Just got it yesterday, I've always loved the KoF games and I want to preface this by saying I love the game (especially this game's Athena, I think she's the best character in the game), but a couple things worry me.
First off, the playerbase for this is already kind of small, and I'm worried about staying power. I got burned by KoF XIII's community dying way too soon, and I'm constantly paranoid I'm gonna spend a bunch of time and a bit of cash getting a game and getting good at it and it's just gonna die. Second off, it just doesn't have, in my opinion, the depth of gameplay that XIII had. XIIIs custom combos were fucking crazy and hard to master, and I feel like getting big damage in this game is just too easy (enter MAX mode and mash out EX moves). I dunno, maybe I just personally like games with a high entry barrier (3S is my favorite SF) but XIV just feels to easy to get good at, if that's even a reasonable complaint.
Also the 3D models are ass, why the hell did they get rid of the beautiful pixel art?