WWE 2K21 Budget Slashed; Devs Quitting

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411MANIA | Former WWE Video Game Writer Says 2K Dev Team Members Quit, Budget Slashed

– Justin Leeper, who worked as a writer on the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw series, posted a video where he claims members of the WWE 2K20 development team have quit. He also noted that the budget for WWE 2K21 will be slashed due to the poor performance of WWE 2K20. Highlights (via Fightful) are below.

“2K and the people within it are trying to distance themselves from it. I’ve heard about double digit people who were on the team who have quit. They haven’t left for other stuff, they just quit because, ‘Man, I don’t want this stink on me anymore.’

“2K20 is selling poorly, it’s doing poorly all around. That means the budget is going to be cut. It means 2K21 is gonna have to be made for less money. Less money to fix things, innovate, and now there are about ten less people on the team. As you can tell, the outlook is not good for 2K21 either.”
 

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These idiots just don't get it, stop making games every year it's ridiculous. Now they're going to slash the budget for the follow up to a broken game making it look and perform shyttier than the last and what are they gonna do when it underperforms again? Slash the budget?

They should just cancel 2k21 and take their time with the next game. Make something worth buying and try to earn back some goodwill.
 

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Honestly they are better off not releasing a game next year if that’s the case.

Releasing a shytty game next year would essentially be a final nail in the coffin for a WWE related video game as long as 2K has the license. I’d go as far as saying a WWE game in general.

Hell even EA still hasn’t recovered the NBA Live franchise after what happened years ago.
 
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These idiots just don't get it, stop making games every year it's ridiculous. Now they're going to slash the budget for the follow up to a broken game making it look and perform shyttier than the last and what are they gonna do when it underperforms again? Slash the budget?

They should just cancel 2k21 and take their time with the next game. Make something worth buying and try to earn back some goodwill.

If they can’t cancel the game, at least make it a cheap mobile exclusive, don’t release the shyt on consoles, if the sales are low with 2K20, imagine how low it will be with 2K21, they really should start working on 2K22 for the next gen which will probably be a stripped down piece of shyt anyway.
 

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Only way to save face is to pull a No Mans Sky and update this game until it’s right. 2k21 should basically just be a free update to this version

I don’t know if 2K would be willing to put in the time and resources to update the game as it seems like they are already chalking up this release as a lost cause.
 

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I don’t know if 2K would be willing to put in the time and resources to update the game as it seems like they are already chalking up this release as a lost cause.
Their only saving grace is being the only mainstream game in town. Look at what happened with Live, they actually put out a great basketball game last outing but people remembered the previous outings and stayed far away
 
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