On one hand I want to say I'm surprised, on the other I'm not. Considering the FGC as a whole has always had thier head up thier ***, with a hard on for Capcom games, and Japanese fighting games in general. They've always looked down on Western game developers, NRS and the MK series. I believe it was also part of the reason why KI got killed off.

I'm just surprised, considering MK11 has gone out of it's way to try and cater to the SF crowd by being a slower paced game, with more emphasis on the neutral game and footsies.

I am not surprised at all. The MK Community is horrible and needs to grow up!

Yes, I'm sure Boon and co. are losing sleep over the game they've made that has sold and made millions wont be played at the biggest event for a "sport" that contains vile, immature and hygienically questionable folk that still continue to desperately convince themselves and others that their abysmal scene matters to the lifeblood and success of fighting games.

Here's an unwanted dose of reality: nobody, not the casual gaming public and definitely not the general public, gives a flying fuck about the fgc. Their existence does not dictate the success of a fighting game (Street Fighter V sure as shit proved this.) I hate to break it to them, but "dropping" a game does not mean a single thing. Developers don't give a shit if you played their game for 10 minutes or 10 years, because once you've spent that $60 on said game, that's it. they've won. They've got your sale. They don't care what you do with it then.

The more developers stop pandering to these fickle insects and start standing up for themselves would be a great day indeed.

As opposed to the rest of the fgc who want to think and act like their either MMA or WWE stars?

The problem with the fgc in general is they complain they aren't taken seriously as an esport and aren't making the kind of money other games are paying out.

It's the fact that a lot the SF crowd act really unprofessional IMO. I've seen a number of comments from well known community members of other esport games (MoBas, guitar hero, FPSs, etc), who have said they love fighting games, but they want nothing to do with the fgc scene.

Pffft, personally I dont give a shit.

MK is a game apart and all others on the EVO list are more or less the same sort of fighters.

I think they are yealous on MK for being the best selling fighting game.

MK should not ever been on this EVO list if you ask me.. so Final Kombat is the place for MK

If you look at the lineup of the games featured at EVO they all generally play and feel very similar. they are all semi-clones of Street Fighter more than anything. Each has an assortment of fighters that have special moves and super moves. None have finishers, super combos or anything outside their realm.

The reason I believe MK11 was left off this year is because, and this is just an opinion, MK11 left a bad taste in some gamers' mouths. I've loved MK since the 1st one in the arcade, didn't much care for the 3D era with the exception of 4 and Gold but look at the roster and customizations in MK11. They give us too many outfits to choose from, each that are clones with a different color scheme when they really could have had a paint option to allow us to customize the colors. There is also a point to look at you only get 5 slots to customize yet some fighters have more than 5 different outfits (not including the colors of those outfits), so if we wanted to use them all how could we? The DLC guests this year had a lot of potential to have a lot of good looking outfits. Take Joker for the best example, yet we only get his basic look with different colors, a feathered looking outfit, a masked one and a neat looking MK look. Why not also give us other looks we've seen in the comics and especially the films? Terminator could also have more attires than what he has.

The only other issue is the constant grinding in games like MK11 features. This is what made me not want to play Injustice and now not really MK11. There are so many good ideas that could come with this game still so perhaps something new will soon turn the corner for MK11 but I believe MK has ran its course as being the most popular game I'm sad to say and I love MK.

While MK11 is my least favorite of the last 3 MK games under WB, I still feel it deserves a slot, as it outsold the majority of the games on the EVO line up.

I've seen several reasons over on Evenhubs suggested as to why it didn't make the cut. 1 being that NRS games typically have a steep drop off on year 2 on the EVO lineup, and 1 being that it was a request of Disney in order for them to run the MvC2 invitational. Both of which as BS if you ask me.

If it was because of the drop off, then they could have at least offered it as a conditional tournament, where they would only hold it if the registration meets 50% of last years. If it's because of Disney then that is horse ****.

I just hope NRS takes this as a wake up call to stop catering to the FGC and the Street Fighter crowd. As no mater how much they make MK like SF, they are going to snub their noses at it....and to think NRS had considered doing away with the block button in MK just to please SF players, at one point.

I am sure this is not the reason but I find MK11 too slow paced and unexciting to watch. There are no WoW moments like there were with MKX. I was watching a match the other day and this guy busted off a juggle combo that ended in 3 or 4 fireballs with Liu Kang it was super impressive and.i havent seen anything like that in 11. Also everyone's moves lists are much smaller now. Then even smaller for the ones with plus frames. So it's kinda the same dance over and over I've gone back to X myself. And still no Stage Fatalities in 11 ? :(

Word is EVO treated NRS players like garbage anyway.

From less than ideal time spots to actually having competitors sitting on floors and barely covering their brackets in stream.

I wouldn't even know if players hadn't said as much in videos regarding this whole situation.

I've no experience with or ill will toward EVO, but if they were being treated less than, then fuck a spot at EVO.

That's why people start their own things, whether it be grassroots or sponsored/corporate backed.