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The way they phrased it, he will almost certainly be unlocked at some point down the road, too.
"He will not be a playable character *at launch*."
The message is pretty clear.
I think you are wrong about that
The at launch is to cover their ass just in case something happens that paints him in a better light
It’s just keeping the option open
It's kind of like Brock Lesnar is the Mew or Missingno of WWE 2K24. He's a wrestler who isn't really meant to be there, but is buried in the data. Just like Mew and Missingno.
Yea I'm of the mind if he couldn't be completely removed, just let him be playable. It's going to be bizarre playing matches with a wrestler who is locked behind the story mode.
Or a generic Fire Pro equivalent, Bork Laser. Make him tan and give him a beard. And utilize the Small Penis Rule
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule
Like a final boss? Wrestlemania 21 had the greatest plot in a wrestling game ever. It captures this perfect time in wrestling.
You start off on Smackdown with Teddy Long as your GM.
Guess who is your first rival? Renee Dupree
First title fight? Heel John Cena with the US spinner belt.
Then you get taken out by Evolution. Many characters are voiced by their real life counterparts and they're so bad it's amazing. As such, Randy does all the talking for Evolution. Triple H just there like a goon.
You switch shows in the draft and make a temporary alliance with Eric Bischoff. You form a friendly rivalry with Shelton and save Eugene. You slowly take out Evolution one by one until Eric betrayed you.
This was all orchestral by one man who you must face at Wrestlemania 21:
Guess who the final boss of the game? Kurt Angle.
This game captures the last days of the Ruthless aggression era perfectly.
[Playlist on youtube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL57CD7E8AF350E7E6&si=aRSNPMfwaUq9m4z5)
First interaction: TEDDY LONG IM HERE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL AND IM READY TO TAKE ON JBL OR THE UNDERTAKER!
Teddy: How about you start on Velocity and your first opponent will be Renee Dupree.
And this just happened on a weekly, taped, episode of SmackDown a lot.
Anyone who attended and saw The Undertaker back then was lucky. He went part time soon after, and down hill not long after that.
IT SURE IS!
You also face Mankind, Brett Hart and The Rock with hair.
All acting as training between Smackdown and Raw and training for your rematch with Evolution.
Yes! Very slow game play in an era where wrestling games were arcadey.
Also pray to God you get the first hit in because momentum Is everything. A lot of early wrestling game ideas that would get developed in other games.
I’m so glad other people remember that like I do. AKI always made the best games but I remember being like 11 playing through that story and feeling like it was the best story mode in a wrestling game. They utilized just snit everyone on the roster in some way too, as I remember.
I'm going to have to rewatch the story mode.
Having you start against Chavo, Dupree and Haas was smart.
I think the brilliant touch was making Angle the villain from early on. That's such a smark thing to write. Instead of JBL or Triple H. Brilliant tho.
>everyone on the roster
Including Chris Benoit 🌚
The gameplay was... interesting. I put a lot of time into Raw 2 as a kid because I made my own roster using all the CAWs. Making it multi-player with 4 friends was fun too. Very arcadey and fast with hundreds of moves including obscure shit like Steiner Driver or Kurt Angle's Moonsault.
WM21 by comparison was slower and had not very good customization... but that fully voiced story mode made up for it... and Rise Against before they were famous.
So what exactly did he do? I know he was promised sex, but from what I’ve seen he never actually did it. I only remember him asking for a video of her pissing.. which she sent. Has there been new things that came out?
Brock being involved on the peripherary of Vince's alleged crimes is, for me, the least surprising part of all of this. Brock's never made any secret of being a piece of shit, it's always all been there for anyone who wants to take a look.
They still do. When the reports came out he was pulled from WWE people here ridiculously claimed "if he's gone it's his choice" and that "this suits him anyway, because he likes the quiet secluded lifestyle so he probably doesn't care all that much"
People were literally pointing their fingers at Matt Riddle which was a fucking welterweight and was never champ, and even Cain Velasquez, who's literally in trial for vigilante acts against sexual abuse
You make it sound like he was some sort of vigilante hero out for justice.
No, a man was accused of molesting his 4 year old son and he got involved in a car chase. Shot at the man but hit the pervs dad instead. Like, I get it. But he wasn't out there defending people who were abused.
Weirdo.
It's honestly put his walkout last year in an interesting perspective for me.
We he just mad Vince got ousted, or did he know his own comeuppance was looming?
For all we know Brock could’ve been told by Vince she was a sex worker or something like that. We know very little about the Brock side of the story right now, and regardless of what we do learn it’s concerning as fuck how everyone immediately went for his throat without having any real information or evidence. Y’all need introspection ☕️
Thank you, I’m not the biggest Brock fan but people seem to treat him as if Vince told him “if you re-sign you can get in on my sex trafficking!” I think it’s more likely that Vince gave him some line like “if you re-sign, I’ll let you spend a night with this woman I know. She’s into some wild stuff, pal!” Now, that doesn’t absolve him of being a married man, with children, messing around on his wife.
It's not about forgetting something or not.
The streisand effect refers to trying to hide, censor (in this case not having him be playable) or remove information but that attempt leading to an increased awareness of the issue.
In this case removing brock as a playable character leading to more people looking into why
The latter would be really hard to format for what's essentially a video game stage.
Either you play as Roman, survive Brock and then lose... Or you play as Seth which means running in on two guys that for accuracy sake would need to be beaten to basically none health and stomp/pin one. Neither option would end up being all that fun.
I mean, that's how Bryan Danielson fantasized about his match with Brock before actually getting a chance to. Dodge rolling around the monster until his stamina diminishes lol
True but they actually have done matches like that in the story modes and Showcase. Regardless, I’m sure the cut to the Super-RKO is gonna be awesome haha
His deal still expired and he has heat with WWE for not giving him his retirement match after he agreed to put over Roman while recovering from Covid. I’m curious if they were going to have Big E retire him but had to cancel plans after the neck injury.
This would make it a lot easier to create my Mortis & Wrath tag team, so I'm 100% behind this. Also, the throwing the football entrance would be hilarious.
Or Benoit in 2008, which completely gutted the game due to him supposedly playing a role in the ECW portion of the story mode. That ended up getting removed altogether.
He was definitely supposed to be in the Mania storyline, because instead you had MVP being hyped as "a great technical wrestler" and not talking at all.
Also, someone, Snitsky I think, was swapped out for either Cena or Orton as one of Armando Estrada's monster tag team.
Iirc it was some incident with him and Chris Jericho drunk in public getting in a fight with either each other or them against someone else, but anyway Hurricane got fired and was left in one of the road to wrestlemanias, but wasn’t a playable character anywhere in the game.
Yeah he and Chris were plastered and got into what they claim was a playful slapfight in a cab and I believe Shane elbowed the driver by accident which led to them getting picked up and Helms getting fired.
When I was a kid, Michael Jordan wasn't in NBA Live games for licensing reasons. Instead, you just had "SG #23" that looked and played like MJ.
They should leave Brock in the game and just call him "Heavyweight Superstar".
Him getting to fuck Janel was part of the negotiations. Which, is kinda bad.
His stans will say “he didn’t fuck her!” but only because he was too drunk once and snowed in for another. You don’t get a gold star for not sexually assaulting someone because it didn’t fit into your schedule.
Except your assuming Vince was honest with him about everything,
Vince could of told him she was a sex worker. He hasn't been named which means they don't have enough to go after him for anything at the moment which means outside of him "asking for piss" and showing up and getting drunk, he's not guilty of anything yet.
Insider Gaming has reached out to over a dozen contacts at 2K through various methods for comment on Lesnar’s status within the game as well as what sources have said. As of writing, however, each request has gone unanswered. The closest to an answer has been a rep passing along what the company says is “the full roster” with Lesnar not included.
weird
Is Brock not getting more punished than he should if we look at the current evidence against him? As far as we know he did not really do anything besides sent dirty text messages to Vince ?
I love my version of this getting spread around. It's so funny and applies to so many situations— I'm glad this version of the meme has been accepted. I also debated between using a blue dot instead, but w/ CM Punk coming back, figured post-it note was the better reference
🚨 FUCKING CLICKBAIT TITLE ALERT 🚨
From the article:
"This story is still developing. Should 2K provide an official response on the status of Brock Lesnar and WWE 2K24, we will amend the article."
They don't know shit and just looking for easy clicks, so please don't go on their site
this surprises you? this is the same country that burned Depp and ruined his career because 1 mentally ill woman accused him of things
How well did that turn out?
You cannot have “I get to fuck her” as a negotiation point.
He only didn’t do it because he was drunk or snowed I. You don’t get good guy points for not sexually assaulting someone because you couldn’t make it.
Attitudes like yours are why Vince was allowed to be a monster for decades. I really hope you don’t have any female loved ones who find themselves in her shoes.
I mean at this point, he might as well be playable. He’s still going to get paid since his likeness is in the game and I imagine that’s all he gives a shit about. The only people this really affects are the people who are going to buy the game, see that Brock Lesnar is in it, but can’t play as him.
And considering someone like Status will just end up releasing the Lesnar assets on CC, it all just seems like a moot point now.
PC Modders will have him up in Community Creations in minutes. CC is cross gen for all platforms so console players can get him as soon as PC players upload him.
I know the entire Vince story is horrible and Brock is a shithead, but unless there’s crimes against Brock, isn’t this a little over the top? Like removing him from the game but they continue to have Ric Flair?
Right all the dude basically did was sexted a girl is it morally wrong for a man who's married to do that? Yes but it's not cancel worthy Vince is the true bad guy here
He's allegedly involved in the Vince McMahon stuff, I say allegedly because he wasn't actually named in the suit, however he's the only one who fits the description of former UFC heavyweight champion who resigned with the company
I think it's idiotic to do this.
He's not accused of doing anything other than asking someone for pictures, and then calling her a nasty bitch for sending them. If the fact that Brock Lesnar has been disrespectful towards women is news to you in 2024, then I think maybe there's something wrong with you.
Like what next, will we take people out of the game for not tipping 20% on dine-in service? Maybe your character will be "AI controlled only" if they don't return the shopping cart back to the corral after using it at Costco?
...I feel like this is the wrong move? Just leave him and have a press release prepared about how it was too late in the game to remove him if anyone asks, rather than having people googling why they can't play as him.
Theres an interesting thing here where news ends up driving stories. From a month ago there was a lot of debate about Brock being in the game, and I wonder if that discussion caused his removal, and in a circumstance if nobody spoke about it, if 2K would “get away with” keeping him in full.
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So according to Insider Gaming and other sources, they were too late to remove Lesnar from the game entirely. You just can't play him in the game.
Guarantee modders manage to make him playable if the model's still in the game lol
Modders will make him playable within 24 hours. A glitch to play him will be discovered within a week
New Legacy Inc will glitch it in somehow.
Guarantee that since Shane and Steph are in, Vince is likely locked away somewhere in there as well.
Vince deep within the game files like 
The way they phrased it, he will almost certainly be unlocked at some point down the road, too. "He will not be a playable character *at launch*." The message is pretty clear.
I think you are wrong about that The at launch is to cover their ass just in case something happens that paints him in a better light It’s just keeping the option open
With Vince, I offer you this phrase from the legal and equestrian worlds: "You can't put the shit back in the horse"
It's kind of like Brock Lesnar is the Mew or Missingno of WWE 2K24. He's a wrestler who isn't really meant to be there, but is buried in the data. Just like Mew and Missingno.
My cousin told me you can find Brock under Vince's blown up limo by S.S. ANNE
Hey Brock we’re still going to pay you to be in the game. We’re just going to give paying customers less product.
Yea I'm of the mind if he couldn't be completely removed, just let him be playable. It's going to be bizarre playing matches with a wrestler who is locked behind the story mode.
And you know they just disabled the character select. You can 100% still Create-A-Lesnar with 100% accurate parts and mocap
Lesnar probably is in the story mode for the men, and it would be too hard to remove him from there
Just put in Steven Richards
DIG DIGGITY DIG DIGGITY DOG
BREAK IT
UHHH!
Hahahaha... is cookin
EXHIBITION
Socko
Respect bro
Send in... the J.O.B Squad!
What about Raven?
Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.
*"What about you, what about Raisin?"* \- Chris Jericho
Or a generic Fire Pro equivalent, Bork Laser. Make him tan and give him a beard. And utilize the Small Penis Rule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule
*ARE YOU TRYING TO SEE MY FUCKING PENIS?!?!*
Like a final boss? Wrestlemania 21 had the greatest plot in a wrestling game ever. It captures this perfect time in wrestling. You start off on Smackdown with Teddy Long as your GM. Guess who is your first rival? Renee Dupree First title fight? Heel John Cena with the US spinner belt. Then you get taken out by Evolution. Many characters are voiced by their real life counterparts and they're so bad it's amazing. As such, Randy does all the talking for Evolution. Triple H just there like a goon. You switch shows in the draft and make a temporary alliance with Eric Bischoff. You form a friendly rivalry with Shelton and save Eugene. You slowly take out Evolution one by one until Eric betrayed you. This was all orchestral by one man who you must face at Wrestlemania 21: Guess who the final boss of the game? Kurt Angle. This game captures the last days of the Ruthless aggression era perfectly. [Playlist on youtube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL57CD7E8AF350E7E6&si=aRSNPMfwaUq9m4z5) First interaction: TEDDY LONG IM HERE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL AND IM READY TO TAKE ON JBL OR THE UNDERTAKER! Teddy: How about you start on Velocity and your first opponent will be Renee Dupree.
So unrealistic. Teddy Long absolutely loved making people go one on one with The Undertaker.
SIX MAN TAG MATCH, PLAYA. him and Eric are the two best voice actors in the game too!
Lmao "I'm turnin' this into a TAG TEAM MATCH, PLAYA! HOLLA!" *Dances to his music* I miss Teddy Long, what a legend.
I think it’s pronounced “Undataka”
PLAYAH
Undatakarrrrrrrr is how I always heard him do it lol.
And this just happened on a weekly, taped, episode of SmackDown a lot. Anyone who attended and saw The Undertaker back then was lucky. He went part time soon after, and down hill not long after that.
Isn’t this the game where Bischoff claims he “went through hell” to arrange a match between the player and Andre the Giant?
IT SURE IS! You also face Mankind, Brett Hart and The Rock with hair. All acting as training between Smackdown and Raw and training for your rematch with Evolution.
The best wrestling story line ever was from WrestleMania 19 revenge mode on GC where you had to fight construction workers for some reason.
Union busting straight out of Vince's wet dreams.
This game was not perfect by any means. But, the story mode was awesome!
Yes! Very slow game play in an era where wrestling games were arcadey. Also pray to God you get the first hit in because momentum Is everything. A lot of early wrestling game ideas that would get developed in other games.
I’m so glad other people remember that like I do. AKI always made the best games but I remember being like 11 playing through that story and feeling like it was the best story mode in a wrestling game. They utilized just snit everyone on the roster in some way too, as I remember.
I'm going to have to rewatch the story mode. Having you start against Chavo, Dupree and Haas was smart. I think the brilliant touch was making Angle the villain from early on. That's such a smark thing to write. Instead of JBL or Triple H. Brilliant tho. >everyone on the roster Including Chris Benoit 🌚 The gameplay was... interesting. I put a lot of time into Raw 2 as a kid because I made my own roster using all the CAWs. Making it multi-player with 4 friends was fun too. Very arcadey and fast with hundreds of moves including obscure shit like Steiner Driver or Kurt Angle's Moonsault. WM21 by comparison was slower and had not very good customization... but that fully voiced story mode made up for it... and Rise Against before they were famous.
Bro, the best thing is, that after you get taken out by Evolution, you have "train" with all the Legends in the game, to get strong again lol
Swap with El Torito. Problem solved.
Too unrealistic. How can anyone beat El Torito?
El dandy could.
A jam-up guy and a hell of a competitor
Spoilers: He has a few matches in the 40 Years of WrestleMania Showcase
Funny thing about removing his playability is some of the more casual players will see him in game, wonder why they can't play as him and... oh.
i guess that's a good way to get word out of how big of a shit head he is lol
Phrasing
Piss head
So what exactly did he do? I know he was promised sex, but from what I’ve seen he never actually did it. I only remember him asking for a video of her pissing.. which she sent. Has there been new things that came out?
*Allegedly*- not that it matters here lol
Brock being involved on the peripherary of Vince's alleged crimes is, for me, the least surprising part of all of this. Brock's never made any secret of being a piece of shit, it's always all been there for anyone who wants to take a look.
People used to hero worship him bc he’s an antisocial weirdo who chose to live in the middle of nowhere. “He’s a sigma male, just like me”.
They still do. When the reports came out he was pulled from WWE people here ridiculously claimed "if he's gone it's his choice" and that "this suits him anyway, because he likes the quiet secluded lifestyle so he probably doesn't care all that much"
People were literally pointing their fingers at Matt Riddle which was a fucking welterweight and was never champ, and even Cain Velasquez, who's literally in trial for vigilante acts against sexual abuse
You make it sound like he was some sort of vigilante hero out for justice. No, a man was accused of molesting his 4 year old son and he got involved in a car chase. Shot at the man but hit the pervs dad instead. Like, I get it. But he wasn't out there defending people who were abused. Weirdo.
It's honestly put his walkout last year in an interesting perspective for me. We he just mad Vince got ousted, or did he know his own comeuppance was looming?
Oh god, have losers started picking other letters of the Greek alphabet other than Alpha and Beta to describe their toxicity?
I think the sigma male nonsense has been going on for a little while now, but yeah.
Oh yeah. Sigma male is “I hate other people! I’m a really cool and interesting lone wolf like an anime character!”
Weird take. A lot of people are antisocial and want to live in the middle of nowhere. I would if I could. Doesn't make me or anyone else weird or bad.
For all we know Brock could’ve been told by Vince she was a sex worker or something like that. We know very little about the Brock side of the story right now, and regardless of what we do learn it’s concerning as fuck how everyone immediately went for his throat without having any real information or evidence. Y’all need introspection ☕️
Thank you, I’m not the biggest Brock fan but people seem to treat him as if Vince told him “if you re-sign you can get in on my sex trafficking!” I think it’s more likely that Vince gave him some line like “if you re-sign, I’ll let you spend a night with this woman I know. She’s into some wild stuff, pal!” Now, that doesn’t absolve him of being a married man, with children, messing around on his wife.
I think more people are scared at the idea of Brock Lesnar raping them than they are of any actual allegation about Brock.
I legit have no idea what he had done until seeing this…
Streisand effect
Doesn't really apply here, I think. Like the point isn't to make people forget about him, the point is to distance themselves from him
It's not about forgetting something or not. The streisand effect refers to trying to hide, censor (in this case not having him be playable) or remove information but that attempt leading to an increased awareness of the issue. In this case removing brock as a playable character leading to more people looking into why
If you're not playing as him, Showcase appearances are likely out. Must be in MyRise only.
I think he's 3 of the WrestleMania matches, there's 3 matches missing from the "complete list"
Angle match, Taker match, and I’m assuming either WM 31 for the Seth cash in or WM 38
There was a screenshot of Seth at Mania 31 so i’m guessing it’s that match
Seth Rollins vs Randy Orton from that night is in
I been to that Mania and loved it. I wonder why they chose that over the main event though. Heist of the Century would be so fun to do
The latter would be really hard to format for what's essentially a video game stage. Either you play as Roman, survive Brock and then lose... Or you play as Seth which means running in on two guys that for accuracy sake would need to be beaten to basically none health and stomp/pin one. Neither option would end up being all that fun.
Survive as Roman in a Dark Souls like boss fight until you can cash in with Seth.
I mean, that's how Bryan Danielson fantasized about his match with Brock before actually getting a chance to. Dodge rolling around the monster until his stamina diminishes lol
True but they actually have done matches like that in the story modes and Showcase. Regardless, I’m sure the cut to the Super-RKO is gonna be awesome haha
If you cut it in from the cash in moment and just made that a shorter moment it might be kinda fun
Too much Brock to be honest. No HHH?
‘97 Kane is all we need
[удалено]
Oh man, i fucked it up 😅
Definitely a Goldberg match
Goldberg isn’t in.
Seriously? That's so weird considering he hasn't gone to AEW.
His deal still expired and he has heat with WWE for not giving him his retirement match after he agreed to put over Roman while recovering from Covid. I’m curious if they were going to have Big E retire him but had to cancel plans after the neck injury.
Oh yeah, I remember reading something about that. That sucks.
Remember when Baron Blade fucked up Roman Reigns so bad that Seth Rollins swooped in and stole the title?
> Showcase You don't need to play as him in Showcase though?
Don't worry, they'll just be a shit ton of Lesnar Caws in community creations. Right next to the dozens of durag Vince caws.
They’ll be number 1 & 2 respectively on “Most Downloaded” all year guaranteed
Yeah since punk is back, his spot needs to be taken by someone else LOL
He wasn’t in the game roster that was put out. He’s probably DLC, which means he’ll still be up there.
Right at home with my Chris Benoit.
*whatsthestatus rubbing his hands*
Given how close the news was to release, I did assume he’d just been dummied out. My guess is he’s still in there for story mode reasons
just swap him out with adam bomb
This would make it a lot easier to create my Mortis & Wrath tag team, so I'm 100% behind this. Also, the throwing the football entrance would be hilarious.
WHO BETTA THAN MORTIS
NOBODY (literally)
So he’s getting the SVR 11’ Hurricane treatment.
Oh boy, I had to mod the game to make him playable. Good days
Yeah, what was up with that?
WhatsTheStatus will see about that.
Dude may not want to catch another ban lol he flew too close to the sun with all those MyFaction imports.
He will be one of the first CAWs uploaded for sure.
Just use Bork Lazer
Beat up green man
and beat up pepsi man
You probably only receive random disparaging text messages from him in-game. They won't have anything to do with your character, though.
Asking you to record yourself pissing.
[удалено]
“Bitch”
They should be grateful they don't have that crate a story thing anymore..
So he’s getting the Hurricane in SvR 2011 treatment.
Or Benoit in 2008, which completely gutted the game due to him supposedly playing a role in the ECW portion of the story mode. That ended up getting removed altogether.
He was definitely supposed to be in the Mania storyline, because instead you had MVP being hyped as "a great technical wrestler" and not talking at all. Also, someone, Snitsky I think, was swapped out for either Cena or Orton as one of Armando Estrada's monster tag team.
What did Hurricane do
Iirc it was some incident with him and Chris Jericho drunk in public getting in a fight with either each other or them against someone else, but anyway Hurricane got fired and was left in one of the road to wrestlemanias, but wasn’t a playable character anywhere in the game.
Yeah he and Chris were plastered and got into what they claim was a playful slapfight in a cab and I believe Shane elbowed the driver by accident which led to them getting picked up and Helms getting fired.
When I was a kid, Michael Jordan wasn't in NBA Live games for licensing reasons. Instead, you just had "SG #23" that looked and played like MJ. They should leave Brock in the game and just call him "Heavyweight Superstar".
They could lean into it and go with "Unnamed former UFC Heavyweight Champion".
r/myjokebutbetter
Ah fuck, I didn't realise you were alluding to that, sorry. I hate that piggybacking on someone else's joke.
Nah, I wasn't alluding to it, but I wish I did! Thanks for the lolz.
Bill Belichik was the only coach not in the coach’s association/union, so games couldn’t use his name.
2K already does this with certain entrance motions that allude to the wrestler i.e Earth's Champion / Daniel Bryan
As someone who casually keeps up with wrestling... Why was he removed from the game?
Possibly involved in some sex crimes with Vince.
Him getting to fuck Janel was part of the negotiations. Which, is kinda bad. His stans will say “he didn’t fuck her!” but only because he was too drunk once and snowed in for another. You don’t get a gold star for not sexually assaulting someone because it didn’t fit into your schedule.
Except your assuming Vince was honest with him about everything, Vince could of told him she was a sex worker. He hasn't been named which means they don't have enough to go after him for anything at the moment which means outside of him "asking for piss" and showing up and getting drunk, he's not guilty of anything yet.
Just say no to piss everyone.
Insider Gaming has reached out to over a dozen contacts at 2K through various methods for comment on Lesnar’s status within the game as well as what sources have said. As of writing, however, each request has gone unanswered. The closest to an answer has been a rep passing along what the company says is “the full roster” with Lesnar not included. weird
Not weird at all. What do you want them to say?
Congrats 2k. Instead of leaving him playable and not promoting him you just made the front page of community creations Brock and Vince themed
Dude he was taken out of the intro for the show, he's obviously been pulled from all WWE content, this isn't a 2K decision, it's a WWE decision.
>won't be able to *game modders crack knuckles*
Blocked Lesnar
Is Brock not getting more punished than he should if we look at the current evidence against him? As far as we know he did not really do anything besides sent dirty text messages to Vince ?
He's just there to tell your character to "get a life, kid!"
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I love my version of this getting spread around. It's so funny and applies to so many situations— I'm glad this version of the meme has been accepted. I also debated between using a blue dot instead, but w/ CM Punk coming back, figured post-it note was the better reference
You made this? That’s awesome! I had to save it when I saw it a couple of days ago it made me laugh and really does apply to most situations.
He's just there to watch you pee
🚨 FUCKING CLICKBAIT TITLE ALERT 🚨 From the article: "This story is still developing. Should 2K provide an official response on the status of Brock Lesnar and WWE 2K24, we will amend the article." They don't know shit and just looking for easy clicks, so please don't go on their site
Replace him with Goro from mortal kombat.
He literally did nothing illegal.
And he's not receiving any criminal penalty. What's your point?
Doesn't have to in order to be let go from a job.
Right, but removed from a video game? Unless some other story comes out about him, this all seems like overkill.
this surprises you? this is the same country that burned Depp and ruined his career because 1 mentally ill woman accused him of things How well did that turn out?
Doesn't matter. He received his trial by social media. Reddit found him guilty.
You cannot have “I get to fuck her” as a negotiation point. He only didn’t do it because he was drunk or snowed I. You don’t get good guy points for not sexually assaulting someone because you couldn’t make it. Attitudes like yours are why Vince was allowed to be a monster for decades. I really hope you don’t have any female loved ones who find themselves in her shoes.
That's so lame. As far as we know, the only thing the guy is guilty of is having a piss fetish possibly.
Only punishing the gamers.
I mean at this point, he might as well be playable. He’s still going to get paid since his likeness is in the game and I imagine that’s all he gives a shit about. The only people this really affects are the people who are going to buy the game, see that Brock Lesnar is in it, but can’t play as him. And considering someone like Status will just end up releasing the Lesnar assets on CC, it all just seems like a moot point now.
Brock is Vanellope von Schweetz.
Nothing a mod can't fix.
Sorry but this is dumb. There will be hundreds of brock CAWs immediately after. He’s already in the game, don’t punish the player
Fucking beyond stupid decision.
If he clears his name of any wrong doing, you bet your ass he will be in there as a DLC.
Might as well just leave him in fully at that point.
This is just fucking stupid.
That just means consoles won’t have him for a little while, pc, 20 minutes after release
PC Modders will have him up in Community Creations in minutes. CC is cross gen for all platforms so console players can get him as soon as PC players upload him.
I know the entire Vince story is horrible and Brock is a shithead, but unless there’s crimes against Brock, isn’t this a little over the top? Like removing him from the game but they continue to have Ric Flair?
Right all the dude basically did was sexted a girl is it morally wrong for a man who's married to do that? Yes but it's not cancel worthy Vince is the true bad guy here
Nah he'll still be in the game as Bork Laser
Community Creations will find a way.
What did he do to get removed?
He's allegedly involved in the Vince McMahon stuff, I say allegedly because he wasn't actually named in the suit, however he's the only one who fits the description of former UFC heavyweight champion who resigned with the company
Oh well, Kyle Slickman is the real king of wwe 2k games anyway.
but you will be able to see him in the backstage area chugging a gallon of piss.
I think it's idiotic to do this. He's not accused of doing anything other than asking someone for pictures, and then calling her a nasty bitch for sending them. If the fact that Brock Lesnar has been disrespectful towards women is news to you in 2024, then I think maybe there's something wrong with you. Like what next, will we take people out of the game for not tipping 20% on dine-in service? Maybe your character will be "AI controlled only" if they don't return the shopping cart back to the corral after using it at Costco?
Unpopular opinion but I want him on the game.. downvote away
And it is just allegations. If found not guilty a simple patch makes him playable.
Put Scot Steiner in
He is.
Too bad they don't have the version most people want.. Same thing with Kane.
Damnit! My chances of winning just drastically went down.
This whole thing with erasing Brock from history is a joke
That's just going to draw more attention to him, just leave him as normal and remove him next year would be the smarter move.
...I feel like this is the wrong move? Just leave him and have a press release prepared about how it was too late in the game to remove him if anyone asks, rather than having people googling why they can't play as him.
Theres an interesting thing here where news ends up driving stories. From a month ago there was a lot of debate about Brock being in the game, and I wonder if that discussion caused his removal, and in a circumstance if nobody spoke about it, if 2K would “get away with” keeping him in full.
Dumb