Just so everyone knows, I attended the Fight Night chat and I was there in the capacity of setting up mIRC on most of the MK Team's PC's (They all have dual monitors!) Because some people might not know what's involved in setting something like this up, allow me to explain.

DArqueBishop had informed the WebNet's administrators what would be taking place in the channel, and they sent IRCops for assistance to assure that things ran smoothly. (Last Fight Night, the IRCops didn't know why about 1000 people were in one channel, and assumed that our #mortalkombat chat room was under attack.) We also made sure that each of the user names of the MK team members had been registered, so we would not run into problems there. Of course, the channel had to be set to be moderated so the room didn't get flooded with 1000 people speaking at once. I also changed individual settings on the MK Team's umodes and their personal mIRC clients so that they wouldn't get distracted by PM's, nick changes, joins, parts, or quits.

At times, I even sure that Boon and Vogel gave answers to questions that were asked; and they probably wouldn't have answered these questions had we not been in the same office as them. Specifically, I encouraged Vogel to answer the Ninja Star question from Konquest, and Boon to answer the extra Puzzle Kombat fighter questions. (This is why I am confused when some people say there were misleading answers - the MK team made it very clear that there are no extra characters beyond the 24 on the select screen, no extra puzzle fighters beyond the 12 on the select screen, they didn't even know about the WQ koffin glitch, etc.)

Additionally, please keep in mind that if they tell us there are no extra puzzle fighters, or whatever, it would be wasteful to keep going on about that subject. We don't need to ask them why not, we don't need to ask them again, we move on to the next question. A lot of people wanted to know these questions, and so they were all answered. Yes, they did some joking around, remember that these guys got barely any sleep for months straight and they set up cots in the office when they didn't even have time to go home and sleep. They worked their asses off for us on this game, now isn't it time for them to relax a little, answer our questions, and have some fun? If I were Boon, I'd probably be joking around too, because to them, it's funny to see how people read way too much into everything. People come up with theories based on things that don't mean anything (like 12:43 in MKDA). To them, it's probably kind of funny, because they didn't expect that at all. But like I said, they've been working their asses off for months with little sleep, this is time for them to have some fun, and in some way all they have to do is make some random comment like "FOV 120" and people take that and run away with it.

But they answered each question very clearly before making any such jokes... We made sure of that. The fact that some people still act like some questions went unanswered and hold it against MKO or the MKD team really won't make it any easier for us to do future Fight Nights. Don't pretend that they avoided each question they were asked. But If you want to say that you didn't LIKE the answers the MKD team gave, then fine. But as Ed Boon said, "Hey....you want the truth or you want a good story?"