It's no secret NRS loves Kang and Lao. Do I feel that fan demand played a part in it? Absolutely. But the demand worked alongside their own personal interests, I'm sure.
I have never seen NRS expressing any type of favoritism towards Bo Rai Cho, though.
Kenshi? Yes, we all know that Ed has a Booner for him.
Other post-MK3 characters? Not really.
As DLC, NRS should have put a little more care into what people wanted/expected. It's DLC for a fighting game. It's new characters and costumes. They don't release DLC that effects the story being told. Therefor they should probably listen to what fans want in this case.
People wanted cyborgs and we got it. Best DLC decision they've made so far. But there wasn't a whole lot of demand for Bo' Rai Cho. NRS loves Bo' Rai Cho and that is absolutely the reason we got him.
Fujin not only had an appearance in the story but was also teased by Boon during Cassie's selfie fatality. Passing on him over a terrible character like Bo' was a slap in the face and shows that NRS makes terrible decisions.
I love watching KP2 reveal reactions on youtube and laughing at everyone who is either like "Who the hell is Bo' Rai Cho?" or "Omfg not that a**hole! Why him?"
KP2 received backlash for a reason. And both NRs and their fans are at fault. Demand from the few and very vocal and stupid fans + the refusal to properly listen or challenge themselves on NRS's part has hurt this game badly, imo.
What NRS percieves as
"what the people want" is subjective, though.
For the most part, they seem to listen to what a big portion of the fanbase wants (Tremor), but sometimes the small vocal group gets what they want too. *Cough*Tanya*Cough*
While Bo Rai Cho didn't have many Tweets, there were 1 or 2 Tweets about him.
Granted, it wasn't as much as Fujin, but we don't know the real reason why he was put in.
Perhaps they were catering to both the majority of the fans (who are hung up on the Trilogy roster) with Tri-Borg, and the minority of the fans with Bo Rai Cho.
Who knows?
You're preaching to the choir, as far as Fujin goes.
Again, I wanted him to be playable more than anyone else on here, but whether NRS purposely did it to piss off fans or whether they just had another agenda (more likely, imo) is unknown.
Yeah, and there is also a small vocal minority who are like
"Cool, Bo Rai Cho is back."
I was part of that vocal minority until they revealed that he still retains the toilet humor, which I don't care for.
KP2 mainly received a backlash for Alien (which funny enough, some others requested) due to him being a Tarkata-morph and Leatherface, which no one asked for, but NRS / WB likely put him in because there is a Leatherface movie coming out.