Mortal Kombat 1 DLC Officially Done, Dev Shifting Focus to “Next Project”

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Mortal Kombat 1 DLC Officially Done, Dev Shifting Focus to “Next Project”
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Mortal Kombat 1 DLC has reached its end, as NetherRealm has confirmed it is shifting focus to its next project.

‘s future, but now its fate has been confirmed. Developer NetherRealm Studios has taken to social media to state that there will be no moreWe understand this will be disappointing for fans, but our team at NetherRealm needs to shift focus to the next project in order to make it as great as we possibly can.

The posts can be found on various official Mortal Kombat social media accounts. It explains that the team has heard requests to continue supporting the game and will continue to fix bugs and send out balance updates for, but there will “not be additional DLC characters or story chapters” from this point on. A follow-up post notes that the studio knows fans are disappointed, but expresses that it “needs to shift focus to the next project in order to make it as great as possibly can.” It’s unclear when more balance changes are coming, but series co-creator Ed Boon recently. It was officially announced on the same day it was released and contained all the previous DLC and tons of new costumes that were all dumped on the in-game store almost immediately after., that has not even gotten an official trailer, leading some to speculate that the release of these skins was pushed up.“I think that’s the minimum we’ll be doing,” he said in July 2023, two months before launch. “I think we’ll be supporting this game at least as long as . I would suspect even longer, but a lot of the fun of releasing additional characters after we launched the game is seeing the relationships.” That may end up technically being true if balance patches are strung out for a few more months, but, character-wise,Get access to exclusive stories on new releases, movies, shows, comics, anime, games and more!

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