Support for MK1 Supposedly Cancelled

[Kiss the Missile]

Might as well make an official thread for it.

FateUnknown is not a random leaker, he's a genuine insider and has fed us info about nearly every single aspect of Mortal Kombat 1 since before launch, as well as the post launch content after it. And as far as I know, has never gotten anything wrong.

Earlier on November 26th, he said that MK1 had a 2nd story expansion and Kombat Pack 3 planned, but they were both recently canceled due to poor sales of Khaos Reigns. He says no more characters will come after Conan, but says it's possible that 1 or 2 more Kameos could be released since they were already worked on.

The most important part of this imo is that he is saying this after WB's CEO said that Mortal Kombat is one of the IPs they are "doubling down on". It's worth noting that in an interview for Khaos Reigns, Boon said they hadn't even begun work on their next game. Could WB see MK1 as a sinking ship with all of the negativity around it? And are eager to get started on a fresh game?

Curious about the community's response is to this. Obviously MK1 isn't stopping where it currently is. We at the very least have 2 more balance patches coming with the last 2 characters, and probably one final one after. But do you think this game is close to where it should be if this really is the finish line?

 

[kabelfritz]

all i can say is that its overdue for NRS to leave WB, its just a trash publisher with zero sense for games and all for money. someone step in and buy them out!

 

[Kiss the Missile]

all i can say is that its overdue for NRS to leave WB, its just a trash publisher with zero sense for games and all for money. someone step in and buy them out!

Buying NRS wouldn't do much for us since WB owns MK and not them. Someone would need to buy both the IP and the studio if you wanted a new NRS MK under a new publisher

 

[LEGEND]

The fact that there wasn't a fairly instant response by NRS/WBD/Ed Boon against this claim is quite damning.

The damage control should have been swift if it's not true. If this is indeed not true, their delay just shows how inept they are once again.

 

[Felipe_Gewehr]

If MK1 ends up dying before online rooms are added, I'm gonna lol.

I voted "I'm not sure" because a tiny part of me doesn't want to believe this, but the most logical scenario for me is they pump 1 or 2 kameos out after the guests and that's it, with MK's future being left quite uncertain.

 

[Juggs]

I’ll wait for official announcements/confirmations

 

[YagamiFire]

Of course it is. MK1 slit its own throat with its garbage presentation on day 1 that made every normie I know drop the game and shit all over it. I said months ago this game would have an unbelievably short life-cycle because it would make fuck-all money after launch.

Read it or don't I don't care but realize it's all about my immense disappointment and my giant "I told you so" to the general MK community (which does not mean this place)

Spoiler

I know eleven normies that bought MK11 that also bought MK1. ALL of them got Aftermath. NONE of them got Khaos Reigns. Neither did I. $50 for a dogshit story and a couple characters, none of whom I give a fuck about because they've severed all ties to the history of those characters? Fuck off. $50 for the shittiest looking Noob made from the shittiest characterized Sub-Zero along with Sekt-her and Cyrvix? Oh and 3 characters that have nothing to do with MK but ZOMG key jangle pop culture references cuz you remember Conan and T-1000 and funny stabby mask guy right? Hardest possible pass imaginable.

Also people need to stop defending Boon and NRS on this with their "This is all WBs fault!" cope. That's all it is. Cope. NRS with Boon at the head released a shit game missing basic features from MK11. Is WB stupid? Fuck yeah they are. They're stupid and mismanaged as hell. Guess what? That trickles down. NRS is the same. Boon doesn't know what he's doing. WB did not mandate they redo their system. WB did not mandate they add kameos. WB did not mandate anything like that about the game that hobbled it from the word Go. Boon decided that along with the rest of NRS. They made the shit story, the shit designs, the shit aesthetic, the shit gameplay (in every mode) and the shit features.

NRS did that. No one else.

That is an L they need to hold. Will they learn from it? Doubtful. They're likely a giant echo chamber that lives in a huge bubble. Toxic positivity.

Shit needs to change. This series was coasting by on nostalgia for a lot of people and that shit crashed into a wall with this release. I'm an MK fan since day 1. Day fucking 1. I've owned every game they've released and pumped crazy quarters into every cabinet. I want MK to be good but I call a spade a spade. When the MCU started sucking ass and when Star Wars started sucking ass, I didn't delude myself into saying it was good and that it was doing well. Now both are cratered because people kept slurping the balls of those products because they were blinded by being fanboys.

$110. We deserved far better than what we got. Fans are angry about that shit. You don't think normies are twice as angry? Normies who think of MK as "oh yeah MK is cool" as opposed to folks like us on a forum talking about MK competitively? Come the fuck on. They don't have the buffer of tolerance big time fans do. Their investment into MK1 is now seen as a giant waste of cash for a mid AF and above-all-else lame video game. A mistake they won't repeat. MK used to get by on style over substance by being cool. MK1 cemented it as milquetoast bland slop and that is going to be a festering wound.

People tried to defend MK1 by saying how well it sold initially...and I pointed out that yeah no shit...and Batman & Robin initially did great too. Still killed Batman movies because of how it was received. The same will be true of MK1. This has done damage to the MK brand big time but it wasn't going to be felt at launch.

Now the chickens have come home to roost.

So, once again, here, NRS.

L.

You made it. You earned it. Hold it.

Put this shit in the hands of a competent team.

 

[Marlow]

Bummer. I really like the game, it's fun. Certainly got my money's worth. But these things happen.

 

[Kal]

Is anyone really surprised? The game is trash and NRS is clueless and incompetent.

 

[Lord Snotty]

The sales of MK1 lulled thrm into believing it was a hit, but the game is so bad, reality came when they wanted the same fans who felt disappointed to continue buying this crap. The whole game feels like a weird diminished version of MK. The game play, messy Kameos, graphics, rubbish 3D era characters, the two-line dialogue instead of three, the greed, the storyline going to hell when Titan Shang arrived... A disaster that might kill off Mortal Kombat forever.

 

[kantboy2]

I can see them doing 3 characters and 4 kameos to close out MK1.

At least, that's what I hope they do if it's the end. Heh.

 

[Felipe_Gewehr]

I can see them doing 3 characters and 4 kameos to close out MK1.

At least, that's what I hope they do if it's the end. Heh.

That would be the original plan of KP3, which was leaked before.

 

[Ashesfall]

@YagamiFire too much negativity, need to be deleted, free speech does not exist in this rainbow-pony-world (lefties hate truth, that's why they defended the toxic jab, I remember all of you ...)

pathetic ... you all can't handle wrath ... MK needs to transgender swap Shao Kahn asap, way too toxic and masculine ... (The fact he was once a "human" and they turn him into a creature, tells also a lot ...)

Gone the time of: "Feel the wrath of Shao Kahn" now its "That's not my pronounce, it's they/them, get punished" #HAHAHA ...

 

[xiskza]

where does MK go from here, another reboot?

 

[Lt. Boxy Angelman]

Brady being right again.

I loudly and heavily echo his sentiments when it comes to the toxic positivity shills who have been defending the indefensible since MK11. Kiss my ass with Coral Blue #2 Semi-Gloss Lipstick for all the times I said we were in deep shit, and you told me to look at how high the tournament views and DLC sales were. I told you Flying Jacqui and milking the custom moves for too long was going to be the end of the road, and you told me i needed to relax because it was only Year One. I've said since the day after the MK11 Beta when they pulled the rug out from under us and birthed the Two-Variation System, and we came out of the gate with even less to work with than MKX, that there were only dark days ahead, and now we're here.

Can't wait to see the next Kombat Kast stream so I can watch them spend 20 minutes talking about anything except how they've let WB kill this game.

 

[SaltShaker]

The fact that there wasn't a fairly instant response by NRS/WBD/Ed Boon against this claim is quite damning.

The damage control should have been swift if it's not true. If this is indeed not true, their delay just shows how inept they are once again.

I’ll wait for official announcements/confirmations

I think the lack of swift shut down is more confirmation than waiting who knows how many months until they finally deem us worthy enough to tell us. It's over.

With that said, I'm highly disappointed with how MK1 played out overall. MK11 got the Covid excuse but MK1 there's no excuse why "supporting the game for years to come" has turned in to "actually just a year and change you'll be aight". I guess other than WB that is. Everything they do just isn't the standard of modern FGs. Again , just highly disappointed. We legitimately never even got rooms/lobbies. Unacceptable. Pretty much have shattered and lost all my trust in any future games going forward until proven otherwise.

 

[PrinceGoro]

I’ll wait for official announcements/confirmations

Heres the thing though, announcing you are ending support for your game before all the dlc is released is bad from a business perspective, it doesnt really have to do with the typical communication and announcments.

If it wasnt true the first thing that they would do is shut that shit down and say its disinformation, and that there are plans for future content. The fact that they are saying nothing pretty much confirms its true, as again, its bad for future sales of dlc or potential expansion phurchases as well as standalone dlc chars, or people waiting to buy the game/content in bulk at sale points, if people know the game is getting axed after terminator is released.

There is 3 possible scenarios.

1. Info is true the game is done.

2. Info is not true the game is not done(very unlikely considering the leaker is off the charts credible and nrs/wb are not deconfirming it)

3. Info is true but over the course of the term qnd conan releases they sell enough dlc and/or additional game sales due to said dlc charactets that would allow them to resume kp3 development.

 

[Kiss the Missile]

Fate made one last post on the leak reddit:

The End

Hello, you may have seen recently I gave the news that mk1 dlc has been canceled. This has spread further than the mk community and I do not want the attention so I am stepping away from leaking. I was going to stay around until Conan and T1000 were done, but I am going to end it now. I will not have info on future nrs games.

For my final post, here is further info about the cancelled dlc.

First, khaos reigns sales were not the only reason. There were multiple reasons the team was pushed to move on but the sales were just the big reason. The nrs team really wanted to do the dlc and are not happy about it but they have no choice.

Second, I do not know what the story stuff would have been. It did not make it far enough for me to learn anything about details. Sorry.

Third, the final kombat pack was meant to be 6 characters, 5 mk and 1 guest. Less guests due to alot of reasons but mostly as a thank you to mk fans for sticking with the game. The mk characters were Jade, Cassie, Kung Jin, Sonya, and Kano. I do not know the guest but I am told they wanted to get a highly requested character.

That is all. Good bye everyone.

 

[Krasiox]

Pro Komp 2 just got announced so i don't know what to believe anymore.

 

[SaltShaker]

Fate made one last post on the leak reddit:

The End

Hello, you may have seen recently I gave the news that mk1 dlc has been canceled. This has spread further than the mk community and I do not want the attention so I am stepping away from leaking. I was going to stay around until Conan and T1000 were done, but I am going to end it now. I will not have info on future nrs games.

For my final post, here is further info about the cancelled dlc.

First, khaos reigns sales were not the only reason. There were multiple reasons the team was pushed to move on but the sales were just the big reason. The nrs team really wanted to do the dlc and are not happy about it but they have no choice.

Second, I do not know what the story stuff would have been. It did not make it far enough for me to learn anything about details. Sorry.

Third, the final kombat pack was meant to be 6 characters, 5 mk and 1 guest. Less guests due to alot of reasons but mostly as a thank you to mk fans for sticking with the game. The mk characters were Jade, Cassie, Kung Jin, Sonya, and Kano. I do not know the guest but I am told they wanted to get a highly requested character.

That is all. Good bye everyone.

Probably was flying too close to the sun with the latest leak. Peace out Fate. You were a good one. One of the best to ever do it.

 

[Kiss the Missile]

Low key glad kp3 was cancelled. That list sucks. No monsters, no weirdos, just humans? No thanks

 

[Felipe_Gewehr]

No Jade is a bummer, but I'm glad this means no Sonya. They insisted on making her the most annoying character to fight against in MK9, MKX and MK11. I'll face a thousand Haviks and Homelanders before I have to face yet another version of top tier Sonya.

 

[Demon_0]

I hope so. First off, KP2 (Khaos Reigns) was a disaster. Crap story, overpriced as fuck, gender swapped characters that have existed for 30 years. They asked for it.

Also, the leaked characters for KP3 lmao. The Kombat Kids and Special Forces? Thank God if its canceled.

Sell MK. WB is cancer. Same with NRS and especially Boon. Time to retire from MK. The next game needs a whole new direction.

 

[ImpostorOak]

No Jade is a bummer, but I'm glad this means no Sonya. They insisted on making her the most annoying character to fight against in MK9, MKX and MK11. I'll face a thousand Haviks and Homelanders before I have to face yet another version of top tier Sonya.

Sonya was the most fun character in 9, X, and 11. I would've relished in mixing everyone with the bad ass that blows kisses.

That is an extremely weak KP, though. Maybe WB said, "Ay yall, no one is buying the robots or the ninja. Why would they buy the kids and the regular folks?"

 

[Marlow]

The next game needs a whole new direction.

MK Trade Wars: A Turn based economic strategy game where characters compete to create the realm with highest GDP.