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Support for MK1 Supposedly Cancelled

Do you think this is the end of MK1?


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Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
is this canceled status still a thing? would be a shame, because mk1 is by far the best thing nrs ever created (on purpose)
MK1 is gonna get more content, already confirmed by Ed Boon that we do get more content. Not only with the movie skins but also more stuff.


Also there's a new opening for a job at NRS/WB for senior animator for a story mode. This can mean that it's for yet another story expansion for MK1, and because the story expansions for NRS/WB games are way shorter than the launch stories, it's not far fetched that it is indeed for a DLC story expansion.

 

kabelfritz

Master
MK1 is gonna get more content, already confirmed by Ed Boon that we do get more content. Not only with the movie skins but also more stuff.


Also there's a new opening for a job at NRS/WB for senior animator for a story mode. This can mean that it's for yet another story expansion for MK1, and because the story expansions for NRS/WB games are way shorter than the launch stories, it's not far fetched that it is indeed for a DLC story expansion.

would be amazing, even though i fear it would be special forces dlc with jax, sonya, kano

id personally love jade, skarlett, maybe hotaru, maybe even someone new
 

Vulgar

Warrior
Personally, I've never put much stock in "leakers" when it comes to stuff like this.

It's possible that support is finished, but usually when that happens WB puts out some kind of MKXL or MK11 Ultimate bundled version of the game with all the DLC and extra content bundled onto it.

I don't think they've done that with MK1 yet?

Time will tell.
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
I’m pretty sure he was talking about T-1000/Madam Bo here. There’s even a T-1000 video in the post. No guarantees after that
I mean yeah he could've just mean T-1000, but then again we didn't even know that Madam Bo would show up, the video is only for T-1000 who was the only one at the time that we did know is coming. Plus with the job offering at NRS/WB, that's diffidently something that is very possible to happen.

Personally, I've never put much stock in "leakers" when it comes to stuff like this.

It's possible that support is finished, but usually when that happens WB puts out some kind of MKXL or MK11 Ultimate bundled version of the game with all the DLC and extra content bundled onto it.

I don't think they've done that with MK1 yet?

Time will tell.
The fact that some people already convinced that the game is done because they want the game to fail so bad is beyond pathetic. I see on the MK Reddit people actually thinking that NRS/WB themselves announced that the game is done despite the fact that it was a leak that it's credibility has been proven false the moment NRS/WB announced Pro Komp 2, plus the leaker running away because "he got to much attention" and also that other leakers got contradictory info. These assholes trying to convince themselves and others that the game is done, again, this is pathetic.
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
would be amazing, even though i fear it would be special forces dlc with jax, sonya, kano

id personally love jade, skarlett, maybe hotaru, maybe even someone new
Can't please everyone, but the roster of MK1 is already the 2nd best MK roster ever only behind MK Armageddon. Having not only all the male Ninjas for the first time since MK9 but also at least one representor from every game from original MK1 to Deception in the base roster, plus from MKX and MK11, that is a fantastic roster. So whoever they add, will only make it even better regardless.
 

Kiss the Missile

Red Messiah
Personally, I've never put much stock in "leakers" when it comes to stuff like this.

It's possible that support is finished, but usually when that happens WB puts out some kind of MKXL or MK11 Ultimate bundled version of the game with all the DLC and extra content bundled onto it.

I don't think they've done that with MK1 yet?

Time will tell.
Fate was a legit insider, not a regular leaker. He's the reason we knew the roster months before release, we knew the kameos, the story details, and when every other fake leaker was hyping up a mystery final character slot, Fate was the only one tempering expectations by saying that was it. He told us about post release costumes, and even tho he was eventually fed fake info to root him out, the info he gave us seems to still line up

Remember the original thing he said was support was cancelled, but 1 or 2 kameos were pretty much finished and they were just gonna release that. And thats exactly what we saw with Madam Bo. No fanfare, no announcement that she was part of Khaos Reigns. Just randomly thrown in at the actual last minute.


I would LOVE if this game had years of support left. Its the most fun Ive had with an NRS game, free. But I just dont think its happening
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
Fate was a legit insider, not a regular leaker. He's the reason we knew the roster months before release, we knew the kameos, the story details, and when every other fake leaker was hyping up a mystery final character slot, Fate was the only one tempering expectations by saying that was it. He told us about post release costumes, and even tho he was eventually fed fake info to root him out, the info he gave us seems to still line up

Remember the original thing he said was support was cancelled, but 1 or 2 kameos were pretty much finished and they were just gonna release that. And thats exactly what we saw with Madam Bo. No fanfare, no announcement that she was part of Khaos Reigns. Just randomly thrown in at the actual last minute.


I would LOVE if this game had years of support left. Its the most fun Ive had with an NRS game, free. But I just dont think its happening
Except that almost right after the leak got out, NRS/WB announce Pro Komp 2 and Fate runs away because the leak "got to much attention". There's no way NRS/WB would announce Pro Komp 2 if they didn't have more content coming to MK1, and we already know that there's more content coming as we got multiple skins coming out, including the MK2 movie skins that will only make it to MK1 around the same time the movie comes around in October. Not to mention that other leakers got contradicting info also, before in comparison to Fate and to each other. And there were a couple of times that Fate was wrong also. Yes it was very rare, but it happened. All things considered, plus once again the fact that he ran away, shows that this leak is wrong.

Also let's be honest, even if there are more chars and Kameos, and even a story expansion, coming to MK1, the game isn't gonna get more "years of support" beyond that. MK in general is a casual series, and while the overall cost and time of developing games have been increased dramatically over the years, MK just can't have 6-7 between games like SF does. Ed Boon said that they originally wanted to make IJ3, but then they realized that the gap between MK11 and MK1 would be way too big so they had to go to MK1. They didn't start making IJ3 however, but that's what they considered before coming to the realization and start working on MK1.

Even Tekken 7 only got that long of a gap before Tekken 8 because T7 sales rose up out of nowhere so Bamco wanted to support T7 longer, but T7 was originally supposed to end after season 2, and then T8 would've come way earlier than it ended up being.

That means that even if would get KP3, we are not getting anymore KP's beyond that. MK1 will get KP3 this year, then will get a few more patches, and then the support will be over 2 and a half years after release. And then they will focus entirely on MK13, which I think will be a launch title for the PS6, considering the time frame.
 

Vulgar

Warrior
Fate was a legit insider, not a regular leaker. He's the reason we knew the roster months before release, we knew the kameos, the story details, and when every other fake leaker was hyping up a mystery final character slot, Fate was the only one tempering expectations by saying that was it. He told us about post release costumes, and even tho he was eventually fed fake info to root him out, the info he gave us seems to still line up

Remember the original thing he said was support was cancelled, but 1 or 2 kameos were pretty much finished and they were just gonna release that. And thats exactly what we saw with Madam Bo. No fanfare, no announcement that she was part of Khaos Reigns. Just randomly thrown in at the actual last minute.


I would LOVE if this game had years of support left. Its the most fun Ive had with an NRS game, free. But I just dont think its happening
All of this might be true, but we also know that things change in game dev all the time. While it may have been true at the time, it may not be now. We just don't know.

Is the game legit done? Maybe.

But I prefer official sources to things that NRS cannot officially confirm/deny due to any number of NDAs and the like.
 

Juxtapose

Master
Ed posted on twitter asking which 4 characters need the most love in mk1.

Odd thing to ask, kind of implies patch is just in the works.
I'm sure one is. Keep in mind, people love to sensationalize "support" ending, and "dead game." This goes for pretty much every game today, not just Mortal Kombat.

For Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns, the question is are we going to see new characters, Kameo Partners, or even a full blown Story expansion added to the game, or is that content done. Balance patches will likely continue for some time as well.

Using Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate as an example the last characters, or "content" that was added was in November 2020, however the game last balance patch was in May 2021.
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
Administrator
I’ll be happy if they just keep balancing the game. I like the fact that we’re really not sure which characters we’re going to see in a Top 8.

It’s been a while since things felt that way, probably since mid-life Injustice 2.
 

Eldriken

Life was wasted on you.
I’ll be happy if they just keep balancing the game. I like the fact that we’re really not sure which characters we’re going to see in a Top 8.

It’s been a while since things felt that way, probably since mid-life Injustice 2.
Cyrax and T-1000, if left unchanged, will probably almost always been in a Top 8. Outside of that, I'd say it's anyone's guess, which is a good thing.
 
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Eldriken

Life was wasted on you.
If the meta settles and Cyrax remains a top dog, she'll kill any interest in this game competitively. Her gameplan is flatout unfun to watch. Every character in this game is some form of mixup master, but her combos are just too repetitive and long.
I watch something else when she's on the screen with Sareena. DeadlyRebel, on the other hand, I'll watch his Cyrax because he uses Tremor and that shit is fucking amazing to watch.

I really hate watching the guessing game the entire time and denying the opponent any means to break out of it.
 

PrinceGoro

Apprentice
I'm sure one is. Keep in mind, people love to sensationalize "support" ending, and "dead game." This goes for pretty much every game today, not just Mortal Kombat.

For Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns, the question is are we going to see new characters, Kameo Partners, or even a full blown Story expansion added to the game, or is that content done. Balance patches will likely continue for some time as well.

Using Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate as an example the last characters, or "content" that was added was in November 2020, however the game last balance patch was in May 2021.
Yeah if they do announce some sort of ultimate/goty edition of the game in the coming months it will confirm new content is not happening.

Like @CrimsonShadow said, i guess id be ok with them updating the current charcaters and making balance adjustments as the roster is pretty sick already but i do feel its missing a proper big body charcater badly. Something like Goro or Kintaro, hell ill even take moloch or lava giant blaze form hahah.

But since they also said at the start that mk 1 is going to be the longest ever supported mk game content wise with like 5 years of support then It also is not really ok for it to end up being the least supported nrs mk game ever with 1 and a half year of support.

As much as at this point id be fine with just balancing, as a consumer if support really ends it will be a major slap in the face and again negative good will to be so disegeniouse.
 

Juxtapose

Master
Yeah if they do announce some sort of ultimate/goty edition of the game in the coming months it will confirm new content is not happening.
That would absolutely be a sign, yes.

But since they also said at the start that mk 1 is going to be the longest ever supported mk game content wise with like 5 years of support then It also is not really ok for it to end up being the least supported nrs mk game ever with 1 and a half year of support.
A longer support cycle was the plan, but who knows, this may have changed.

The least supported NetherRealm Studios developed Mortal Kombat game is actually Mortal Kombat (2011). The game launched on Apr. 19th, 2011, Freddy was the last character added and that was roughly August 2011 I think, and the game's "Komplete Edition" released on Feb. 28, 2012. So that's a game that had about 10.5 months of support.

Mortal Kombat XL, that released Apr. 14th 2015, it's last content of Kombat Pack 2 released Mar. 1 2016 with it's "komplete edition" released the same day, and the last balance patch was early Oct. 2016. So that's about 1.5 years of support right there.

I believe Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns has already surpassed that, and is currently the second longest supported NetherRealm Studios developed Mortal Kombat game.
 

Trickywizard

Apprentice
I like this game and I like it a lot but I’m ready for a new mk game tbh.
I will main Kung Lao all over again lol can’t wait to see what they take away from Lao this time.