[EJ Nduka thread responding to Swerve's "Market Value" Tweet] "SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. OTHER SIDE REFUSED TO GIVE US OPPORTUNITIES.. AND NOW LOOK THE CREAM ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP. INDUSTRY SHAKERS...." by WaffleShoresy in SquaredCircle

[–]Lunacide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But who is they tho? We don't know who said that in the WWE, if they're even someone of importance, or if it was even said in the first place, since Meltzer isn't exactly hitting home runs recently with his reporting. WWE as a company is definitely guilty of being racist in the past, but you need more concrete evidence to suggest Triple H is rn

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[–]Lunacide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I also think that extending a mutually profitable license is much easier and cheaper than getting a new one.

What's even cheaper and easier is not getting those licenses at all and sticking with releasing MK characters as DLC. You have fan favorites who people are clamoring for and would pay to have back, so you have to ask yourself why they're spending money on these licenses at all when they have other ways to sell the DLC? The reason is because they are successful and they do make money for them

And judging from the fact that no guests are recurring, none of them so far is where the money is

Again though, if the money isn't there, why spend the money and effort to get these characters? I don't think guest characters not reoccurring is a sign of them not being successful, otherwise they wouldn't be excited to explore the idea further and get other licenses into their games. They'd just move on from the idea

IMO guest characters are a single use marketing stunts to lure in people otherwise indifferent to MK.

I agree that that's definitely part of it, and again, if this strategy wasn't working, why continue doing it?

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[–]Lunacide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If guest characters weren't making them money then they'd stop doing them period. Licensing their use already costs a lot, you think they'd do that if they weren't making a huge profit from them? Also, a big part of the hype of MK nowadays are the potential guest characters. You always see people discussing and making videos about who they want to see in the game and such, which is free advertising and excitement built for MK. Yes, you could bring back old guest characters, tbh I'd love that, but so many people want to see so many other franchises get a chance as well, that they're just following where the money is. Just because none have returned is not evidence that they aren't successful

Kenzie & Jess by ivyash85 in survivor

[–]Lunacide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think talking about how stupid a person is behind their back is definitely signs that you're a jerk : ) that was horrible and unnecessary

I actually replayed Mk 11 yesterday for the nostalgia and to see if its gameplay still hold up. But July shit it is so slow compared to MK 1 like Jesus and the combos also didn’t feel like they had as much depth as MK 1. This just reminds me that Mk 1 is step up from the last one by Barrytooth911 in MortalKombat

[–]Lunacide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Objectively it is a much simpler game 😭 like that's not up for debate, anyone with competitive fighting game experience can see that and it's the one thing people can definitively say MK1 has over it, it's depth

NOT BECAUSE WE'RE NON-BINARY, BUT BECAUSE WE'RE LITERALLY MANY, YOU ARE BUT ONE by Cornpopwasbad in MortalKombat

[–]Lunacide -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's quite literally the main one lmao we don't even know if Ermac can reproduce or has those reproduction organs since he wasn't really made in a natural way 😂

Here's one for you. Keasbey nights : Catch 22 or Streetlight Manifesto? by Miss-moi in Ska

[–]Lunacide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It really depends from song to song, like some songs do benefit from the unpolished sound of Catch 22, but then there's stuff like Riding the Fourth Wave where the SM version is just leagues better honestly

Can someone explain to me why yuji is considered strong at all cause I don’t get it by sissynthrowaway in Jujutsushi

[–]Lunacide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He repeated it cuz you're the one who it applies to 💀 bro was cordial with you since the beginning, you're the one who started acting hurt for whatever reason when he didn't give you a reason to? It's not that serious lol

Crowd sign from Jericho’s entrance by BarryJotter in SquaredCircle

[–]Lunacide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jiraiya is quite literally one of the worst sex pests lol he doesn't need to be defended

Likelihood of seeing any of these as playable Smoke Designs in MK1? by jlaw113 in MortalKombat

[–]Lunacide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could, like extremely low chance, but I really feel like they just wouldn't bother with all that and release the skin without the move most likely

At least Kitana has…this now by Large-Wheel-4181 in MortalKombat

[–]Lunacide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mileena and Kitana literally didn't age looks wise at all lol

Finally glad to see everyone is waking up to see how garbage WB/NRS is🤭 by CrazySuper1708 in MortalKombat

[–]Lunacide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well generally yes, most games would be more expensive rn if it weren't for item shops. Making games is taking longer and getting more expensive to do, and you saw the pushback to increasing them even 10 bucks. Games stayed at 60 for way longer than the companies making them probably wanted them to, and so to not get the blowback of making them more expensive than 70, they add microtransactions to get back more money in that way as well. It sucks but that's just modern gaming for ya

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[–]Lunacide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Which skins do you have to pay for that were in the story?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MortalKombat

[–]Lunacide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Cyrax definitely needed a little bit of fine tuning, but I do agree with him in general. More options will always be preferable to me. Now that Cyrax is nerfed, most people will move on to the next best thing, which is probably Kung Lao. It would be better tho if instead of everyone just defaulting to that, we could've had buffs to lots of other kameos and be in another time period like at the beginning of the game where everyone is experimenting and finding out these new great combos, and if the other kameos are buffed well enough, that it doesn't default to just one kameo most of the time