Mortal Kombat X features two add-on packs offering players "easy" fatalities for real-world cash.
The packs offer a limited number of fatalities that players can achieve with simplified inputs. Currently, 5 are going for $0.99 USD and 30 will cost you $4.99 USD.
Other add-ons currently available are as follows:
Kombat Pack ($29.99 USD) - offers you early access to 4 playable characters (including Jason Vorhees and Predator), plus skins.
Goro ($4.99 USD) - gives you Goro as a playable character.
Blue Steel Sub-Zero ($1.99 USD) - lets you play as Blue Steel Sub Zero.
Unlock all Krypt items ($19.99 USD) - lets you unlock everything in the Krypt in one fell swoop.
Samurai Pack (bundle only) - gives you three new character skins.
If you want to shell out for all the DLC on top of the $59.99 USD base game, you're looking at a cost of $122.95 USD.
Here's what Tycho Brahe of Penny Arcade said about this:
One hearkens back to the environment fighting games hatched in, an agar plate of teenage anguish in which all manner of dark creatures grew, and when I think about a person beating you in the arcade and then putting in another quarter to do a Fatality, or to perform some other literal or figurative emasculation, I try to imagine this person escaping with their life.
Fatalities are not about pressing buttons, and to make them so is what I would describe as a “profound inversion of meaning.” Fatalities are - in the tradition of Ulysses Everett McGill, Geralt of Rivia, Sherlock Holmes, or Marinus Bicknell Willett - about knowledge. They are about knowing what buttons to press. Offering such shortcuts is the true shape of the medium as it stands, and pretending that it’s not, like, a genius move just trades one falsehood for another. We need there to be a place where we can discuss techniques like this in a measured, technical way free of shaming language - except that men and women of moral vigor shun such practices, and those who take them up are in league with the horned devil.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2 ... 1-part-two
How much was it to collect all the extra plants and other stuff in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that couldn't be unlocked by playing the game? Something like $120? Not even close. The original PvZ cost $2.99 on the App store. All the extra plants and upgrades that can't be unlocked normally total up to $25. The first game originally sold for $20 on the PC.
