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[Mortal Kombat 11]: "Towers of time and krypt" patch is rolling ASAP
- Thread starter Rodjer
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The difficulty is definitely unintentional. If players are getting stopped on the first couple of towers on Day 1, they'll just instantly drop it and not worry about buying things to continue doing them. GaaS designers know this. They need to hook a player first because they need those engagement numbers. The towers being so fucking hard that people instantly give up on them is not a way to increase player engagement.
This. We shouldn't thank them for patching, they just do what they should've done in the first place.
I am curious in how much this will change anything. The in-game economy that causes the grind and basis for the microtransactions seems to be integrated very deep into the structure of the game. I doubt they will meaningfully change the game so that the "good" unlocks like fatalities and skins will be given away relatively easily, BUT I will be very happy and positively surprised if the did.
Given the amount of skins they could easily give as us something like "play through a klassik tower and get a skin for your character" which would still take some amount of grinding, but in a more managable way. But then they will not get rid of the MTX system completely if WB has any say in it.
Given the amount of skins they could easily give as us something like "play through a klassik tower and get a skin for your character" which would still take some amount of grinding, but in a more managable way. But then they will not get rid of the MTX system completely if WB has any say in it.
TBF, I expected the "quick fix" to take place a month from now so they could appear active but also dip their toe into the GAAS profits anyway.
What even are you talking about? Every character has five to six unique costumes with each costume having at least ten shaders.
Some characters in MKX didn't even get a third costume let alone five....?!
That's not 'why' it's so fast. It could have been their plan, but it's not uncommon at all for an online game to have loads of server side variables controlling everything from character balance to rare item drop rates, etc. *That's* why they can tweak this so quickly.
If I recall correctly, the DLC characters didn't get any. Just their base costume with a 2p color.
Yeah. I mean I'm not suggesting that people give them a pass or anything for the initial frustration or concerns about MTX stuff existing at all if you want to fight that fight. However, I don't put a lot of stock into the idea of "they thought they could get away with this bullshit!" idea. I mean, maybe they did. Who knows? But my general understanding of GaaS MTX is that you're way better off erring on the side of being more generous than you are more stingy. You are aiming for a mindset of rewarding people for playing and rewarding them more quickly for paying, not punishing people for not paying.
Not true. Many had several costumes, like Leatherface with costumes from various movies, Triborg swaps heads around to reflect your chosen borg, but many didn't. Some did, some didn't.
*shrug* While Sub-Zero doesn't have my favorite outfits this go around, I think almost everyone else is incredible.
More doesn't equal better, some of these colour palettes and skins are atrocious or just bland
Compared to MKX's "gray, brown, desaturated" aesthetic, I'll happily embrace having COLOR back in these games.
You're assuming I'm against colour based on nothing I said at all but good job
Leaving it broken longer would've been a much better response, you're right.
I was hoping to pick this up for flights and travel on Switch, but the lack of offline for a good part of the game is a bit of a killer. This is what kills mobile gaming for me as a whole... going underground in the subway basically stops dead any mobile game progress for me.
Name a single profession where someone who corrects a "mistake" smelling of greedy practices gets applause from the costumer.
I'll wait.
April 23 is the release dAte. Today is April 23. This is a release day patch.
They aren't sorry they gated all the costumes behind an unbeatable mode they are sorry they got caught for doing it. They had plenty of time to show off the Towers on streams and they didn't because they didn't want anyone knowing they turned it into a phone game.
Yeah that's not "fair" at all, as a comment like your is quite extreme. One mode having issues (which they are already committing to patching), and not even being the primary campaign or multiplayer modes, does not make the game a disaster.
Yeah, it's kind've a disaster.
It's the mode that they intended to drive ongoing revenue, and as soon as the gate opened they fell right on their face.
Like, some people enjoy multiplayer, and I'm sure the campaign is great fun, but the towers have been a huge part of Mortal Kombat for the last few games, and (if I remember correctly) all the data says that MK players really skew towards the single-player side of things.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/415119199
It's 8:44:30 of this; he spends the entire time doing these long combos that most people probably aren't going to be capable of doing consistently, but they have so much health, he gets timed out. Also, it's a tag team, and they regen health when they're tagged out. It's really something.
Consumables arent the problem here, designing content in a way specifically that forces the player to use them or lose is. Its supposed to be that type of mode where your gear and items add up to your progression twisted in a way to try to drive folks into paying for microtransactions.
Are they experts in GaaS, though? Because they sure are experts about tweaking game difficulty.
Now I ask you what is more likely: that they messed up with something they are not quite experts at (GaaS) or something that they've been doing for decades (game balance)? I dunno, I find hard to believe that they thought the difficulty was fine after testing. I think they knew it was very hard, but they were naive to think this wouldn't blow in their faces.
I think you are absolutely right in your accessment of player engagement, which is exactly why they are so eager to fix it so quickly.
The only reason I didn't preorder was because I was afraid of this shit. Hopefully the patch makes massive changes. I won't be purchasing until I hear that it does.
I THINK the patch is out...I'm not sure.
But if it is...these rewards are still lacking.
The heart chests are...fucking crazy. 250 per chest when you are earning 1 per fatality, 2 per brutality. Madness.
yeah, the heart box prices are extreme for sure, 100 is enough i think, 250 is too much
i don't think the patch is out. i mean, there's absolutely no patch being downloaded but there's also some confusion as to whether a patch will be needed or it'll just be server-side.
but yeah 250 hearts is mad and something that was there originally.
Even 100 is a bit high. Its 1 per fatality. You really wanna grind out thousands of fatalities to unlock all the heart crates in the Krypt?
you get 2 per brutality and 2 in an online match when you finish the opponent. and there are towers which reward 10 or 15 for completion.
sure, could be faster but i don´t think they will lower it to like 50 or something