I think this is whole SJW's nonsense needs to stop. From what I've seen, your typical SJW does not care about MK at all and most of them hate the series for glorifying violence. So I doubt, NRS really cares about them at all. Also, I'm glad the sexy outfits from MK9 never return because they didn't really fit with MK and works better for a series like DOA instead.
To me, as long as MK has blood and guts, that's all it matters. Remove the blood and gore, it's no longer MK. The sexy outfits were never a huge part of the series in my opinion.
Look man, I believe you're an amazing dude, fun to hang around and I have no ill intent towards you, but when it comes to this "SJW nonsense", you can go f%ck yourself.
This "SJW nonsense" is the reason why we have this ret@rded "cancel culture", why you can't draw a sexy fanart without being harassed or even banned by a website, why you can't even make a game in a way that you want, without having to deal with censorship and demands from specific platforms.
SJW is a term, that isn't used to identify people who believe in a specific political view. It is a term that is used to identify people that believe that THEIR BELIEF is the ONLY RIGHT ONE.
"I like this, and you must like it too. If you don't, you're a misogynist, sexist, rapist, etc"
They don't believe in harmony. They don't believe in different view, tastes, opinions. It is their way, and their way only.
Now for someone like you, I bet you don't really feel any effects from them, hence the pure ignorance, but people like me who draw/model things, we have to deal with this shit pretty often.
And that is in Mortal Kombat 11.
Here is the thing. I am with you. I am not into bikinis, or DOA styled outfits. Sometimes I will pick an exotic outfit, if it looks practical enough, but you will never see me using Bikini outfit with high heels, unless I am messing around with couple of friends.
I like my outfits practical. Having said that... let me tell you a secret.
You and I, aren't the only ones that play games like MK. These games weren't just made for us. Our tastes and opinions while are valid, it doesn't mean that they are the universal truth. There are tons of people that would say, that they don't care for Gore in MK, but for MK females. And they will remind you, that MK began with sexy outfits and has over 2 decades of females wearing sexy outfits. They invested their time and money into this franchise. One of the resources is non refundable, hence why idiots that claim "If you don't like this, then stop playing it" deserve a smack in the face. (Though better not to do that, as we are civilized here) If I invest my lifespan into a product, I invest in it for specific reasons. I liked what I saw, and I want to see more of it, in better and more expanded ways.
Which brings us to another statement that SJW use, without even understanding what it means. "Times change, things change, things move forward,"
Smart statement, if said by a person that uses more than two of his brain cells. Yes. Things change. They improve. They become different. Just like the tree keeps changing its shape, the more branches it has. But if you start changing the "FOUNDATIONS", the "ROOTS", then entire thing becomes unstable and sooner or later, it falls down. You don't f%ck with the foundations. People invested in that. So if you betray the roots, you betray the faith and trust of the people that helped you grow that tree to begin with and then you find yourself all alone.
Ask Terminator how it went for them, once they betrayed their foundations. And then look at Rambo: Last Blood.
Last Terminator movie went out with a stinking fart, while last Rambo movie got praised by the audience. Why? Simple. One betrayed everything what people liked about the franchise and disrespected the time they have invested, while another did what it did best and went out with its head held high.
But hey. If you want to create new things. Want to show the so called "progress", then ok. MAKE A NEW F%CKING GAME THEN. Call it "God Fighters: Burka Edition" or whatever and people won't say shit about it. Cause it is a different IP, a new foundation, so they can do whatever the f%ck they want. But don't use the IP, into which I have invested my F%CKING LIFESPAN to push some idiot's world views. We have limited time each day, we have limited time per year. WE. HAVE. LIMITED. TIME. So we can only invest that precious time into only FEW THINGS. So I and others put our faith into this franchise, because we liked what we saw. For example. I invested 8 years of my life, specifically waiting for Frost. I spent my free time, between work and other responsibilities drawing her, making that awful video, and so on. Now do I deserve a red carpet for that? Special treatment? No. But do I deserve to be lied to? Treated like an idiot? Told how they don't care if I am disappointed and they have zero regrets about that? To be told that I am not a true fan, because i didn't like certain parts of the game? F%ck no. I didn't deserve that. No MK fan deserves that. Yet, here we go. Our loyalty and faith in this franchise was rewarded with a middle finger.
Now people might say: "Well, what do you want them to do? You can't make everyone happy!" Well, yes and no. You can't make everyone happy, but thanks to tech advancements you can make MORE people happy, than before. It is a very simple solution. A solution MK11 COMPLETELY LACKS.
More options.
The actual progress.
MORE.
F%CKING.
OPTIONS.
You would think that in 2019, you would be able to have more Options with your characters. Yet, for some reason, we have less options than in Injustice 2. We can't customize outfits the same way. No options for battle damage. Yeah, sure. Let's say, YOU didn't like Battle damage. But what about the people that liked it? F%ck them?
Or hey, what about me? I waited for Frost for 8 years. The only Frost I knew, was the one from Deadly Alliance/Deception/Armageddon. So why do I get this abomination, that doesn't look like the Frost I knew? Why was I stripped from my options of choosing between human and cyborg Frost, when people could choose between Human and Cyborg Cyrax or Sektor in FREAKING MK9?
Why a 2011 game gave more options, than 2019 game? Why a 2004 MK, had more diverse content, than 2019 version?
And with this we go back to the "SJW nonsense". Because SJW's operate on a belief, that were can be only ONE OPTION. Almost like... MK11!
Of course, you can keep denying that SJW have anything to do with MK. You have a freedom to believe that, but just because you believe that, doesn't mean that reality will suddenly shift and adjust to your belief. No. Instead reality is more than welcome to smash your head with what IT IS. You can, right now, very easily read about what happened in Steam forums during MK11 launch.
We have seen scummy companies before. That delete posts about technical issues, or shitty practices, but MK11 Steam forums were VERY SPECIFIC on what they didn't want you to see. They didn't touch any posts about server issues, or glitches, or graphical errors. But they were doing their best job deleting anything related to female outfits.
They also had more than 20 different ways (that I can think off the top of my head) to address the matter about female outfits, without pissing people off. Literally could have said, that they made an artistic decision to match the theme of the game. Desert, sands of time, etc.
INSTEAD Steve Beran decided to treat people like idiots and then insults them with his remarks. Only later, once the fires started, Ed Boon tried to damage control, by making up some bullshit about how they wanted to show off textures of their outfits (on a glorified Unreal Engine 3 engine? Sure...)
Or why get all defensive about JAX ending? Going as far as calling people "not the true fans" cause they didn't like how a character who has NEVER shown any interest in race issues, suddenly goes all "I am not going to wait centuries for people to get WOKE." (literally saying that shit in a cutscene, but no no. No SJW's here. Everything is fine, guys. Just plug your ears, close your eyes and sing LALALALA.)
And as for the ("SJW" iS sO OveRUsED noWaDAys). Yeah, you know what is also overused? Half a$$ed games that make you pay MORE for LESS, while preaching about how you have to check your privileges, as you watch your favorite characters butchered and twisted to match specific political agendas.
I am also VERY F%CKING TIRED of their bullshit. Cause since 2011, I got to enjoy only 1 game out of 5 franchises that I grew up with. You know the 5 f%cking franchises I invested my time into.
I would love to never see SJW's again. EVER. But here we are.
Well, fortunately now, these less than nothing maggots are losing their ground, as businesses finally realized (after sustaining losses in BILLIONS), that following SJW bullshit is not profitable. But damage has been done. 8 years wasted, waiting for MK Sequel, hoping to see technological innovations, expanded universe, more options for players with different tastes and more freedom to customize your experience... None of that happened. Only a select group of people got to enjoy the game, because it seems that since 2011, technology just became more and more limited.