Dropping of Mortal Kombat X on PC

In January 2016, the mh:awesomegames:Mortal Kombat X publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced the Kombat Pack 2 DLC and Mortal Kombat XL. The former contained four new fighters, as well as several guest characters and skins, and the latter is an enhanced edition of the base game, containing both Kombat Packs 1 and 2 and some costume packs such as Cold War. Along with both was a new balance patch, containing tweaked move sets and attack power to balance fighters.

However, the listed platforms for all three announcements were only consoles, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. PC, which the game also was available for, was not mentioned during any of these announcements. PC gamers became worried that these additions might not come for PC, and WB Games has had a shady history of poor PC launches. Both Mortal Kombat X and Batman: Arkham Knight suffered from troubled launches on PC. Neither ports were developed by their original developers; they were instead outsourced to other studios (High Voltage Software for the former and Iron Galaxy Studios for the latter). Mortal Kombat X wasn't exactly a failure on PC though; it sold 500,000 copies and received numerous patches which addressed several of the complaints users had. There were also players who managed to get the game to run smoothly, and it had a dedicated - albeit small - online community. This gave some PC gamers hope.

On January 20, 2016, a NetherRealm Studios employee finally spoke about the game's future on PC. According to this article, he told the users of the forum that the Kombat Pack 2 and Mortal Kombat XL would indeed only be coming to console. PC gamers were justifiably infuriated and accused both WB Games and NetherRealm of abandoning PC.

In Fall 2016, this was overturned as Mortal Kombat XL became available on Steam alongside the Kombat Pack 2. As QLOC would take over the PC port, rather than High Voltage Software and Iron Galaxy Studios.