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Plenty of people had issues with the game itself early in its life, but now, a different creed of people have issues.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with IGN, NetherRealm Studios\u2018 Ed Boon discussed how they can\u2019t simply \u201ctone down\u201d the violence in the game. A lot of what makes the game itself is the violence, fatalities, and gore. Unfortunately for content creators, this hinders their ability to make money from the content they produce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boon isn\u2019t blind to how important video content is for the MK franchise, but he can\u2019t bring himself to make a streaming-friendly mode as it shakes up the game\u2019s very identity.<\/p>\n<p>Mortal Kombat 1 releases to current-gen consoles on\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mortal Kombat 1 - Official Rulers of Outworld Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nr4lA4N9lFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Mortal Kombat 1 Full Response:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it does. The dilemma, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d call it dilemma, but the thing that I think about is, let\u2019s say we had a mode that turned off all the blood or something or didn\u2019t have fatalities or something like that. Part of it is\u2026 part of the definition of Mortal Kombat is those things. And so to strip away an entire layer of it, do we really want that to be the main representation that is of the game online? It\u2019s not the whole presentation. Now, granted to me it\u2019s not like, \u201cOkay, so that\u2019s a deal breaker. We\u2019re never going to do it.\u201d I\u2019m always trying to think what can we do to keep the spirit of what the game is, but also allow streamers, because I\u2019m fully aware of streamers, to show the game and make content based on the game. 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