Just a matter of time before a massive cheating scandal occurs that makes the big tournaments ban personal controllers in the top 8. I'm sure people have been cheating for years, but the scrutiny will just get more and more intense as the prize pools get into "real money".
Also organized crime element will increase a lot.

>>722571495
MK1's story, including the expansion, is dogshit. Competitive scene is tiny compared to casual audience who probably only touched the game for a week before forgetting about it. The winner of Final Kombat, Scorpionprocs, admitted (in Spanish) that he never liked the game while standing next to Ed Boon.

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>Get into fighting games in 2015 because of Mortal Kombat X, right when Street Fighter 5 is establishing the trope of the bad, watered-down, casualized fighting game that will define the genre for the next decade
>Tekken 7 comes out
>It's bad
>Street Fighter 5 keeps updating
>It's bad
>Marvel Versus Capcom Infinite comes out
>It's bad
>Mortal Kombat 11 comes out
>It's bad
>Guilty Gear Strive comes out
>It's bad
>Street Fighter 6 comes out
>It has good gameplay but is bad
>Tekken 8 comes out
>It's bad
>Mortal Kombat 1 comes out
>It's bad
>Skullgirls gets a new dev team that ruins it
>I put 2000+ hours into Mortal Kombat X even though it's bad and has emojis in it
>Even Mortal Kombat 9 is bad
What the fuck? What was the last legitimately good fighting game that didn't get raped or die? Lethal League Blaze?

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>>722573140
>Competitive scene is tiny compared to casual audience who probably only touched the game for a week before forgetting about it.
this has always been the case with NRS games

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>>722573508
>Street Fighter 6
>good gameplay