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$70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet
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I don't like how many posts cater to outrage lately, true.
But I don't think this one is manufactured.
Yeah, manufactured might have been the wrong word. Pointless? Uncalled for?
But why would it be pointless or uncalled for? $70 for a rather old game?
Edit: I've been schooled. Is a brand new game with a confusing name. Still $70 for a console game; yikes.
Others have already replied with this info but I’m just spelling it out for anyone who is not familiar like me:
They fucking named the brand new game mk1. Is it a remaster? No. It’s not a remaster. Is it a recreation of mk1? No. It’s an alternate timeline game given the worst name in the history of naming things. It’s genuinely a brand new game.
Holy shit. They really fucked up with that name.
Sometimes I wish I could have a job where companies just say “hey should we make this decision” and I tell them “that’s so fucking stupid no one will actually like that” and get paid well for it.
That’s my dream.
I've had some similar roles before, but more often than not companies just do it anyway, even if you have a lot of data to the contrary. It's stupidly easy for someone in management to push some of this through despite the data, choose an arbitrary metric to define their success, get their bonus, and then bail for another company. Meanwhile, folks left at the company have to then try and fix all of the nonsense. It blows that we value failing forward. I've seen a few decent products just tanked this way.
I mean… we live in the timeline where we had the Xbox One being the third Xbox, and Battlefield 1 not being the first Battlefield.
I would not be surprised if we start seeing “[Game Title] One” for rebooted games.