Let's be frank: Mortal Kombat 1 is experiencing a decline. It appears that the Season 3 content has been scrapped due to disappointing sales figures. Moreover, the latest trailer for Pro Kompetition, the game's esports circuit, can only be described as underwhelming at best.

Pro Kompetition 2025 boasts a total prize pool of $255,000. In today's esports landscape, this amount is modest, even by Fighting Game Community (FGC) standards. Top players have previously voiced concerns about the low prize money, highlighting that it's not financially viable to travel internationally for tournaments that offer only a few hundred dollars in winnings.

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This year, we're likely to see two distinct pools of players: one competing in North American tournaments and the other in Europe. These groups will only converge at EVO 2025, which is widely regarded as the tournament of the year.

While there are efforts to generate excitement and build hype, and to some extent, these efforts are successful, the reality behind the emotional highs and the teased in-game image of T-1000 paints a rather somber picture for Mortal Kombat 1.