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.
“Free to play live service games” are a scam. They’re built on an abusive business model, where addiction and frustration are the only way the game makes money. Fuck their costs. They spend that money because they know they can squeeze it back out of you, if you let them keep subtly disappointing you and dangling the option to open your wallet.
What you want is like saying casinos are okay if they just had better odds. It is an optimistic misunderstanding how this garbage works. All incentives point toward making you less happy, so you can pay them to fix that, but keeping you unaware and unwilling to quit. Charging real money doesn’t just cost more for less content - it is making games objectively less enjoyable.
Maximum profit cannot come from a good game that’s fun to play for an entire year. It comes from day-one fuckery, either gouging gentle enough to keep people from running scared, or gouging hard enough that their boycott counts for nothing.
Lmao you sure as hell talk a lot for having zero fucking clue what you’re talking about