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Yes, the game has the flashy new "ragdoll physics" now, yes the Island has a few new features. But all of that is shadowed by the sheer audacity of now implementing predatory Monetization methods like the Battle/Season passes, when MyFaction and the Island already existed, just turns me away from a franchise i loved for most of my life. Don't even get me started on how it seemingly is a big no-no for the game devs when players use a little trick to speed up progressing through the Passes and say it's "circumventing the system", but it's A-OK to pay an extra 70-80$ bucks to buy Tier-skips to speed up the progress all the same. Ridiculous. And the very fact, that 2K does not bother fixing bugs and issues that have been persisting through many WWE 2K games for YEARS, but just need one/two days to patch a bug, that allowed people to grind through their predatory Battle passes a little faster, just goes to show you, where 2K Games priorities truly are.

Yes, the game has the flashy new "ragdoll physics" now, yes the Island has a few new features. But all of that is shadowed by the sheer audacity of now implementing predatory Monetization methods like the Battle/Season passes, when MyFaction and the Island already existed, just turns me away from a franchise i loved for most of my life. Don't even get me started on how it seemingly is a big no-no for the game devs when players use a little trick to speed up progressing through the Passes and say it's "circumventing the system", but it's A-OK to pay an extra 70-80$ bucks to buy Tier-skips to speed up the progress all the same. **** the very fact, that 2K does not bother fixing bugs and issues that have been persisting through many WWE 2K games for YEARS, but just need one/two days to patch a bug, that allowed people to grind through their predatory Battle passes a little faster, just goes to show you, where 2K Games priorities truly are. And the very fact, that 2K does not bother fixing bugs and issues that have been persisting through many WWE 2K games for YEARS, but just need one/two days to patch a bug, that allowed people to grind through their predatory Battle passes a little faster, just goes to show you, where 2K Games priorities truly are.

It certainly is a huge step up from WWE 2K20 and a decent improvement on what WWE 2K22 did right. It is still far from perfect, however. Universe mode definitely is fun, but the lack of more interactive storyboards, show intros and a few others things prevents it from completely delivering that "I am running a real wrestling promotion" kind of feel.