Fans have taken to the likes of X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok to question NetherRealm’s decision to market Mortal Kombat 1 as a $70 Switch release. It has been called “robbery” and “disrespectful” to users.

  • @wahming
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    239 months ago

    Seriously, it’s a product for sale. Don’t like the price, vote with your wallet and don’t buy it. What’s with the manufactured outrage for every topic nowadays

    • @BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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      159 months ago

      People are complaining because they don’t like a thing, that’s fine. Same as you’re complaining in this post. Call companies out on their bullshit. Also don’t buy bullshit, that’s a good point too.

      • @wahming
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        -79 months ago

        Because it doesn’t qualify as bullshit. Company made a product, set a price. Either you find it worth the price or not, but either way what’s the reason to kick up a fuss over an optional good

        • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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          79 months ago

          Company also sold pre-orders for a product, which means people can’t really decide whether the product is exactly what they want until they get it. At which point they complain, because they trusted the company not to sell a sub-par product. What is your issue?

          • @wahming
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            -59 months ago

            ? The complaint right now is about the price, not the quality of the product. Are you saying they didn’t know the price when they preordered it?

            On a side note, preorders are a scam. If you’re dumb enough to preorder a game in unlimited supply, that’s on you.

            • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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              69 months ago

              My guy, the complaint is about the price because of the quality. Or, as you are asking, are you saying people didn’t know the price when they bought it?

              On a side note, preorders are a scam. If you’re dumb enough to preorder a game in unlimited supply, that’s on you.

              I agree that pre-orders are a scam, but it’s shitty to say “you knew what you bought!” when some people literally couldn’t.

              • @wahming
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                -59 months ago

                I’m not saying they knew what they bought, I’m saying it’s on them for choosing to buy before they knew what they were buying. Seriously, people need to take responsibility for their choices already.

                • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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                  49 months ago

                  Earlier you said:

                  Company made a product, set a price. Either you find it worth the price or not, but either way what’s the reason to kick up a fuss over an optional good

                  Now you’re saying it’s on people who pre-order. Can’t we stop pushing this on the consumer and start demanding better from the manufacturers? Why can they sell shitty products, instead of being held to higher standards?

                  • @wahming
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                    -29 months ago

                    In this particular case, it’s not on the publisher. The switch is an old console, and there’s only so much they can do with the hardware. It’s not a particularly big surprise to anybody familiar with the technology.

                    Why SHOULDN’T we hold consumers to task for their bad decisions? They are arguably making things worse for the rest of us, by repeatedly rewarding bad behaviour from companies. There is no good reason for them to preorder, they just had to be the first instead of waiting a day for reviews to appear. Well, if you’re going to be impatient, guess what? The risk is on you.

    • El Barto
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      139 months ago

      I don’t like how many posts cater to outrage lately, true.

      But I don’t think this one is manufactured.

      • @wahming
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        -19 months ago

        Yeah, manufactured might have been the wrong word. Pointless? Uncalled for?

        • El Barto
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          9 months ago

          But why would it be pointless or uncalled for? $70 for a rather old game?

          Edit: I’ve been schooled. Is a brand new game with a confusing name. Still $70 for a console game; yikes.

          • @Vamanos@lemmy.world
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            89 months ago

            Others have already replied with this info but I’m just spelling it out for anyone who is not familiar like me:

            They fucking named the brand new game mk1. Is it a remaster? No. It’s not a remaster. Is it a recreation of mk1? No. It’s an alternate timeline game given the worst name in the history of naming things. It’s genuinely a brand new game.

            • El Barto
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              39 months ago

              Holy shit. They really fucked up with that name.

              • @Vamanos@lemmy.world
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                49 months ago

                Sometimes I wish I could have a job where companies just say “hey should we make this decision” and I tell them “that’s so fucking stupid no one will actually like that” and get paid well for it.

                That’s my dream.

                • geosocoOP
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                  29 months ago

                  I’ve had some similar roles before, but more often than not companies just do it anyway, even if you have a lot of data to the contrary. It’s stupidly easy for someone in management to push some of this through despite the data, choose an arbitrary metric to define their success, get their bonus, and then bail for another company. Meanwhile, folks left at the company have to then try and fix all of the nonsense. It blows that we value failing forward. I’ve seen a few decent products just tanked this way.

              • Poggervania
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                29 months ago

                I mean… we live in the timeline where we had the Xbox One being the third Xbox, and Battlefield 1 not being the first Battlefield.

                I would not be surprised if we start seeing “[Game Title] One” for rebooted games.

          • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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            59 months ago

            Its not an old game, MK1 is the latest release. The people getting served this are running it on hardware that was weak last generation. At a certain point you simply cannot push these devices any further. MK1 for Switch was never going to look beautiful, the current gen Switch can’t do it. I’m okay with devs making their games available, I mean at least you can play it. Theres a reason a Switch 2 is in the works.

          • @wahming
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            29 months ago

            Because you have the full choice to not buy and support it, if you think the price is unreasonable. It’s not a vital need, and nobody’s forcing customers to buy it. Housing, food, healthcare, we don’t have a choice. Buy or die. A video game? Not so much. The issue is not game publishers overcharging, it’s players who moan and whine… AND THEN BUY IT ANYWAY, thus ensuring the publishers will continue the practice

            • El Barto
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              19 months ago

              Sure, but are we talking about people who buy the game, or people in general bashing at the price? They’re not necessarily the same group.

              It’s like when Apple announced that $1000 monitor stand. It was laughable. Even if I won’t buy one, I bashed it to no end, because it was fun.

          • @VonCesaw@lemmy.world
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            19 months ago

            That’s standard price for new games from EA, greater Microsoft (id, Bethesda, Obsidian, 343, etc), SqEnix, and WB

            • El Barto
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              Which is bullshit. It reminds me of when web email services offered ridiculously small inbox sizes, such as 25MB or 50MB. Then in came Google and offered 1GB, and all of a sudden all those companies found the way to match Google’s offering.

              But I guess if people are willing to pay for those ridiculous prices, and deal with in-game payments… shrug.

    • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
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      59 months ago

      I don’t think it’s “outrage”. It’s people making fun of the port on x and the website capitalizing on that to publish a story

      • @wahming
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        09 months ago

        They’re calling it robbery and disrespectful. I’m not seeing where the joke is

        • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
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          29 months ago

          Crying at the Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1, Why didn’t they just wait for the next gen switch console, the fact it costs 70$ is robbery💀💀💀

          I think it’s clear that they’re not literally calling it a robbery, they’re just expressing their discontent in a twitter way.