So earn them.

I already did. I went to work, got paid and bought the game you twat.

You're complaining about the price of microstransactions that are optional. Play the game and earn them instead of complaining about the price of the microtransactions.

Also, why the namecalling? Are you 7?

Look dude, I run a company and have 3 kids. This game is the last piece of nostalgia from my childhood that I still look forward to and I disagree with so many decisions that have been made by the development team. As a fan, I'm extremely disappointed. As a businessman, I understand what they're trying to do but personally think it will backfire. The gameplay is sound, no doubt. Every other nuance from the system for skins and how to wear them to the grind in the krypt is not ok.

Microtransactions are fine when the relative system isn't designed to entice them.

The Krypt should not be as hard to achieve as it is. The costs for the chests are ridiculously high, and the reward is at random, so there is no value to match. Furthermore, the amount of time it takes to recuperate the koins spent is insane, not to mention there are multiple currencies and most of them are difficult to attain. The system is designed to make microtransactions the better option, and it's conspicuously shady.

I want to be able to enjoy the Krypt, but I hardly ever spend any time in it, because in less than five minutes I run out of money.

Even the 3D era you had to unlock and find cosmetics in Konquest. This is nothing new, just an enhanced version of it. Dont really see the problem to be honest. Its not all meant to be earned right off the bat....

The 3d era krypt didn't have brutality and fatality inputs. The alternate skins were in the krypt, but once unlocked could be chosen on the select screen. The 3d era krypt was quickly navigated. The 3d era krypt had a single currency with reasonable prices. The 3d era krypt had the same item in the same chest for everyone, so if Raiden was your main and you wanted his alternate, the internet would help you get the gear that matched your own priorities. And now, even if I perform a fatality that hasn't been found in the krypt, it won't be available in my movelist like it did in MKX. Rotten.

Somebody's forgotten how many towers you had to grind to play enough Test Your M/Sight minigames to get enough Platinum and Onyx koins to unlock 20% of the Krypt. That was a boring ass slog.

In any case, I'm not touching the Krypt yet until I hear there's been an update, just to be safe. I can live without skins, and all you need for Fatalities is a cheat sheet to know the input. Just be missing out on variation stuff until then.

The problem is there are no set chests. Everything is given at random.

You could be paying 21,000 koins or more for something as trivial as a concept art. If you're lucky, you'll randomly get a skin or fatality. And that's just the thing, if you're lucky. We're not earning anything. We're busting our butts grinding to get koins, only to receive whatever the server decides to give us. It's not fair.

In MKDA you had six different coins to spend. This was also grind, because if you need red koins and there was only one fight whcih gives you 200 and you need 1200.. well... right now, I do the towers and have maybe 150000-200000 gold (when I do 3-5 towers) and 800-1000 souls. I also work til evening and have a girlfriend (which counts as two kids :-P ) but to spend 1 or 2 hours with MK11 is possible for me and then i earn maybe 100000 gold koins and 500 souls, whcih is ok for a day. My only concern are the red koins. They need to raise the amount. This is the only problem left, everything else you can unlock quickly.

Well... there is only one question: Are the skins and brutalities wb store exclusive or also found in the krypt? If first, it sucks... if last, I am fine with it. Since they will raise the amount of currency it should be only a matter of time.

Oh, there are chests which cost 100 red koins and you earn 200 time crystal. So there is a way to get time crystal without buying them. But I get your point. They need to fix some things to make the game more satisfying. But NRS is on a good way imo.

What does that Kronika Rewind do? I haven’t activated it yet as it says rewinds time.

Does that mean I lose everything I’ve opened or does it simply restock chests with new random stuff??

Rewards are not random as last kombat kast told us ;)

Hm.. I don't share your opinion. But let me explain. Every chest is random except the "red koins" chest. So, you telling me that it is unfair to spend 21000 koins and get nothing. But I take the opposite of it and just open 1000-3000 koins chest and get some good stuff. In the kombat kast they said that everyone get the same reward only the position is rnd... so this means everyone get everything.. it is just a matter of time. And when I go to the krypt I have the feeling I get everytime something new, which is great. As I mentioned NRS need to fix the amount of red koins, that's it (at least for me) in aspect of the krypt.

Wow.. super tiring. Especially when you create three comments just sooking.

Guess what.. microtransactions happen. Seriously, they are rewards for playing the game. Games use to not have that as an option, you'd have to play the game for 100 hours or so. Mortal Kombat is saying no microtransactions are needed for the game. They aren't. There is nothing that you buy that you NEED in the game.

And guess what? If you can't be bothered playing the game and unlocking the rewards naturally in the krypt, etc., you deserve to be parted with your money. The Kombat Kast they acted caught out as they probably set it at a level the top 20% would be able to achieve.. but maybe the game mechanics were more difficult to new users than they expected.

As for remove microtransactions.. if they do that then you'd sook about having to play the game / towers to unlock things.. they can't win.

People who think the world owes them something...

Uh, yeah they are. There is no fixed location for items. Sounds pretty random to me. You want the second Noob fatality? For you it's in one spot and for me another. That's called random.

Means, everyone has to search. Can’t see what’s wrong with it. But the reward all in all is the same for everyone...

Ok.. first.. I spend 1000 time crystal for the brutalities and paid no money. There are treasure chest which gave you 200 time crystal. Right now I have 1000.

Second: I unlocked 22 fatalities.. 3 are missing. I also unlocked 1-3 brutalities ( I have 6 with Scorpion and Kitana) for each kharacter. I only played for a week. So.. I think it is not that big deal to unlock everything. No one needs to buy anything here.

The problem isn't the micro-transactions (although the pricetag looks hefty indeed). Golden koins are fairly easy to get, you can for example get 20.000 koins by doing a daily challenge. For example, I had "do 20 front kicks" and "play 3 matches with Jade". So I got 2x 20.000 koins for that.
The hearts on the other hand seem hard to obtain and chest are quite expensive in that regard. Souls, I don't really know. I have around 750 but I'm not able to use them as of yet. So I don't know what the costs of "chests" are with souls.
But hopefully they fix what things costs in the Krypt, or give more credits.

And maybe I'm lucky but up till now, I've got some decent stuff out of The Krypt. But it is harsh when you but 20.000 koins down of a chest and all you get is an icon or two and maybe an augment. I've also had these Kronika Vessels appearing randomly and out of nowhere which had some good stuff in them.

And actually, I wouldn't care if the contents of the chests are placed randomly. That would actually make it fun. But what the chests costs, should reflect the contents. Most of the time that is. It wouldn't be that bad if you got the "middlefinger" from some of the expensive chest, that has been so in every Krypt in MK.

Apparantly Kronika Rewind restocks a chosen number of chests. You don't lose anything you bought before. I think they do that because certain items can be depleted in the game (consumables, forge items, ... )

Speaking of Kronika rewind, here's one thing I still don't understand...

They were very clear on the idea that, with a few exceptions (typically the more extravagant chests) the basic Krypt chests are preset, and every player has the same collection of chests. What varies is the placement. Everyone has the same basic collection of boxes, they're just mixed up from Krypt to Krypt. Okay. Got it. Understood. And that explanation makes sense, because as they mentioned, you'll often open a chest and pull a set of items for Noob, or 3 pieces of Kano concept art. So it's clearly not 100% random. I can buy that.

THAT SAID...

If the above is the case: How the hell does paying koins to refill chests work? And what's the point?

If the default chests are the same preset collection of items for everyone, wouldn't refilled chests basically always be konsumables and (arguably) useless items?

Can the refilled chests yield skins? If so, where do these skins come from? They clearly aren't part of the default Krypt collection. Are there skins that specifically ONLY come from refilled chests, and aren't part of the default Krypt Collection? Or do refills ALWAYS yield things like consumables and materials? Is there any point to refilling chests, or is it just a gold sink that will always yield garbage items?

Inquiring minds want to know.

The refill on coffins are just consumables, recipe stuff, etc. No skins, augs, etc

I wouldn't at all be surprised if DLC characters get stuff in empty chests too at some point.

Are you sure about that. Where is your source? Because I think I got a brutality from a refilled chest. I gonna try it next time.

I’ve noticed that every chest over 10k has given me a skin. And every purchase for 100 green skulls has given me a skin. Haven’t bought a heart chest yet

Pretty lucky, I opened a few of those last night and one contained nothing but concept art.