Mk11 has more players now...

[Zabesho]

It is what it is ...nothing else to add

[Over It]

Originally posted by a piece of ♥♥♥♥:

Lots of morons in this thread,

Starting with you.

[Zabesho]

Some people are playing because of the discount yeah ,sure ...but it doesn't change facts. Many people are openly unhappy with the state of this game. Especially on PC and switch. Developers are just starting to iron out problems with patches. It definitely was a bad launch...Compared to SF6 it was extremly poor. And it definitly has some very bad design decisions in it (such as kameos)..basically making balance a fluid thing forever here...beside I find it very hard to get hyped about charakters I can't play as. I have no interest in talking trash about MK it's my favorite FG...but I want a good product if I pay such a high price for it. This one was broken AF. I was thinking about going back to mk11 myself because it's simply more fun to play and I don't have to watch 70% combos for a minute online. Feels like a waste of time.

[Harry Horror]

Yeah, no wonder I've spent more than 1000h on MK11 and this one just doesn't resonate with me at all. Besides, it's buggy as hell as it is. Let's see:

-MK11's first week had everyone complaining about how grindy it was and how difficult bosses were (and how much microtransactions were needed) and it was fixed asap with an apology-

-MK1: here people complain about broken/buggy characters, paid Halloween fatalities, game not launching, FPS drops, useless taslimans, invasions and tower crashes (this has been happening to me too) and not even character interactions, no intros nor outros, no kameo voiceover calls, no character towers, poor roster presentation, annoying 1000th secret battles, stiff tower animations...and? Nothing, very little besides the very bare bones bug fixing plus Subzero being crap and new bugs into the mix. Story was cool tho.

4 years in the making for this?
MK11 was very restrained, but at least it was very stable. Here, the same old song and dance with NRS's classic "NO FUN ALLOWED" on an assist-based game: they start nerfing the obvious just like they always do (like MK11) instead of doing something FUN with extra hard work on the rest of the cast to spice stuff up.

Dunno, the only fully priced games I buy are Mortal Kombat or NRS titles and this one I regret immensely.
Things will get better with time, but they ask everyone to pay fully first yet delivering very little.
Just an example, the latest PC patch was already 1/5th of its original game disk space, so a lot was and is still missing, let alone the Switch Port that got an update as big as the game itself...Come on...
Somebody said MK11 has been heavily discounted several times already and that's the reason why they play it, but it's already a bad sign when people choose to pay
5$ for an old competitive game rather than investing big on the new one.
If MK11 population rises but MK1 drops, what's the point in the devs caring and extending MK1's life cycle?

[Toplay]

nah mk1 is trash ... I legit regret it to buy this game but then again the booba mods for this game are pretty lit but nothing what saves this pre aplha aa game

[♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

just bought mk11 yesterday after playing mk1

[Cheezelog]

What you mean people buy komplete editions for a few bucks years down the road AND ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME? What weirdos...saving money and actually playing what you just bought. Unheard of.

[(TTK)Scorpion]

Most of the players that are playing mk11 are old players who have had the game for years it's not like they are brand new to the game

[bashbahur]

MK1 is broken buggy unresponsive cinematics and animations are locked to 30FPS because the game has to release on Switch.. forces tag team play that no one asked for the rewards are not worth spitting upon they sell classic stuff for tons of money they even sell fatalities for 10$ each MK1 is trash!

[Neon Triangle]

Originally posted by bashbahur:

MK1 is broken buggy unresponsive cinematics and animations are locked to 30FPS because the game has to release on Switch..

Nope, every NRS game has had some animations or cinematics locked to 30 FPS because of the console versions (Xbox and Playstation), with the three Nintendo ports (Injustice on WiiU, this and MK11 on Switch) being afterthoughts done by other developers. So as easy as it would be to blame Nintendo for having continually weak hardware, it's actually the fault of NRS and WB for trying to force 4K quality graphics on consoles that could never do 4K quality at 60 FPS.

In other words blame Sony and Microsoft, since those are the "main" versions of the games that NRS themselves directly work on. The Nintendo versions are done by completely different companies (same with the PC versions, but at least Shiver and QLOC were able to unlock most of MK11's animations on the PC port).

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by Toxic Yui:

Originally posted by Zabesho:

It is what it is ...nothing else to add

Mk11 - 10 bucks
MK1 - almost 110

it is what it is

LMAO and MK 11 is 4,492,194 times better.

[Sayainji]

Originally posted by Toxic Yui:

Originally posted by Zabesho:

It is what it is ...nothing else to add

Mk11 - 10 bucks
MK1 - almost 110

it is what it is

imagine not knowing how sales and discount work on steam

MK11 was 10 bucks because it got very old, the older the game gets, the cheaper the game becomes on discount
MK1 was expensive at that time you wrote the comment because the game was still fresh and new.

MK1 > MK11 btw, it is what it is

[Neon Triangle]

Originally posted by Saya:

imagine not knowing how sales and discount work on steam

MK11 was 10 bucks because it got very old, the older the game gets, the cheaper the game becomes on discount
MK1 was expensive at that time you wrote the comment because the game was still fresh and new.

MK1 > MK11 btw, it is what it is

Steam was never relevant for NRS games anyways, the console versions always outsold the PC versions for a variety of reasons. Also the MK11 deep discounts shouldn't be factored because that's occurring years after the original release of MK11 itself, and even without proper numbers it's clear that MK11 still sold better just because it was available on systems that people actually own (PS4/XB1) and didn't have a completely terrible Switch port like MK1 has.

Also remember that there was a point in time where even people who wanted this game couldn't get it because there were no PS5s/Xbox Series consoles because of the scalpers buying them all, and it took a long while for more of those consoles to be made and restocked. And assuming those people even had good PCs, the terrible launch of the PC port would have turned them off from that version as well. And we don't talk about the Switch version.

And in regards to the last statement, MK1 still has a long ways to go if it wants to reach the quality standards of MK11 or even MKX, but until the complete edition comes out years later we won't know the final verdict on that. Until then any statements saying MK1 is better have no real weight, especially for the PC version which has always had questionable stability from the beginning.

[Reyson Fox]

cause of the stupid kameo system - we really need an option to fight without Kameos

[Sodus]

I would never look at MK1 steam player count when majority are on PSN. I'm also getting more variety of players and faster matches in Ranked than SF6 gives me. I have to wait 10 minutes at minimum and it's only looping 2 same players in SF6. And game had like 30k players on steam alone during that time.

Long story short, steamcharts are meaningless unless it's PC only game.

[JD]

Originally posted by Sodus:

Long story short, steamcharts are meaningless unless it's PC only game.

omg pls stop it, the game is slowly dying, you can ignore steamcharts but you cannot ignore twitch viewers count, right now it's 167 Viewers