Ed Boon Debunks Reports That It Costs $6,440 to Buy Every Mortal Kombat 11 Skin

Series co-creator Ed Boon debunks reports that it costs $6440 for all Mortal Kombat 11 skins via Twitter.

[BigBosss]

Yeah I don't know where people get their information from seriously. Everything can be earned in game through towers, etc.

[GottaBjimmyb]

Even if it was $6400, who cares.
1. They are cosmetic only
2. There is no pay to win
3. You can earn almost all (if not all) skins via playing.

If you are upset about the skin pricing, don't buy them. If you are upset you have to play to earn them, then buy them. If you are upset you have to play more than you want or be better than you are to unlock them, then work to get better or spend more time and unlock them, giving your experience longevity and a goal...

[SamPao]

Well yes and no, would you agree with me that all these things should be reachable within a certain amount of time? from what I heard, dont quote me on that I could be wrong, it takes 3-4k hours to earn everything. Is that a fine amount of time?

But Yeah I agree, I dont give a darn about cosmetics.... They can put in as much as they want for all I care

[Hungryalpaca]

People like you are why we have this garbage in the first place. That amount of time is unacceptable. NO $60 game should have a mobile f2p model.

[GottaBjimmyb]

"from what I heard, dont quote me on that I could be wrong, it takes 3-4k hours to earn everything."

Sure why wouldn't it be? It gives the most hardcore things to keep working toward, and not everyone needs to unlock every thing... there are plenty of games with unlockable things (and no MTs) where most people haven't unlocked everything, so what is the difference if they add an option to buy.

If there were no MTs would it still be an issue if they had content that required a large amount of time and some that took a small amount? Are they not allowed to reward or incentivise their most loyal players? If so, why does adding an option to buy matter?

Obviously with P2W or gameplay related functions being behind paywall, there is an argument, but that doesn't seem to be the case here or in most games the people on this site constantly whine about.

[MadLad]

@gotta

You do realize there are many examples of developers purposefully lengthening the "grind" if games in order to capitalize on selling microtransactions, right?

A decade ago, when free to play phone games had this sort of economy, I understood and accepted.
Over the last few years the fact companies do the same exact thing to premium priced games is just gross and greedy.

[VTKC]

"who cares" Hold on a minute, you speak for everybody do you? I think your fanboy is showing. You know? -blindly defending regardless?

[Christopher]

***Pretty soon every damn game is going to be a basic shell where you have to buy into all the added stuff that makes a game visually appealing. You know, the video part of video games.***

Same thing people were saying when the 360 came out. Your hyperbolic hypothetical isn't realistic as an argument nor does 'soon' seem to be within a century. This is all cosmetic unlike SWBF2. It has unlockables through story and towers. Is it grindy if your only goal is to unlock everything? Yeah, but that's similar to most games where you soon for Platinum trophies or the like. But you still have access to all characters and all content with little effort.

[dumahim]

@GottaBjimmyb

"Sure why wouldn't it be? It gives the most hardcore things to keep working toward, and not everyone needs to unlock every thing"

3-4k hours is excessive. Consider that 2400 hours is 100 days of playing non-stop. That's years-long of playing an MMORPG level of playing heavily.

[sprinterboy]

Not everyone has 3000 hrs of play time with 1 game

[Melankolis]

They're cosmetics only, yes.
But the amount of time to earn all of them is ridiculous, and who said we can't have all of them in a more "normal" way even if they're just cosmetics? We pay full price dammit!.

[Scatpants]

I care. I don't want all the choices for cosmetics locked behind paywalls. Don't really care for loot box grinding either.

[SegaGamer]

Sorry, but anybody that says "it's only cosmetic" is part of the problem. Have you all forgotten the days when unlocking those cosmetic items was just part of the game? Have you forgotten the days when we would collect everything in the game for fun? Have you forgotten the days when games weren't deliberately made grindy just so they could frustrate the player into buying their in game currency with real money?

People like you will say things like "You don't have to buy it, just keep playing it and you will unlock it" but face facts, nobody wants to play a game for thousands of hours to unlock things, and the thing is, the devs didn't design it to be like that either. They don't want people playing their game for thousands of hours, they want you buy their in game currency so you can buy the rest of the stuff to 100% the game. I'm astonished that fully grown adults still can't see this. You're being played and you can't even see it.

[GottaBjimmyb]

@sega "I'm astonished that fully grown adults still can't see this. You're being played and you can't even see it."

I'm astonished full grown, supposedly responsible adults aren't able to have self control enough not to buy things they don't see value in...

I am not being played at all, I simply buy what I feel is valuable and usually that is nothing other than the base game. And the momey from people who do buy MTs very often helps a sequel or free DLC so it is an all around win for me.

[AK91]

A tweet like that isn't very reassuring, would've preferred he went more in depth on the MT's why $6440 is incorrect rather than "nah just haters bro"

[Christopher]

Because, as he said, many of the unlockables can only be earned by playing the game and can't be bought...

[Sono421]

This is a very crazy and out there idea... but I think f2p models should stay in f2p games... crazy I know.

Also Chris why even waste time replying to this guy? He is clearly "Pretty freaking racist" Why not just mark him as spam like you do with others you disagree with?

(I don't actually think you are racist my guy, just making a point to chris)

[ScootaKuH]

It could but it doesn't have to. You could unlock everything through story, tower and krypt. It means a fair amount of grinding which in this game means a lot if fighting but as it's a fighting game I feel that's the point

[CrustifiedDibbs]

i was pumped to buy this game, but the free to play model on a full priced game and the grind have turned me off for now. this practice needs to stop. it is ruining gaming.

[nameen]

What f2p model are talking about? Lmao. Learn to read. It says skins only "cosmetic" that doesn't even affect the game.

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

Maybe you confused FTP with PTW.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

"Learn to read" The irony is beaming from your comment

[Scatpants]

People like you are the reason we have this problem. Quit explaining away greed.

[harmny]

Maybe it shouldn't have skins st all. The. Nobody would complain

[DJStotty]

Lol "the grind" most if not ALL MK fans will play this game for well over a year, so by that time will have accumulated enough credits to unlock everything.

These moaners are a joke and i think they are just fans on non violent video games, looking for the next game they do not like to hate on.

[CrustifiedDibbs]

"they are just fans on non violent video games"

i wasn't going to respond to anyone, but this little comment is beyond stupid. i just finished sekiro. i guess that game isn't violent enough for the hardcore like you... the grind is there to push people towards micro-transactions. you can be a fanboy and deny it, but its still true.

[MWH]

a patch is coming to balance the grinding a bit. Try to hold on a little longer before you begin your grind quest.

[VTKC]

Did anyone ask him how much it cost to add more wokeness to the game?

[Dizzy11523]

lmao

[ECHOINFINITY]

No buy. Sick of this crap. I want to earn stuff as motivation to play the game I bought. It shouldn't take a lifetime to do so to encourage me to spend more money.

[ReVibe]

I'm all for earning stuff, but it undeniably sucks when you want just a few things here and there, and you just keep getting shit. If I sit down to a game I've purchased, then I want to work toward what I want, not toward what I might get.

[DJStotty]

so dont play it then, play something else

[Kyizen]

If make it insanely time consuming and hard to unlock something just to force people to buy it is still crappy. Even though there is a way to unlock it for 'free'. Remember cheat codes getting you extra stuff?

[DJStotty]

I got her in about an hour so all is good

[Rachel_Alucard]

He copied Katsuhiro Haradas tweet and replaced keywords.

http://imgur.com/gallery/HT...

Weird way to "debunk" something when someone on Reddit wrote a whole thesis on it, explaining why they got the number, and then he just responds by copying Harada without elaborating a single thing. That number is based on if you were to buy everything through the premium shop. His line is a fallacy since it doesn't address that detail of that number and just dismisses it saying "Nuh uh!" I think NRS is really bad at PR, since even yesterday one of them was trying to push this "Konsumables are fun!" thing to everyone and nobody wants anything to do with mobile designs crap, especially in a big $60 AAA fighting game. WB really damaged them in the last decade.

[syphon32]

I love reading the comments on topics like these some of the most entertaining shit ever. I upvoted all the comments that make sense... Of course people want customization, they made getting customization hard on purpose, so you will be forced to purchase in game currency to by pass the grind that they intentionally put in the game. They knew what they were doing, it was strategy to get more money. They made the crypt tricky as fuck so gamers can’t help each other in buying the good shit and by passing the bullshit. It was done on purpose, they want more money, end of discussion...

[Smokehouse]

It’s just idiot math, I don’t know why anyone took this seriously.

There is a rotating store that has 5 random items and each item costs 500 time crystals. If you go by this moron’s logic and bought 6000 in time crystals and sat there for 4 hours at a time waiting for the store to change and hope it’s something you already bought then yeah, this goober is absolutely right.

[Scatpants]

What's your system for purchasing all the DLC cheaper? I don't know how it works I don't have the game because I don't like it when companies try to play me like that.

[Smokehouse]

You don’t purchase dlc the items are in the krypt. Some boxes use coins, some use souls and some use hearts to open. You cannot purchase any of these currencies with real money.

People are bitching because the rewards are slim. Playing a tower will net you like 30k and the good krypt cases are like 10-15 k. They say it’s “a grind” to unlock the krypt. These are just people who want to unlock the entire krypt in the first 3 days and they tried to say it’s an MTX scam. These people are full of shit. “I played a whole tower and I only opened up 2 chests!” Yeah dummy, play the game more.

I agree the rewards for playing could be higher but that patch is coming later this week. It’s not an issue. It’s so overblown that it irritates me.

[DJStotty]

If you have not got the game why are you here?

[DJStotty]

@smokehouse

That has got to be the most intelligent comment i have read in these articles.

It took me next to no time to open around 30-40 chests straight off the bat. I got 7 alternative costumes and unlocked 4 fatalities.

[optimus]

1- mortal Kombat 11 player....i unlocked 3 kostumes by playing 5 matches...cool

2- mortal kombat 11 player- i unlocked 10 kostumes by playing 20 matches...not bad

3- mortal kombat 11 player - i unlocked 20 kostumes by playing 50 matches...kind of a pain but at least i got 20 kostumes out of it.

4- mortal kombat 11 player - i unlocked 40 kostumes by playing 80 matches...i don't want to play anymore, I'm good with the 40 i got.

5- mortal kombat 11player - there's no way I'm going to play 100 matches to get 60 kostumes so I'm just going to spend 20 bucks and unlock the ones i want when i want.

6- mortal kombat 11 player - i don't care how good this game is it sucks just because it lets players buy the kostumes TOO....and my mom won't give me the money to buy them all so it definitely sucks....

looks like this game targets every single gamer out there....well done ed boon...see you at the award shows.😜

[ShrektheHulk]

All the children on this site...damn.

[Varodor]

wait.. they delete the other news about 6440. How it is done and how much it costs?

[optimus]

seems like the only reason they deleted it is because ed boon "debunked" it by laughing at it and saying it's not true with no viable explanation...i guess it's eligible to be debunked because the kostumes can be obtained for free if you keep playing...he didn't give a price on total kost to buy them all though.