A total of 10 new fighters have been added to the game since it launched last year, on top of the Khaos Reigns story expansion, with two more DLC characters still on the way.
However according to a new rumour, once those two additional characters are out, that’s all the additional content Mortal Kombat 1 is getting.
Per Insider-Gaming, a rumour coming from a leaker who has previously been accurate regarding Mortal Kombat 1 content claims that all future DLC meant to come after the current batch (Khaos Reigns and Kombat Pack 2) has been cancelled, allegedly due to poor sales of the first expansion, Khaos Reigns.
This means future character packs not yet revealed, and at least one more story expansion could’ve been binned due to the first expansion selling poorly.
Of course this is just a rumour, so take it with the grain of salt its worth, even if its coming from a leaker who has gotten things right in the past.
Especially because it would be in contrast for Warner Bros to have cancelled this coming DLC, especially when Mortal Kombat has been named multiple times as one of the core-franchises that WB is focusing in on.
Just a few weeks ago chief executive officer David Zaslav called out Mortal Kombat as one of the franchises that would help WB Games pick up the slack after saying the games division is “substantially underperforming its potential.”
If Zaslav has turned around and cancelled future Mortal Kombat DLC, that doesn’t exactly scream confidence in the franchise as a core IP that is meant to help lead the charge for WB on its road to being one of the world’s biggest game publishers.
It does however fall right into Zaslav’s playbook to cancel or shut down projects that are either entirely done or at least very far into production. This is after all the same man who binned an entire finished film for a tax write-off.
Source – [Insider-Gaming]
