Being able to bring your own pocket assists now and deck your character out in farm-friendly setups breaks the economy quickly, whereas in IJ2 you're at the mercy of paying incredibly high entrance fees for cool unlocks and lootboxes that may or may not be for the character you want. And starting fresh from level 1 hampers your ability to switch over to other character driven events as you'll be placed at a huge statistical disadvantage. Towers of Time is more satisfying than Multiverse and easier to manage, the endgame requirements in IJ2 are ridiculous and ask for an obscene amount of time given that you could easily hit the level cap for a character in a fraction of the time. However, NRS weaponizing FOMO with the Kombat League and 'event' exclusive unlocks has proven really irritating, and I hope with MK11U they begin to dial this back as many people will be entering MK11 for the first time with the next generation version, and it seems like a bad idea to permanently gate stuff like classic inspired costumes to one-off/twice-off chances. There's still significant randomness of when you'll obtain certain items but generally speaking its far easier to have a good idea of what you need to do to get them. IJ2's customization is more robust for sure but the obnoxious trial and error is far worse in that game.

This was a huge issue for me in IJ2 as I never got to recreate UMK3 Sub-Zero or use Robin's alternate moveset, both things that burnt on me really hard.

Some of IJ2's problems from a less competitive perspective were changed for the better in MK11, namely no dupe drops for cosmetics and no random drops for custom skills. Going to vote MK11 but I don't think it's an open and shut deal, I have a preference to the gameplay in 11 over ij2 but I think there are other things that can be said for how they handle the rest of the game past the fight-to-fight gameplay.

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