With the Season 2 roster complete, we can only speculate if and when there will be a third season, and from which eras or franchises SNK may give love to as future DLCs.

I'm hoping against hope KOF gets fighters from franchises outside of KOF. Here's hoping to some Metal Slug, World Heroes, and The Last Blade.

The DLC wouldn't only be just the "fan favorites" that they're missing, or at least I wouldn't think it'd be that. A decent amount of the past DLC was recycled from... something, Team South Town was just a bunch of characters from XIV that werent in the base game, of course people made a big stink over the orochi versions of CYS, 3/5ths of season 2 were also XIV vets, Rock and Nakoruru are standout recycled content compared to other members in their teams who were actually new. It's been a pretty common theme for KoF especially since the DLC isnt Smash huge or whatever and the older games were full of recycling and regurgitating.

I get that there are a lot of fan favorite characters who havent appeared in a while but at the same time it gets really tiring hyping them up because they've been in games before and arent exactly "new" content. Kasumi is reasonable, Shen is... okay I guess since duo lon and elizabeth are also there, boss syndrome shit is just really tiring because all of the characters with that special treatment wind up becoming mid tier at best and their boss versions are really just yuotube content fodder. World Heroes and Maximum Impact content wouldnt fit with the kind of style SNK is going for now. I don't hate MI but I don't really understand why so many people hype it up, especially since it was just a small line of spinoff games and wasn't actually canon to the main games.

I still can't say I'd be a fan of every pick people think of for this game. As I stated in my other post I'm really tired of the boss syndrome crap (even with Goenitz getting serviceable rep at East Coast Throwdown back in October) and I can't think of much who'd be missing from XIV that would be easy to implement while appealing at the same time. Crossing that off the list gets you all the boring one-off characters which would require more effort and wouldn't really offer a lot that KoF hasn't done before in either the 2D or 3D spaces. I can't say I'm a fan of MI characters joining and I really don't think SNK would be able to go ham with guest characters outside of other SNK franchises because they don't really have enough money for it (just like how Game Freak is a "small indie company" only SNK actually puts effort into their most successful franchise)