The pre-order costumes are nothing but Netherrealm's fault because those are already on the disc, so I still have absolutely no idea how they could be causing errors. The MK1 and 3 ninja costumes worked fine online on day one, it makes absolutely no sense that they don't anymore.
Mortal Kombat
Game » consists of 26 releases. Released Apr 19, 2011
- Xbox 360
- PlayStation 3
- Xbox 360 Games Store
- PlayStation Network (PS3)
- + 3 more
- PlayStation Network (Vita)
- PlayStation Vita
- PC
One of the goriest fighting game franchises returns to its roots, introducing a new story that re-tells the events of the first three Mortal Kombat games (with a unique twist).
A Rather Selfish PSA For You Mortal Kombat Players
I have a bigger problem with MK online, that the WB support couldn't solve and now I can barely play offline MK. My game freezes every time I press "Start" (or any other button) in the start menu. I has something to do with the online aspect writing to the save file, because without it, it goes fine, only then I don't have the online key. Super annoying.
I think Criterion have been the only goddamn company that has successfully done competitive games with DLC that don't fuck up or throw up community splitting barriers. Sure the title updates kept getting progressively bigger and bigger (I think the Big Surf Island DLC was 3.5GB due to rolling in every other feature DLC and all of the cars) but at least it just fucking worked. If updated, I could play with ALL of the DLC against someone who had none. Then I would proceed to destroy their ass with my flying Delorean. EVERYBODY WINS.
Surely the additional characters, skins and fatalities would not be so big that they couldn't throw out a title update with all of them in it and if you want to play or use them, you pay for an unlock code. Hell doing it this way means they could even do it on the fly and it would be done in 5 seconds rather than waiting for the damn character to download.
@Demoskinos said:
Selfish people who don't download the FREE compatibility packs piss me off. If everyone would just download it we would have no problems everything would flow and I wouldn't have to think "Gosh, I hope this guy has the compat back for the new DLC I just bought..." Having to go OUT of my way to use the stuff I purchased is what is irking me.
Interesting... you complain about other people beeing "selfish" for not downloading a patch that most people probably don't even know exists and wouldn't change anything for them in terms of content.
And at the same time you expect them to go out of their way so YOU can use something YOU bought, while complaining that YOU have to do the same thing. Wonder who's the selfish guy in that setup...
I understand the situation is annoying, but blaming the players for it is kinda ignorant after the article pointed out that getting information about these patches is anything but easy when the issue isn't even mentioned in the message of the day. If you want to be angry at somebody be angry at those people that are repsonsible for this fuckup. An issue like this should be fixed trough a mandatory game update and not serveral optional "patch packs" that are hidden somewhere in XBL/PSN without a mention of their existence anywhere.
The implication is that people are actively not downloading them to be vindictive, they're not arbitrarily calling them selfish.@Demoskinos said:
Selfish people who don't download the FREE compatibility packs piss me off. If everyone would just download it we would have no problems everything would flow and I wouldn't have to think "Gosh, I hope this guy has the compat back for the new DLC I just bought..." Having to go OUT of my way to use the stuff I purchased is what is irking me.Interesting... you complain about other people beeing "selfish" for not downloading a patch that most people probably don't even know exists and wouldn't change anything for them in terms of content.
And at the same time you expect them to go out of their way so YOU can use something YOU bought, while complaining that YOU have to do the same thing. Wonder who's the selfish guy in that setup...
I understand the situation is annoying, but blaming the players for it is kinda ignorant after the article pointed out that getting information about these patches is anything but easy when the issue isn't even mentioned in the message of the day. If you want to be angry at somebody be angry at those people that are repsonsible for this fuckup. An issue like this should be fixed trough a mandatory game update and not serveral optional "patch packs" that are hidden somewhere in XBL/PSN without a mention of their existence anywhere.
And did Jeff just try to blame Microsoft for this? Have you ever booted up Bad Company 2 recently? I have about 3 GBs worth of title updates on my hdd. So no, this is the fault of the developers.Yeah I have, and we should be so lucky to get 3gb of updates free. If space is the issue then consoles need bigger hard drives. Meanwhile on pc, bring it on.
Glad i didn't buy this. Stuff like this irritates me to death. Netherealm get your shit together. FIX THE GAME Instead of fosuing on releasing wayy overpriced dlc
I don't get your reasonment.
5 bucks for one fully fledged character is cheap unless you just don't like the game. It's not like if they released re-hashed versions of the same dude over and over.
To me, you just sound like the type of guy who hates DLC, because if you call 5 bucks overpriced, no DLC will ever be cheap for you.
Unless you plan to buy the Force Unleashed 2 dlc's that costs one buck.
MS has nothing to do with this. NRS are just completely shit at releasing patches. They're worse than Blizzard because at least you can still play WoW when a patch goes sideways. It doesn't just boot you and make you jump through fucking hoops to play. (Completely beside the point since why would you play WoW anyway, right?) MK's had garbage online almost from day 1 and NRS has done fuck-all to fix it. They literally do not give a shit. They want your money and that's all. From the minute they said "No, Boon lied, we want money for on-disc DLC after all," I said "Fuck those lying cocksuckers." I haven't looked back since and that's been the correct path to take. Why play a game that doesn't work whose developer has no interest of fixing it? Or, at the very least, doesn't deem the issue worthy enough to fix QUICKLY. Sorry, I'm not redownloading shit. How about YOU fix your godawful online. That sounds reasonable to me. Funny how Street Fighter can do this shit smoothly, but MK keeps shitting the bed and wondering where the stink is coming from. Stop supporting Netherrealm, basically. They've proven, for MONTHS now, that they have no interest in fixing their online. They're grabbing for your money and that's it. Fuck them.
Good Lord.
@sofacitysweetheart said:
@GreggD said:I fail to see the difference. It was a mandatory update that aided online play. Besides, they released the game like this. Don't blame MS for Ed Boon's broken game.@sofacitysweetheart said:
And did Jeff just try to blame Microsoft for this? Have you ever booted up Bad Company 2 recently? I have about 3 GBs worth of title updates on my hdd. So no, this is the fault of the developers.
Those are compatibility updates, not patches.
It was only mandatory if you wanted to play Vietnam.
Not really related to online, but a problem I've noticed recently since some DLC. Has anyone else noticed special moves going off without pressing the right button combinations? They've been triggered by doing the button combos backwards and it's ruining my ability to combo properly.
So...any news on the 4th DLC character? And which new costume did Rain add? I checked all characters and wasn't able to find the new costumes...?MKII Kitana and Jade. No Mileena, though, strangely.
I think the real winners here are those that didn't buy Mortal Kombat 9 ;) If this were any other game, Jeff would be cynically disparaging about it tell you not to play it/buy it. I hate biased journalism.I would give you a high five if i could.. this exact thought crossed my mind as soon as i saw that the article was written by Jeff.
@sofacitysweetheart said:Few quick thingsI think the real winners here are those that didn't buy Mortal Kombat 9 ;) If this were any other game, Jeff would be cynically disparaging about it tell you not to play it/buy it. I hate biased journalism.I would give you a high five if i could.. this exact thought crossed my mind as soon as i saw that the article was written by Jeff.
1) Mortal Kombat is a good game in terms of competitive and casual play. I've played the game with friends who hated the franchise, and a lot of them now have the game.
2) I'm pretty sure that when PSN went down Jeff did not tell you to not play the PS3. Pretty sure.
3) If you think it's 'biased journalism' and dislike that, I free you from the shackles that bind you to Giantbomb. You can now go onto other sites!
To be fair, the game DOES prompt people when new content is released once they hit Start/X (PS3)/A(360) for the first time after the content has been released. They can scroll through the available content, then, and the price in USD or Microsoft Points is listed at the bottom. There's no reason to not download the compatibility packs... they're free AND they contain classic skins to use.@Demoskinos said:
Selfish people who don't download the FREE compatibility packs piss me off. If everyone would just download it we would have no problems everything would flow and I wouldn't have to think "Gosh, I hope this guy has the compat back for the new DLC I just bought..." Having to go OUT of my way to use the stuff I purchased is what is irking me.Interesting... you complain about other people beeing "selfish" for not downloading a patch that most people probably don't even know exists and wouldn't change anything for them in terms of content.
The only feasible reasons to not do it:
1. Can't be bothered to download small things for free (IE Lazy).
2. Can't be bothered to see what's available and what is and isn't free (IE Lazy, again).
3. Don't want to play against the new characters and by not downloading the compatibility packs ensure no one can use the new characters against them (what do you call this? Selfish? Being an asstard because they can? Something else?).
@eyz said:Oh, that's why I missed 'em. Kitana and Jade got some more costumes I see!So...any news on the 4th DLC character? And which new costume did Rain add? I checked all characters and wasn't able to find the new costumes...?MKII Kitana and Jade. No Mileena, though, strangely.
They will either give Mileena a costume alongside another (Sindel? Skarlet?) or they figured she had enough what with her almost-nude bonus costume.
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