Xbox One Exclusive Killer Instinct’s Pricing Fully Detailed by Microsoft

Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct adopted a business model that is very heavily based on microtransactions, and as a consequence it comes with a pretty complex pricing scheme that may look a little daunting to those not used to the free to play model.

[IanVanCheese]

Will probably pick up the Ultra edition if the trial impresses me. I have Shadow Jago on the way either way.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

And if you buy your Day One Gold at Best Buy they give you a $20 XBL credit. I plan on using that to get the Combo Breaker Pack. $3.99 costumes and $2.99 accessories is highway robbery. Give me the characters and F the rest.

[kewlkat007]

Is this game an arcade download?

[IanVanCheese]

Deal was slightly different here in the UK. Day One xbox gold 12 months was £30 instead of £40 and it comes with £5 credit for xbox account. Still a good deal.

GiantEnemyCrab: Getting ultra mainly for the original KI arcade game rather than the costumes, they are just a nice bonus.

[jetlian]

kewlkat yes its a download arcade game. season 2 is suppose to hit in spring

[BLAKHOODe]

That's why I bought it at Best Buy. I'm going to use the $20 on Dead Rising 3.

[dedicatedtogamers]

Seems like a reasonable way to go about it. Let everyone try the game out to see if they like it. They can buy more chararcters if they want, or they can just buy the Ultra Edition (which is pretty much like buying a normal game, right?) to get everything.

WAAAAAAY better compared to how CAPCOM and SNK sell you a new fighter for $50-$60 and then a month later turn around to nickel and dime you for color changes and a few extra fighters here or there.

[jetlian]

its the same really just a more ala cart style. KI is really a 60 dollar game broken down.

the ultra editions main hook is arcade version of KI1

edit: xboxfun tj combo is probably in season 2

[Fireseed]

The best part about it though is that when new fighters come out they're just added to the current game rather than having whole new editions that fragment the playerbase.

[rainslacker]

I wouldn't say it's a $60 game. Any fighter released today with 8 fighters for $60 would be laughed at and ridiculed by the entire community.

However, the non-collectors edition is $40, and while I personally still find this a bit overpriced, the fact that you also get the original KI game is a good bonus probably making up the difference.

[jetlian]

lol rain you slacking. KI has seasons and there is gonna be atleast 3.. times 20 gets you what? I dont know about 60!!!!

nobody said it was 60 dollars for 8 characters. its 20 for the season 1 and 20 for KI arcade which equals 40 plus you get all the outfits. now how is that over priced?

[rainslacker]

For $20 you get 8 characters, and that's about it. No extra outfits, or anything. Each season is another $20 for another 8 characters. All that extra stuff is extra money. That to me is just not really worth the money based on the amount of content when the average fighting game nowadays comes out for $60, offers tons of characters, and lots of alternate costumes.

The inclusion of the original KI is probably worth about $6 since that seems to be the going rate for better fighting games on PSN from the same time era.

Just accept the fact that this game's micro-transaction setup is worse than what Capcom does. It gets a free pass because it's a X1 exclusive that fan boys get to lord over the Sony fans, but if this were Capcom, everyone would say how this just wasn't worth it, and how evil Capcom is.

[jetlian]

lol street fighter to kof dont give extra costumes at 60 bucks all you get is palette swaps your trying to hard

[malokevi]

So... let me get this straight... 59 bucks, and you don't even get the future character packs?

Seems like a rip. I'll probably get the base, and then grab a few more characters as they come.

Definitely getting the base, anyways. This game looks like a great local MP game, or something fun to sit back and play against ppl on XBL.

[bacrec1]

Hey does shadow Jago have different moves or just another skin?

[Skate-AK]

Just a skin.

[XboxFun]

I'll try it out but more than likely I too will get the ultra full version of the game when released.

Game looks sweet by the way. But I need to see some TJ Combo action.

[etownone]

I played it for like an hour at the Microsoft store...

I wasn't top impressed with the graphics... But definitely fun.
I was back to doing 10 hit combos with Jango. He reminds me a little like Ryu

Will get this day one.

[Ketzicorn]

Yeah I had a lot of fun with this game at the MS store. Forza I thought was okay.

[etownone]

Same here.... Forza did not blow me away like I thought it would.

And Crimson Dragon didn't impress at all. The one game I really wanted to play was Ryse but they can't show that.

[likeaboss302]

I'm buying the Ultra Edition. Can't wait to play this game!

[likeaboss302]

LOL at the degree. Apparently someone knows better than me how I feel about wanting to play this game.

[Scatpants]

I'm glad there is at least an option to get everything. Most F2P games are designed to nickle and dime you until it ends up costing more than a full retail game. I'm surprised there aren't timers that you have to wait for before you can fight another match that you have to pay to get rid of.

[SliceOfTruth888]

this has been known for months now

[Drewminati]

im going to wait for tj combo...

[GamerXGATT]

WOWWWW, So you know those day one gold passes that say "Includes Killer Instinct Round One Digital Game AND Shadow Jago" The wording on that SUCKS and they should just say "Includes Shadow Jago for Killer Instinct Round 1".. I wonder how many miffed off gamers they will have thinking it came as a limited edition bonus to the XBLG Day one..

[FlyGuyHung]

the $19.99 pack looks to be a great deal. I think i'll go with that.

[Trekster_Gamer]

I was a huge fan of Chief thunder back in the day, can't wait to fight with him. Also glad the original awesome arcade version is an option!

[BOLO]

1994 Killer Instinct = Full game on N64 in 1996 @ $59.99

2013 Killer Instinct = "Season 5 Ultra Combo DLC pack @ $19.99"..."C-C-C-Com bo Breaker Auto-Tune voice changer @ 15.99"..."Character costume color change x1 color per character @ $9.99"...

Taking a fighting game from my childhood memory and making it a year round quarterly DLC fest...Priceless.

[quenomamen]

Oooh that's not half it, next year they coming out with Mortal Kombat and you can buy the finish moved for $1.99 each ! What a deal !

[mhunterjr]

The $20 version isn't a bad deal, but I'll probably wait until season 2 before buying it. I'll enjoy the free character rotation until then.

[Ri0tSquad]

Xbox live gold owners should get the first season for free. Pricing is ridiculous.

[Games_R_Us]

Xbox sent me the full game free for my loyalty over the years, and its the complete version, so super stoked.
Thanks MS :)

[DVAcme]

So you're telling me that for $60 I get a fighting game with a puny 8 character roster? Literally EVERY SINGLE FIGHTING GAME ON THE MARKET offers rosters at least twice as big and with many more gameplay features than just Story, Practice and Online). If you compare this to, say, Super Street Fighter 4, Tekken Tag 2, Injustice or Mortal Kombat, it comes out looking hideously underwhelming.

[Ichabod_Crane]

It sure does, can you say undercooked?