6. Factions Are Completely Broken
This is a pretty cool mode in theory - the idea being that right upfront you pick a requisite global Faction/clan and contribute points to a real-world metagame depending on how well you perform in all other aspects of the base game. In reality though almost everyone picked the Lin Kuei ninjas (most likely because of Sub-Zero's face icon) with second place going to the White Lotus. The rest? They just don't matter by comparison, and as the main thrust behind this was to throw yourself into one of the five factions and work on slowly tipping the balance, it's forever weighted in one direction with no sense of reward, urgency or the means to effect otherwise. Even if NetherRealm had implemented some better balancing tweaks, it'd all be for nought because...