NRS/WB's Treatment Of African Mortal Kombat Players Is SHAMBOLIC!

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  • Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
  • A few months ago we spoke about how poorly African players have been treated by NRS & WB. We spoke about the lack of communication and negligence and since then, absolutely nothing has been done. It seems the situation has gotten worse. Ed Boon has been very active on Twitter due to Year 2 of MK1 being around the corner. Now would be the perfect time to shine a light on this again to hopefully get the African Mortal Kombat players some assistance on this issue.
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  • @Animedumptruck
    @Animedumptruck Місяць тому +90

    NRS: We're inclusive!
    Pakistan and Africa: Exist
    NRS: We're *mostly* inclusive

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +14

      😂😂 it's all a farce, man.

    • @Impalingthorn
      @Impalingthorn Місяць тому +10

      As far as I am concerned, this is what the MK community gets for defending that awful Tanya and Sheeva redesign... And the Jax ending in MK11... and basically everything else they called regular innocent people "racist" over just because people didn't agree with NRS's direction.
      It's really hard not to think back to that stuff when delving into the topic of this video.

    • @garretwoeller7669
      @garretwoeller7669 Місяць тому

      I mean most of Africa is kinda hard to have servers now Pakistan O don't see why they couldn't

    • @Fleez311
      @Fleez311 Місяць тому +1

      @@Impalingthorn sheeva and tanya's redesign are an acquired taste but was not to like about Jax's MK11 ending?

    • @MagcargoMan
      @MagcargoMan Місяць тому +1

      ​@@Impalingthorn The totally-not "cringe anti-SJW" strikes again with another cringe comment, lol.

  • @KissLand-cy4qz
    @KissLand-cy4qz Місяць тому +19

    I'm a South African player and we can connect with ME and EU but never North or West African players. Africa does not have a pro komp, we are never acknowledged. FGC Africa is entirely community-run and we can't even hold our own events. We feel neglected and it's heavily disappointing that the issues still haven't been addressed. Thanks for putting the word out

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +4

      I'm sorry to hear that, brother. I hope this gets picked up and spoken about more.

  • @delwinmadbak7613
    @delwinmadbak7613 Місяць тому +55

    MK is really big in Ghana. The scene is so fed up. We are on our knees.

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +12

      I feel bad for you guys. I hope the message gets out there more and they help you guys out.

    • @kingsarf7544
      @kingsarf7544 Місяць тому +4

      We didn't have this problem with Mkx and Mk11 but only mk1😢

    • @judecider
      @judecider Місяць тому +4

      ​@@RealMikeHollow They can keep their help cause I for one am not wasting another pesewa on MK games.

    • @black__angel3987
      @black__angel3987 Місяць тому

      It funny but my brother and I are having the same problem with Tekken 8

  • @mash_harder000
    @mash_harder000 Місяць тому +19

    Thanks for acknowledging my video, hope NRS sees this soon

  • @Noum77
    @Noum77 Місяць тому +23

    The problem with American games and America in general is they think Africa is like a single country, so it wouldn't be a big deal to neglect it. And it's the case with a lot of American made games, like Fortnite for example, 6yrs since it existed and African players begged for a single server, reaching out to big streamers to raise awareness, to no avail

    • @GodHexe
      @GodHexe Місяць тому

      facts. call of duty didnt even have a africa flag lol

  • @mrkarateman
    @mrkarateman Місяць тому +71

    The FGC community, especially the MK, are more concerned about being gay in Saudi Arabia than actually helping with real issues around their own games.

    • @espurrseyes42
      @espurrseyes42 Місяць тому +6

      People running the risk of death because EVO wants to host a tournament in a hateful country is more important than MK's bad online in certain regions. People's lives are more important than people's Internet connections.

    • @cyanstar9118
      @cyanstar9118 Місяць тому +19

      @@espurrseyes42 Nobody in the Saudi airport is going to pull you over and say “We need to make sure you’re gay or not”. The Saudi government states that public display of affection is forbidden, doesn’t matter if it’s straight intimacy or homosexual one.

    • @espurrseyes42
      @espurrseyes42 Місяць тому +5

      @@cyanstar9118
      There's literally a law criminalizing homosexuality, and people have been harmed there simply for being gay. Cut the damage control. It's not working.

    • @sayedomairsiam6344
      @sayedomairsiam6344 Місяць тому

      🤡. There are 2 more Evos in Japan and USA. Nobody is forcing you to go in Saudi if you dont like it. Also you can go to saudi as gay, its completely fine and your conpletely safe. Just dont show affection to your partner in public. Its the rule for both gay and straight. But hecause you guys are racist you make all those nonesense stuff just to crotisize Middle east. An entire continent that bought the game at full price dont matter yeah?​@espurrseyes42

    • @cyanstar9118
      @cyanstar9118 Місяць тому +17

      @@espurrseyes42 And you realize it’s a country that bases its laws upon their religion Islam? They put their religion in their top priority, period. And they won’t change so they can meet the satisfaction of westerns. It has been always like this since the country existed, it’s not a new law.
      I understand it seems unfair, but Saudi is an Islamic country, and Islam forbid homosexuality. And naturally, they’ll go with their religion, not what a person outside of their country thinks.

  • @EA-bv8zk
    @EA-bv8zk Місяць тому +17

    Mortal Kombat has always been big in Ghana. It was pretty much the only fighting game everyone played

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +3

      A shame that WB and NRS show them no love.

  • @tokyobassist
    @tokyobassist Місяць тому +10

    To quote Shao Khan from the African Mortal Kombat movie:
    "I DON'T WANT PEACE. I WANT PROBLEMS!"

  • @Slyjoker1977
    @Slyjoker1977 Місяць тому +10

    The guy begging on the mic for games is heartbreaking. How 2 friends living across the street get 300 ping is mine boggling.

  • @VongolaXanxus
    @VongolaXanxus Місяць тому +18

    Africa: *films terrible MK1 matchmaking*
    NRS: *watches clips* "So what, they're all starving but one of them has a f**king cellphone."

    • @vaper8824
      @vaper8824 Місяць тому +2

      Homelander 😂😂😂😂

    • @neon_flavour5579
      @neon_flavour5579 Місяць тому

      Nrs is prob racist bc the ppl in africa is complaining about it and they like mk1

  • @songoku9348
    @songoku9348 Місяць тому +20

    You really have to feel for Boon and the team, people don’t realise this is NRS not giving a shit about their own game.

    • @ace0135
      @ace0135 Місяць тому +3

      Must be WB money

    • @CertifiedMVP
      @CertifiedMVP Місяць тому +2

      Boon likes to troll and tease for no reason. How dare you take away that from him and expect him to do his job?

    • @songoku9348
      @songoku9348 Місяць тому +5

      @@CertifiedMVP Even Harada at least acknowledges the community concerns. If what you’re saying is true, Boon is even worse. Damn.

    • @CertifiedMVP
      @CertifiedMVP Місяць тому +6

      @@songoku9348 Harada is doing great job with the community interactions.
      And the the whole Tekken team also. Minus the Lidia radio silence period.
      Boon on the other hand is notorious for being the biggest troll. 95% of his responses to the fans are vague and are just trollish

    • @sayedomairsiam6344
      @sayedomairsiam6344 Місяць тому

      Nope, its definitely boon problem. You cant dunk everything on NRS or WB. Look at T7. Harada revived the franchise even tho Bandai Namco were pushing him to not make another gane cuz the feanchise isnt selling. With less budget than Ttt2 and opposing bandai he made an amazing game T7 and give support to community.

  • @MaoriGamerDood
    @MaoriGamerDood Місяць тому +7

    Dear Lord this is STILL HAPPENING?!?!!?
    Okay this is beyond shambolic. This is disgraceful.

  • @JohnRambo-zz6gy
    @JohnRambo-zz6gy Місяць тому +10

    Boon is more concerned helping his Golden Girl Sonic Fox win tournaments.

  • @tobir.jacobs5392
    @tobir.jacobs5392 Місяць тому +13

    I'm from Nigeria, launch day I couldn't play my friend in the same state as me (Lagos)
    Uninstalled the game since then and went back to sf6
    I get 40ms with that same friend in sf6
    I already had problems with NRS from mk11 but this made me stop playing their games definitely
    Never again

    • @isaackayt
      @isaackayt Місяць тому +3

      It's so disrespectful how we're treated

    • @GiggaGMikeE
      @GiggaGMikeE Місяць тому +7

      Whenever I go to Nigeria(Igbo kwenu) I would just stick to offline games. Devs and publishers act like Africa is on another planet. Might as well ask for servers on Mars.

    • @wollzman
      @wollzman Місяць тому +3

      Same here broski. Ilorin G here.. i play On fibreOne.. my same guy in which we play games like Storm, Mk11, GGST we get 30 to 40ms. Mk1 released 220 250ms.. HOWWW..like bro.. Fuck WB and NRS man. i jumped ship to T8 and im a happy man

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +2

      Sorry that you guys are having to deal with that. Keep tweeting at them in droves and get this video around to anyone that'll listen. Ya never know. The internet is a powerful tool!

    • @tobir.jacobs5392
      @tobir.jacobs5392 Місяць тому +1

      @wollzman omo that feeling when you finally get to buy a fibre optic cable for this specifically
      Enjoying it on other fighting games

  • @delwinmadbak7613
    @delwinmadbak7613 Місяць тому +11

    I bought Mkx,Mk11, Injustice 2 and now suffering hell with Mk1. This just isn't fair.

    • @isaackayt
      @isaackayt Місяць тому +1

      Same here fam. I better not start ranting. It's too annoying

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Get them rants on Twitter, lads. Don't let them forget they did you guys dirty.

  • @stainz_4208
    @stainz_4208 Місяць тому +5

    I'm an African FGC member and I've said from day one that MK1 has "racist netcode". Why route the netcode through central servers when peer-to-peer worked perfectly fine in previous games? Talk about a smooth-brain decision. I'm South African so fortunately the problem doesn't exist for me coz they eventually gave us a server down here. But the rest of Africa still struggles and it is definitely SHAMBOLIC because MK seems to be the biggest FG in Africa. I'm a SF player and I've noticed the MK guys always get the most viewers on their online tournament streams.

  • @ededdneddy988
    @ededdneddy988 Місяць тому +1

    As a South African I've been a massive MK fan ever since my mom bought me MK4 on PC as a kid. Ever since then I've had Deadly Alliance, Deception, Shaolin Monks & Armageddon on PS2, which I still have to this day. Currently I only play MKX and MK11. I'm reluctant to get MK1. I hope they see this video and do something. Thanks for looking out🙏

  • @alexandermccalla5098
    @alexandermccalla5098 Місяць тому +2

    Since I’ve started watching your videos, shambolic has become a part of my vocabulary

  • @AKslay333
    @AKslay333 Місяць тому +1

    Appreciated from Africa

  • @MLAgaming4K
    @MLAgaming4K Місяць тому +3

    I feel like for South Africa they need to really help them it's kind of sad for the African scene the online server the Mortal Kombat people need to fix needs to fix the issue

  • @XNDL44
    @XNDL44 Місяць тому +1

    I hope that someone can asks about this during that MK panel so that it is addressed soon. Had no idea the scene there was dealing wit an issue like that

  • @ChristsKeyblade
    @ChristsKeyblade Місяць тому +4

    I will say that just because Africa is the 2nd largest continent doesn't necessarily make it one of the largest markets

    • @GiggaGMikeE
      @GiggaGMikeE Місяць тому +5

      It's circular logic. No one markets to Africa so it's a much more niche market, and because the market is small, no one markets to Africa.

  • @basti.9022
    @basti.9022 Місяць тому +4

    TrueUnderdawgGaming, a guy with Million subscribers is dead silent.

  • @shadowofthenorthstar989
    @shadowofthenorthstar989 Місяць тому +6

    NRS better treat them wellsince they probably the last ppl that truly fuck with their game

  • @thenightwolf1997
    @thenightwolf1997 29 днів тому

    It’s crazy, when it first released we couldn’t find games at all.
    Then after an update we found games, but now 200-300 ping with ppl in your own country city. How inclusive…

  • @Lin_Kuei_1999
    @Lin_Kuei_1999 Місяць тому +3

    They care more about diversity and cash grabs instead of listening to their customers I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ll go radio silent again after the second year story expansion and dlc.

  • @itstrickster573
    @itstrickster573 Місяць тому

    As a South African, I didn't even buy MK1 knowing the online experience would be ass.

  • @blackmajin6328
    @blackmajin6328 Місяць тому

    Thank you for making this video, you've been making videos to shine eyes on our problem and we really appreciate it.🔥👍🏽

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +1

      Happy to help, brother. Hope something comes of it ☝🏾

    • @blackmajin6328
      @blackmajin6328 Місяць тому

      Indeed we all hope so🙏🏽

  • @kingsarf7544
    @kingsarf7544 Місяць тому +1

    We didn't have this problem on Mkx and Mk 11 but Mk 1😢

  • @rbelljr29
    @rbelljr29 Місяць тому +4

    I don't like MK1, but the ones who love the game deserve to be able to enjoy what they paid for.

  • @Urbanboy732
    @Urbanboy732 Місяць тому +6

    80 fuckn DAYS??!!

  • @toptaco890
    @toptaco890 Місяць тому +3

    I honestly believe it's too little too late for NRS to fix anything in regards to the game. They had plenty of time to fix all these while the game was out but decided not to and just keep pushing out cosmetics. I'm honestly not hopeful for any future content that they put out at this point.

  • @rmggaming-sr3gt
    @rmggaming-sr3gt Місяць тому

    I am a South African MK player and i would be very interested in hoppin on with you... WHAT NRS IS DOING IS VERY WRONG

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Drop me a message on IG or Twitter, bro.

  • @TheKingOfHarrtz
    @TheKingOfHarrtz Місяць тому

    im in zimbabwe, africa and i can vouch for this guy i can count on one hand how many online matches i have had in mk1 it searches for matches for so long that my controller will keep timing out and turning off, mk11 servers are a bit better but still just as bad andi preordered the game and have kombat pack 1 but i dont even bother anymore cos you never can find a match

  • @user-zx8qr1rl5z
    @user-zx8qr1rl5z Місяць тому

    Sucks to hear this. NRS used to be a trend setter and now they look like a c level developer.
    So many companies in the fgc trying to attract new players and NRS can’t even offer an acceptable experience.
    I will have a hard decision to make next time I see a high pin.

  • @ImmortalReaver
    @ImmortalReaver Місяць тому

    80 days played on MK1 is nuts. I'm ready to throw in the towel at about 16

  • @clockpenalty
    @clockpenalty Місяць тому

    As someone who spent 10 years playing SF and Tekken in Africa....
    Africa may be a huge market but it isn't as straightforward as it seems. The size of the landmass coupled with the large number of borders means infrastructure across the continent is nonexistent. You will not find a pakistan-style hidden trove of skill because each scene is tiny and isolated- its almost impossible to travel across the length of a single country without trouble let alone the continent. Internet infrastructure is a nightmare as a few undersea cables serve the entire continent, and the best connections are confined to the coasts. In the locations where the best scenes exist south of the sahara (Abidjan, Lagos, South Africa, Accra) the players cannot reach their full potential because internet infrastructure in those countries is not designed to keep traffic local....so even if NRS set up servers in each country, pings would remain high as traffic would still leave to europe and return in order to connect locally. The situation would improve marginally, but they would still be playing with high delay/rollback and would not be competitive globally.
    Next of course there is the fact that NRS very likely doesnt even sell their games in major African scenes at all. Global finance is utter shit and as a result, buying games online is insanely difficult and the cost of physical games is astronomical. As a result a shocking percentage of game sales there are either resold keys, illegal downloads or otherwise pirated content. As a result NRS doesn't even profit and isn't incentivised to care.
    How do I know this? I battled through the horrific ordeal of being a fighting game player in Africa for a full decade. It is absolute hellfire, and worse than you can even begin to imagine.
    In short, while it is a horrible situation, I sincerely think African nations outside of perhaps south Africa are not yet ready for any gaming company to invest heavily in them- and if investment did come, it would be for naught and cause more problems than it solves (you dont want a company to invest in you and make a loss....that just makes it less likely youll get the investment later when it matters)
    And if you think youll find the next arslan ash in Lagos or Cape town.... trust me, it doesn't get better than JabhiM, and that's south Africa.... lack of electricity, internet, and tiny isolated scenes= death to any potential "hidden gem" of skill.

  • @IzanamiAokii
    @IzanamiAokii Місяць тому +2

    The Pokémon shade made me laugh 😂

  • @Gizapowerplant
    @Gizapowerplant Місяць тому

    That should never have happened... Sad.
    Keep up the great commentary and updates! 🙏

  • @carlmahere1801
    @carlmahere1801 29 днів тому

    Im from Zimbabwe and i have had this game from day 1, and i have played less than 40 games inline becoz the ping is always rising and people eventually rage quit...imagine your opponent rage quitting coz lag...

  • @gpululo
    @gpululo Місяць тому

    The worst part about all of this is that we were able to play mkx and mk11 perfectly. Mk1 was just a major downgrade from the start. we still play because we love the franchise but the future is not looking good . We might as well skip day one purchases and wait for the ultimate edition of the game at the end of the games cycle

  • @JAVARRIS88
    @JAVARRIS88 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for speaking on this...ITS THE MFing MOTHERLAND!!!!

  • @troyl200
    @troyl200 Місяць тому

    Shambolic!! You make me walk around my house saying that out loud. American using a thick British accent "SHAMBOLIC!!" love your stuff as always man!

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Hahaha, I have infiltrated the States successfully 🗿

  • @ebukaeliezer5951
    @ebukaeliezer5951 Місяць тому

    2 out of every 3 Nigerians younger than 30 have made contact with Mortal Kombat; movie, game etc.

  • @sonicallstarify
    @sonicallstarify Місяць тому +1

    Why isn't there a law set in place to ensure proper functionality across all markets?

  • @ozi-g-be
    @ozi-g-be Місяць тому +1

    Honestly this is why i like guilty gear strive
    Thats the only game where i can have a worst case scenario 300ms (Nigeria to Europe) game and they'll be the ones to run it back
    Its actually scary ngl, but i appreciate the respect for the set

  • @mc_zittrer8793
    @mc_zittrer8793 Місяць тому +2

    Man, these African players are absolute madlads. I don't get their fondness for MK of all games, but at this point, it doesn't even matter if I do. Go make your actual fans a priority, Netherrealm! They're talented enough to take over other franchises, don't just leave them hanging like that.

    • @ezrolly898
      @ezrolly898 Місяць тому

      We had a mortal Kombat game cabinet in every local corner store in the 90s.i had a choice of 5 shops within a 5 minute walk from my house that had the game. It was one of the first fighting games we saw. Then came the street fighter games. Tekken and soul calibre were mostly in big arcades.

  • @MarcelyWelly
    @MarcelyWelly Місяць тому +2

    You referencing that Rey title reign hurt the lil kid in me lmfao

  • @charliewax1794
    @charliewax1794 Місяць тому +1

    That's why FATE loves MK so much

  • @aot9199
    @aot9199 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for making a vid on this

  • @bluemanvisions
    @bluemanvisions Місяць тому

    Ghana’s Mortal Kombat film was better than Warner Bros!

  • @TheDarkestNile
    @TheDarkestNile Місяць тому +1

    There has to be negligence of some sort with server support over there in Africa for the game. Or just straight up refusal to put server support in some African countries for some reason. I could be mistaken, its just an interesting question. Even if players have to use Southern European servers to play, that's still, as you put it, Shambolic man....

  • @prophetbeats
    @prophetbeats Місяць тому

    I'm jumping to SF6 , NRS servers in Africa are disappointing.

  • @themancalledben2731
    @themancalledben2731 Місяць тому +2

    MK1 IS FREE TO PLAY BECAUSE OF A GLITCH IN THE CURRENT BUILD 😂😂 I haven't had a online subscription on my console since release and MK1 is the only game that lets me play online with no Xbox Live subscription. The game is a glitchfest, I was going to keep this to myself but screw WB.

    • @aot9199
      @aot9199 Місяць тому +1

      Yooo really thats crazy..My brother told me and I thought he's was capping😂😂
      I play on PC

    • @themancalledben2731
      @themancalledben2731 Місяць тому

      ​@@aot9199yeah I got a WB friend request notification and decided to click on Online to try to clear it and it let me in and then I tried to enter a lobby and BAM! free to play lol😂

  • @aSTROnomical_8
    @aSTROnomical_8 Місяць тому

    I feel horrible for them smh

  • @3rdworldgwaming467
    @3rdworldgwaming467 Місяць тому +1

    It's not just Africa...there's Pakistan,India,Bangladesh(the whole south East Asia belt if ur looking in detail)...even New Zealand has issues(which is obvious considering were they r located on the map...well atleast they have the Australians to match-up with). Whats confusing is the failure to setup proper servers for the south East Asian countries...especially Pakistan & India cos they're huge markets to tap into. The most important thing is that this issue is not just there with MK it's also present for other fighting games...the current servers for Asia on majority of the fcg games cater to Japan,Korea & barely China & ignore the other Asian nations. It's a sad reality that has become evidently acceptable.

  • @TheKingOfHarrtz
    @TheKingOfHarrtz Місяць тому

    another thing i forgot to point out is that most africans earn a lot less than the rest of the world there are people who earn as little as 200 dollars a month so buying a game officially and not pirating it is not easy for most gamers so for us its a really big deal when you pay so much for a product and cant use it the way you should be able to

  • @tigerjaxkson5731
    @tigerjaxkson5731 Місяць тому +1

    Jax, Sonya’s lackey
    Jacqui, Cassie’s lackey
    Geras, Liu Kang/Kronika’s Gimp
    Cyrax, Sektor’s lackey
    Jade, Kitana’s Lackey
    Tanya, Mileena’s concubine
    Not all Africans are brown, but I’m sure you’re also seeing where I’m going with this….

  • @humaneshadow300
    @humaneshadow300 Місяць тому +2

    Nrs right now worry about pronounce right now not the game mortal Kombat never been great past 15 year's

  • @mr.2swift888
    @mr.2swift888 Місяць тому

    This Makes Me Mad Bruh. They Dont Deserve They Love Bro Straight Up. #RespondToAfricaNRS

  • @immortalmangafan7155
    @immortalmangafan7155 Місяць тому

    As an African…this why i’m happy mk1 is not in my ps5, i’m not enough of a masochist to deal with this bs

  • @jahdorose8659
    @jahdorose8659 Місяць тому +1

    Good evening very good useful video

  • @TheKingOfHarrtz
    @TheKingOfHarrtz Місяць тому

    another thing is we also dont get discount like the rest of the world i watch channels like kenny bomb and he posts about the online store and everytime he mentions that something is now in the store we always have to pay the regular price we dont get discounts and we also dont get to play and to me that is extortion i think i will just stick to tekken and street fighter which is sad cos mk was my fave franchise i have played mk since ithe very first one back in the day on sega mega drive

  • @janematthews9087
    @janematthews9087 Місяць тому

    Okay to be fair, if you check the world AWS network, there is only one data center in the whole of africa, and it's not even in Johannesburg. So in terms of internet connection, they're mostly up sihtt creek without a paddle.
    But for everything else, yeah.

    • @aot9199
      @aot9199 Місяць тому

      Damn take a break from gobbling NRS's balls. They never had a problem or complained about servers with any of the past titles(mkx ,inj2 ,mk11) its only MK1

    • @Nathan--Drake
      @Nathan--Drake Місяць тому +1

      What does Amazon web service have to do with mk servers
      I played injustice 2 and MKX in Nigeria on 50-180ms from 2020-2024
      Stop bringing up factors not related to the discussion

  • @Iwisoks
    @Iwisoks Місяць тому +1

    Damn if it were me I would have up and left a long time ago no matter how much I loved the franchise.
    Completely forgot about it but I was gonna ask do you intend to talk about takeda?

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Mmmm, unlikely. I'm more interested to see how the game is going to change going into Year 2. It's a big moment for the game and could dictate it's future.

  • @jasonavila8197
    @jasonavila8197 Місяць тому +1

    Get Maximilian dood on the job.

  • @immortalmangafan7155
    @immortalmangafan7155 Місяць тому

    nah but i respect you heavily for covering this and encourage for NRS to get off their high horse built on micro transactions and the lies of brand loyalty and actually support the fans and players who play their games despite their state

  • @themeadowsgroupchat9454
    @themeadowsgroupchat9454 Місяць тому

    That’s crazy how NRS ignores the Africa player base. There are still people supporting this game that’s not even good over there at some point go somewhere else it’s been almost a year and they don’t even acknowledge them. Play another game as a consumer it’s obvious they don’t want your money. It sucks but it’s clear they don’t care about them over there. Is MK the only fighting game over there?

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      @@themeadowsgroupchat9454 I think it's just their game of choice although some of them have told me that they've moved over to SF6 cos it runs much better. I'm gonna have two popular African players on to discuss their issues over the weekend so everyone can get an idea of where they're coming from.

  • @__Phederal__
    @__Phederal__ Місяць тому +1

    Yea … what he said

  • @toobad111
    @toobad111 Місяць тому +1

    Why... Ed Boon why... why did you give mk to wb, why would you let wb bury your game, was the money really worth it? 😢

  • @KN-592
    @KN-592 Місяць тому +1

    00:18 wtf

  • @vampireguy2967
    @vampireguy2967 Місяць тому

    What do you think about the guy who wrote "african samurai" being exposed for making all the stuff on Wikipedia and in his book up anout Yaskue, who wasnt a samurai?

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Haven't looked into it yet, but I'll give it a look soon when I get some time.

  • @ramonaescalate4299
    @ramonaescalate4299 Місяць тому +1

    Why is mileena TIDZ SO BIG IN THE THUMBNAIL?

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +1

      When were they not big? 🗿

    • @ramonaescalate4299
      @ramonaescalate4299 Місяць тому +1

      @@RealMikeHollow huge tidz in deception-mkx and nerfed smaller tidz in mk11-1

  • @tinotendamaveneka2764
    @tinotendamaveneka2764 Місяць тому

    I understand why though, the internet providers in some African countries are also partly to blame. our internet providers are not consistent and the speeds are not the best. Most companies are not interested in investing in africa coz we are a poor continent compared to europe and alot of business malpractice makes it hard environment to operate in some of these things are down to infrastructure issues that are limited by government behaviours. But if servers in South Africa and Ghana are not solid then its clearly NRS.

  • @kiracaos
    @kiracaos Місяць тому

    Hold on there, Sun and Moon had Elite 4, they didn't have gyms. 😂😂 XD

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Nah one of them didn't have an Elite Four. Maybe I got the name wrong 😂 (was it gyms? Am I getting too old to remember my Pokémon journeys? 🗿)

    • @kiracaos
      @kiracaos Місяць тому

      @@RealMikeHollow sword and shield didn't have an elite 4. Not gonna lie, I am also getting tired of Pokemon by now.

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Yeah, it's run it's course for me. I had a good run and I've still got the original European and Japanese versions of the Kanto and Johto games sealed. It was an awesome journey but no need to revisit it.

  • @Mrwayne_212
    @Mrwayne_212 Місяць тому

    Mk11 was so cool we played in 10ms

  • @mrnozchalazt7199
    @mrnozchalazt7199 Місяць тому

    Yeah this type of ish is unacceptable in 2024 from a triple A studio. Even if they're having a hard time trying to remedy the issue, at least acknowledge it. They aren't even doing that. They'll release another Kombat Pack before addressing them I bet.

  • @lionking.official
    @lionking.official Місяць тому +1

    Mike ❤

  • @KN-592
    @KN-592 Місяць тому

    Someone point these folks to start using parsec, at least until they get their servers

  • @Hysteria_01-
    @Hysteria_01- Місяць тому

    Im from Ireland, and the servers are fucking atrocious. I keep getting Disconnected.

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +1

      Man, they let the Irish down as well? 😔

  • @Regula_joe
    @Regula_joe Місяць тому

    Charliewolf who's a big fgc more so mk facilitator reached to sonicfox to reach out to NRS.......no luck. I feel bad for them but these guys are MK fanatics, I dumped the game. To note in South Africa where I live the game is fine when playing online with people within south africa.

  • @CertifiedMVP
    @CertifiedMVP Місяць тому

    But yet they aren't really missing out on much

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      They're not but if they find it fun, that's up to them. NRS should facilitate them as Shambolic as the game may be.

  • @Chavitacastellanos
    @Chavitacastellanos Місяць тому +1

    No wonder i havent seen any pri African player yet. Besides rewind
    .

    • @LordHades7077
      @LordHades7077 Місяць тому

      he isn't African lol 💀

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +1

      He's African American 😂 These are Africans native to Africa we're talking about.

    • @LordHades7077
      @LordHades7077 Місяць тому

      @@RealMikeHollow ok 😂

    • @Chavitacastellanos
      @Chavitacastellanos Місяць тому

      Oh I see. I always thought he represented Africa at events. I'm sure Africa has some good players that could give the other international pros a challenge.

    • @10ylee
      @10ylee Місяць тому +1

      VGY and JoshTQ are Ghanaian.
      you can refer to their twitch profile

  • @KN-592
    @KN-592 Місяць тому

    4:20 they have thogh, already got their money and gave them nothing

  • @garretwoeller7669
    @garretwoeller7669 Місяць тому

    Africa is kinda a mess so having consistent internet seems difficult so yeah MK is a scam in that continent but also lets get real theres no money in africa outside of exploitation of people.

  • @Mrwayne_212
    @Mrwayne_212 Місяць тому

    I was begging 😢 bro

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +1

      Hate to see it. At least if NRS could at least acknowledge the problem, that would be a start.

  • @Kalavijas
    @Kalavijas Місяць тому

    People should spam NRS, or send this to Asmongold for reaction

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +1

      Asmongold would get some serious eyes on it.

  • @ivan-fs
    @ivan-fs Місяць тому

    This again... I'm already predicting the shitstorm of comments, but whatever...
    I'm definitely not a fan of NRS, but in this case, they're off the hook.
    Africa has a serious problem with internet connection. The number of users is increasing, but their infrastructure is still mostly undersea cables, wich is pretty unreliable.
    Just check the speedtest global index... the first African country to appear is South Africa at 50th place, with 47.28Mbps/dwl + 38.99Mbps/upl. Ghana is 114th place, with 37.89Mbps/dwl + 28.32Mbps/upl. Also, this is a P2P game , there's literally nothing NRS can do, unless they decide to rebuild their entire infrastructure. And it doesn't matter if they're in the same town, they can even be in the same room and the result would still be the same, 'cause both players would still have to rely on their ISP to make them connect. In fact, they'll most likely have better experience playing with someone from the Middle-East or Southern Europe than with other African neighbours, 'cause at least there'll be just one African ISP. In the case of Ghana, they have a latency of 7ms, and that is very high for their low numbers of dwl/upl. Now, let's look at the UK, for example: 13ms of latency... sounds high but, their dwl/upl is 106.51/28.37, so you can still get a good connection.
    NRS can maybe (a very wishful maybe) tweek their netcode a bit, but even a rollback netcode has its limitations, it's not a damn miracle formula.
    And for those wondering, it so happens that network management is a family business. At 19 I was building servers with my old man, and he did spent some time working in Angola in recent years... and yeah, he testified the lack of internet quality. Also, here we have a large community of people from Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, and all of the people I've met complain about that, it's not just a gaming thing.
    Now, on the other hand, in some African countries, the mobile bandwidth is actually better than their fixed broadband, so maybe that could work. Vodafone is expanding in Africa, so maybe check them out for an alternative solution.
    On a final note, I mean no disrespect to anyone in Africa with these issues, it's an infrastructural problem, not theirs, but also not a game developer's. As a fighting game player myself, in my case Tekken, I wish only for an icreased number of competition. Hopefully things might get better in the future.

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      I hear what you're saying but how do you explain the better connectivity on MK11 which had a higher population across PS, Xbox and PC versus what they're getting now with a lower player population?

    • @ivan-fs
      @ivan-fs Місяць тому +2

      ​@@RealMikeHollowOut of the blue? Their increased number of internet users is a contributing fact. But the heaviest factor is probably that there are more players in Africa playing MK1 than have ever been playing MK11. MK1 is still growing in sales faster than MK11... in spite all their problems, it's still a brand that sells pretty well. And even the game being a P2P, there's still probably a connection that needs to be made to a NRS server... not for actual hosting gameplay, but just for a run check of players' information like ID, game version, even cheats, hacks and disconnects... I'm guessing this one but it's probably true... also why I believe MK has a system of controlling disconnections and cheating better than Tekken. In summary: the more players, the worse the quality.

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      This still doesn't explain how MK11 is still running fine over there amongst other fighting games like Street Fighter 6. I've checked with a lot of them. They all say the same thing. It's just MK1. If what you are saying is true, surely it should affect them as well? Especially MK11 in the present day?

    • @ivan-fs
      @ivan-fs Місяць тому

      ​@@RealMikeHollow Only logical explanation is that MK1 far surpasses MK11 or SF6 in terms of playerbase in Africa. Think of it this way: if each player is represented by a car, then the road is the ISP, and the destination is the game server (MK11 and MK1 do not share the same server). The more cars trying to get to the same destination, the denser the traffic congestion gets, so that road should have more lanes. Like I said, you still need to get to a server (players' ID, matchmaking, etc...), and I'm guessing MK's server stays connected to the players throughout the gameplay. I truly wanted NRS to be the sole culprit in this scenario, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Honestly, I belive that trying to reach out to Musk to aggressively expand Starlink into Africa is a more viable solution than knocking on NRS/WB's door... Starlink is already in 6 or 7 African countries I believe, so, who knows...

  • @CyberDragonEX13
    @CyberDragonEX13 Місяць тому

    Warner Bros. AND NRS need to actually put their money where their mouths are and get this shit show back on track and knock off the DEI sham nonsense and focus on the fucking quality of the damn games. Would it really tax your income that hard to have proper servers for regions that support you product?

  • @RichiePajooh-r8i
    @RichiePajooh-r8i Місяць тому

    where are their servers? if they are playing on ps5 they are probably using sonys servers and my guess is the closest servers are in EU.

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      I can't remember where they said they were, but I just remember it's nowhere near Africa.

    • @RichiePajooh-r8i
      @RichiePajooh-r8i Місяць тому

      I wish I could say things will improve but take a look at the world. Idk man, I live in the US and I’m just burnt out on life let alone trying to fix developers giving a crap about their customers fans etc.
      I genuinely feel that everything will just get worse regardless and I won’t live to see the day where anything improves.
      I’ve just accepted that reality to be honest. Im quitalitying on existence. Please leave my settings on hardcore cause I don’t want to respawn

  • @n1n0rmal3n
    @n1n0rmal3n Місяць тому

    still talking mk? damn i thought they already proven how bad they didnt care

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      Gotta put some shine on this bleak situation.

    • @n1n0rmal3n
      @n1n0rmal3n Місяць тому

      @@RealMikeHollow its sad ye people pay for a product and expect it to be at least working correctly but in the end of the day its greedy corporation that probably had some charts saying "you know ye its a big community but not worth it" i guess and if you ask them they will say "technical difficulties" sadly its a war you cant win cuz corporation doesnt care about your feelings

  • @cpfantastic5576
    @cpfantastic5576 Місяць тому

    Title XD

  • @KN-592
    @KN-592 Місяць тому

    "nrs, RACIST"

  • @mannygomez3577
    @mannygomez3577 Місяць тому

    Ayeeeee I’m view # 69!

  • @GrapplerMaster
    @GrapplerMaster Місяць тому

    this video quality is terrible

    • @aot9199
      @aot9199 Місяць тому

      Twitter compression

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому

      That and the gameplay on screen is from a very old recording.

  • @user-td2vf2cw2s
    @user-td2vf2cw2s Місяць тому

    Hey, they racist 😂 they not like us, and they don't like us.

  • @buckbreaker5185
    @buckbreaker5185 Місяць тому

    All a distraction to make you forget Tekken 8 is actually trash

    • @Iwisoks
      @Iwisoks Місяць тому

      Is it worse than mk1 though?

    • @toobad111
      @toobad111 Місяць тому

      Honestly wish I bought T8 more then mk1💀

    • @Iwisoks
      @Iwisoks Місяць тому

      @toobad111 honestly I'd recommend anything over mk1 even like kof 13 steam edition

    • @buckbreaker5185
      @buckbreaker5185 Місяць тому

      @@Iwisoks nah MK has always been the worst

  • @user-td2vf2cw2s
    @user-td2vf2cw2s Місяць тому

    A video game is the least of africa problems. They need to fix their countries infrastructure

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +10

      Yeah, but that's for people to discuss that are more educated on that matter and that ain't me. They can fix issues with their countries infrastructure and companies can also assist young players in this manner. We've got problems over here in the UK but if a developer told me to worry about my countries issues with Brexit or trade rather than a game, I'd genuinely be flabbergasted 😂

    • @meswil
      @meswil Місяць тому +3

      it is a problem when they paid for it like everyone else genius.

    • @chesterapiiyah227
      @chesterapiiyah227 Місяць тому +1

      Wo maame tw3....

    • @user-td2vf2cw2s
      @user-td2vf2cw2s Місяць тому

      @meswil ok they paid for a game thst requires online, and they don't have a good internet connection. How tf is that Neather Realm fault. The only solution is that they should refund their money.

    • @RealMikeHollow
      @RealMikeHollow  Місяць тому +3

      @@user-td2vf2cw2s it's that NRS or WB have not provided servers for African players. They're using servers across the ocean for them which is causing extreme lag.