Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has mentioned that whereas he’d love for the sport to be streaming-friendly, its violence can’t merely be turned off or toned down. Boon was answering a query about Mortal Kombat’s violent content material making it a tough sport for content material creators to monetize on websites like YouTube and Twitch.
Violence is a part of Mortal Kombat’s definition
Chatting with IGN on the difficulty of streaming limitations, Boon mentioned that this has been considerably of a dilemma for him as a result of he realizes the significance of streaming online game content material nowadays. Nonetheless, he doesn’t wish to create a streamer-friendly mode that basically strips Mortal Kombat off of its very id.
“Let’s say we had a mode that turned off all of the blood or one thing or didn’t have fatalities or one thing like that. A part of it’s… a part of the definition of Mortal Kombat is these issues, and so to strip away a whole layer of it, do we actually need that to be the primary illustration that’s of the sport on-line?” Boon defined.
Boon added that having some form of a mode that makes Mortal Kombat streaming-friendly isn’t a “deal-breaker” for him, but when he opts to do one thing like that, he’d wish to ensure that Mortal Kombat retains its spirit.
Mortal Kombat 1 shall be launched on September 19.