After less than a year on mobile stores, Mortal Kombat: Onslaught is getting shut down by NetherRealm Studios. It had basically no marketing and a ton of grinding.
As revealed on Twitter, Onslaught is closing in October. The app itself is already off iOS and Android stores, but its in-app purchases are still available and will be closed down on August 23. Fans have until October 21 to get all the play time they want until servers are shut down and the game is a glorified digital paperweight on your phone.
The motive behind closing the game isn’t clear, but it does come after NetherRealm’s mobile division was supposedly laid off, so it would make sense that its newer mobile game, which launched only nine months ago, would go the way of the dodo. That said, its full-on Mortal Kombat Mobile is continuing operations based on a post on social media, so clearly there’s at least some people working on the mobile game.
Naturally, this all falls back on Warner Bros. Discovery, which has double downed on the live service market despite not finding any sort of golden goose in the niche yet. It doesn’t help fans are also very tired of the genre, too, especially when made just to churn out money with the lowest effort possible.
While Smash Jump’s deputy editor, Brandon, liked Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, it was by and large held back by a “lackluster story and draining live service elements.”
