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Mortal Kombat's First DLC: All Those Pre-Order Costumes and Fatalities

All seven costumes and three fatalities will be bundled together into one purchasable download.

And now YOU get a klassic Ermac! And YOU get a klassic Ermac! And you? Yup, you get a klassic Ermac, too!
And now YOU get a klassic Ermac! And YOU get a klassic Ermac! And you? Yup, you get a klassic Ermac, too!

If you're anything like the men of Giant Bomb, collecting all those scattered pre-order bonus costumes for Mortal Kombat was, to you, a calling second to none. Jeff and Ryan, in particular, got into a particularly heated competition to try and earn my unused Scorpion code. Jeff frequently tried to entice me with promises of free shitty PSP RPGs that happened to be sitting on his desk. Ryan took me to a Go! Team show. I think we know who won out on that one--though to be truthful, I ended up keeping the code for myself. Ain't I a stinker?

All that bartering and begging ultimately was pointless in the end, as series honcho Ed Boon let it be known via his Twitter feed yesterday that the first DLC pack for MK would be a collec--erm, sorry, kollection of all seven klassic kostumes--for Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile, Ermac, Jade, Mileena, and Kitana--and the accompanying klassic fatalities--for Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Reptile--would be bundled together into a single DLC pack. No pricing or release date has been announced for the pack just yet, though a trailer for the DLC is expected to drop tomorrow.

Boon likes to tease his Twitter followers with questions about what charact--okay, fine, "kharacters" fans would like to see as future DLC. Blind fighter Kenshi and a new female character named Skarlet are still slated to be the first ones released--with Skarlet apparently coming first--but Boon promises many more waves of additional kontent down the road. So don't worry if you're holding out for an updated version of Rain to fill out the last remaining color of the ninja rainbow, or just really want to play as Meat for some reason. Your day may yet come.

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Edited By TadThuggish

lol video game marketing

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@WinterSnowblind said:
@sofacitysweetheart said:
You serve us this as news but never mention Rock Band DLC? Shame on you Giant Bomb.
Because this is news?  Do they really need to post weekly update listing a few songs from bad bands for a game nobody plays any more?
And yet, all those bad bands in that game nobody apparently plays would be far more credible than whatever ex-pre-sale DLC this is.
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I think this was to be expected.

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@sofacitysweetheart: If they charge us for it, then it will be pretty low.  However, they haven't said that this will cost anything and the developers have actually gone on record saying that all content on the disc will be free, so unless they're back-peddling (which I honestly wouldn't put past them) this is going to be free. 
 
Regardless, it's content people want for a game people play and care about.  So it's still more news worthy than a RB weekly update - anyone who actually does care about that game can easily find the listings anyway, they're plastered all over XBLA/PSN and doesn't the game itself notify you of these things?  Stop complaining about nothing.
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@Spiffo said:
best post on Ed Boon's twitter:
 
RT @ steve_64 @ noobde but the psn store is still down! Noobde: It is? Then I guess this is the XBOX exclusive people have been asking for! ;)
Nice!
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Edited By SonicFire

Well, the classic smoke is in the game, but wasn't a pre-order bonus...damn
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Hell fucking yes! Maybe I should be selling my unused Ermac Code from the Kollector's Edition on eBay right now?

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Okay? 
 
Well now what do I do with my unused Kitana kostume on PSN? 
 
Seems like it's useless. 
 
 
But really, all I really, really, wanted was the Reptile outfit. Really.

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Edited By dk3691

I believe the technical term is Kombatant. 
 
Jeez Alex.  Jeez.

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@WinterSnowblind said:
@sofacitysweetheart: If they charge us for it, then it will be pretty low.  However, they haven't said that this will cost anything and the developers have actually gone on record saying that all content on the disc will be free, so unless they're back-peddling (which I honestly wouldn't put past them) this is going to be free.  Regardless, it's content people want for a game people play and care about.  So it's still more news worthy than a RB weekly update - anyone who actually does care about that game can easily find the listings anyway, they're plastered all over XBLA/PSN and doesn't the game itself notify you of these things?  Stop complaining about nothing.
Breaking news: DLC is released! :O
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Good stuff, Alex.  Enjoyable article.

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I thought more characters had fatalities?

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Alex, you meant "DLK".

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@shinigami420 said:
Who the fuck cares about MVC3? MK9 and SSF4 are much better
fixed
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Edited By Hailinel

And here I am, still with a Jade code that I can't use because the PSN store is still down.
 
May 31st is almost here, Sony.

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Hope the price is right.  Sucks for anyone buying the Scorpion DLC for a lot of money on EBAY...  But I guess they should know better.

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This DLC better be free i ain't paying shit for PYJAMA OUTFITS no matter how "KLASSIC" they are.

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Didn't get an Ermac code in my Kollectors edition, and none of the companies involved helped, so that will be good.

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Why do I have to buy stuff thats already on the disc? :(

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It better just be 5 dollars.

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I'm trying to figure out how I can buy in on my Australian account.

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Please don't be like Street Fighter, with ridiculously overpriced costumes. $5 for the lot. PLEASE?

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Charging extra to unlock DLC already on the disk? 
 
In the words of MK 's cash register-  
Kachinng!!!

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I'm thinking this'll be five bucks.

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@sofacitysweetheart said:
@WinterSnowblind said:
@sofacitysweetheart: If they charge us for it, then it will be pretty low.  However, they haven't said that this will cost anything and the developers have actually gone on record saying that all content on the disc will be free, so unless they're back-peddling (which I honestly wouldn't put past them) this is going to be free.  Regardless, it's content people want for a game people play and care about.  So it's still more news worthy than a RB weekly update - anyone who actually does care about that game can easily find the listings anyway, they're plastered all over XBLA/PSN and doesn't the game itself notify you of these things?  Stop complaining about nothing.
Breaking news: DLC is released! :O
he's right though, and it has happened for rock band, at what i would consider the height of people caring about rock band
 
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/take-a-journey-with-upcoming-rock-band-dlc/1018/
 
and even in that story jeff says they don't like to report on music game dlc.
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@fatalflame said:
Charging extra to unlock DLC already on the disk?  In the words of MK 's cash register-  Kachinng!!!
This, everyone is saying how they said that they wouldnt charge for anything that was already on the disk. So im hoping its free, but we'll see...
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This is how you do it Capcom...
 
Not release super Mortal Kombat..

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When they have Meat as DLC I will buy this game.

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@xhavoc86: I don't see what the big deal is...   Yeah this stuff was on the disc, but it was pre-order bonus content.  No one is pointing a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to purchase this content, and a lot of people won't.
 
They had two choices here, one they could simply never release those costumes to anyone aside from those who pre order, or they could release it and give their players the option of purchasing content if they wish.  In my opinion being given an option is superior to not getting the option.
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I'll get my Reptile goodies I was SUPPOSED to get when I preordered from that one site. LAWDY F**KIN DAW!

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I was hoping for this.

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Hey Sony, you know that free stuff you giving out, AHEM

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@Teran said:
@xhavoc86: I don't see what the big deal is...   Yeah this stuff was on the disc, but it was pre-order bonus content.  No one is pointing a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to purchase this content, and a lot of people won't.  They had two choices here, one they could simply never release those costumes to anyone aside from those who pre order, or they could release it and give their players the option of purchasing content if they wish.  In my opinion being given an option is superior to not getting the option.
It's not, but the devs specifically stated there would be no paid on-disc DLC and have implied that the costumes would be available in some way without a pre-order. It would be powerfully lame for them to mislead people.
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@phrosnite said:
Where is my PC version?!!!!
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I cant even remember which costumes I got with my preorder.

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If the price is fair I'll probably purchase it.  
 
Though I'm more keen on the new fighters. 

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All of them in one pack,. great!

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I wonder how bad it sucks to be one of the many that paid ubber amounts on ebay for one costume pack. 

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I hate pre-order DLC and I hate the fact im going to buy this the day it is released ='[

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Five dollars or less, I will probably buy it. Higher than that? No way. The way Street Fighter IV did things was just evil.

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@Teran said:
@xhavoc86: I don't see what the big deal is...   Yeah this stuff was on the disc, but it was pre-order bonus content.  No one is pointing a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to purchase this content, and a lot of people won't.  They had two choices here, one they could simply never release those costumes to anyone aside from those who pre order, or they could release it and give their players the option of purchasing content if they wish.  In my opinion being given an option is superior to not getting the option.
i would be ok with that, since then i can cash in on my Reptile code which i STILL can't redeem... they will probably release the dlc before i can even enjoy my preorder bonus lol
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Ermac is my main and I'm constantly depressed I have twice as many costumes for Milena (hate her) than I do for him. That needs to be fixed

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What is the point of costumes when the online is unplayably laggy?

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That would be really kool if this was free.

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Tuesday, June 7th!!! 
 
4.99 or 400 microsoft points! 

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What a stunning konclusion to a konundrum that I full expect to kome about anytime during this gaming kylcle...ok maybe cycle doesn't work so well with a K at the front...forget this I'm done.

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I LOLed for real at the "Ain't I a stinker?" line. You rule, Alex.
 
Also, they should probably hurry up with this DLC stuff. People are going to be too distracted by the time E3 rolls around, with their eyes on a million different things for the future.

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@xhavoc86 said:
Tuesday, June 7th!!!  4.99 or 400 microsoft points! 
That's way too expensive for a few costumes that are already on the disc. 
Is Ed Boon going to give us an explanation of why we have to pay for this, after promising they wouldn't do that?
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@shinigami420 said:
Who the fuck cares about mk9  MVC 3 and SF4 are much better 
lol
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I'd pay 5 bucks for those. Also really excited about more kharacters.