AAaaah I miss playing Velma in MVS.
Fuuuuck.

>cute voice
>cute body
>cute face
>fun voicelines
>fun skins
>fun and silly moves making direct references to the show
>crazy good air game
>unpredictable and silly

it was so fucking fun aaaaaa, why the fuck did they have to completely tank this game with one of the worst fucking business plans for player sustainability I have ever seen. All they fucking needed to do was
1. Have a base roster available to all players that didn't need to be unlocked
2. Make battlepasses permanently available rather than fomo
3. Not make new characters cost 10 fucking dollars wtf
4. Focus your monetization on an abundance of cosmetics
5. Nerf fighters that are blatantly OP, buff characters blatantly UP.

That's all they needed to do.
FOMO is fucking exhausting and drives old players away, a large roster of expensive to unlock characters drives away new players, you are completely just wasting money not letting people go back and pick old battlepasses to unlock cool stuff with. Fucking NOBODY wanted fucking shields, why the fuck did you waste development time on fucking shields all the polls where you asked people all said shields was a dumb idea and we didn't want it and lo fucking behold shields were shit and did not save the game.

The base game was so fucking fun, there was so much fucking SOUL put into the design of a lot of these characters... but jesus the monetization and the shitty handling of balancing and the fucking FOMO