... I don't see why putting 3D Era characters on the initial roster would somehow translate to more money. Have you not seen the outrage with initial MKX and MK11 rosters? The biggest stans ever were of Mileena. Now they're pestering Ed with constant Smoke/Ermac spam. The fact that 3D era sells poorly as DLC should tell everything to you. Not sure why you keep going with this....
Because the klassics sell better as DLC, whereas 3D era characters seem to also fare well on the main roster.
The main MK11 roster also only had 1 character from the 3D era, and most of the outrage was people going "fuck Kollector" or "fuck Cetrion" or "fuck Geras."
You're skipping over the fact that people were more annoyed that Jacqui, Cassie, Erron Black, Geras, Kollector and Cetrion made it in over the klassics that they wanted and people weren't as mad about Frost being in MK11 than they were about those other 6.
People in MKX also didn't have many issues with Quan Chi, Kenshi, Shinnok, Tanya, Tremor and Bo Rai Cho being playable.
NO, the characters that they constantly bitched about "taking up a spot" for a character that they feel should "be in very game" were the majority of the 8 new characters that they introduced in MKX.
I'm not saying to sell all klassics as DLC, but if you replaced Kotal, D'Vorah, Erron, Cetrion, Geras and Kollector's spaces in MK12 for 3D era ones, people may be more accepting of that.
Part of the big problem with MK11 is that they didn't properly develop those newer characters and made them even shittier (thanks to Dominic) and left them on the back burner, so people are are probably wondering
"why the fuck are these poorly developed characters taking up spots?"
Not every game can be Trilogy 2.0 because people would get burned out and there would be no real need to buy they next game if the previous game had the same roster.
If MK9 and MKX or MKX and MK11 had the same exact base roster, why the hell would I ever pre-order another MK or even bother with it at full price if it's just the same exact roster as 2 years prior? For that I'll wait until it goes down to the $10 price point and just get it then.
This is the same reason why I also got burned out on Madden, back in the day. It ended up having a few changes here and there, but after a while there was not enough of a difference to warrant me buying it at full price every year.
Even if they did put a good amount of klassics on the main roster (like they did with MKX and MK11), people will always bitch and moan, so why not replace the newer MKX and MK11 characters with 3D era ones, since NRS doesn't seem to give much of a shit
(or Dominic more specifically) for those newer characters anyways?
You're also ignoring the fact that people have been asking for Havik, Reiko and Sareena as DLC for this game, and while they may or may not do poorly as DLC, they could definitely be main roster spots that would add some variety to an otherwise repetitive roster.
Aside from human Smoke and Stryker, the majority of the MK9 roster has been in all 3 games as playable in some shape or another, but to hell with me for wanting to see some 3D era variety, I guess.
