As a fighting game enthusiast (who’s not particularly good at fighting games), I’m deliriously excited for NetherRealm’s upcoming sequel, Mortal Kombat X. It’s got all the right ingredients to make it a truly exceptional fighting game. Taking all it learned from the successful Mortal Kombat 9 reboot, NetherRealm has iterated in grand fashion, adding 3 style variants per character, making MK as deep and technical a fighter as MK could possibly be. Yes, I’m excited. I’m also a little annoyed.
The big thing that’s making me twitch is, of course, the game’s DLC. Goro, the great big four-armed Shokan warrior is only available to those who pre-order – which is, I think, a bit shifty. It’s not the most egregious thing about the game’s impending DLC either. If there’s one thing I detest in fighting games, it’s hiding characters behind a paywall, and Mortal Kombat X does just that. The first bit of DLC The Kombat Pack, contains 4 playable characters, and a wealth of admittedly cool skins. Here’s what you’ll get in the pack:
The Ultimate Horror Pack:
- Playable character Jason Voorhees
- Horror skins Vampiress Mileena, Kraken Reptile and Pharaoh Ermac
The Klassic Pack #1:
- Playable character Tanya
- Klassic skins for Kano, Sonya and Liu Kang
The Predator / Prey Pack:
- Playable character Predator
- Predator-themed skins Commando Johnny, Infrared Scorpion and Carl Weathers as Jax
The Klassic Pack #2:
- Playable character, Tremor
- Klassic skins for Quan Chi, Jax and Kung Lao
The complete contents were outed by a Microsoft store listing, and they leaked the fact that Liu Kang will indeed be playable in the game – something NetherRealm hasn’t officially announced just yet. It’s a fair bit of content, and just the motion capture in bringing these characters to the game obviously costs a fair bit of money – but at half the price of the full game, it’s a bit of a slap in the face, if you ask me. Yes, The Kombat Pack is included in any of the game’s special editions, but if you’re getting the vanilla version of Mortal Kombat X, it’ll cost you $30 for the new characters and a couple of skins. That doesnt mean that the content has been cut out of the game to nickle-and-dime you, though – but I think that it’s a bit much at half the price of the base game.
wish I could get people to understand MKX DLC was not cut from launch content we do it after we finish the disc 1/2 http://t.co/NLZjM8ekJz
— lover of tacos (@lover_of_tacos) February 12, 2015
DLC content can’t get done in time for launch, if the content wasn’t DLC it would not be part of the game. There’s just not enough time 2/2
— lover of tacos (@lover_of_tacos) February 12, 2015
Admittedly, this doesn’t really temper my excitement for the game, as much as it merely annoys me. What do you think? Is this fair DLC practice – or does it all come across as being a bit slimy? I have no problem with aesthetic DLC in games like this; if people want to part with their money for cosmetic changes, that’s okay. Separating your player-base in to haves-and-have-nots, especially in a fighting game, isn’t quite as cool. Thankfully, Mortal Kombat X will have unlockable characters and skins, which you’ll get for completing the game – like fighting games used to do.
Last Updated: March 25, 2015
Loftus
March 25, 2015 at 12:32
Whoohoo Liu Kang !!!
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:39
FAILTALITY!
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 12:45
Hey! you can’t use that joke yet, you haven’t bought the FAILTALITY! pack before the game has come out.
Sir I’m gonna have to ask you to cough up….uhm $10 for the pack…and no it wasn’t on disc from the get go
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:45
XD
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 12:40
Overpriced DLC is what you get because people will shit their pants at paying $100 for the base game & $10 for the DLC.
Guild
March 25, 2015 at 12:50
I’m really considering the pre-order just for Goro but I hate the idea of being forced into it just so I can get a character I would maybe use? Putting characters into DLC is not right but people will still buy it. I might even do it for the Jason and Predator ones.
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:52
I’ve thought about preorders a lot. Look you’re either gonna buy a game or not. Now people who’ve played MK as long as me will pick it up day one not because of the preorder bonus but because we love the franchise. It just feels as if they’re falling in line with the industry. Especially with the DLC now.
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:19
Even though I’m buying most of my games much later, when the DLC is discounted too, I’m being a lot more circumspect with that than I used to be. Before I used to just load the whole lot into the shopping cart & buy, but now I’m actually reading user reviews on the DLC too. Because either I’m getting jaded, or a lot of DLC is either not very good or just pointless.
I did that with Child of Light & South Park: Stick of Truth recently. Both games are brilliant but user reviews said the DLC was a waste of money.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 12:42
Yeah currently playing Injustcie God’s Among Us Ultimate edition, picked it up for cheap and intend to do so with MKX
And I was actually planning to get it. Guess that cash will go towards Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the first sin since with that R100 off takealot can pick it up dirt cheap at R260, finally trying my hand at the game
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 12:50
Thinking the same.
Need this game, but No current gen console and still massive backlog, will get the “Komplete” edition
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:50
And there will be.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 12:53
Oh yes because nothing says Komplete profit like repacking the dlc with the game and selling it at the price of the base game
Fatality at it’s finest
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 12:54
*at less than the price of the base game.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 12:56
That’s if they’re feeling kind…GTA and a few others weren’t
But yeah Steam Sale’s shall come so no need to worry now do we:p
Samuel Sanchez
March 25, 2015 at 17:17
Sorry but there will never be a komplete edition in the age of digital content. Because there is no cost incentive in remarketing and repackaging the same exact content. In the older systems dlc was limited by file size.
Not anymore. The only komplete edition now is the same game your buying today with the dlc as free.
Pay close attention to things like titanfall where after a year or more the dlc is given away for free. It basically doubles the size of the game and yet they never repackage a complete edition because it’s pointless spending money on it.
What will happen is DLC will be overpriced, then multiple character packs will be combined into a discount bundle. Then after two years or a year before mk 11 comes out it will all be free download content in order to resurge hype into the new game.
That’s what current games are doing. Not reprinting CDs with the marketing hype that changes nothinf but costs the company money.
mike
March 25, 2015 at 22:15
So, what exactly do you consider a “komplete” edition, if it’s not the game plus all the dlc?
Samuel Sanchez
March 26, 2015 at 08:19
You miss the point. Komplete edition on prior systems was an entirely different game you would go and buy because download content was limited. Now those updates to games are download content. There is no new komplete edition it’s the same game everyone who purchases the CDs on preorder get. When that download content gets bundles and sold or given away free it’s the same game.
If I buy my friend titanfall and he logs into his Xbox one and download the game e not only gets all the original release content he gets all three download packs for free. It’s not titanfall the komplete edition. It’s just titanfall. Your not saving money your just waiting for time. The same as buying a used game from GameStop after a game came out a year ago.
Personally I don’t buy most dlc for games. It eventually is given away or bundled and sold for a discount on Xbox live later. I preordered since I know I will play this game and have no intention of waiting 8 months to save $5-$10 dollars. I’d likely wait for the kombat pack until it goes on sale on gold or bundled later. Not a big deal I’m sure I’ll have plenty of content to do before then.
The Ricker
April 12, 2015 at 05:56
So what did I buy when I bought Dead Rising 3 with all the DLC included?
Samuel Sanchez
April 12, 2015 at 13:31
Please re read what you wrote and realize you answered your own question. You never bought a complete edition Because they didn’t make a complete edition of the game. Instead you bought dead rising 3 and paid for the download content in one purchase. You just proved the point I was making. They don’t make complete editions anymore. You buy games and download content. Eventually that download content is discounted or free. But the person buying dead rising 3 now or a year later owns the exact same game as you. There is no seperate game called a complete edition. It’s one game.
Hammersteyn
March 26, 2015 at 08:07
Well it will be a first then. They did in for Mk9 and Injustice. Better yet. Both previous games came to PS+ anyway.
Samuel Sanchez
March 26, 2015 at 15:13
Neither of those game came to ps4 which no longer is limited by dlc. If you play close attention you will see how nearly every games are now expanded via dlc and no longer require a new disk.
vamp
March 27, 2015 at 01:59
my PS4 copy of injustice ultimate edition would like to have a word with you >.>
Samuel Sanchez
March 27, 2015 at 07:14
You mean the game were the original only released for PS3 and the ultimate edition was the only edition made for ps4.
Ya that still doesn’t change my point.
Admiral Chief
March 25, 2015 at 12:44
Ka-ching amirite?
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:45
You Krack me up.
Admiral Chief
March 25, 2015 at 12:47
Oh Kome on
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 12:47
Unleash the Kraken!
…or would that be Craken in this case? I’m confused now.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 12:48
Nope stays Kraken!
Because they got 8 tentacles up everyone’s ass that purchases the DLC
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 12:50
*konfused
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 12:51
SEE!
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 12:58
I wish I Kould, but my eyes are still recovering from your ramblings yesterday.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:03
Paging Dr Burnwood , you have a Burn Victim
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:10
I don’t even remember what I said yesterday, but I refer to them as pearls of wisdom & not ramblings.
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 13:15
This…
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:22
lol 😀
I never said all pearls are of equal value.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 12:51
Kuiet
Admiral Chief
March 25, 2015 at 12:59
Kool one, kuiet you krazy kokk
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:05
You want VetKokk?
Dutch Matrix
March 25, 2015 at 13:12
Would you trust a DunKokk?
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:16
I wouldn’t trust any kokk unless it’s my own
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:48
I kid you not……oh wait that doesn’t kount….oh wait, that does XD
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:48
*lover of takos
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:44
Just stop lying to us. The DLC is concieved way before the game launches. Everyone does this. We understand $60 isn’t enough. We get that you’re running a business and you want to make money but don’t treat us like idiots!
teddy
March 25, 2015 at 21:43
How do you know NRS is lying about the state of the characters in their season pass?
Hammersteyn
March 26, 2015 at 08:06
Because if they charge halve the price of the base game for DLC. There’s money to be made and they don’t want it to seem like they are gouging us. Most AAA games do this. But that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 12:49
I kinda wish they’d called it DLK instead of DLC. It would have been a brilliant setup for a DLPK joke.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:01
DLPK?
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:03
…dude. DL-PK. PK!
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:04
Nope don’t get it
Google gave me this , is it this , please tell me it is http://www.amazon.com/Xpresskit-Optimax-DLPK-Passkey-Interface/dp/B001FBFMM4
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 13:07
Een teen die oor en een teen die teer.
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 13:07
hahahaha
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:07
That’s definitely the wrong link, here…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=PoesKlap
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:10
Ohhhh Download a PK
Now I get it, sorry my lingo is very out of date lately
Dutch Matrix
March 25, 2015 at 13:07
But you cannot DownLoad a PK. Unless you download porn. And your girlfriend finds out. Then you get a PK from DL
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 13:11
Unless she likes it.
Kikmi
March 25, 2015 at 12:49
DLC needs to fucking die. It’s soured almost every fucking purchase I have made in the last 3 years if not longer. You know what? If i dont have time to finish my project I work overtime. If i still dont finish my project I get into shit and/or lose my job. Some how gaming software works differently to normal software. Some fucking how.
Dutch Matrix
March 25, 2015 at 12:54
Because you got a gazillion fanboys standing, clutching their money, then feverishly throwing wads of cash at the devs for that extra character, that extra skin.
Fuck that I say. That is what the inevitable GOTY is for!
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:55
Agreed, I would do the same but I’m too much of a fan to wait for the GOTY. But the DLC can go f**k itself
Dutch Matrix
March 25, 2015 at 12:57
You know what? I am a HUGE Mortal Kombat fan. But, with that said, if you ask me, this game will only release next year, with awesome characters Jason and the Predator included. So sad they did not create a Dutch character. Would have been awesome!
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:00
What would his fatality be? Double Dutch , The Flying Dutch-man :p
Dutch Matrix
March 25, 2015 at 13:01
Heavy Tree Stump to the head.
Corrie
March 25, 2015 at 13:03
That works surprisingly just as well ?_?
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 13:07
Yes!
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:08
I know! He throws his opponent into a rotor blade and says… wait… wait for it… “GET TO DA CHOPPA!”
Dutch Matrix
March 25, 2015 at 13:09
TAKE MY MONEY, MY SOUL, MY WIFE, MY CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:04
The match ends in a draw as they go dutch.
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 13:06
DAYUM! Fatalities that includes puns by Dutch!
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:57
It works because idiots will throw their money at DLC blindly. EA bragged about the revenue they’re getting from DLC alone. Look at the sims for FFS. look at COD. Removing the zombie mode and putting it in as DLC
Kikmi
March 25, 2015 at 12:58
Ai. EA.
Aries
March 25, 2015 at 13:20
and then like a few weeks later after they made their millions off the dlc they gave it away for free
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 13:26
Indeed
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:50
$30…… that’s half the price of the base game, not sure the kontent we recieve equates to that price…
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 12:50
It doesn’t. But if you mention that they’re sure to tell you what great “value” you’re getting.
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:53
How dense can one be to believe this drivel?
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 12:54
PROFITABILITY!
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 13:15
DEFINATATILTY!
RinceThis
March 25, 2015 at 12:53
Pay for MOAR!
Hammersteyn
March 25, 2015 at 12:53
They can package the DLC as MOARTAL KOMBAT?
Ryanza
March 25, 2015 at 13:00
This is a fighting game. If all the Mortal Kombat fighting characters are not in the game when the game is released then I’m not buying this shit. I don’t buy DLC. What is the point of having Mortal Kombat characters as fucking DLC. Could they not fit the damn characters on the fucking blu ray disc? I can understand stupid characters not part of the Mortal Kombat world, like Jason and Freddie being DLC. Because I don’t have to buy that shit DLC.
But if I buy a Mortal Kombat game the fucking Mortal Kombat characters needs to be in the fucking game and not as some DLC. What the fuck is this.
Don’t Support DRM. Don’t Support DLC. The Witcher 3 fist fighting is coming.
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 13:03
I support DLC when it’s done right. Like the Bioshock Infinite DLC.
Other than that, I’ll by the game when the full version get’s released a year later
Ryanza
March 25, 2015 at 13:09
Yes if the game has been out and people had time to finish playing the game and the developers creates new stories, items, levels, sounds, then yes make a DLC for the online world. Fuck the offline people. But that’s another story.
But when you need to pre-order the game for the pre-order DLC and buy the day 1 shit loads of DLC, just to get the complete game, which so many publishers and developers are doing, to turn that $60 into a $120 for shitty game that needs to be patched up everyday because of how broken the fucking game is because it’s been torn apart by all the DLC.
The bad far outweighs the good when it concerns DLC.
Lord Chaos
March 25, 2015 at 13:11
Meh, gotten into buying games a year later, then they are cheap and complete.
And this all started due to the backlog.
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 25, 2015 at 13:12
Buying a year later solves so many problem right? Especially if you’re playing mostly SP anyway.
justlikemo
March 25, 2015 at 13:01
DLC, in other words, buy the DLC to get the game $)
WitWolfy
March 25, 2015 at 13:01
Sigh… Let the rape fest begin…
Tom Krager
March 25, 2015 at 13:12
If ppl just stopped buying the shit it would go away and developers would just include the extra DLC content in the game like they use to back in the day . .. remember being able to beat a game and unlock alternate skins and weapons? gone are those days . . . now we have to pay for those extra unlockables and I blame customers.
douglass davis
April 14, 2015 at 17:24
exactly
Lardus-Resident Perve
March 25, 2015 at 13:16
I’ll wait for the special super duper elite “classic” version to be released next year with all the DLC included. Because I get nailed by this every time!
Aries
March 25, 2015 at 13:17
They lying, companies have plans in place way before they get started and timelines for these things, its all about the money
Myke
March 28, 2015 at 20:38
And? Isn’t it the companies right to make money for the games and content they create?
Captain JJ the damned
March 25, 2015 at 13:29
There’s Predator, nothing else matters 🙂
Captain JJ the damned
March 25, 2015 at 13:31
This is still a bit too kostly for me
CuddlesaurusRex
March 25, 2015 at 13:31
I don’t have an issue with non-MK characters being DLC. If you want them then pay for them, sure. But for old MK characters to be put out as DLC is kinda dick… At least they didn’t make Scorpion and Sub-zero DLC characters, that would break the fabric of time and cause chaos.
Captain JJ the damned
March 25, 2015 at 13:32
I agree with you 100% there
CuddlesaurusRex
March 25, 2015 at 13:40
Now if they did MK following the Skylanders model… THAT I would buy and buy and buy… Oh good gravy that would be cool.
Gr8_Balls_o_KFM_Fire
March 25, 2015 at 14:33
I call bullshit.
“Not enough time”?? Then why not delay the game release date? ??
On the flip side, why delay a game when you can charge DLC prices for the shit you didn’t finish?
Greylingad
March 25, 2015 at 14:50
Oigh…. This is the same thing we hear with every game…. “We only really start working on DLC once we’ve finalised everything of the game, like proper play testing, we don’t want our customers to buy games that don’t work and then charge them for DLC that we worked on before we even had an idea of what the game in completion looked like, I mean, that’s just, absurd!” Yet the DLC content and rollout plan was laid out before work on the actual game started… It.Sickens.Me.
Tabz
March 25, 2015 at 16:14
U do realise that your actually getting 12 characters as they all have 3 variation, so if you was getting 12 characters for another game how much do you think you would pay for the DLC and if you include goro that makes 15
Kevin Maginnis
March 25, 2015 at 16:17
Just remember, if you want to just get Predator you can buy him separately at a lower price.
Tong Chang
March 25, 2015 at 20:40
http://www.gifsforum.com/images_new/gif/upload/grand/hmm-54ba00ff1e17a.gif
MK10 > Sex
Elenora Tazia
March 26, 2015 at 02:32
For hardcore gamers that is. Won’t be getting the dlc because I am no hardcore. I’ll wait for the komplete edition instead.
.
March 26, 2015 at 05:37
$30 is not super expensive for a season pass! Everyone on the internet is bitching about how its way too expensive but its not at all! Nobody whined when CoD:AW charged $50 for one fucking pack!
douglass davis
April 14, 2015 at 17:25
Stfu sheep it is when the game itself is $60
John Elizondo
March 26, 2015 at 09:09
Just gonna wait for the “komplete edition in a few months” probably gonna be a unbalanced mess at launch and probably gonna be forgotten and never updated again and remain a unbalanced boring mess with bad glitchy servers like mk9
Jermac
March 26, 2015 at 16:14
This is the norm guys, I don’t know why it’s something to be up in arms about now… I think we all need to just accept it… this is the trend…
Step 1) Release hot game they know everyone will want
Step 2) Attach expensive DLC with juuuust enough lure to get at least 1/3 of everyone to buy the DLC (and potentially more just caving and buying it anyway)
Step 3) MEGA PROFIT.
Vincent
March 27, 2015 at 17:07
WWE 2k15 screwed us over with the additional DLC. I hope it’s not like WWE 2k15
The Ricker
April 12, 2015 at 06:06
I hope it is. If I hold off on MK X, I can buy it with the DLC for free in 5-6 months like WWE did.
Myke
March 28, 2015 at 20:26
You people bitching about dlc in games need to stop crying about it. Either get a job and stop depending on mommy to buy you shit and get it yourself, or just don’t buy it. It’s 2015, this is the new business model. It’s not going away. I personally don’t mind it because I have money and can afford whatever I feel like purchasing. I like extra kontent. Free or paid for.
The Ricker
April 12, 2015 at 06:13
Some people “bitching” are probably hard working, yet still strapped for cash. Some people have children or have to take care of other relatives financially, while sometimes covering other life expenses (car repairs, medical costs, divorce lawyers, …..).
A lot of people work hard as hell, yet still barely get by paycheck to paycheck. I was one of them. $30 for DLC isn’t quite chump change for everyone, on top of the $60 for the game separately.
Spank
April 7, 2015 at 09:45
Sorry guys, I got MK9 and got all the bangin DLC.Couldn’t have been happier. But I wont be buying MK10.
DLC kontent “not being ready by launch”
Does NOT Equal
DLC kontent “Intentionally left out of game with intent to make money later”
The latter of which clearly happens with many games including this one these days. The latter should be treated exactly the same as Ripping content out of a game for DLC.
And to top it off Goro being a pre order only = Deal breaker right off the bat. Enjoy having your money taken from you, noobs.
douglass davis
April 14, 2015 at 17:15
The shyt is rip off. u already paying $60 bucks for a game and 30 dollars more almost a $100 for a game. I love mk but not that much to be spending $100 for a game. I hope their sell flop for being greedy.
luvpolitics .
December 27, 2015 at 20:42
MKX is a rip off. I have had to fork out $400 for the PS4 (yes the game motivated me to buy one); I had to buy the game, pay to play “online” and then pay for the extra characters every few months. About the time this whole thing plays out, I will be paying out between $700-$900 for a fucking video game. This is the LAST MK game I will buy. Too old for video games anyway.