Corporate Malfeasance Has Ended the Development of MK1

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@simplydolgoruky1018 2 ай бұрын

people dont seem to understand the level of corporate greed that goes on in the world nowadays. The devs at NRS want to do a good job, but WB calls the shots at the end of the day. Shame. Must be very frustrating for the developers as well

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

I completely agree with you. Considering how some of the comments here are developing, both of us are more correct than we even realized!

@convicsik 2 ай бұрын

Corporate CEO don’t have a responsibility to create quality products, their responsibility is to maximize profits. WB doesn’t care if they tarnish the brand in the long term, all they care about is quarterly earnings and keeping share holders happy. WB decided to spend the least amount of money and time possible on MK1 knowing the name would sell, and then tack on even more ridiculous monetization. WB is literally bleeding Mortal Kombat dry. And anyone that hopes WB is going to learn from their mistakes, that’s not how corporations work. They will try to spend even less on the next MK and add even more micro transactions because all they want is more profits. Corporate America doesn’t not understand that consumers want quality and value. These CEOs will continue to double down on the idea that the problem is they need to find more ways to monetize games.

@edd4131 2 ай бұрын

And watch this lead to ANOTHER unfinished mess of a game😭 like damn, WB is constantly shooting themselves in the foot. Corporate greed takes all and leaves nothing.

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

That's precisely what I'm afraid of honestly.

@Synical02 Ай бұрын

3:23 I 100% agree with this sentiment, and despise the discourse around mk1, and how it's generally rewarded Too much content has been red herrings, and polticin

@wren8253 2 ай бұрын

Always appreciate how your videos and deep insights. Glad I got to find your channel. Hoping to see you again for mk13 and eventual sub zero tech lol

@mrAPchem Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words! I will be quite happy to try my best to be a voice of knowledge and reason for Sub-Zero in MK13.

@fobo3361 2 ай бұрын

Whoever's responsible for the decisions that made mk1 suck so much, having kameos be mandatory, bad writing, shit game balance, lacking content, etc I just hope youre happy, and know your dumbass ideas is what got you here, cuz we know you did this bs for money, and now look at you, get your hands out of videos games NOW And to all the hard working devs, outstanding animators, 3d modelers, programmers, and people with a genuine ambition and vision to revive mk, my heart goes out to you, please keep doing amazing things, and i hope you get to look at a project youre apart of and genuinely feel proud and feel that praise and recognition that you deserve

@subzer082 2 ай бұрын

No truer words have been spoken about corporate acquisitions

@Vivid114 2 ай бұрын

I had this comment on unroolie's channel already, but I think it applies here. I really hope this game this game gets continued support, man. I know it has issues, but it's been my favorite NRS game since MKX and MK9. Besides the gameplay being a big step up from MK11, the game also had, in my opinion, the best roster, stages, soundtrack, and art direction we've had since MK9 and even the older games. Just imagine if this game had the features it desperately needed at launch. I still believe it has the potential to be one of the best in the series. It's kind of a weird situation. You had MK11, a game with amazing single player content, but boring gameplay, then you had MK1, a game with awesome gameplay, but single player and online content took a major step back. I think that's a big part of why so many people list MK9 and X at the top of their lists. It had almost everything you need. By the way, are you interested in playing matches online with fans? If no, it's okay. Edit: What steps could we even take to let NRS buy their property back? I desperately want that, I just don't know how we could do it, or what we would even do.

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

@@Vivid114 Maaaaannnn, I fully agree with you here. This is my favorite MK since MK9, so hearing that it's not gonna get the support it needs sucks. But about your query, yes indeed I play sets against viewers!! I'm The5thDerivative on PSN and PC.

@Upthepunks918 2 ай бұрын

Appreciate the insight on the situation! You always keep it 100% 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

I try my best! Thank you for watching!

@marcspark4393 2 ай бұрын

Many (not all) of the Sub Zero mains have been trashing this game from day 1 just because they weren’t happy with sub zero. So they would call the entire game trash.

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

That might be true, but I haven't seen a plurality of Sub-Zero players doing this. This has been more tied to people that merely didn't like Kameos and/or people that just aren't that good at FGs that hated on the game early on, no matter which character they mained.

@Gamerprice40 2 ай бұрын

To be fair, this happens in every fighting game. Even pro players trash the game because of metas and when they lose to certain plays, it’s just the nature of fighting games. At the end of the day, most of it all sums up to people not being able to take losses well and this definitely applies to Pro Players and high level players. In fact, they are the worst offenders of it but truthfully every single fighting game goes through this at some point because perfect balance is unachievable

@HalcyonEX 2 ай бұрын

I wasn't trashing the game from day 1 I've been trashing it from day 2 when they nerfed sub Into the ground to placate whining pussies like you

@GLOCKCHESTER131 2 ай бұрын

@@Gamerprice40stg then yu have these bozos who think these pro players word is law 😂 they let 1 pro player change how they really feel bout sumn 😂

@Gamerprice40 2 ай бұрын

@@GLOCKCHESTER131 Yeah man it’s the absolute worst. It’s never a good sign when a specific group of players/fans get too close with a game studio or dev team. Balancing around pro players only is a terrible idea, they make up such a small fraction of the community and most of them only care about what’s convenient for them. It’s extremely frustrating watching these loser pro players trash the very game that gave them recognition in the first place just to jump on the bandwagon. So many of them trash the game yet keep playing it and coming back, the hypocrisy is unreal

@Gamerprice40 2 ай бұрын

This is such a crazy leak. I think we can all understand as to why a second story mode expansion being cancelled would take place but why cancel a Kombat Pack 3? From what I’ve seen in the past and even Mortal Kombat 1, most people are always down to buy all the DLC characters even if they aren’t particularly who they wanted or even like. DLC characters undoubtedly sell like crazy and by the end of the game’s life cycle, practically everyone owns all the Kombat Packs. I just can’t see KP3 getting scrapped all together when they’re such a huge reason NRS games are so successful. The guest characters especially, they attract a lot of attention to NRS games

@oldmanfgc 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunate but informative video like always. Thanks for that. Ah, MK 9, such a great game and time in the FGC scene.

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

Yes indeed; thank you! And yes, MK9 is peak MK, period.

@Genard5 2 ай бұрын

@@mrAPchem I honestly think mk 11 is the best

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

@@Genard5 It's not the fighting game that MK9 is. It does have more content though.

@Genard5 2 ай бұрын

@@mrAPchem hey man appreciate you front lining sub these 2years, but they did this mk 11 they did one expansion pack and after that they did nothing, it's actually seems setup like as far as timing in comparison to mk11 when they stopped

@GLOCKCHESTER131 2 ай бұрын

I really believe fate is someone who actually works for NRS or is very close to someone in NRS & i swear my blood boils every time I hear all that lame shit like changing them to women & kameos & everything else yu said is definitely not why it’s these greedy mfs at WB 💯 Literally everything yu said was right 💯

@Gizmo4rtz 2 ай бұрын

Like Maxamillion Dood once said that still rings true since the release of the scam that is the PS5 Pro. "We are in the era of Diminishing Returns"

@gw7911 2 ай бұрын

I just hope they add rooms before the last update. There likely isn’t enough time to save modes like invasions or towers of time and make a new kameoless mode. So I just hope they get rooms.

@GLOCKCHESTER131 2 ай бұрын

They actually could add that cuz I seen interloco or however yu spell his name showed it was a mode in the game files where yu could play as the kameos 1v1 so it’s possible.

@Quan_G4 2 ай бұрын

Big bruh u playing any other fighting games?

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

I wish I did, but I'm an MK guy through and through. Though I do love me some Smash Bros!!!

@LastPrimeGaming 2 ай бұрын

@@mrAPchemhop on tekken 8 man

@AlucardTepes-sl6rb 2 ай бұрын

For Mk sake , free nrs from wb

@aundreii151 2 ай бұрын

Preach

@Rockysbeats 2 ай бұрын

they should of cancelled the game the moment they decided to make the characters jump without flipping

@theskinnyzoot4178 2 ай бұрын

This is crazy man I hope they continue to support it, best case scenario is if they can go independent but unless they’ve got the money and resources to do so I can’t see it happening realistically, I much prefer this to mk11 tbh

@GLOCKCHESTER131 2 ай бұрын

Stop it mk11 is miles behind this game the only thing mk11 had on mk1 is online rooms, customization, & the skins & gears pieces. the gameplay on mk11 was trash & a lot more I can name that I seen most of y’all complaining about 😂

@theskinnyzoot4178 2 ай бұрын

@ bro I literally said I much prefer this (mk1) to mk11😂 like mk11 wasn’t for me gameplay, story, art style, all though the customisation was good tbf

@talos4702 2 ай бұрын

WB is responsible for the horrible business decisions of MK. But, I think it’s fair to say that NRS has made some bad decisions too. It’s a mix of both of them.

@smoken4311 2 ай бұрын

From what I understand NRS is in some debt and the DLC wasn’t as popular as they projected (imo, bc of the high price point). WB would rather invest in Injustice 3 which they know will sell . Then they will have 2 games both running microtransactions and catering to both player bases

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if it's NRS in debt; I had heard that it was WB itself that was in debt and therefore wants to double-down on its two most popular IPs: MK and Hogwarts.

@IPLAET7 2 ай бұрын

Refund? Lawsuit

@shakhaninja 2 ай бұрын

I agree that WB is mostly to blame but the kameo idea was just a terribly implemented gimmick that alienated a lot of its casual audience. I think MK1 in terms of gameplay is objectively better than MK11 yet it seems like the player retention for MK11 was way higher, and I really do think it has to do with the kameo system + invasions. I can’t see them ever making another assist based game after how this one was received.

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

The Kameos weren't well-received, but there's nothing terrible about how they were implemented at all. The inclusion of the Kameos has led to this game having virtually infinite depth and combo routes to explore, as well as allowing literally the entire cast to be tournament viable which has never happened in any other assist game. Every Kameo that has ever dominated the meta has been normalized and at this point, there is amazing variety in characters and Kameos. The Kameos might have turned off casuals, but the lack of content, especially the offline content, did much more damage than Kameos ever did. And why was there missing content in this game? Because WB likely rushed NRS to put this incomplete product out, which they've been playing catch-up with ever since.

@shakhaninja 2 ай бұрын

@ sorry I realized I worded it wrong, I don’t think it’s terribly implemented but that’s the impression I got from casuals. I agree with you about the kameo stuff, I quite like it myself but I’ve talked to a handful of casuals who told me that it turned them off. Lack of content is definitely an issue that I hope they address in the next game

@Gamerprice40 2 ай бұрын

I agree with MrAPchem here, Kameos were not at all a bad mechanic and they were implemented rather well. For NRS’ first attempt at an assist based game, they did great. The problem is that assist based fighting games eliminate a large portion of the casual player bases and the lower level players because there’s a lot to be learned and even more to be mastered. Assist based fighting games also just require a higher level of skill and knowledge because the possible synergy scenarios appear limitless, and that turns casuals away. The other biggest factor that makes people hate Kameos is the fact that their favorite characters have possibly been reduced down to an assist when they could have been a real character on the roster. In all honesty though, I think MK1 should’ve been a Tag Team game rather than assist because then that eliminates the roster problem and it also makes it infinitely easier for NRS to make a 1v1 mode for the traditional fans. With a Tag Team game, they could’ve easily retained a similar mechanic to the Kameo System we now know since MK9 introduced “Tag Assists” and “Tag Kombos” which essentially were Tag summons and the other was an assist that allowed you to switch characters at the same time. All they would need to do here is add a Tag Ambush attack of some sorts and it’ll basically be close enough to MK1

@AlucardTepes-sl6rb 2 ай бұрын

If fate is right and this true, this is gonna be my last mk. I love mk so much But the repeat of what happened with mk 11 again??? I am done

@AlucardTepes-sl6rb 2 ай бұрын

Not gonna spend a penny on anything related WB

@Gamerprice40 2 ай бұрын

The simple truth about the NRS and Mortal Kombat 1 situation is that it all traces back to Warner Bros. Literally everything that is considered “bad” by the fighting game and MK community all traces back to WB as they practically force bad situations onto NRS. They push NRS to rush games by giving them unrealistic deadlines which is what happened with MK1 and even MK11 as Cyrax and Sektor were always intended to be on the main roster but did not make it due to time constraints. This also led to the unethical time crunching that NRS got heat for back when MK11 was being supported. WB also demands that NRS incorporate microtransactions and lock content behind pay walls which all started in MK11. We know this is a decision made by WB as community managers and Ed Boon himself has hinted numerous times that it was not a choice made by them. Lastly, WB is behind the heavy push on Guest Characters and marketing strategies promoting other WB products. Guest Characters bring in money, most likely brings in way more than the klassic MK DLC characters doc so that also explains why every MK game doubles down on guest characters. In truth, NRS is actually a rather talented and skilled group of people who all appear passionate about their work and the games they create. NRS are simply amazing at creating hype and marketing their games and DLC, they’ve already shown a consistent track record of being able to make solid high quality games and even higher quality DLCs. They consistently improve and grow with every game that releases. Sure they make mistakes here and there but they also consistently deliver on almost every aspect. Unfortunately, they are chained and bound to WB, who don’t share the same passion or desires that NRS does. It’s even worse for NRS more so than other studios because they’ve proven to WB already that they are extremely valuable. So they’ll continue to take advantage of NRS’ skill and talent and abuse it until the money runs out. WB is the enemy here, not NRS and not Ed Boon.

@asdfxcvbn746 2 ай бұрын

2:40 $50 overpriced dlc which had half the content of MK11's dlc & cost $20 more, you don't think all those things led to the dlc not selling after the main game sold well? this is what MK Tom Brady was talking about when he spoke about "toxic positivity" people like unrooolie, kenny bomb, glazing the game & acting like all these concerns aren['t a big deal & now that nobody bought the dlc & support is ending, all ppl like kenny bomb have to say is "i guess ppl are tight with their money" no, maybe Khaos Reigns was disgustingly overpriced? add the fact that 2 fan favorite characters got gender swapped, they KNOW that won't go over well with people. guest characters from ANCIENT movies from the 80's & early 90's, 90% of MK's audience wasn't born when these movies came out. why would a gen-z kid care about Conan smh... but y'all are confused about why the dlc didn't sell? lol smh

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

You're missing the point: The reason why we even have $40 and $50 DLC to begin with is because of WB trying to price gouge the fans of the few profitable IPs that it still has under its belt. Also, the reason why MK1 was released in its prepubescent state to begin with when the 5 previous NRS titles all launched as not only complete products, but also as FGs that were the standard-bearer for how much content a fighting game should have at launch is entirely because WB forced NRS to put out an MK title well before it was ready for the world. Those two issues are the root cause of all that other shit that you're talking about.

@asdfxcvbn746 2 ай бұрын

@@mrAPchem we don't necessarily know that those are the root cause of MK1's lukewarm reception. imo its ALL OF IT combined. then add in woke employees at NRS making bad decisions like the gender swaps as opposed to making fresh, new likeable female characters (like Harumi) weird, woke & unlikeable community managers & public faces of NRS like Derek Kirtzic & his strange, off-putting body language & unfunny puns that he spouts off during every Kombat Kast like a failed aspiring comedian smh, Tyler Lansdown & his corny & unfunny jokes. Stephanie Brownback, a guy in a dress pretending to be a woman is the most "normal" out of the 3 of them smh. MK is getting weird & at this point I can't even put all of the fault on WB. imo WB is responsible for MK being rushed & NRS themselves are responsible for them going woke. people keep telling them what to do & what NOT to do & they just do that they want anyway. this is how franchises die. it happened to Halo & I'd hate to see MK go the same route.

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

@@asdfxcvbn746 Yes indeed we do know that they are the root cause. We have had 5 previous titles from NRS - every single one of them was a complete package of a game with a full suite of offline and online features. Not MK1. There were bugs in previous games, but not nearly as many as there were on the release of MK1. Each game had skins and DLC for purchase, but only in MK1 have they been exorbitantly priced and sold individually rather than as part of a package. Did NRS suddenly change its mind or did WB - the company that has suddenly found itself in major debt - alter its tune? Speaking of tune, as much as I hate to flame a commenter of mine, I will not allow certain rhetoric to sit on my platform and go unchallenged, especially when it's as ugly, unhinged and vacuous as yours is. To begin with, how is it that wokeness allegedly killed MK1, yet it somehow had no effect on MKX? In MKX, we literally had a white female girlboss character assemble a diverse team of new fighters, including a Black woman and a gay male character who not only were poorly developed in the story, but who went on to trounce a longtime villain Shinnok who was enhanced with the power of his amulet. All of that is infinitely more woke than anything that occurred in MK1. Certainly, there were some woke elements of MK1, but they pale in comparison. The point is this: if a game's level of wokeness leads it to not sell well, why didn't that happen to MKX? Or to MK11 for that matter - a game with a female main villain and a Black male sub-boss? The correct answer is that a game's level of wokeness only matters to a small, yet vocal of entitled and disgruntled males that haven't quite reached true manhood. And though those dudes bitch incessantly, at the end of the day, they will still buy and play the same games that they whine about. Ghost of Tsushima and the recent Spider-Man games are all woke as hell and yet they are top-selling games on PSN and PC. The upcoming Ghost of Yotei will likely sell just as well, if not better. But more importantly, if you're going to dead-name Stephanie Brownback who has been an out transwoman for at least a decade now, you are precisely what is wrong with certain parts of not just the MK community, but the gaming community at large. You represent the most triggered and infantile group of people ever, damn-near as bad as the people that didn't want their children to go to the same school as Black children 50 years ago. The world will be far better off without your ilk, so if a game decides to be more inclusive to your chagrin, I count that as a major W. Don't bother replying to this because I won't be reading or responding to whatever wack shit you're about to say.

@asdfxcvbn746 2 ай бұрын

@@mrAPchem "I will not allow certain rhetoric to sit on my platform and go unchallenged, especially when it's as ugly, unhinged and vacuous as yours is." --- when I talked about wokeness, even though I was talking about NRS & not you, it sounds like you somehow took it personally. "how is it that wokeness allegedly killed MK1, yet it somehow had no effect on MKX? In MKX, we literally had a white female girlboss character assemble a diverse team of new fighters, including a Black woman and a gay male character who not only were poorly developed in the story, but who went on to trounce a longtime villain Shinnok who was enhanced with the power of his amulet. All of that is infinitely more woke than anything that occurred in MK1." ---- if you think woke means simply having non-white or non-male characters in a game... you can't call somebody's opinion ugly, unhinged & vaucous, when you don't even know what the word woke means smh... also i'm black for the record. just throwing that out there. "if a game's level of wokeness leads it to not sell well, why didn't that happen to MKX?" ---- it has to be enough for people to notice it. I didn't even play MKX's story mode at all because I heard it was inferior to MK9's story mode. so whatever wokeness was in the game, if it was even there, it hadn't affected anything else in the game or any other modes. they hadn't gender swapped my favorite characters or anything like that. so if it was woke, I didn't notice. "Or to MK11 for that matter - a game with a female main villain and a Black male sub-boss?" ---- for the second time, having a minority in a game or a woman, doesn't make it woke. what makes something woke is when when you push an agenda to get more characters like that in the game or change the story to fit these characters to the detriment of the game itself or sacrificing other fan favorite male or non-minority characters just for the sake of DEI aka forced diversity. which is something MK never needed because MK has always been diverse. MK11 wasn't woke because it had a female villain or a black sub-boss. MK11 was woke because of Jax's "slavery" ending. he went back in time & saved only black people instead of making an attempt to save everybody. being pro-race is a very liberal/left-wing thing to do. Jax has always been pro military, pro police & pro american with the american flag draped around his shoulders. if Jax would be anything, he'd be pro american & a republican. so he'd be more of a nationalist. which if he tried to save all americans. that would make more sense based on his previously established character. Jax has never been some dashiki wearing, pro black guy like they depicted him in his MK11 ending. what happened was, some woke, black employee made their interpretation of who Jax was based on their personal politics, which caused them to write the story in that way. Jax never would've done that. go back & ONLY save black people? that has NEVER been Jax's character. Jax would've made an attempt to save everybody. "The correct answer is that a game's level of wokeness only matters to a small, yet vocal of entitled and disgruntled males that haven't quite reached true manhood." --- so is that why 80% of americans who are sick of liberals, cancel culture & wokeness voted republican this time around? lets talk about it. "You represent the most triggered and infantile group of people ever, damn-near as bad as the people that didn't want their children to go to the same school as Black children 50 years ago. The world will be far better off without your ilk" ---- like I said before 80% of the country voted like my ilk & your ilk are the minority. your ilk has men in full drag dressed like strippers teaching kids how to read. your ilk thinks thats normal. the country would be much better off with my ilk than your ilk. thats why we voted your ilk out of power, to the tune of 80% voting red. to be as woke as you are, you not knowing what the word woke actually means is hilarious. and being pretentious & name calling is why liberals lost this election. calling people names & comparing black people that they disagree with to 1950's civil rights era racists, is why liberals got voted out of power. people are sick of woke in all its forms. they don't want it from people like you & they don't want it in their games either.

@damionbaxter4912 2 ай бұрын

Its a combination of everything. Corporate greed/ miss management. The game did launch in a pretty bad state. It did lack content. It was poorly balanced as still is. 10 dollar costume's instead of skin packs. I could honestly go on. Now im not hating on the game but my god the amount of bad decision made back to back is to large to blame on just 1 thing.

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

The corporate greed is the catalyst to a lot of what you just named, other than game balance, which is actually quite good despite what you said. Think about how we even learned about MK1 to begin with - in a WB earnings call. They casually leaked that there would be another MK game, thus killing the reveal hype. WB quite likely pushed NRS to put the game out well before it was ready - think about this: has NRS ever been known to skimp out on game content for an MK game prior to now? The answer is no. Not to mention, the fact that MK1 was not available for last-gen systems like PS4 and Xbox One turned out to be a huge mistake. Far too many people across the globe do not have a PS5/Xbox Series S or X for MK1 to not be released on those last-gen systems, even if some graphics had to be sacrificed. We all have seen how incomplete MK1 was on release and how that state set everything back in terms of peoples' perception of the game. Prior to now, we have never seen an MK or Injustice game seem like it was rushed or put out too soon. WB has made NRS look like a fool this entire time.

@damionbaxter4912 2 ай бұрын

@mrAPchem I agree on every point except balance. The lack of variation in pro tournaments is staggering. It's mostly just Johnny. Which if the game was balanced you would see many more.

@edd4131 2 ай бұрын

⁠@@mrAPchemgreat points but to add into Damion’s comments, most tourneys have had nothing but top 3 characters in all top 8 lineups. We hardly see any character specialists and if they are, they don’t make it past top 8 without HARD WORK. This game has been constant meta shifts and I do think balancing could be better. WB is definitely to blame for the poor handling of the pricing and skin packs. As well as always rushing NRS to some bs. Personally I do think NRS could’ve done better with communication and overall helping out the game in terms of customization. Look at the difference between 11 and MK1 😭

@mrAPchem 2 ай бұрын

@@damionbaxter4912 What tournaments are you watching??? I have barely even seen any Johnnys either online or in the biggest tournaments as of late. And that's been the case since Khaos Reigns has dropped and even before that. You can watch damn-near any tournament these days and see 75% of the cast in them with a large variety of characters in Top 8. You're about 6 months behind the current meta.

@damionbaxter4912 2 ай бұрын

@mrAPchem I stopped watching when the pro tour ended

@ClumsyVash 2 ай бұрын

Lol bro the moment they made sektor and cyrax women I rolled my eyes into my head so hard I uninstalled the game get real that is part of it XD Now im back to chiv 2 and dbz fighter

@mrAPchem Ай бұрын

You uninstalled the game because Sektor and Cyrax are women??? In the same game where Sub-Zero became Scorpion???? That sounds super-dumb...