Compare the Steam charts with Tekken and Street Fighter.
https://steamcharts.com/app/389730 Tekken
https://steamcharts.com/app/976310 MK11
https://steamcharts.com/app/310950 SFV
I just find this interesting but not surprising either.
MK games sell a ton because of the casual audience, but the people that actually stick with it and play it actively is a smaller audience.
Keep in mind too that MK11 has more and better singleplayer content and is also insanely grindy and incentivizes people to log in every day for dailies etc. So I'd even say that the numbers are a bit artifically high, I'd imagine that a smaller portion of the people playing are actually playing online.
Not a fan of MK but cannot deny the effort and quality NetherRealm put into the games. I wish I liked how they played because MK X and 11 looked impressive.
This is how I feel too. I just find the games boring, they're a bit fun at first but get old real fast.
I hated the marketing of the game when Ed Boon and that art director guy was going to outlets like Polygon etc talking about how they were covering up the female characters etc, and characters like Skarlet were just extremely bizarre and didn't even make any sense lore wise ( she didn't even wear it in the story which makes it even stranger ).
But they've basically walked back on that lol.
I mean I hate that they even did that to begin with, and I am expecting them to do it again in MK12 it has become a trend. But at least it seems to mostly disingenuous and just trying to get the media off their back. I just hate that they go so '' safe '' with the first costumes on day 1 because holy fuck some of them were awful. Especially again Skarlet, just a complete disaster for a default costume.
Cassie was just a meme too with how shitty and dull her costumes were and they still are really.