That's what all competitive games boil down to, finding whatever's the best.

I was speaking more from a perspective in which there'd be more about the game to discover. Throwing a Marvel comparison, it has tons of flexibility as to what you can do because there are so many combinations of teams and assists. Sorta like a sandbox fighter. Sure people are gonna go to whatever works, but part of the fun of Marvel is experimenting what can be found that no one else has tried. It's why the game has so much replayability in the tourney circuit, at least outside of it being made by Capcom.

Gear I think could've added a similar element, but more akin to something like CvS2. I know I sound like I'm buying into PR, but I was intrigued at the idea of people finding which combo could make the best Batman, or whoever. Even though it'd look like an optical atrocity. A vanilla game without any of this sounds much more limited in comparison, even with it being easier to get right.

But eh, probably for the best, random loot crates already sounded like it was headed for failure.

With Mortal Kombat 9, we had four DLC characters, Injustice had six, Mortal Kombat X had eight, we are definitely, with every game, trying to extend that DLC even longer.[...]

"But you know, Scorpion in Injustice was the most downloaded of all the characters. There was a coolness and a novelty factor to seeing the mixing of the things. Alien and Predator in Mortal Kombat X were the most downloaded of those, so I would be surprised if we didn’t do any of that."

"With Injustice breaking off into our own alternate universe – which is so great about the whole multiverse thing… you can come up with anything – while we wanted to do that, we kind of wanted to jump outside of the box where Superman becomes this dictator and he actually has killed somebody and really serious stuff like that.