Hey! Now it all makes sense. We asked fluff questions cuz we were busy kissing butt! We didn't care what all of our site visitors actually wanted to ask. Instead we just wanted to hang out with the developers and then tour their studio! We had a great time!

What??!? you fans weren't happy?!? whatever...we had a blast!

It does kinda seem that way LOL!

Were the fight night questions pre-approved by Boon and the marketing departement after or before the free lunch / gifts extravanganza?

Out of all that. the superunlockable question was :
No.
maybe.
no.
hmmm.....

So.....wtf does that mean?
Im going with their isnt any. I find that hard since Blaze and Mokap were "hidden" in MKDA. And their arent really any "hidden" in this. Whats on the select screen isnt hidden just unlocked. ...
Eh.

Alright, I'm sick of all you ungrateful babies who whine about everything we do. We all bought plane tickets, took vacation time, and put tons of setup into doing this for you and all you do is complain. Every question we asked was submitted by YOU. If you didn't submit a question, then it's YOUR fault. We didn't filter the questions through a "butt kiss" test. Those 15 questions were the very best, and we refuse to ask about Nudalities, Shao Kahn/Reiko, MKDA final secret BS. If you think you can do a chat with 1200 people better than this, then go make your own site. In the meantime, start being thankful for all the work Midway and MKO puts into doing stuff like this for you for free.

HatefulSamurai, you read my mind!

Are you telling us you all do this as your jobs? This site is your career? Yeah, I feel real bad if that's the case.
"I had to buy a ticket so I could fly to Chicago, one of the most exciting cities in the country, and I had to tour Midway's MK studio and hang out with the creators of one of the best video game series of all time. By the way, my ticket was paid for by companies that advertise on the site. And those advertisers would not exist without the fans who frequent the site. So thank you."
How about that?

First of all, this site is not a career. Midway did not pay for our flights. We paid all expenses to come here, out of our own pockets. Why? Because we are fans of the game, just like you, and we want to bring to you, our users, an experience that you might not be able to have otherwise.

We take our own vacation time etc, for you.
We do this for you. Not us. You.

Chalmer$ - Because, we care about You. Not us.

YOU.

Alright, now that's the first good answer I've heard tonight. That little quote I put on there was kind of a hypothetical if it is your guys' only jobs. So you took time out from your real jobs and paid for your own ticket. I commend that. Not many people are that big of fans to do that. I think you guys would take a lot less shit from people if they knew what you just said. Nobody should take any shit from anybody for doing volunteer work. So, thank you, guys.

Shit um..................Thats awesome!!!!!!!! And a video coming up? Thats even better! Yall guys r0x!!

The organization of the event was great and I want to give everyone at Mortal Kombat Online my personal thanks. Thanks for giving us a place to gather together to talk about the game.

Without this chat we would still be searching for crap that is not in the game. The site organizers have to walk a fine line when asking the questions and not to be too harsh to the developers who are taking their time to answer our questions.

Now thats over, let me say i'm pissed off Boon lied about the Super Unlockables in several interviews. But at least I know and I can sleep tonight.

Good fight night, I was glad to see my question get asked....they basically confirmed my suspicions where they got the idea for Noob being Sub's brother (directly from me and my 5 year old theory).

However, I was extremely disappointed in virtually all other questions. They skipped around alot of them, especially the question on secret characters...

"No"
"Yes"
"Ummm...."
"Maybe"
"Yeah"
"Nope"

I would've apprciated a hint or two, rather than a dance around the subject....didn't make much progression on the topic of the fabled 'Super Unlockables"(which I no longer beleive exist), secret characters (of which I no longer beleive there are any), and other content.

But it was decent nonetheless.

hey, well i know i'd give my left nut for tha opportunity, can i go next time? i've always wanted to be a staff member of this site, been around since the first or second version, i dont quite remember off hand, eh oh well, more power to ya, you guys work hard to mkae this site good, and certainly the best, so i suppose you deserve it.

Sorry to say it people at MKO (And i respect u and this web site)

But last night was a total waste of time ....

Right from question 1 Boon did not want to play straight ball with his fans.

I was on the mksurumour site next door and people were going nuts!!
(Dissing boon big time)
http://boards.ign.com/Mortal_Kombat/b6027/70618939/?6
After that the questions just got worse and worse like one question

(will there be friendships in MK7????)

I know the game has been out less than a month but all i wanted and im not alone here was a staright up answer yes or no to the SU'S

Maybe Shaolin Monks might be a big sucsess but tread softly MIDWAY!!

Renember Mortal Kombat sub zero and special forces!!!!!

I thought it was great, Fight Night. You didn't expect the MK Team to divulge secrets 3 weeks into the game's life did you?

Mellow out people, stop the hate.
MKO is and always will be the best MK site.

Many thanks go out to the MKO Team and Boon & Co. for taking time out of their busy lives to do everything they do for us. <3

bullshit

I agree with this opinion 100%

It's surprinsing how ungrateful some people are... I also run a website just because I'm a MK fan, and there's always someone whining....

Of course everything in this world may be improved, but I think this chat session was perfect and I thank the MKO Staff for it.

The only soft complain I make is towards the MK Team... they love to Deceive us!! In their last Fight Night Chat they said that the Deadly Alliance weren't the champions of MKDA....
so I would take what they say with a LARGE grain of salt (especially Mr Boon words)

Geeze I gotta post again?

Yes I was there for the last fight night, and yes I will try to play both sides, but for good reasons.

Don't hassel the MKO team (too much). They do pay out of their own pockets to do these things, and ads? They barely cover the costs of maintance of the site.

CHOICE OF QUESTIONS
Okay this is where I may side a little with the "ungreatful bastards".

I honestly think some questions were a little bland, but most of you guys are just pissed at the responses. Be angry at Boon & Co for not wanting to spoil you guys are not being prepared.

Honestly though, I think this was a lot better than the last Fight Night and may I give some advice.
Give some of your questions in advance, so Boon & Co will give a proper answer and not resorting to MAKING STUFF UP on the spot (which Ed said to do during the chat). A lot of shows do this, so the interviewers will not be as nervous.
Along with questions in advance, post them on the site and have people vote for some of them. That way you'll get around the backlash of people not having THE most popular question on everybody's mind.
Maybe also have a video stream?

You guys are the #1 MK site around, and while I know you guys have day jobs, the site's professionalism will have to increase.

Another tip for video interviews
BOOM MIKE & TRIPODS work great.
That interview at E3 could of used it.

Get in contact with me if you need more no-hows at least on the multimedia front (yes I edit video for presentations and I make my own indie/cult films).

wow...

ingrates...yall are just a bunch of ingrates(some of you)...if it was not for the staff of MKO, we would not have all this...

NO fight nights
NO first previews

NOTHING...I am surprised that with all the comments that were made towards Boon and the gang in the spoilers room last night, that they stayed there. I know if it was me...I would not have taken all that crap.

Boon, Vogel and the rest of the MK Team work their asses off for YEARS to bring you the game that we are all gathered here for. if it was not for them we would not have this game...we would all be stuck playing Super Turbo Street Fighter 6 Ultimate Delxue edition...

so what some staff members got a tour of the studios...so F***in what!!!! I hope they had a great time and I hope they get to do it again. Those staff members had to go to the studios to get the chats running and it was great of the MK Team to show them the studio...

quit your bitchin, whining, complaining that they didnt answer the Super Unlockables question...what would be the point of the game if they gave away all the answers...you bought the game...YOU find the secrets...

Some of you people make me ashamed to be a Mortal Kombat fan...

Normally I'd be with you on the appreciate all the hard work in maintaining the site stuff, but not here. Sorry, but I just can't find it in my heart to shed a tear because you went on a dream trip to meet the MK team. I'm also finding it pretty hard to believe that while you were chilling out with John Vogel you were doing it for Anyanka.

I mat have to differ a bit from Konqrr's opinion, Indeed the organization of the event was a succes, i really appreciate the effort of the staff in MKO. It was great that you guys would go to Chicago and hang out with the MK team to familarize with them. Fight Night was a succes because of the hard work of MKO staff members. what I differ from Konqrr's opinin, is that indeed people were expecting to have more secrets coming on, or maybe you're right and as the game hasn't been launched worldwide maybe they aren't supposed to say everything, but at least they could have avted in a mature way, i'm not against of jokes or cool attitude, but basically they were acting really stupid (the MK staff) all the chat, they were joking, evading questions and that really pissed me off, it's a shame that they didnt take it "that"serious. But well it's just my opinion.

Jesus people...be glad you even got to 'speak" with Ed Boon and the rest. I missed out on the chat altogther, Even if there were some crappy questions, and some ho-hum answers, I would have still liked to have witnessed it. Don't expect all the secrets to be answered right off the bat either. They're "secrets" for a reason, ya know.

And, to respond to the people who think the MKO staff was just bullshitting around for a trip to the MK Studios: When you put some 6+ years into a site, that attracts the attention of some of the hugest names in video gaming history, has daily traffic in the thousands if not more, and delivers the most up-to-date information on a gaming series ...I think you're pretty damned entitled to be invited to go to such a event. It might be you someday...if you manage to put that much dedication into a *volunteer" commitment, so quit your bitching. Be thankful they could go hang with the MK Staff, so they can get the inside scoup on what's going on.

Im not bitchin about it. Hell I would have settled for the keep playing you find it eventually, answere.

As for other questions asked. MKSM and MK7 being seperate games well duh. Why was that even asked??
Friendships in MK7? The game was/is just getting started. This was aked why?
I think the GC question was repeated twice from what I read.
And the noob/smoke question... Im not even gonna comment on that %)

I know these were submitted questions from fans on this site.... But out of the 15 picked those ^ were just lame.

Hell I gotta ton of questions, most of them nothing to do with MKD. but past 2D games and how they were developed using digital characters, And would it ever be possible to bring digital characters back in MK7 in a 3d world?

Obviously Boon and Co. visit this site here and their to see our ideas ect.
maybe if the mods feel like it. have just a stright up forum on MK7 submissions. With just four threads ONLY.
Fatalities.
Arenas.
Characters.
Story.
Just a idea for you mods ;)

Oh.. and MKSM will own you!! The game sounds fan freakin tastic so far :)

So to the mods , thank you for going up there and taking your time out with the team. Hopefully you got some good deepdish pizza too :)"""

Well..............................I appreciate the Staff's effort. That's all any of us can say. I respect the fact that they payed for the trip, and asked whatever questions they could. So thanks guys.


The MK team on the other hand? I won't go into my feelings on the matter, but I don't know if it's a great idea to piss off a lot of your fan base just after announcing you want to release a game every year.