Well those halloween loot boxes are not going to open themselves 
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To me, itās not dying. Iām taking a break to see if A.) the Spinal action figure comes out and/or B.) the Shadow Jago/Omen accessories update rolls up like Aganos.
I got too much love for KI to let it just die.
Too much.
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KI wonāt die as long ARIA is still alive and kicking which means it will be alive forever.
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They just released a massive, largely single player oriented mode to end the season, which means no new content to look forward to for at least the next few months. You couple that with the aforementioned big release season and the fact that this game has been out for three years now and I think thereās an established pattern of ebbing and flowing and thatās FINE.
The main thing to take away from what weāve seen with season 3 is that this game is still growing, and I see no reason to think otherwise just because weāre in a very predictable point in the seasonal cycle.
The gameās not dying. Based on people playing SL and venturing to other games, Iād say, at worst, that itās hibernating. Once we get a ways out from the holiday games and season 4 begins its ramp up, this game will return to its season 3 numbers and then some. Maybe itās my inner optimism talking, but I still see this game as being on an upward trajectory, and I could VERY easily see season 4 being the biggest and most successful season yet.
Hereās hoping! 
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Skyrim remaster is the chosen one to make me leave KI for a long time
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I donāt know, when youāre getting savaged by competitive players left and right you tend to learn to pull your head back in. I donāt think itās fair to blame Keits and company for not jumping into Twitch chats anymore given the circumstances. That aside, it still seems like KI has the most dev/community interaction of any current fighting game (bar Skullgirls?) by a considerable margin.
All games are broken, all games ship with known bugs. Software correctness is the hardest problem in software development, the problem scales hyperexponentially (worse, really) with the size of the codebase, and scalable techniques with which to deal with the problem might be a century off for all we know. If you donāt believe me I can point you to the relevant theorems, but these are hard mathematical facts that you just have to deal with. Yes some of the bugs that have slipped through in KI are more on the severe and game-breaking end than weād like and that is unfortunate, but hell, right this very second the operating systems on your PC and phone are both riddled with severe buffer overrun exploits that (hopefully) nobody has been able to uncover yet, that could be used any day now to steal your personal data and enslave both devices in a large international botnet, and yet I presume you somehow sleep at night. Is that unacceptable?
Serious bugs are inevitable, could you try to cut the engineers some slack for once?
^Truth, right here. I have nfi how instrumental the PC version has been to getting new players in the door, but as a tool for enhancing quality of life for me as a player with a very recent build and a collection of 'Bone games that move straight over to the platform, itās been pretty great and Iām glad it happened.
On-topic: I mightāve kindaā¦picked up Forza Horizon 3 and put more hours into that game than is reasonable? 
The point about this being release season seems like a really strong one to me. Iām personally also busy with work and interviewing for work and whatnot, the latter of which I stopped doing during the winter (Australia) so now is kinda de facto interview season for me and that means Iām grinding programming competitions a lot more. And, aside from Shadow Lords, there hasnāt been new content for KI for several months now (despite someone claiming that IG never stops to iron out the kinksā¦?), so Iāve just done a few rounds of Shadow Lords and moved on to Forza for a while. I boot up Practice mode to drill some tech on occasion (I need to relearn Jago a little after the nerfs) and thatās about it.
But also, those talking about competitive players being driven away because nobody listened to their complaints, a counterpoint: I got sick of the nonstop toxicity from those competitive players, and itās a big part of the reason why Iāve sorta disengaged with the community of late. I donāt want to drop in on a stream chat only to put up with a bunch of ā ā ā ā -talking stirred up by the likes of PaulB or Rico while the streamer calls āYOLOā every time they get guess-broken. Iād rather go watch speedruns of a 15-year-old Zelda game where people are generally pretty chill and have accepted the game for what it is, myriad of faults and all. I donāt know, maybe I need to look elsewhere for my KI community fix.
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No, please save your nice hat for this Saturday when we meet up in Tokyo 
Btw, just hitting 50 hours played of XCOM2ā¦on PC. Man, that gameās addicting. I canāt stop, wonāt stop,ā¦
love SL too though. I spend most of my time in Kan Ra 's shop listening to his talk and opening packages, lol.
Yeah man, looking forward to it! 
And yeah, XCOM2 is awesome. Iām midway through a second playthrough with a ton of mods on. I highly recommend āA Better Adventā - the aliens get some brutal new tricks that make the game a LOT more interesting
Itās baffling to me too. Every single other fighting game on the market is selling dlc costumes. People go crazy for the colors. Maybe they have run the numbers and it doesnāt make sense for them, but I find that hard to imagine. I have never been a big purchaser of cosmetics, but at the moment Iām thinking of buying Overwatch just so I can get the Halloween skins. If any game ever screamed Halloween itās KI, but nothing. People have asked for more since S1 but to no avail. And these kind of things will get people into the game, playing it, streaming it and watching it.
So, yeah, itās a bit off topic but I totally agree.
Im playing less, ALLOT less due to:
Recore
Forza H3
Gow4 / Horde mode
Inside
Over watch / Halloween addition also
Halo 5 / Warzone fire fight
Shadow lords
PLUS shadow lords is offline! SO MUCH TO PLAY! i cant be 100% devoted to KI any more.
BUT this aside i do feel S3 content wise and character wise was very thin on the ground. Also the delivery of the season all at once has NOT made me so keen to keep going back to the game.
During season 2 id play KI Every month with the new character and others without fail and im talking at least getting to level 40.
Season 3 has been amazing but for me some of the magic isnt there and as a season its not commanded AS much time away from the competition. Has this season been strong enough to REFRESH how i feel about the game?
my answer to that is simple: NO
i think some of this has been reflected here regarding, Delivery, New characters, Overall favorite season etc:
Itās not that ki is dying but itās more of on a drought because
- New games are out and large updates to older games.
- 3.4 wasnāt season 3 savior since everyone didnāt want to play shadow Lords, input bugs, so doing other things cause of this
- Everyone else is obsessed with shadow lords and just not fighting.
- School
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Geez, took me forever just to scroll down thru all the replies so I could fit my āHell NO its not dying as long as I am here!ā in with the others.
But seriously, this is one of THE greatest and most well designed games I have ever played in my 25+ years of gaming. I will be playing this competi vely, as my main game above others (including MKX, which is a huge deal for me) until the day Microsoft/IG no longer supports it.
My goodness, those boss wavesā¦ we got a Swarmak on level 50. Half our team left and once our fortifications were destroyed that was it. 
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lol! keep going tiger!!! you can do it! lol
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I love KI, but I finally decided to give a chance to dark souls 3 and I canāt belive why I have not played it yet.
About KI: shadow lords mode is OK but not enough to keep me playing. Considering that I am here since day one, itās time to play other thing while I am waiting for season 4 and a decent arcade mode.
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I hope itās not dying. After season 3 nerfed sabrewulf (my favorite since ki gold) so badly, and seemed to want to make juggles a priority I completely stopped playing. I tried picking the game up again a few days ago, and I hope I didnāt start again right when it starts to die out.
I consider myself a rabid KI player and fan, and Iām pretty sure Iām closing on 1,000 hours spent, at least 90% of that being Ranked play.
I have slowed down how much KI Iāve been playing over the last month, but thatās not because Iām tired of KI, itās because Iāve been playing other games; Darkest Dungeon, Rainbow Six Siege, Bioshock Collection, and now Gears 4 are all pulling my attention, not to mention non-videogame distractions, like miniature painting (which takes a long time).
Just because you see certain individuals leaving or less people chatting on the forums doesnāt mean that the ship is sinking. Weāre also in the prime game release season, so lots of new stuff to occupy peopleās limited game time.
Itās also worth pointing out that although S3 is pretty close to being done, Shadow Lords seems to be something which IG and MS plan to support for a long time, and we did just have that huge survey. If they werenāt planning to support the game further, what would be the point running that?
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active players ebb and flow just like every other video game ever made, especially fighting games that rely on playerās skill and love of the game rather than dangle some mmo level-up carrots in front of players for months on end.
In the meantime, youāre stuck with playing against the hardcore remnants until new content hits
KI isnāt dead. Just sleeping. This always happens. Right now is the calm period after the huge bomb of S3. Lets just let the game rest a bit and let it wake up soon.
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Lol, does it really feel like this game is dying/resting/slowing down in any way? I started playing regularly after EVO this year and let me tell ya, compared to SFV/MKX, this game looks like itās in its PRIME! I never have to wait more than 5 minutes for a game, even if I use filters in matchmaking, I constantly have great interactions on Reddit, at Wednesday Night Fights in SoCal, and of course, just look at this thread as an example of these forums. I think kids just like to talk about games dying as a conversation starter, I personally donāt see the logic or the evidence. 
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