Rumour: Mortal Kombat 1 Future DLC Supposedly Cancelled

I don't think NRS is going to be around for much longer. That's sad, but given that I left MK after X begged me to buy XI on the title screen, when that game was already installed, I mean... That was it for me! I already dealt with them changing the in-game store to skrew players after reviews hit, begging for me to buy characters on every screen, the krypt being turned into a casino, and certain game modes like PRACTICE requiring an online konnection to track progression.
Pretty predictable for a dozen reasons. I just hope NRS takes off and forms another studio.

Ncaa 25 does that on boot up every time, hey you like football buy madden. I just want to play the game I purchased. DLC for fighting games is getting crazy, MK, the newest smash, I'm sure there are plenty of worse examples. I'm going to sound old but release the whole game and don't nickel and dime folks. The other problem is doing it like Prince of Persia, got it beat it. I don't want to invest on relearning a medium difficulty game 7 months later.

@LikelySatan sorry I meant to reply to you with the ncaa 25 comment

Tbh that last Kombat Pack expansion was just terrible overall. The only good thing about that Expansion Pass was the Animality and that's it, the new Khaos Reign storyline didn't go anywhere, the Sub-Zero becoming Noob Saibot thing didn't turn out well like how the original or MK9 did it. The female cyborg characters are interesting, the only problem was that they are called Sektor and Cyrax.

@rvcolem1 I heard Blops6 makes you launch the CoD launcher, pops an ad for Blops6, then makes you quit out to select a different game if you want to play an older CoD game. I won't play anything that requires a connection anymore. It's ridiculous. I just want to relax and be free from suggestion.

@Serpenterror honestly I don't have much interest in MK as a whole. I think the games are fun but not something I would buy. Sucks for the fans if the DLC wasn't great

I got an physical of this game (for Xbox) on the cheap, and it's actually pretty fun. Solid mechanics and fast action.
But Warner Bros insistence on nickel-and-dime DLC at every turn, having to pay to unlock all the cool stuff, and a half-baked expansion that costs more than the "it's always on sale" main game - these are all things that sentenced the game to a grim fate.

I don't blame netherealm. I blame the corporate greed at Warner Bros that is rotted down to the core.

@LikelySatan honestly if it came up once a month or something I'd be ok with it, but it is every boot up.
I'm not completely against DLC as I have all have dead cells, but that game has been out for years and 5 bucks a year was justified in my mind, and total was the cost of a triple a game. Also I have a few hours of play in the game.

@LadyCharlie I'm sure it is fun, I always see X of 11 on sale for a few bucks and never pull the trigger. Maybe the genre isn't fun for me. I don't think I'd put time into it because I don't care about being good

I am, or was, a huge MK fan so I got the $110 version of MK1 so I'd get all the DLC and so on. Then they wanted to charge me another $50 after that for Khaos Reigns. I'm not buying it, or anything else from them. Possibly ever again, unless they makes a lot of changes. Beautiful game, good kombat, but the greed killed my love of the series completely.

@Branovices Please don't let that be so! You CAN still enjoy the series.

@Branovices You can still be a fan, if you din't want to get any new games just watch them on YouTube. But don't just cut yourself off from MK entirely, that's just not right. And MKII is set to hit theaters next year so at least stick around for that.

@LikelySatan They can always still be around.

@Serpenterror What about the guest characters? Those are always guarenteed to be awesome in any MK game.

@LadyCharlie I wouldn't generalize like that.

If MK1 does last another year, who knows what other mind-blowing guest characters they could add, like maybe John Wick, or Ash from Evil Dead or M3GAN or even Chucky!

@benmalsky198 sweet summer child. This news is also following WB saying they aren't about supporting their smaller games anymore. I'd yell to NRS to "sell sell sell," but they sold out a lonnnnnng time ago.

It doesn't surprise me. While the gameplay for 11 was fun the story was just ludicrously far from anything MK anymore. And MK1 took that story farther with the added problem of being less fun to play.

@rvcolem1 I'm down with some DLC. I won't play anything that is aggressive with it's online store.

I wouldn’t call NRS “small”.

@LikelySatan I’m a casual observer of the series so none of this stuff really bothers me.

The show reason to get Ghostface would be because it actually has Roger Jackson's voice bring used.

@Branovices this reminds me why I never kick start board games, almost did it once but the game never came out. Kickstarter and I guess ultimate editions give no guarantee how much or what quality the dlc will be. I guess netherrealms was a known trusted company to you? I haven't really played their games unless they made injustice 1. Again this is just me guessing

It maybe came a bit too soon after 11. If they had sandwiched an Injustice 3 in-between, that would at least create some distance between new MK entries.

Didn't they charge 70 bucks for the last DLC, and yet NW have no clue why it flopped?

Looking at the bright side they can finally release a complete edition.
When complete edition is out, i will wait for it to drop to 20 bucks.

It was way overpriced for one thing. Game already cost 70 dollars and they wanna pile more on top of that for 40 or 50 dollars? Yeah screw DLC! I sure miss fighters with unlockable characters instead of spoon feeding us overpriced microtransactions.

Honestly these type of games get old after the first couple weeks of playing anyway. I love fighting games don't get me wrong but they never hold my attention much past the that. Same with racers.

@benmalsky198
Lol, welp...seems they had an investor call where they said they were focusing on their "four core franchises with proven studios," and name dropped NRS, so according to "facts," (if you truck with reality and "facts") you are right. Which, I mean, you can prove anything even remotely true with "facts," jeez.
/S

I kinda hope WB drop NRS going forward and force the studio to go back to basics with MK. It's been a fast decline since X. 11's story mode was entertaining, but all the DLC and splash screens, etc just made it a slog each time I booted it up.

Conan, Scream and Terminator and any and all characters from other franchises should NOT be part of Mortal Kombat!

I miss the days of:
"Git gud" and being able to unlock additional characters instead of being nickel and dimed to the "poor house" for new characters and stages!

@benmalsky198
Mortal Kombat reboot movie was actually, somehow worse than Annihilation!

My last Mortal Kombat games were 3 and Sub-Zero
Nothing after those appealed to me, and it seems like it was a good decision to leave the series!

VERY VERY ironic that WB's only recent success is Hogwart's Legacy. Absolute comedy.

mk is an awful series that hurts the fgc more than anything. good riddance.

I blame WB for their stupid decisions where the series peak is MK9 I had hesitation for MK1 they hired SBI the company who bash and attacks gamers WB made it cash grab between awful story with multverse including gender swap Sektor and Cyrax. Awful design on Tanya I am saddened how the series decline turned what such cool franchise into complete corp greed.

@Hee-ho-master No it's not. It's an awesome series.

@Gamergirl94 Somebody's overly bitter.

@Spider-Kev No it wasn't, not by a long shot.

@Truegamer79 These sorts of games always keep MY attention. I LOVE racers!

@Angelic_Lapras_King Finally, some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism as opposed to just bashing MK as a whole, NRS or WB. Complaining gets really old really fast and rarely solves anything.

@Lightsiyd You mean in the game space right? Because I think Multiversus is on it's way to becoming successful.

@Spider-Kev There ARE still games where that happens.

@Spider-Kev Why not, I absolutely love it! It's like when you were a kid playing with your toys, no matter how mishmashed it was.

@Spider-Kev I hate your attitude. Mortal Kombat IS still good, the movie was actually very decent and nothing at all like Annihilation, you CAN unlock characters through simply playing the game, and I get excited anytime multimedia characters show up in the games like the Terminator, Peacemaker and so on. Our views of the series are clearly polar opposites.

@Truegamer79 What does "spoon-feeding" mean in gaming terms? Don't people have any patience these days? If you don't like waiting for new content, just go do something else.

@LikelySatan Why are you using air quotes?

Why are all the comments here so negative or complainy? Doesn't anyone have anything positive to say about MK besides me?

@benmalsky198 It's a Simpsons reference, but I also think it is pretty obvious that I was being absurd.
I was being a silly goose. The quotes were to help the reader understand that.
This is post-truth reality, however, so I added a big ol' /S for ya.

@benmalsky198 Was it necessary to reply 12 separate times to the comments you disagree with?

There is an edit button to at least contain yourself to one post if you felt the need to nitpick every single comment.

Yikes how Olympus has fallen. Seriously I'm tired of saying this but just release a solid remaster of Mortal Kombat Trilogy and my money is yours. No bullsh#t. My money is yours.

@Agenerationofgens Sorry. I'm very defensive.

@Agenerationofgens I just don't want to see everone be so negative.

@benmalsky198 Negativity is a hell of a drug for most people.

There's more to looking at something with an open mind rather than just saying "Coz it bloody sucks".

not surprised at all. can only make more DLCs if the other ones sell.

Well after the prior MK, I was always going to wait for the Komplete Edition of MK1.

I think a lot of people were going the same so the DLC's haven’t sold as the developers have expected so they are looking to cut it short.

So does this mean that for the next MK game we might get a complete version on release? It would certainly be interesting to compare the sales figures if that were the case.

@LadyCharlie Your critiques of MK 1 are the exact reason I lost interest in Injustice 2, predatory DLC. I guess WB hasn’t learned or changed since then… I’m sure they’ll keep trying (cough Suicide Squad).

Even tho I have it, never played it. MK11 is all I need, I LOVE the roster there. BTW no one even wants to buy my sealed copy of MK1...