The new 'Mortal Kombat' is packed with obnoxious extra fees that are going to make a lot of money
The new "Mortal Kombat" game ain't cheap.
The game alone costs $60. If you want the "Kollector's Edition," including a collectible figure and some other extra content, that'll be $150. There's also a slew of optional downloadable content that costs between $2 and $30.
Most notably, if you want to pull off those famous finishing moves - like the selfie fatality - without needing to remember a long combination of buttons, you can pay $0.99 for five "easy" fatalities, which simplifies the sequence of button prompts into a single button tap. You can also pay $5 for 30 of them.
But here's the thing: Once you use up those "easy" fatalities you bought, you have to buy them all over again.
But while it may make sense for mobile games that are either free or cost a few bucks at first, it seems particularly obnoxious for a game that already costs $60.
We're sad to see "Mortal Kombat" go in this direction. The franchise has existed for over 20 years, starting off in arcades and eventually moving into living rooms, and it's the most successful fighting game franchise ever, according to Guinness. But while "Mortal Kombat X" may be fun, buyers should be wary and think about how much the game will really cost.