Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-10689654-20140830070737/@comment-25561256-20150402015237

The "not so free" method is buying him later on. If he is unlockable thru playing the story mode, it'd be utterly pointless to have him as an incentive to pre-order if everyone will get him after playing the game for 3-4 hours anyway. Whenever you get pre-order things or dlc for other games, they have to be updated into the game. If he was unlockable, he wouldn't have to be updated into the game, because he'd be playable as soon as he's unlocked.