Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-1772284-20150902211859/@comment-1084762-20150912192420

characters are chosen based on fan reception and sales proposals.

that's why KP1 had 2 very iconic guests. they learned that in MK9 and Injustice, their guests sold more than any other DLC.

for MK9, Rain was the 2nd best-selling DLC (1st being Freddy, of course). in Injustice, the 2nd best-selling DLC was Lobo, 3rd was Martian Manhunter and 4th was Zatanna. all of these characters have one thing in common: they were all highly requested either before, during or after the game's release. it's easy to assume that their sales even further prove that.

so, in MKX, two of the most highly requested characters (pre-release) were Tanya and Tremor. there's no listing of sales for them yet, but they got in. now look at how unbelievably hyped the characters from story are (Rain, Baraka and Sindel), as well as Fujin.

point is, don't expect something outlandish like Noob Saibot. I can guarantee you right now that at least 2 of the story characters are going to be in KP2, based solely on the pure hype and want generated from them being fight-able but not playable.

if I had to guess, I would say Baraka and Rain are easily the most requested. below them, Fujin and Smoke. haven't seen as much for Sindel, but it wouldn't surprise me if she made it.

just remember that the story characters have 1000x better chances than someone like Noob, because of the bait NRS has set. they show you the chars throughout the story, they even let you fight them, but they're not playable. it obviously isn't intentional, but in this particular scenario it's only accelerated the requests for these characters, far more than anyone else.