Ed Boon should Retire ASAP

[talloyer]

30+ years of Mortal Kombat, Ed almost 60 years old, latest Mortal Kombat games get more and more creatively worse as they get more ambitious and greedy, 2 reboots in only 4 games, WokeWoke at large, "Injustice" games are mostly a parody of Mortal Kombat and vice-versa, guy no longer runs his own studio, acts more like a PR guy than a developer... what Ed Boon actually does as "creative director", really? Ed seems like a "glorified consultant" more than anything.
Bye Bye, Ed, time to retire. Leave future game with the workers of Netherrealm Studios. Whatever sketches you have for "Injustice 3", leave them to the teams.

[kyna]

what'd that solve

[tomthetoast]

I agree guy is out of touch but WB would just replace him with someone equally as out of touch. So it’s not just NRS it’s their publisher too.

[tomthetoast]

So it solve nothing either way.

[talloyer]

Originally posted by kyna:

what'd that solve

Dead Weight lifted.
So yes, I do not believe NRS would improve much without him, but I also believe it wouldn't be worse either. Retirement wouldn't hurt, I see Ed more like a relic than an asset.

[popsicle]

I really don't understand the hate. The games overall are better than ever. What's the problem?

Why are people blaming him for wokeness at large? Is not like he created wokeness. He's just following corporate woke rules to satisfy ESG scores. Ed should not take so much heat.

I don't see too many creative directors doing it better than Ed. This sh** post is not even fair.

[tomthetoast]

Yeah it’s mostly the publishers fault than the developers. So WB

[tomthetoast]

I mean we don’t know if NRS has lost it or they are being forced down this route by WB.

[Shoah Kahn]

Nah... He should just get John Tobias back into the fray. Together, they could steer MK for another decade or two.

[popsicle]

Someone from WB management needs to grow some balls and man up. Publicly explain where all these woke change requests are coming from. They get paid too much to hide in the back closet behind Ed.

[talloyer]

Originally posted by tomthetoast:

Yeah it’s mostly the publishers fault than the developers. So WB

Yes, but at this point the developers should stop being "acquitted" of their responsibility of their bad decisions and be admitted as complicit to these greedy publishers. Not endorsing harassment, threats and such, but I do not buy this cynical "just doing my job" rhetoric.
Foe example, If I am an artist, a costume designer, and am ashamed to see the outfit I worked so hard to look fantastic wasted to a $20 microtransaction as a piece of gaming addicition I am supposed to quit this job to find another company or even industry where I know my work can be fully appreciated as art, instead of staying for fat paychecks at expense of my personal health.
The developers are not innocent.

Originally posted by Shoah Kahn:

Nah... He should just get John Tobias back into the fray. Together, they could steer MK for another decade or two.

Nah, at this point not even John Tobias would do much good to Mortal Kombat franchise, he would have to be in charge of lots of people, huge responsibility and tremendous creative freedom while having tremendous business demands from a greedy publisher... John Tobias is better out, he wouldn't handle it.
I do not envy Ed Boon's position and know he has a delicate job and can handle it for so long but at the same time he just cannot make solid decisions that truly evolve the franchise... 2 reboots in so few games, severe monetizations, online-only, very questionable (to say at least), terrible lore and stupid narrative... the decision to still kepp Dominic Cianciolo employed after the mess of Mortal Kombat 11 to develop Mortal Kombat 1 is dumbfounding, to say at least.

Originally posted by popsicle:

Someone from WB management needs to grow some balls and man up. Publicly explain where all these woke change requests are coming from. They get paid too much to hide in the back closet behind Ed.

Fully agreed, but they are just too spineless to do so, because they know it is best to just stay quiet and let "the community" bicker among themselves, and they count on the journalists not pesking them about theior Wokeness since the journalism is dominated by Wokes too.
Besides, they know trying to stand up to their convictions is counterintuitive, as Steve Beran demonstrated[www.polygon.com] back in March/2019:

“Our character lead, Brendan George, has been a breath of fresh air of just introducing new ideas,” Beran said. “Our design is just getting more mature and respectful. You’re not going to wear a bikini to a fight. You’re not going to be showing so much skin. I think it’s just what the game is about: You’re going in to fight for your life, and you’re not going to be wearing such scantily clad items.
I’m sure that will disappoint some fans. We don’t have bathing suit fighters, and I think that’s fine. If people are disappointed, I don’t regret making that change by any means.”

The more they explain the worse it is for them. So we can say NRS got "castrated" for the sake of not being so cocky about their Wokeness.
I try to answer your issue saying not only NRS is "hostage" to the Woke employees they have so they rule where Woke goes into, they became eager to please the Woke portion of the Audience they have too. Since NRS and WB Games care way too much about Money too, they prefer to double down on the paradigm it is okay to slash a woman's throat to watch her agonize as long as it is "over the top" but GodForbig this same woman to have tight clothing with a cleavage showing her big breasts. I was surprised Sindel was allowed to have them back in Mortal Kombat 11... but she was Evil then... but not anymore.

[s0_RoNerY]

MK needs to retire. They need to work on creating a new IP. All it seems they’re doing is trying to be the longest running fighting game that involves violence and blood and gore. The story is like any other fighting games. not good. And they remove characters then add new ones. Even characters that have not died.

The fatalities are lame. It may look like they are being creative with them, but really, it’s done the same way but differently. Like Sub-Zero grabbing the opponents neck and yanking it off showing the head connected to the spine. It’s no different than someone else ripping part someone’s torso, then grabbing the neck and yanking—exposing the spine still connected to the head. Or Johnny cage upper cutting an opponents head, vs Scorpion spearing someone’s head and yanking it off. Head comes off the same way, but in a different way. Same thing with any limb really.

They rely solely on fighting games games. At least CAPCOM and Bandai have more than just fighting games.

[Star Rain]

Thats okay, flat Sindel is more then welcome to have her way with me ahem!

[TheS1X]

Imagine that you create IP and you do it all your life and you get to the age where some random kids start to discuss if you should work on your IP because you are too old. Geez!
What a world we live in.

[TheReelReese]

The NRS games (MKX aside imo) are the best that MK has ever been.

Some of the 3D Era was cool, I loved Armageddon growing up (still do), but they pale in comparison.

The original trilogy is something I will never play again. Not my cup of tea.

All the Spin-Offs besides Shaolin Monks are literally god-awful.

Edit: And whatever the hell MK vs DC was supposed to be.

[TheReelReese]

Originally posted by TheS1X:

Imagine that you create IP and you do it all your life and you get to the age where some random kids start to discuss if you should work on your IP because you are too old. Geez!
What a world we live in.

Don’t forget that the reasoning is because the women aren’t nakey nakey! That’s the real zinger right there.