Petition to unlock MK 9 online trophies

[Gu_bandini]

Hello everyone, there is a petition going on to make pressure on Warner Bros Games and NetherRealm to unlock online trophies for Mortal Kombat 9, since they shut down the servers. I appreciate a lot whoever signs and shares it.

https://www.change.org/p/warner-bros-games-desbloqueio-dos-troféus-online-do-mortal-kombat-9-para-todos-os-jogadores

[HuntingFever]

I appreciate the idea and would love to see it come to fruition but this is simply never going to happen. The devs aren't going to return to an ancient game with closed servers and patch it to make the online trophies obtainable again, just so a tiny minority can get their Platinum. All you can do chalk this game up as a loss and move on.

Edited June 12, 2021 by HuntingFever
Fixed typo.

[Mako]

how about no

[Letenko]

As HuntingFever said, this will do absolutely nothing. While I do sympathize with you, truly I do and I wish all online trophies would have a harder, offline/singleplayer way of unlocking them (ala Mass Effect) they closed down the servers for a reason. Could be to make people move onto the new installment or to save the pennies it cost them to keep them alive or fearing that online will be breached and some data may be exposed or something else entirely, either way it will not come back. 

 

Unless somebody will find a way to host the servers and that solution will be open source (due to PSNP rules) I'd just move on, not much can be done here since they closed the server intentionally.

[Guest]

This should have been done as soon as the server was shut down. Too late.

[FawltyPowers]

So you're asking that anyone who has the game should have the trophies automatically pop if they haven't already because the servers are down. No, just no and it trivialises those that actually earned the trophies, you'll struggle getting people to agree with you on here, let alone to the powers that be. You should have done it in the 10 years they were up unfortunately.

 

I thought this was a petition to try and get the servers re-opened which I was going to say, best of luck, I remember how well it went with F.E.A.R. 2

[AihaLoveleaf]

This is another unfortunate casualty of the "glorious digital gaming future" that we have all financially supported in one way or another over the years. It is definitely sad that developers and publishers weren't forward-thinking enough to account for the servers eventually going offline while the game was being made. Just like all the GOTY compliation discs that bundle codes instead of putting everything on disc, once the stores eventually go offline, poof, that's it.

 

Imagine where we would be right now if games, early after the introduction of trophies, would have been required to offer obtainable alternatives, such as single-player achievements or a "bots only" offline multiplayer mode where you can still grind out the online trophies. There's a whole rabbithole of solutions that could have accounted for almost everything but the online-only "MMO" type of games. Sadly we have our current reality of unobtainable trophies instead. Hopefully for your sake, somebody puts together an open-source server someday so that you can complete the game.

[rebelkiller93]

I've seen a number of these petitions in my time and whilst I appreciate the intentions behind it may be good, it won't achieve anything. Trophy hunters represent a very small percentage of gamers as a whole and the devs have nothing to gain from releasing a patch just to pop trophies for a small percentage of players. Best to use that energy to try and get some platinums that aren't out of reach.

[Yuber6969]

If you decide to make another petition to re-open the servers or to offer a single-player alternative to the online trophies, I'll gladly sign it to help you as a fellow trophy hunter, even though I could care less about MK 9 personally.

 

But I can't get behind auto-popping. Auto-popping isn't fair to people who did the work imo.

[DaScorpio_]

How many petitions such as this have worked in the past? As far as I know - zero - and I don't see a reason why this would be any different.

 

While I'd love for it to happen, I just don't see it happening 

[KenpachiDaniel]

Never gonna happen. Imagine how cool would be if magically every online trophy from any closed server just popped in your profile? We wouldn't have thousands of unobtainable platinums. And I'm sure that there's always a group of people to each one of these thousand games that thought this same idea.

I would love to platinum Portal 2, Midnight Club Los Angeles, Gran Turismo 5 and at least 20 more games. But it won't happen even if they could do it.

[Gu_bandini]

Hey guys. Id like to thank everyone who made suggestions and constructive criticisms. I already changed the title and objective of the petition. Now it aims to make the online trophies non-mandatory rather than unlocking them for everyone.Thank you all

[TOAST13TOA5T]

Non-mandatory? How would that possibly work? Its very unlikely they will change server status and even less likely they will change the trophy list requirements. As Fawlty says, it takes away from those that did the requirements in the first place. MKX had the invasions fixed (whether the petition helped or not is anyones guess) because the game is still active but MK9 had been dead a while before the servers went down.

 

It sucks when you get locked out a Plat, i have several on my list including this, but everyone needs to suck it up, take it on the chin and move on. Looking for other ways leads to wasted time and folk trying workarounds etc through frustration. Sorry if it seems harsh but its true, this won't work especially for games of this age. 

[DeepEyes7]

45 minutes ago, Gu_bandini said:

Hey guys. Id like to thank everyone who made suggestions and constructive criticisms. I already changed the title and objective of the petition. Now it aims to make the online trophies non-mandatory rather than unlocking them for everyone.Thank you all

 

Sorry to say this but it looks like you don't even know how the trophy system works and you are going against its principles... First asking to unlock the online trophies without any other requirements and later changing it to making them "non-mandatory".... As many other people have said the only possible options could be re-open the servers or making another offline requirements to unlock the trophies, nothing else...

 

Anyways, if this miraculously works I would like something similar for MKvsDC...

[MD_91]

I must have at least 20 games on my profile with unobtainable trophies because the servers are gone, you just have to accept it because a petition isn't going to do anything 

[Ant_PK]

On 6/15/2021 at 0:29 PM, Gu_bandini said:

Hey guys. Id like to thank everyone who made suggestions and constructive criticisms. I already changed the title and objective of the petition. Now it aims to make the online trophies non-mandatory rather than unlocking them for everyone.Thank you all

Are you saying that you want the online trophies to not be mandatory for the platinum? I don't think that Netherrealm or Warner Bros can actually do that since platinum trophies are unlocked by getting 100% of the trophies. I think your best bet would be to appeal to them to change the online trophies into single player ones. Other games have done that so it's possible but I still doubt they'd do it since there's no money to be gained.

[woutiecom]

Would be cool, but likely will not happen. I signed it anyway ?

[Floorkiller74]

Why are so many playstation games so entitled they feel they are owed platinums they haven't met the criteria for?

[BluesFanUK]

On 28/08/2021 at 4:03 PM, Floorkiller74 said:

Why are so many playstation games so entitled they feel they are owed platinums they haven't met the criteria for?

 

Probably because these games never came with a disclaimer of "If you buy our product, part of it is on a timer".

 

No one is entitled to a platinum trophy, and no they shouldn't auto-pop, but the requirements should have been adjusted after server closure.

 

I've got a fair few games on my list that are unobtainable, once upon a time I never cared for them, now I do, and those games I paid full price for are essentially missing elements I paid for. 

 

Some devs were clever enough to add alternative ways to obtain trophies, others made online P2P. Then there's these noddies who switch everything off after X amount of years.

 

The irony of arguments against this is the fact PSNProfiles and PlaystationTrophies.org exists - boosting sessions make all these trophies trivial.

 

[Chaos_Culture]

No for the reasons several others have listed.


Besides, most devs wouldnt include trophies in their games, at all, if Sony didnt force them. Which, quite frankly, is the way it should be. Developers should decide what features their games have.
Point being, they arent going to do it and they shouldnt.
This isnt a case like Shadow of Mordor or Mad Max where the associated trophy took no effort. Getting the online trophies in MK9 took a lot effort and time for those that did it. You shouldnt have them given to you because you got to the party late.

There's nothing wrong with prestigious or time-limited trophies. Instead of getting jealous and demanding you get it handed to you, be happy for those that did achieve it.

 

Edited January 26, 2022 by Chaos_Culture

[Chaos_Culture]

In all seriousness, can anyone tell me one time a change.org petition actually effected anything?

[Smashero]

58 minutes ago, Chaos_Culture said:

In all seriousness, can anyone tell me one time a change.org petition actually effected anything?

I know that posting images is not really welcomed here, but I think that pic is the perfect answer:

[Kessarath]

Signed, and let me just say that I am a huge opponent of online trophies. Sooner or later it always ends the same way.

 

By the way, I will ask about one more thing. There are probably people who are very knowledgeable about trophies. Has it ever happened before that developers removed any trophies and this had an effect on the entire PlayStation Network?

 

Regards

[melodicmizery]

this will never happen. 

you will have better luck urging games to stop this from happening in the future with solutions. weather its getting rid of mp trophies (prob wont ever happen either since they say mp is a selling point), or having p2p servers on games that go offline. etc.

[HellweenYT]

The servers were shut down without a reason. Different from other games like GTAV, Max Payne 3, Uncharted 2-3 and The Last of Us, which the companies announced months before the closing servers date. Leaving a good window to own the trophies.

 

Just let it P2P.