This thread reminds me sooooo much of 2 years ago. In the months leading up to MK9's release, 9.95 and I wanted to bring MKvsDC to NEC in Dec. 2010 to have an offline tournament for it(unheard of at the time). One of the biggest challenges we faced was coming up with the ruleset we would use. The community already had a set of community rules they had used for online play that was full of all sorts of things like Flash could only do so many loops of a certain combo before it was an infinite, Supermans ground pound infinite was banned, etc etc.
Now Phil and I didnt play the game so we really didnt know much about it. But the idea of gameplay rules turned us off. Mainly because we came from UMK3 where there werent any gameplay related rules. The more rules you have, the more you have to watch what the players are doing. And we didnt even know how enforcable some of these rules were. I mean how many ground pounds does it take before its an infinite?
REO was firmly on the side of ditching the community rules and just going all out, just as he is now with this invinicibility glitch. So for those thinking hes just straight up trolling, hes always been like this.
In the end we went with the community rules because they were long established and its what everyone else wanted to use. We made this decision to make everyone happy because we wanted to have as many players come and play as we could. This was well before MK tournaments were a common occurence.
However theres a story that the same weekend some people(I think THTB and REO among them) were playing MKD or MKA or one of those games in the hotel rooms that had a community rules list as thick as a phone book as well. They decided to play the game without any of the rules and just play this broken piece of shit as it was. By all accounts from everyone I heard from it actually made the game better because more characters became viable via having access to broken shit.
Im not saying one way or the other whether this glitch should be banned. I dont know enough about it to say, but it sounds like alot of you dont know enough about it either. Nobody knows for sure how many ways there are to activate it, nobody is sure if there are ways to knock someone out of it. Other characters like Skarlet or Raiden who might not otherwise have a shot at winning a tourney may now have a tool that puts them much higher on the tier list. Who knows? We could be on the verge of an MK9 paradigm shift similar to what Alex Valle's custom combos did in the SF Alpha series.
Or it really could be just a broken mess of a glitch with no redeeming value, that shows once and for all how piss poor the programming is for this game. Its not for me to decide.
But I think you guys should see one way or the other. Give it a chance and see what happens. It might change your perception of what the game is, for better or for worse. Some people may like it, others may not.
Its like when Kara/glitch jabbing took over UMK3. It totally changed the game. Some people embraced it and elevated it(Juggs,REO,No Doubt,Marvirrasta). Others like myself and Phil hated it. So we stopped playing the game. The game went on fine without us.
(And before somone goes off on me saying "DUDEEEE, HES INVINCIBLE!! INFUKINVINCIBLE!!!" I agree, on the surface the glitch looks retarted as all hell. All Im saying is that without a little exploration you may never know what else there may be to it. )
