Be wary of Easy Fatalities with Mortal Kombat X

To experience one of the best features of Mortal Kombat — the ability to absolutely obliterating your opponent with a Fatality — you may be spending some money. As you're probably aware, Mortal Kombat X has finally released and with its launch we are seeing some dirty details on Fatalities emerge.

The game has two options for Fatalities: one is limited in the amount of times it can be used and the other is unlimited. The unlimited ones are the original Fatality combos that have a sequence of specific buttons to be hit at a specific range from your opponent (specifics are key). The limited one is the Easy Fatality, the Fatality with only three buttons.

When you first boot up Mortal Kombat you have a few tokens for Easy Fatalities. After you run out of tokens you can head to the crypts and unlock a few more. The only catch is that the crypt does not respawn tokens. How do you get more tokens? By purchasing them as a microtransaction, of course.

Five dollars will get you 30 Easy Fatalities. This is a double-edged download; without the Easy Fatality you have to learn the more difficult set of moves, potentially making you a better player. However, forcing people to buy them without offering an unlimited way to grind out tokens seems just wrong.

Some people might even go as far to say that the game industry is asphyxiating itself with these types of deals.

The good news is this isn't some sort of pay-to-win ploy. The tokens don't make you any more powerful, they just make you look good in front of your friends.

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