I never really understood the fuss about guests. People forget that there's always been a huge market for crossovers before guest characters were even a thing in video games.
People grew up watching these old characters in the past and I'm sure would love to see them in a video game in some capacity. Problem is, there's hardly a market in the gaming industry that wants to invest in these licenses and most of the time they pick sketchy developers that don't do them justice. That's why illfonic's F13th and the Predator game are in the horrible shape they are today. The only old movie based games I can think of that turned out to be successful hits were Goldeneye 64, Rockstar's The Warriors and the 2009 Ghostbusters game, but it's been years since then.
And it's not like we're going to see an all slasher/action hero crossover game that mirrors something like the Terrordrome game anytime soon, because the licenses for each of those characters would be so dam expensive.
it's because some childish ultra radical purists so called mk fans, just enjoy to play victim with ...... hehe !
guests characters on MK franchise series bring nothing but only advantages for MK franchise ..... more attention , more propaganda , more new players to the franchise, increasing the fanbase, and with consequence, improve more the sales numbers, and with this, helping to guarantee that the developers will keep going and continue to make more MK games in future .....
so, any person that only know to talk badly and only negativism regarding guests coming to MK games, are not people to be taken serious, they don't know shit what they're talking about, haha !