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POSTED:
Saturday,
June 29th, 2024
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(7-2-2024)
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Mortal
Kombat 1 Takeda Teaser Trailer, Abysmally Low Evolution 2024 Player Turnout
Confirmed
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Twitter, NetherRealm Studios creative director Ed Boon dropped the latest Mortal
Kombat 1
(2023) gameplay teaser trailer for returning MKX
character, Takeda
Takahashi, to hype up the release of the final Kombat Pack 1 DLC
fighter. As it reads in Boon's tweet, "Takeda
marks the last (Kombat Pack 1) fighter, and Ferra
the final (KP1) Kameo,"
finishing the sentence with "so
far".
Ed continued by saying "We look forward to supporting MK1 far
beyond this... and would love to get some feedback from the
community." Don't expect a long gameplay trailer, though. It's over
in 19 seconds.
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[UPDATE]
While it's likely that Mortal Kombat 1 will
continue on with future seasons, it's worth pointing out that the game
appears to be struggling to hold a steady active player base... especially when
compared with the stats and ongoing success of other modern fighting games in
eSports in 2024 (Street Fighter 6,TEKKEN
8, and Guilty Gear
-STRIVE- to name a few).
NRS's own official Mortal Kombat YouTube channel has very low viewership numbers on their
competitive videos, deeply contrasting the ridiculous view counts on their
reveal trailers. More shockingly, MK1's player registrants at
EVO 2024 turned out abysmally low
for the game's first-ever appearance at the event, with thousands fewer
players than the top-played fighting games of 2024 — MK1
awkwardly thudding into the final EVO '24 leaderboard in 7th, second to
last place. (Source: @EVO).
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Even UNI2 and the
25-years-young Street
Fighter III: 3rd Strike beat Mortal Kombat 1 into a bloody
pulp. (All that "popularity" Ed Boon has on Twitter, and they
couldn't manage to break 650 players?) 
MK1 still sold quite a few copies... so the game will probably be
around for a while, but some might pick up a certain "tone" in
Ed Boon's tweet from earlier... as (he must realize by now) a successful
and long-running competitive fighting game does need an actual active "community" behind it to keep it
relevant.
At the least, a Season 2 for Mortal Kombat 1 is probably
imminent. NRS certainly put enough money into marketing MK1 to keep
it going for a while. However, Mortal Kombat 1's
"potential EVO 2025 appearance" —
on
the other hand —
is
not so guaranteed. (Might be a one and done... like a typical MK1
player pulling the plug for a Quitality.) Sorry, I had to. Thank you for
reading. Keep it here on The Fighters Generation for more fighting game news
and upcoming EVO 2024 coverage.
~TFG Webmaster, Frank Joseph
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@Fighters_Gen
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@noobde,
@evo
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