Hadn't we kicked this dead horse enough? WB's doesn't care about the old games.
Precisely. They are in no position to even care about them. They are busy, justifying their existence to AT&T.
AT&T debt has been increasing non stop. Last year they were at 151 billion $ debt, and every year they spend approx. 20 billion $ for their infrastructure (Verizon, T-Mobile). Which means that at this rate, they will be at 170-180 billion $ this year.
Also with Coronavirus, they were cut off from the cash flow that came from cinemas. Warner Media has barely anything to justify their existence right now. That entire experiment they are doing with their own streaming service is also not doing so hot. Definitely not good enough to make them enough money to pay off the debt or make some sort of dent in it. Even so, they will be betting everything on releasing multiple movies like Matrix 4, MK, etc at the same time or close to each other. Hoping that it will make some cash of them. It won't really. These guys are in denial at this point.
And then it comes to Mortal Kombat. A lot of people have this weird idea, that MK is some sort of highly valuable IP in WB. Not even close. They don't even crack top 30. It is a niche franchise and it is like that, not because of the fact that it is a fighting game, but because of audience they decided to focus on.
That new Mortal Kombat won't be making bank and judging by their virtue signaling, it has a high chance of failing really hard. And if it does... you can forget any major support for additional MK media, for a looong time. Forget sequels, just mentioning an idea of having a movie of Mortal Kombat will be considered as a joke.
So for them to invest resources into classics? Lol. Good luck with that. Execs at the top don't give two flying shits about whatever anniversaries will be happening. They won't investing money into any of that. Especially, cause Puritans won't like how characters in classics looked like.
The only reason, they would decide to bring classics back and start printing non-stop MK related media, is if it was meeting or exceeding their financial expectations. But, it doesn't and they can thank themselves and NRS for it.
It had a stronger start than MKX (due preorders), but very quickly lost momentum and is now dragging behind it, WHILE being released on 4 platforms, unlike MKX.
I said in the past, that the fact that MK11 is selling less than MKX, just shows how much damage they did to their community. MK11 rode off MKX hype and still failed to make more. I can already tell that MK12 will be even less successful, now that it has split the community and gathered bad reputation around it. And none of them care to adjust their marketing/business tactics either. So Tarkatan_Trash, you can forget all your Anniversaries. They won't do shit about it.