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I believe PPJ is an employee as well
I believe PPJ is an employee as well
So once again, you are completely confusing NRS's motivations with WB. They are two different entities. If NRS can get more patches out, increasing the quality / popularity of their game to possibly get more sales / interest / dlc purchases / larger following, WB will be very happy. It's possibly NRS won't feel they have time to do this while working on Injustice (although it thats a MASSIVE cop out), but if they choose to do this it's got nothing to do with WB. Certainly not WB saying "you are never allowed to patch this game any further we want you focusing elsewhere" thats not how publisher/developer interaction happens.
Why would they have their employees(they're lead designers actually) spend man hours fixing and patching a game with no monetary return while working on another huge project that requires a huge amount of employees and time? Time is $$ and money spent patching a game that sees no return is not something WB probably cares for when they have a huge project that has deadlines to meet. I really doubt that WB really cares about making long term players happy after 3 years having their employees spending hours on balance patches instead of their next big money maker with no returns. Especially when they the community is going to move on to the next game anyway.
The move was always supposed to be +24 on block. If I recall correctly, even the in-game frame data said so on day one. NRS then realized that Bone Shaper Shinnok has turned into a mini-Tempest Kung Lao whose offense was reduced to looping f+4,1,d+2 xx EX hell sparks on block. After all the buffs, Shinnok no longer needs EX sparks to be +24 on block. Almost all Shinnok players agree.
Am I so hard to understand?
Fine in MKX
But did it take the games full lifetime to figure this out? Could the game have prospered more if they were toned down during the games lifespan? Although they wasn't tweaked in the major way from Injustice to MKX they were slightly changed to require two meter, so do changing things in smaller patches rather than large meta changes work?
Interactables are basically either free chip damage or an escape which can be easily punished if read. They went from borderline broken to a very very small factor in most matches.
Say changes where patched into Injustice earlier on would it have potentially helped that game in the long run, but at the same time you can argue it took the whole of Injustice to figure them out.
That was all fine and dandy but MMH could end combos with them for a free 20% damage increase. That was why they were broken.
Its already been shown that NRS pretty much stops patches at about 6 months, so you think this game only has about 3 more months of a lifespan?I think MKX had the potential to be a better game than SF4. I played a lot when it first came out even despite the terrible netcode.
Four days after the game came out, it got a balance patch. They gave Takeda a new move. A new move, within a week of launch! I thought it was a joke when I saw the headline! The next patch wasn't even two weeks later, and I had been busy with streaming other games so I hadn't touched the game much during that two week period. So it's not even a month after the game came out and already things I learned on day one are gone.
Not even two weeks after that, and this is what I'm facing:
This is not okay. This is NOT. OKAY. From april 14th to may 14th, that happened. That many changes is the kind of thing you see in an update for a game six months, or a year, or two years after it's launched. After people have had time with it to see what really needs changing. This kind of haphazard, devil-may-care attitude toward the game is what drives people away from it, because every two weeks you're playing a different game. I firmly believe there will never be true top-level play in this game because with all these patches constantly changing the playing field, more of your time is going to be spent adjusting to the changes than you can actually spend on improving your play. By the time NRS is done patching it, nobody will be playing it anymore. I'm definitely not playing it, that's for damn sure. Because it's a completely different game from the one I bought, and I don't have the patience to learn a new game every two weeks. I could spend that time getting better at games that I know my time won't be wasted in. I'd rather play the Battle Fantasia re-release on steam, because at least I know that nobody even cares about the game enough for it to get any balance patches.
It doesn't matter if they "fixed" it. The point is that it's something new I have to learn and adjust to INSTEAD of getting better at the game as it is.
Has to be a troll. If MK9 and Injustice had multiple EVOs I think MKX is gonna be just fine.
And he was dropping alot of things because of the chanages & it cost him rounds. Also fucking congrats , you enjoy the game & patching style, that's great, but it doesn't invalidate those who like the game but do not like the patching schedule.
Then play the game without your hardrive with friends. This is a progressive style and its what the developers have the right to do with their game. If you like the game and dont like them changing it, too bad. Its not fair to some people that you want them to have to suffer through 2 years of shit in tournament when they dedicate a ton of their free time to the game. Why cant you see it from their side too?
When NRS has shown that they don't know what they're doing not once, not twice, but three times, with MK9, IGAU, and MKX, and most of the players from other games that decided to give it a chance have left? Yeah. Gonna be just fine.
NRS games have been at EVO for 5 years straight. Mr wizard literally stated that the patches saved Injustice for EVO. We have heard that our games will die off every single time and the only times they die is when a new one comes to take their place. Please stop spreading this propaganda about how our game will die when history has proven it wont.