Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "WWE 2K25 - SALES & REVIEW ROUND-UP"

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠ In this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, Analytic Dreamz dives into WWE 2K25’s early sale discounts, gameplay innovations, and launch impact. Explore CDKeys’ deals—up to 30% off the Standard ($49.19) and Bloodline Editions ($110.09)—and key features like The Island open-world mode, intergender matches, and MyGM Online. Released March 14, 2025, it sold over 2 million copies in week one, despite mixed PC reviews (61% on Steam) and microtransaction backlash. Analytic Dreamz breaks down sales, technical issues, and future updates in this must-listen wrestling sim analysis.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Getting into WW2K25, which of course was developed by visual concepts, a veteran studio under 2K, known for the WW2K series. Now, of course, with that being said, as a fellow content creator, I'm wondering where my content creator is at. Because as far as speed, as far as either Logan or Drake Paul, I forget, you're not getting mixed up all the time. But apparently, WWE doesn't include any real. world content creators as playable characters. Now at first glance, you're probably thinking to yourself, well, that's an entitled way to look at a sports video game. But you come to realize WWE is all about the show, right? It's almost as if they have speed and these other content creators show up to increase the overall visibility

and engagement of the sport and is working because of course, with that being said, there are 300 plus people on the roster of WWE. Why can't some content creators, like three or four, five of them, be a part of it, like a content creator pack. You feel me? So anyway, that was just one of the things I noticed, but that's not the big discrepancy. That was just really more of a, that's not the big, I'm not too offended by them not have any content creators in a game.

Just, you know, just thinking out loud, right? But as far at WW2K25, it is on PS4, PS5, Xbox 1, Xbox Series X and S, and PC. But just to note, for the people playing on retro consoles as far as the PS4 and Xbox 1, the island is exclusive to the PS5 and Xbox Series X and S because of the next gen capabilities and no additional platform supports have been announced but crossplay across gen supports but there's cross gen supported right so if you play on x-by series x or s if you play on ps5 you can still play with each other on w and especially the island so when it comes to optimization it's pretty solid as it runs at 60 frames per second but of course just like any

games sometimes you have texture pops up pop-ups and things in that nature now of course the big elephant in the room that i've been ignoring and a lot of people have not been ignoring is the micro transactions as when it comes to vc ea is going to find any and every way possible to get every shiny penny out of a sports game i don't know if y'all know but as far as ball and gun type games i've always said throughout the entire lifespan of this podcast that they are more popular with the general gamer out there because of the accessibility and the familiarity they have with the specific game because now you get off work and you don't want to learn a whole new game like elder elton ring you're not trying to be put through that type of stress where martha was putting you through all that type of

stress when you was at your job so these type of sports games these type of shooting games that they can get acclimated to and then they continuously put out in addition year after year, you come to realize that's the reason why they are so immensely popular. And with that being said, the reason why I said is because MLB the show is currently the second most play game on Xbox. As far as sports games, 2K25, MLB the show, FC25 is all in the top five of PlayStation and college football and Madden 25 is in the latter part of the top 10. So having five games in the top 10 on PlayStation,

when, you know, technically it's only one on Xbox, which is, you know, definitely surprising. But in general, ball and gun games do phenomenal compared to your usual hardcore game out there. So what does EA do with those type of? numbers they completely ignored the immense support that people are putting into these sports games and they come out and let you know that if you're not able and if you're not willing to pay five dollars for sneakers 10 dollars for a shirt like who they think they are h and new wwe with the island no no EA with the island and more specifically visual concepts what they are doing as far as micro transactions

implementing those into the island is a criminal act and the way that they're going about it and trying to justify it is very upsetting because of course now you have a split fan base whenever i was initially looking up things as far as giving the review and sales round up for this particular game guess what a lot of the player count was at a certain level that made it seem healthy right and then Once they start to realize the micro transaction and the island, guess what the player count is now? As far as on PC, there's 1,900 people currently playing the game. Now, I'm being a little facetious, 1963. My bad, I forgot the 63.

As far as on Xbox, WW2K-25, no, W, not 2K. Oh, it is 2K, okay, my fault. WW2K-25, it's nowhere to be found on Xbox and PlayStation as far as top 10. them. With that being said, there are other sports games that came out later, and there's other sports games that was recently released, such as MLB, the show, that is currently on the top 10. So I would assume when it comes to sales, not only did people not support the base game and buying it and playing it, but now that they've seen the overall reception, they're not supporting it at all, which is very interesting because first week sales for this game was, over two million that's a success in anybody's book depending on what the budget is for EA sports games get an ultimate pass because they bring in revenue year after year it's not some old wait 25 years and we may put it out like gta right sports games come out year after year and it's not really a lot of service they make you buy the game again another 70 dollars for

every single year so don't know why sports gamers haven't called out these sports games for not just making it a lot of service and updating it, but you know, at the end of the day, that's how they want to run their community. So, hey, I guess that's just how it is. But as far as the DOC for this game, it does include Motor City Machine Guns and rumored Pinta L0M. I don't know what that means, but for the WWE fans out there, you probably are excited for that. And also, when it came to listening to the feedback, looking at the player count, just take a complete, down spiral and its effectiveness of putting in my uh when it's in effectiveness of putting in my uh uh when it's ineffectiveness of putting in monetization into the island they have came out and said

that they are going to rework the island's monetization along with fixing online matchmaking and creation suit bugs and also adjust a i balance for realism and intergender matches now that is interesting what they're about to do make the females lose the whole health bar in one hit so do the women even fight the men in w w is it like i really don't watch the w w w e if you couldn't tell so when it comes to women versus men i would think that's like not allowed but i don't know maybe i'm i'm missed out on something because usually i see as men fighting men and women find men and women but you know maybe i'm sure maybe i'm missing something so when it comes to the reviews of of WW2K25.

IGN came out and gave this game an 8 out of 10 saying that it's pretty grand with smart additions like intergender intergender matches and a stack roster. Okay, actually the more I'm thinking about, maybe it's not in the actual WW, but maybe they put it in the video game sense, right? Maybe they put it to where the women can fight the men

in the video game sense, but not in actual WWE. Because I've seen a lot of clips I've never seen women fight men and men fight women in WWE. So when it comes to the video game and them having intergender matches, very interesting because a lot of people in the 2K community have started to come out and say, hey, with the rise of Caitlin Clark, with the rise of Angel Reese, with the rise of, I forgot, I don't even know. Who's the one girl from the Sparks? I'm not fair to look that up right now.

So the girl from the Sparks and the girl off of USC. right? With the rise of popularity in watching women's sports, why is there not an option to put a woman or to create a woman, my player in 2K? And think about it. Since it's a video game, they could just say, hey, we're putting women, we're giving you the option to create a woman in 2K and we're not making it realistic. What that means is basically you could be Zion Williams, but built like Kalin Clark on the court, right? So I think the whole realism being taken out and giving women the ability to create the own player in my in my career is very interesting why they haven't done that before but wwe has you know they they it seems like they're the first sports

game to even have this type of feature so intergender matches and obviously i could be completely ignorant right now like i said i don't watch wwe i'm just letting you know uh what they have so game spot gave his game a eight out of ten games radar gave it a four out of five VGC gave it a four out of five and WCCF tech gave it a seven point five at a 10 saying fun but glitches in a regressive island mode hold it back so a lot of the people are disrespecting the island and it's very justifiable it's respectfully giving disrespect when it's due y'all are trying to play in our faces by charging this VC for a game we already paid $70 for and you're not NBA 2K. You're not MLB to show.

You're not even FIFA. You're WWE trying to make a name for yourself and making your own version of my city in WWE. But the thing is you started off with the VC strategy that the already established sports games have, which does not work. So that's unfortunate. But one of the things I will give them the W on. is intergender matches.

I think that's fire. I think that's the way that NBA 2K should go and definitely give women the ability to create their own character. Because if it's a video game, then you could be like, oh, a woman dunking on a man makes total sense, right? It's going to have to take out that realism factor

for the my part. Because no matter what the women say, you know what I'm saying? There's a reason why there's no women in the NBA. You know what I'm saying? Like it's the levels to it. That's why if women were able to create their own character in NBA 2K, I do believe they should introduce their intergender factor

by saying that we're taking out the realism just to let women go crazy and dunk like Zion post up and have the strength of, no, I mean, yeah, dunk like John Morant, post up and have the strength like Zion. Like I think things like that, Brittany Griner could have the AD build. Like, you know, it's a lot of things that we can have. have taken out as far as a realism factor that I think will actually 10 X the enjoyment of

gamers, no, girl gamers being included along with the NBA 2K community. Because they probably already played the game. One of my friends, I'm not going to say who he is, but one of my friends, let's just say he's a different ethnicity than the one he chose in a game. I thought it was the most hilarious thing possible. I ain't a lot to you. So as far as the ability to take the realism factor out and just have fun, people would do that.

they just want to have fun. Then I think about all this realistic now when it comes to quick play and getting back into like Golden State versus Cavaliers and don't make it to where the LA Sparks can play the Golden State Cavaliers and it'll be a close game.

Like it's not going to work like that. We're talking about my part only as far as taking the realist amount. All right, that's it. That's my soapbox. With that being said, click my link to your bio. Let me know on one of my social media.

What do you think about WWE 2K25? Obviously, people are saying it's a solid game. And a lot of people are enjoying the different game modes in it and the intergender male versus female matchups and things of that nature. So click my link to my bio. Let me know on one of my social media is. What do you think about the overall longevity of WW2K25? And what do you think they could do to fix it to make the players come back?