It's been a while since a game so completely broken as WWE 2K20 has come along. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 is the last one we remember, but this latest wrestling effort must surely take first place. So much so that the game's community has put together a Twitter hashtag where people can put all their favourite glitches and bugs for the world to see. It makes for pretty hilarious viewing, too.
Seriously, what on earth happened here!? We know that former developer Yukes was dropped for this year's iteration, but how WWE 2K20 managed to make it out the door in this state is completely beyond our comprehension. If you'd like to sample even more of its ridiculous problems and funny glitches, head through this link here.
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How it got released? Because 2K need a WWE game out every year and as long as the game doesn't brick systems then it's good to go it would seem.
Shareholder!!! Shareholder!!! Lol. I feel for the dev team as this is completely out of their control. Well maybe they suck but i doubt that. This needed 9-12 more months in the oven
I wouldn't be asking to fix the game as it seems pretty much broken from the ground up! I'd be asking for a refund instead! 😂
It would have been a better game if they just copied and pasted from last year.... this is sad.
Hey are you guys reviewing this ?
Save us AEW... Please.
Fix it? Nah, I’ll just pass on this one. I haven’t been playing much of WWE games like I used to but this is just sad. WWE games kinda lost their magic during the later years with THQ, or I just out grown em. I remember Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 having a whole bunch of problems and I stayed away from that too. Anyways, it’s a shame there isn’t any other wrestling out there. This probably why 2K can get away with this because there isn’t really a competition for wrestling games. Come on Yukes, get with Konami and bring back Rumble Roses. Yes, Rumble Roses. We’re gonna need something besides this mess of a WWE game.
This just shows us how bad the game industry has become if this passes as a finished product.
@oatmealwarrior92 Hey is that Dart from Legend of Dragoon., 😁
I agree, how could this pass as a finished product? How could they think anyone would buy it?
AEW game when?
And still you have people defend this stuff its insane. 😩
@Flaming_Kaiser yes !
This has to be the turning point for developers releasing buggy, unfinished games. People have to stop supporting this nonsense. Its embarrassing for 2K. They should give up the licence if they don't care any more.
The problem we have is that licensed sports games such as this will be picked up by the masses - in otherwords, people who don't follow gaming news and will have no idea how bad things are with this game. Which in turn will encourage 2k to do nothing as they still got the sales they wanted.
WWE seriously underestimate how important their games are. I only got into wrestling after playing WCW/nWo Revenge on N64 and getting hooked on the fun gameplay. It introduced me to the whole genre and the various wrestlers, so when I saw WCW Nitro on TV I knew who they all were and got hooked. When the next game was WWF Wrestlemania 2000 I subsequently started watching WWE Raw and became a fan of that. It also made me feel less connected to WCW and I wasn't as interested watching Nitro anymore.
The Yukes style of gameplay on the PlayStation WWF games never interested me at all and my disappointment that Yukes got to continue while AKI was dropped made me feel betrayed by WWE. I eventually stopped watching wrestling altogether for a decade. I've started watching it again recently but I don't really care about the wrestlers/characters like I did back when I played with them, so to speak, on the games.
I currently don't care about AEW at all because I know very little about their wrestlers. If they really do bring back the AKI engine for their game I will end up getting to know AEW really well. It's a brilliant move.
Ubisoft granted time to make this game instead of 2k I'm sure of it
Easy fix. Just play Fire Pro Wrestling instead!
sarcasm - still don’t know who these games are marketed to...
Shuhei Yoshida's response is funny lol
https://twitter.com/yosp/status/1186793651034189824?s=19
That header image is unsettling.
@redd214 it is, but i am a bit baffled this passed certification. this is partly sony's fault for allowing it to release as a retail product. what is the point of the certification process if this trash can make it through?
@WillMerfi if i could play it for free i would like to check out just how bad it really is. For about 10 minutes.
Alot of people dont give WWE any respect, these guys and girls are very good athletes. Personally, I cant stand it, but its a very popular show that rakes in alot of money. Sad they cant put more into their games for the fans. Maybe its because vince mcmahon has invested so much into XFL atm?
@ellsworth004 The XFL has nothing to do with WWE and vice versa. It's not like the original XFL. Vince put the money up for it but Oliver Luck pretty much runs it all. Vince even created an new company Alpha Entertainment so as to keep it separate from World Wrestling Entertainment.
@Genrou Oliver Luck is ceo and commish of xfl. It is owned by vince mcmahon and his company. Im aware that the xfl and wwe are not connected, but if xfl possibly does good(and i dont think it will). It could become bigger than wwe, which from what i hear is trash nowadays.
We all know vince is going to have his hands in it and ruin it.
@ellsworth004 Probably but I don't think it's the reason for WWE 2K20 turning out like this.
RetroMania Wrestling is the only wrestling game I’m looking forward to. Basically it’s a spiritual successor to WWF Wrestlefest.
Just hoping they add a create-a-wrestler mode.
@Porco I’m not sure how certification process works when it comes to stuff like this, since this awful mess has also made its way on Xbox One an PC. It would definitely help, cause this ain’t the only game to get away with this. Looking at you Tony Pro Skater 5. I’m sure this game will sale decent enough regardless of all this crap going on unfortunately.
@Genrou ur probably right there, i was just throwing out a conspiracy theory!
@oatmealwarrior92 Still a crime this wasnt on the PS Mini or atleast remastered or a remake. 😢
How did this get accepted by Sony and Microsoft qualitycontrol....🤔
And a indie game needs months to get accepted in Europe by Sony. 🤬🖕
@Porco no clue my friend, I will leave it to you to cast blame
@ellsworth004 there is almost no chance that the xfl becomes bigger than the WWE. Like damn near impossible for a myriad of reasons.
@Genrou You can't really base such a general statement on just one game. Plenty of equally, if not worse, example from the past.
" how WWE 2K20 managed to make it out the door in this state is completely beyond our comprehension"
simple because the publisher doesn't give a crap about quality all they want is a much money as possible, this is a game where no love or care is put into it and just crapped out so the whales will buy it, just like any sport game actually
Better or worse than Sonic 06?
I presume there is a very strict review embargo or no review copies were sent out as the game is out and have seen no reviews on any of the main sites.
@Genrou go back 20-30 years and look at some of the sh*te that made it through.
class action lawsuit.required just by the wrestlers that have suffered from this s show
I have no interest in the genre or game, but I just dont get how software is able to get through play testing these days. Worked on certification testing way back in the mid 2000's and it amazes me how low the standards have dropped....
There simply cannot be ANY QA testing done these days, as the idea that a group of people could miss all of this is truly astounding... Both MS / Sony need to take some responsibility too, as the idea of vetting games to make sure they are working is heading down the Steam route of no .exe files.
Can't even use the well tredded theory that gamers are the testers these days as this shouldn't have got past the beta....
@bindiana no reviews as the reviewers are to busy laughing to type. And thinking they are getting a april fools joke. But shoking every game site should have DONT BUY THIS GAME on front page
Yet nothing will happen about this. People have spared their hard earned cash, unknowing parents will have given this to disappointed kids everywhere, and nothing will happen. "It'll be patched" is disgusting. If someone was selling a car that didn't have working parts and you'd paid for it, you'd be annoyed and go back and kick up a fuss to the dealer. Why the hell companies are allowed to get away with this sort of behaviour these days is an absolute disgrace. Sure it's funny as an internet bystander to see these glitches and oddities, but as a paying consumer, people should want to be burning down the offices of these companies. Insane.
@nookie_egg Agreed. If it were any other product the company would be hauled over the coals for an unsaleworthy product.
Now they are probably in a position where it's not worth the time to fix it. It already has a spoiled reputation and probably didn't sell all that well. It will probably just get brushed under the carpet to be forgotten until the next game.
Read an article as well saying those who bought the expensive special edition didn't get the promised signed edge stuff as well
https://lordsofpain.net/edge-responds-to-fan-complaint-on-wwe-2k20-issues-will-provide-missing-autographs/
From that first screenshot, this game could be based in the same universe of Silent Hill.
I honestly just think this is hilarious! Look at these magnificent glitches, it's too good
Sorry if be asking for a refund it will take months of patching to fix this garbage
2K should lose the license. Better yet, sports should stop having exclusive deals with single companies. It's an effective monopoly.
Do you smeeeeeelllllllalaalalalalow... a lawsuit coming?
@Rob_230
I believe typically the sales for the product AFTER the rubbish one are the indicator, even if 2k21 turns out to be a stunning return to form , it's sales should be adversely affected by this.
@eltomo
A lawsuit? Unless you mean WWE suing 2K for a product that's not representative of the quality promised in the contract?
This just follows pretty much almost every game that comes out. For all the games that I bought as soon as they came out in the last year, apart from Red Dead Redemption 2 and a couple of others, all were not really finished products. After The Division2 pre-order, I made the decision of never buy on release or pre-order ever again. Unless is a thing like death stranding or cyberpunk (the force is too strong with those two)
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