Balancing Mortal Kombat 1’s violence and enabling monetised streaming is a “dilemma”, says creator Ed Boon

Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has called the balance between delivering the violence fans want and the need to sanitise games in order to stream them a “dilemma”.

Talking to IGN, Boon reflected on the importance of enabling influencers and content creators to monetise their Mortal Kombat 1-flavoured content, but acknowledged that if there was a mode that “turned off all the blood or something”, it would “strip away an entire layer” of Mortal Kombat’s very identity.

“Let’s say we had a mode that turned off all the blood or something or didn’t have fatalities or something like that,” Boon said when asked if the NetherRealm team had ever considered a “streamer safe” mode.

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