other characters that are receiving more widespread attention and being requested than those two and thats just the God's honest truth. Does it suck? Yeah, because I actually like Baraka and wouldn't mind him or Sindel in, but it just won't happen. Not all 3 of them at once.
