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Originally Posted by chemgear
LOL, I guess we really should have known that the roster would be that limited given how slow they've been at showing actual characters. The original Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat had a dozen characters back more than 20 years ago upon release. Last gen fighters (MK4, SF4, etc.) have pushed out what, maybe 20ish at least?
The actual KI release is with 6 fighters, and the other two are planned 4-5 months later apparently. And then a "Season 2" another year later and "just repeat the whole thing."
So after more than a year and half after release, their hope/plan is to have 12-16 fighters in total. Color me disappointed  ; but I guess it looks pretty from the hands on time I had with it.
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/08/2...unch-explained |
Some things to put this into perspective:
- 12, 11 and 11 are the number of characters that Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct respectively featured in their first games.
- Street Fighter has had five major title releases (SF, SFII, Third Strike, Alpha and IV) not including Super, Hyper, Ultra re-releases. Mortal Kombat has nine games in it's series. This will only be the third KI game. Understandably, both SF and MK have had plenty of years/games to grow their rosters.
- Street Fighter IV launched with 19 characters and cost $60. Capcom added 10 more but you were required to buy an entirely new game for $40. They will be adding another 5 characters for $15. If you paid for the original release and then upgraded to SSFIV and are planning on buying the new add-on you'll have spent $115. If we're breaking that down per character it works out to roughly $3.40. Keep in mind that you have a lot of characters that are essentially the same. There are arguably 7 shoto clones in SSFIV.
- 8 characters in KI at a minimum price of $20 works out to $2.50 per fighter. Yes, compared to Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive 5, Injustice you're getting a third of the characters. But you're also paying a third of the price.
- More characters does not a good game make. With fewer characters hopefully they'll be able to craft an excellently balanced fighting game.