They could have chosen to reveal “only three stages” during the big reveal, sure. But at the same time people are complaining “why haven’t we heard ANYTHING yet???”. It’s a lose-lose situation for IG and MS because of how ■■■■■■■ overreactive a portion of this community is. People whine and complain and ■■■■■ about the most minor things, or without having full information, but yet it’s like squeezing blood out of a stone to get a decent helping of respect or understanding from the same people. We’re getting a big reveal sometime in the next week or so, and without having all the information it’s foolish to make these overblown judgements.
This game needs to evolve over time, and nobody is going to get 100% of what they want because everybody wants different things - so they can’t please everybody. But sure, we have a thriving community, are going to EVO again, have KI World Cups for at least two more years, and are on the doorstep of a third season. But please, let the minor things “ruin” your entire experience, and continue drawing everybody into your misery, cuz KI is clearly dying out!
So many of these things (like the retros) are incredibly minor and have been done to death. And it’s laughable that you go so far as to say a major downside or “hurt” is that DH was purchased and couldn’t make the game any more? You don’t like KI’s story mode (please see SFV, a $60 AAA title), you don’t like “pay to unlock” (are you complaining that this isn’t like a MOBA where you can eventually open all the characters through playing the game for a million hours? Are you complaining that someone else can choose to pay for KI gold to unlock colors rather than grind them out?) Unbelievable, dude.