06-10-2010, 11:31 AM
The problem here is that the MK series has been trying all these dumb things in order to get fans and appeal to the "audience," and as a result haven't been getting new fans and alienating some of their old fans as a result. If they want to be relevant again they need to stop pulling the "Me too" card and actually try something original to get back in the game, but they don't actually seem to understand this.
MK was the game that brought Midway into a fortune, and it's also the game that made Midway go bankrupt. It's not just because people "grew out" of Mortal Kombat, its that the developers never "grew in" to the next generation properly. They don't know how to add their own features and ideas anymore like they did with MK4 and Deadly Alliance, now they just borrow ideas from other popular games and rely on stupid gimmicks and fanservice in order to please people for 15 seconds.
If it's purely from a "business" standpoint, then they should realize that they don't have what it takes for a business anymore and should quit while they're ahead and use their brainpower (or lack thereof) creating new IPs.
MK was the game that brought Midway into a fortune, and it's also the game that made Midway go bankrupt. It's not just because people "grew out" of Mortal Kombat, its that the developers never "grew in" to the next generation properly. They don't know how to add their own features and ideas anymore like they did with MK4 and Deadly Alliance, now they just borrow ideas from other popular games and rely on stupid gimmicks and fanservice in order to please people for 15 seconds.
If it's purely from a "business" standpoint, then they should realize that they don't have what it takes for a business anymore and should quit while they're ahead and use their brainpower (or lack thereof) creating new IPs.
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