Disappointing News on Divas in WWE 2K16

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by bdolski

WWE is petty, and could have pulled them so they can use them as a marketing point for next year. And the amount of people who are divas fans is a small minority anyways. September 2014 at Takeover Bayley faced off with Charlotte. the December 2014 Takeover was when Charlotte and Sasha had their title bout, the same PPV Owens debuted at. They had the same amount of time to get Balor, Owens, Enzo, Cass, Corbin, and the Vaudevillians into the game as the NXT ladies. The Cody Rhodes point was just to show WWE has the last say on the roster and who's included. 2K wanted him in for the versatility, I get WWE wanting to stick to current gimmicks. I just don't buy that 2K didn't have enough time to get them in. I'll stand by WWE didn't approve them to be in. And next year they'll use them as a selling point with the debuting women's career mode.

You dont get how this works though. WWE doesnt come to 2k with marketing ideas or feature sets for future games.....2k comes to the WWE with that.

WWE didnt say to 2k this year "We want to do a mode featuring Stone Cold's career". 2k did that. They come up with the feature set and marketing plan and WWE approves it. Same with every other sports game from Madden to UFC to NBA2k.

So your "WWE pulled them as a marketing point for next year" makes no sense at all.

To your other points: 2k knew that people wanted NXT in the game. They just thought people would care more about the NXT guys than the girls.

[sirjam]

Quote: Originally Posted by redsox4evur

I will still buy because I need a wrestling game. LOL. But I completely agree that is unacceptable for these 4 women to not be in the game. I could understand it if they signed around the time that the roster had to be finalized, but where they have been signed for a while it is unacceptable.

Exactly. I still don't see why they made the announcement they wouldn't be dlc either. That's really unacceptable and the straw that broke the camels back for me

[woody2goody]

Everyone possible should be in. End of story. WWE continues to show that they don't care about the fans.

I'm still buying because I don't use the women a great deal, but I would definitely have used Charlotte, Bayley, Sasha and Becky.

The roster is great, but those 4, plus Joe, Rhyno, BAMF witj Los Matadores and Strowman as DLC would make it complete and brilliant. As it stands the roster is 8/10 where it could have been 10.

Hopefully DLC will give us some nice surprises.

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[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by sirjam

Exactly. I still don't see why they made the announcement they wouldn't be dlc either. That's really unacceptable and the straw that broke the camels back for me

DLC is already decided and created around the time the roster is locked. If they didnt make the announcement people wouldve said that they intentionally withheld that info to make people buy the game.

[King_B_Mack]

I mean....to be fair about the whole situation. People on these forums were still talking about women's wrestling in the context of taking a piss break and not giving a damn about that portion of the product during some of the live Raw threads before this whole "divas revolution" stuff when some of us were calling for giving the ladies more time and calling up Sasha, Charlotte, etc. That was around the time the roster was probably being finalized and yet now people are throwing bitch fits about them not being in the game?

Given the nature of WWE programming at the time and the general sentiments about women's wrestling from a very loud portion of the interwebs I don't think 2K really underestimated the popularity of Sasha/Charlotte/Becky/etc so much as they couldn't predict the future that WWE would suddenly decide to give a damn about them and really push them this year.

[giantsharks]

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/6257...removable-more

so it looks like this one is on 2k not the WWE. They made it seem like it was more WWEs doing but this Q&A shows that they didnt have time.

[giantsharks]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

I mean....to be fair about the whole situation. People on these forums were still talking about women's wrestling in the context of taking a piss break and not giving a damn about that portion of the product during some of the live Raw threads before this whole "divas revolution" stuff when some of us were calling for giving the ladies more time and calling up Sasha, Charlotte, etc. That was around the time the roster was probably being finalized and yet now people are throwing bitch fits about them not being in the game? Given the nature of WWE programming at the time and the general sentiments about women's wrestling from a very loud portion of the interwebs I don't think 2K really underestimated the popularity of Sasha/Charlotte/Becky/etc so much as they couldn't predict the future that WWE would suddenly decide to give a damn about them and really push them this year.

I respectfully disagree. They put every diva that was on the main roster in the game including Alicia Fox,i think they got that people wanted womens wrestling. Sasha Banks and Charlotte were tearing down the house a couple months before wrestlemania 31. I would say september of 2014 is when they got really hot and in December 2014 sasha and charlotte had a classic match. By mania that year they were on fire in nxt. if baron corbin is in the game then sasha and charlotte should be in the game, they have been and still are more over then him