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The MK11 Jax arcade ending is fine, I do reckon they just threw in the term "get woke" deliberately just to generate controversy and publicity though and it worked.

Criticizing an ending on the grounds that time travelling past changing is lazy writing is to criticize the entire premise of the series since the 2009 reboot. The reboot was set in an alternate time line from the original 7 games in the series after Raiden sends a message back through time. The premise of MK11 is that the Kronica the Keeper of Time is trying to change the timeline again. The non canon arcade endings have all 25 characters become the keeper of time and then virtually all of them change the timeline in some manner.

Of course the alternate timeline allows the game developers to bring back characters who have been killed off, which caters to fan service. The storyline is daft on the whole, its mean't to be but its still a silly kind of fun.

As for the female character designs being ugly, well that's all subjective. I think they generally are quite good, I quite like the new look Kitana, she seems the most changed, her face looks more asian but it works well. Maybe old Sonya is looking abit well...middle aged in it, but hey there is also a young Sonya in it (thanks alternate timelines!). Yes they women are showing less skin than before but that hardly makes them ugly, I don't see any 25 stone rugby playing prop forwards among the ladies. The male characters on the whole probably do show more skin in this game which makes a change for say the other 9,000 cases of it being the other way round but they are hardly been as sexualized as women characters have been for years. Why do women in games keep showing up to fights wearing nothing but shoulder and shin pads and em bikinis?

Its fair to criticize a game over micro-transactions, particularly if a game is so grind heavy (and the grind is boring to play) that it strongly pushes the player towards micro-transactions. The developers have acknowledged this and have already patched the game to make improvements in this regard and have a confirmed a second patch to further improve the situation. Again its fair to criticize the game for grind/micro transactions in its current form but after a week or so it might be worth taking another look to see if the criticism is still valid.

I've also seen some complaints about the PC version being marred by tech issues. I think its too early to call on this. It could be buggy, or it could be a small percentage of players having issues and that's being blown up in scale by the internet rage herd who want more ammunition to bash the game with.

I understand to some people issues like DRM, micro-transactions, character designs etc are important topics and play a part in their purchasing decisions but just because a reviewer doesn't see them as important as say mother f**king god damn gameplay which you know the reason is why most of us actually play video games doesn't invalidate the review, doesn't mean the reviewer has been bought off or has some PC agenda. I cringe when I see these user review bombings on steam and metacritic. It would be nice to have a balanced ,reasoned discussion about these topics, but I'm sure I'll be accused of been a shill, a sheep and a mindless consumer who facilitates corporate greed and the insidious SJW agenda for having such a sentiment.