Is it safe to say the netkode will be fine?
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If they keep the GGPO they have now in MKX and improves on it, then yes. ^^
Iām sure they will. Most of the games after MK releases have been āTestā games, so to speak, to try things out and make new things. Like Injusticeās interactables, in MKX. So there shouldnāt be any reason NOT to improve it, you know?
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RIP SFV and KI Casual Players. Injustice will destroy all.
Injustice wil reign for 1 month just like all the other nrs games, then itāll get boring, then gamers will come back to their senses. Im not buying this until itās 7 dollars. Itās how much I paid for injustice 1 and a fair price given the 7 hours i cared to put it into it.
Anyway that ed boon gamestop tweet is hi-larious
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Of course. It would be moronic of them to not use a netcode similar to the one introduced in MKXL with all the positive feedback it has gotten.
It isnāt GGPO is it? I thought it was GGPO-like, but that it was an in-house netcode.
Casuals will likely play through the story mode, check out a few of the features, and then put it down and move onā¦like most other NRS games.
No, they did indeed switch to GGPO. A little too late though, imo. A year after release. Sad that MKX had to take such a beating because of bad netcode, because itās a good and fun game. Goes to show how crucial good netcode is.
But it just means it wonāt be a problem in the futureā¦ hopefully.
Max talks Injustice 2:
Isnāt that what all casuals do with any fighting game regardless of it being NRS? Also, isnāt MKX consistently getting higher tournament entrants than KI? You donāt have to like NRS or their games but this idea that people buy those games, play them for a week and then forget about them is false. TYM activity, stream views, and tournament entry numbers all lean to the opposite really.
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Whatās your Injustice 2 character wishlist?
Donāt put up the obvious ones like Superman & Batman, cause its obvious theyāre gonna be in it.
Superman is not on my wishlist.
I need nightwing and hopefully penguin and black canary maybe even riddler and north star?
It would be funny if they replace Superman with Bizarro. Now that would piss a lot of people off.
Areā¦ you talking about this guy:
Because heās Marvel, not DCU. 
Oh my bad. Lol
Iām a true Marvel fan, but I like that the tropes are accessible with DC injustice.
Starfire, Aqualad & Circe are awesome- Iād love to see them-
I wish Sindel would be the guest character of this gameā¦
P~l~a~s~t~i~c POWER
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Actually, this is not really true. Itās a more complex relationship than that.
And please stop talking about net code and memory leaks. Thatās just you piling on to try to make it seem like you have a case beyond the one thing you are actually upset about.
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While I agree that a lot of casuals fall off in the first month and Iād certainly concede that the same is likely true for all games, I donāt know if comparing MKX and KI is really an apples to apples comparison.
MK as a series has traditionally been bigger than the genre and there are very few games out there that can say that. I can only assume that it has a much bigger budget, a lot more people working on it, and a much bigger and louder hype machine behind it, plus itās multiplatform.
I know youāre not bagging on KI (obviously), but comparing the two and using that as a basis for an argument for MKās popularity seems a bit odd.
That said, I think MK has a bit of a history of mostly abandoning a game when the next one comes along and I think thatās at least part of why thereās a sense that people donāt stay with MK that long. Of course, thatās a different argument than saying they play the story mode, play a few matches and then put it down forever. I donāt know if thereās any real data to back that up or not. I certainly hope thatās not the case, and I tend to doubt that it is for a lot of people.