I was hoping to get my nephew to join me for some MKX this past weekend, but it turns out I'm quite a bit better than him... So I looked for some kind of way we could play together without him getting too frustrated. I couldn't get that going at all.

If I go online and pick "Team Battle", it lets me invite people from my Friends List (I'm on PS4) but I couldn't get the guy next to me with the 2nd controller on my team.

If I join a King of the Hill match online, you would think Player 2 could just jump into the rotation with me, right? As far as I can tell that's not possible.

I can understand why they didn't include a Tag Team mode, that's probably a lot of extra work. But the stuff I talked about above? I feel like that should just be basic functionality in 2015 quite honestly...

I really miss the tag mode from the last game. My little sister and I played the crap out of it. I'm guessing that Netherrealm considers the group of coop mortal kombat players to be rather small unfortunately.

Yeah the tag mode was the best part of MK9. I really want it back. And since SxT is dead as hell, there kind of isn't any other games that do it either. :(

Ed Boon actually talked about why they didn't include Tag Mode this time around. The amount of people who played it were in the single digit percentages. I think it might have even been something like 1%. Yeah, it's a shame, but it is what it is

That's staggering. By the end of Mortal Kombat 9's life, I was playing Tag Mode exclusively.

@historyinrust: I think I may have gotten the whole percentage thing confused with something completely different. This is the video I thought he said it in, but here he just kinda still says not a lot of people played it

Thanks for posting this video. Interesting to hear Boon talk about the mode post-mortem.

You know, it wasn't in Injustice either (apart from a tower, maybe?). And Ed really gives the impression it took a lot of resources to make that mode operate. So I guess the writing was on the wall. Just didn't see it myself.

Wow, I didn't even know MK9 had that. I thought you were talking about something like the Dramatic Battle mode in Alpha 3. Man, that was mode was so much fun.