Well, on the subject of people not liking Jacqui when the game first came out:  black female kick-ass gaming characters that you HAVE TO PLAY through are rare.  Niobe of the Matrix was a first, but even when that game came out, people complained about having to play "the black girl"... so they created a mod hack to be able to play as Neo.  For some other games, especially quest games, a player can adjust the character profile to play as a woman of color.   Attracting women of color into gaming is an untapped market really... why buy game boxes when there are no games with you in it as a featured character that would interest you?...  There are a lot of middle class, single, black females, who would love to curl up to a good gaming system collection with black female feature characters, but they don't exist in the numbers to warrant buying a gaming system.  

For the longest time in gaming, in order to play, you had to play as a white male or a half-naked white female or some personified animal.

Unfortunately, if a black woman were to play this game, as much as they may enjoy Jakeda, they may also be offended by the pervasive Jim Crow-extended subjugated roles to white women all the time.  The subjugated black female role thing is trite.  MKX put in that almighty secret warrior power thing for a white family under-theme, which is like a scratched CD to American women of color.  So is Jacqui going to discover that she's not "just an American soldier" --but level up with some almighty secret warrior power too... no... not likely.

It has only been recent that the baby step of including black women as main gaming characters has been done, like with Resident Evil 5's Sheva Alomar.  Even her action figure product line is great.  They didn't develop Sheva for RE6 though.  When Sheva was introduced, there was also a lot of push-back against her black and beautiful inclusion.  Sheva's design looked like the average American brown-skinned collegiate black girl. You can find hundreds of black girls on an HBCU campus that look just like her. It is as if they went through a Miss HBCU photo collection for her design...  no joke.   These black girls are beautiful and that has always been an uncomfortable truth in media.