They rebooted the timeline again. Keep in mind, Netherrealm Studios is owned by Warner Bros, which owns DC Comics. Timeline reboots every couple years are the way things are done over there.
It’s because in both cases, they have awful writers following up on something beloved. The writers remember what was great, but lack the skill—and have too much raging ideological baggage—to make something that good. They try to tell their stories, but their stories suck, so people don’t want to bother with them. The property, though, still has fans from when it was good, fans who desperately want it to be good again, who would happily buy it if it didn’t suck. Every so often, the studios acknowledge this and they say “okay, we got into a bad place, but we’re going to throw out a bunch of the junk and start over.” The problem is that they don’t throw out the junk writers and ideologies that are making the product suck, so their reboot is never any better in the long run, even if it might start off promising.
Why are they calling it Mortal Kombat 1 ?
They forgot what number they were on and started over.
They rebooted the timeline again. Keep in mind, Netherrealm Studios is owned by Warner Bros, which owns DC Comics. Timeline reboots every couple years are the way things are done over there.
It’s because in both cases, they have awful writers following up on something beloved. The writers remember what was great, but lack the skill—and have too much raging ideological baggage—to make something that good. They try to tell their stories, but their stories suck, so people don’t want to bother with them. The property, though, still has fans from when it was good, fans who desperately want it to be good again, who would happily buy it if it didn’t suck. Every so often, the studios acknowledge this and they say “okay, we got into a bad place, but we’re going to throw out a bunch of the junk and start over.” The problem is that they don’t throw out the junk writers and ideologies that are making the product suck, so their reboot is never any better in the long run, even if it might start off promising.
They're only planning to sell one copy.