Why did it fail?

>>716218035 (OP)
white supremacy

>>716218115
What?

Cameos

>>716218035 (OP)
Because it went woke

>>716218035 (OP)
Have you seen the female characters?

>>716218035 (OP)
3rd reboot; and none of the characters look how you remember them, which is a big negative when most of your fanbase is comprised of boomers trying to relive the glory days

ugly females and bro*noids

thanks for news from 2 months ago

Because its a bad fighting game that no one wants to play competitively. It exists so normalfags can play the awful story, watch the overly gory fatalities, and forget about the series until the next installment. This is the path they chose when they started cramming in every random movie character they could think of

But it didn't? It launched a whole franchise!

>>716218035 (OP)
Why do people want their games to be supported forever? Why can't developers release their game and be done with it?

>>716218035 (OP)
cant speak for everyone but i feel like no one really *wanted* this game. the jump from mkx to mk11 was pretty huge in style, but mk1 just seemed like mk11 but less interesting somehow.

there's also the fact that fighting game fans are a dwindling group of people to harvest money from. eventually people are going to either get tired of paying 80 dollaridoos + dlc + battle pass + cosmetics, or they'll just find their favorite game to stick to as they enter their twilight years. and mk1 played it super safe after mk11 already played it safe. try making something fresh, like maybe not even a traditional fighting game

>>716223629
Have you ever played a fighting game before?

>>716218035 (OP)

>>716218035 (OP)
No one wants to say it, but MK died when it went back to 2D after the PS2 games. Also this is just a personal gripe, but it's infuriating how every MK just speedruns straight to the pyramid of Argus, it's appeared in every game since 9.

>>716218035 (OP)
Go Woke, etc, etc

>>716218035 (OP)
Desexualized female characters without coomer outfits and small boobs

>>716227246
Since Tekken 1 on PS1. Had no DLCs back then.

>>716219887
this but also they tried to legit sell you nostalgia outfits that were either just straight up better or butchered with nothing in between. The story was a WHAT IF MULTIVERSE thing that fell out of love years prior. the combat was as dull as you could make an MK game. Fighters need a shot in the arm and i dont think theyll ever hit the heights they did before but MK for certain will put out another piece of shit and itll sell like crazy for a month.

>>716218482
What about them

It's pretty amazing they were updating arcade cabinets for this long. Hopefully the arcade fans aren't too upset after they got 30+ years of support.

>>716218035 (OP)
Let me write up a list for you:
>The Kameos are a absolutely shit mechanic
>Too many guest characters. When the cover art for a MK game has more non MK characters on it than actual MK characters, that's a bad look
>The random race and gender swaps of existing characters. It's painfully obvious that the devs wanted to make new characters, but they knew they weren't marketable at all, so they just slapped the names of klassic characters on them to artificially boost their popularity (It didn't work).
I can go on more, but I think I've made my point. MK is going through another low point in it's life. Only time will tell if Netherrealm Studios is able to course correct.

>>716218035 (OP)
I didn’t mind the idea of making a new universe but why bother if you’re just gonna make a shittier version of bi-han’s story

>>716218035 (OP)
Injustice 3?

>>716218035 (OP)
no booba

>>716231610
If NR made another Injustice game, it would kill the studio. Injustice has always sold worse than MK, and WB/NR isn't in a position to have another massive flop.

>>716231732
NR is now in charge of all dc games from here on out btw, Wb should just license there dc games to Asia

>>716218035 (OP)
They forgot what Mortal Kombat was about. Simple as that. Every time they reboot it the thing ends up further and further away from what made the original fun

>>716218035 (OP)
I liked it.

I'm pretty sure the end of support came from WB as Ed Boon stated multiple times the game would have support for at least 2 years.

>>716229113
Thats a man

>>716227929
midway went bankrupt because of the 2d games lol

>>716218035 (OP)
>no story chapters released from this point on
People wanted more of that shit?

Ugly females