Yeah but that was after the game was realeased, i was talking about the 2 months before it was released, no new info at all. It seemed to just delay the excitement for me. well guess it was just me then. Btw i still have the scorpion render!!

Well I guess I never noticed those two months because they had already given us so much good shit before then to tide us over. (Plus I was much younger and spent much less time on the internet back then lol)

I guess that's my problem with the promotional tactic right now. The long gaps between news releases have been too empty, so instead of having anything to "tide us over", we have a board full of bored noobs posting terrible ideas like "What if Kratos was in the game?" because they have nothing better to discuss.

Why can't they at least release hi-rez copies of the character art of Cage, Mileena, etc. that was in last month's EGM, y'know?

I don't know (read: I highly doubt) if you guys followed the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl like I did. It was a brilliant hype-builder. The creator had a website which he updated weekly with exactly one new thing, as small as the control scheme or as large as a hidden character. It had me hyped until release.

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/index.html

MK could easily do something like that. Not as cheery of course, but maybe a new character one week, his special moves another week, his fatality another week, a stage render the next. I think it would be great. The only downside is the game could not live up to the hype that generates. Smash Bros. didn't; its gameplay wasn't nearly as strong as Melee. I doubt ANY game could. But it would definitely generate a shit-ton of hype.

Hilarious!! And so true... :D
Maybe a good excuse to ask Ed Boon for regular fresh material.

What is the official MK2011 website I forgot it, I've been to it so I know it exists, anything at all on it yet? Even old info?

themortalkombat.com

FROM MK UNIVERSE:

Hey folk,

lets clear some points up. there are some wired things about us round the net.

1. We never had any trouble with the whole WB Games People!

2. We never had any trouble with the MK Team.

3. No, we never wanted to get exclusive stuff, film anything, tryed anything other "illegal stuff" or beaten us with the WB Guys and throws notebooks to them!
Oh, come on! Did you really thought that?

A fansite beating with WB Games in the Pressarea?

So, lets figure out what happened.

And we say it again, the Businesspeople from WB Games (those who wears a suite) are nice guys! Talked to us, helped us out and the MK Team was just awesome!They helped us so much!

Thank you for that!

There are several points which lead to this explosion in the last night.

All began for two month. We asked for an Interview, got the tip to mail Julie (WB Games PR Europe), never got an answer. Wrote to the German WB PR, no answer.
Anyway, we went to the GamesCom, talked to some people in the USA, they will try there best for us.

We arrived and wanted to talk to Julie (WB Games PR Europe), and the whole day we heared that she has a meeting. Ok, we know that a convention is hard work, we waited, met the MK Team, talked to several WB Games People, ate and drink in the presslobby (we felt welcome from all persons).
The German WB Games PR Markus Häberlein welcomed us and said, oh you are too late for an appointment.
We said what all has, or lets say not, happend.
Ok, he will do some things for us.
And he did, thanks again for your help. We appriciate this!
We watched the new trailer, played several rounds with even one fight with Hector Sanchez and Hans Lo.
Later we got the time for an interview with Hans Lo!

Thanks again for all your help, time and patience!!!


On day 2 we wanted to talk to Julie, the same Guy said, oh thats impossible, she has a meeting, comeback later. Later she had a dinner, or another meeting.
Hey, we stood there several hours, outside the lobby, and waited. Never disturbed anybody.
But nobody has 10 hours in a row meetings...

At noon we showed up to talk to Julie. Right. No chance for us to talk to her.

But we ́ve got an interview with Ed Boon.
That was awesome!Thanks for this!

Later we wanted to talk to Markus Häberlein if there are news about the "USK"-Rating, he had a meeting. Ok, we will wait. We stood there,waited and the MK Team did us another favour for signing some of our MK Merchandise.
Later we heared, their evening wasn ́t good, so thanks again for signin some of our stuff, even you were pissed off from something else!

So, while the signing was, a girl from the WB Lobbyentrance, came to us, asked if she could help us. No thanks, we are waiting for one from the MK Team.
She said, ok, let me look after him, went to another guy, talked and both came to us (She never took a look inside the lobby or even search).

The Guy said: "Hey, would be nice if you leave now. Ed Boon won ́t give any interviews more"
We: "Ahm, yeah. We had ours already. We don ́t want another. Thanks a lot."
He and she together: "Hey, no interviews anymore. Please leave now."
We: " Ehrm, hey, we had ours. Just waiting for the MK Teammember"
He: "Sorry. No Interviews anymore. Comeback tomorrow at 12, we will see. Please go now" and his arms lead us to the stairs.

Finally, the MK Teammember, came back, give us our stuff, apologized for the waiting and that not everything is signed. We thanked him and the whole team for made this possible.
So he went back in the lobby (remember, we all stood outside the lobby, on the floo(!)), and we were remembered by this nice smiling young footboy to leave the place now.


Sounds harmless, but it was a shock for us!
They didn ́t listen to us, they didn ́t search/looked after him. Loughed together as we settled our stuff and left this area! It was on the floor, next to the Nintendo and Konami Lobby!

Really frustrating for a Community who celebrates their 5th year, and promotes a franchise for free! We don ́t have the money for some exclusive thins, but we support this franchise 24/7/365 for what?
We are spending our money, time, effort, nearly the whole live for what? To be loughed out by three footsoldiers on the Pressfloor on a convention?

Hope we could bring some light in the dark.


But thanks again to the other WB Games People, like Markus Häberlein, George Killian (who had an ear for us after this) everbody who works there several hours and still can smile and have some warm words and of course the whole Neatherrealm Studio! You four did an awesome job!


So thanks for reading, hope you can understand us, it was a hit in the face.
Thanks for reading, and please spread the word to the rest of the community, the good parts mainly

Lol what a drama queen.

Agreed some sort of monthly big update or something like that. I mean those things tide people over between all of the IGN and Gamespot getting exclusive info we already know.

Starting to look really pretty now. just worried that Kitana's fans look paper thing again though.

And Cyrax seems to look a bit too similar to Sektor.

MK Universe was treated great up until that point. I would rather have 1 interview with Ed than 10 with whatsherface. They were treated like an IGN up until that point when they were treated like I would be if I walked in there. That's life. Could they have been a little nicer? Yeah, but so could just about anyone else in the world.

agreed. maybe the language barrier did not fully explain the issue but from what i read i do not understand the problem. they got an interview with ed, got to actually play the game with some mk people, met and talked other wb people. wtf is the problem? anyhoo, enough of that twitter drama fest.

the problem? he's always been like that. Seems he was alittle teed off that they didn't understand he was waiting for his stuff back from the team member. He could of just said that from the start. Ohwell.

Are you part of the MKU staff or copying and pasting all of this from somewhere? Your flag says you're from the U.S.

Can we see or hear the Ed Boon interview?

What was it that gave Ed Boon a "bad day'?

you wanna have the balls to ask Ed what was bothering him? Yeah, me neither.

only thing left from that mku drama is it says in the post they got to view the new trailer. i assume its just the same e3 trailer we have all seen but he did say new... so new to him or new period...

Gamespot has an article up. Appears different then the others,


UPDATE #4 anyone?>

Okay, I get it. MKUNIVERSE is upset. Get over it. I don't want to read about their drama on their page! I wanna read their impressions!! Details from the game. Very disheartening that at E3 the only sites that could cover didn't really give us ANYTHING. Barely any details or anything and now at gamescom, they haven't given us anything yet either. Bah.

Why this thing from MKUNIVERSE is all about what went wrong and about Ed Boon and such shit?

I want info on the game and characters and gameplay... I've seen NO info about that at all... only drama-queen things.

They better make something usefull on the game, and not about their personal adventures with interviews.

Twitter is really a useless programm....

I twittered several questions to Ed Boon and I get no single reply at all...

I copy/pasted the post from MK Universe. It's on their home page. The post you quoted was my personal thoughts.

well, he takes the important questions and gives comments to who he wants to. I got a tweet from hecktor.

Well I twittered about young sub-zero, isn't that important?

Not to Ed. He doesn't have to answer anything. He answers what he can and what he wants. Obviously he can't or doesn't want to talk about young Sub.

If they are trying to make it a surprise till the end, he will ignore any question about young-zero because it would spoil the surprise, you have to make questions that aren't going to spoil surprises but still has some revelance, if every famous with a twitter decided to answer every question from his followers it would be the apocalypse of the tweets.

Since hes been dodgy about tellin us about characters im pretty sure he wouldnt answer that