I know AEW had little to do with development, cause Omega had to clarify many times due to people sending him crass comments that all he/Uno/AEW did was basically provide a project outline of what they wanted and Yukes ran from there.
I want to say AEW has the blame over how it’s been monetized (highly priced packs of solo wrestlers for DLC) and the like (tho I may be wrong), but Yukes absolutely takes most of the blame for the state of the game since day 1. I believe they were also working on at least 1 other game at the same time so not all their resources were going into FF and it’s clear whoever at the company were the ‘wrestling game people’ probably moved on years ago as is typical (see Bioware, Bethesda, Maxis, Rockstar, etc etc etc)
Yes, AEW FF was a huge disappointment if you paid more than $10-$20 for it, but it has good bones and lots of room to grow on. And, let’s be fair here, WCW vs. nWo World Tour was quite similar in terms of bare bones to AEW FF. The team building those games got better with WCW/nWo Revenge, and then even better when the developers moved to the WWF license with WrestleMania 2000 and No Mercy.
But, for the love of all that’s holy, remove the mini-game craziness and put a year into making a create a pro mode that equals the WWE games or even better surpasses it.
I know AEW had little to do with development, cause Omega had to clarify many times due to people sending him crass comments that all he/Uno/AEW did was basically provide a project outline of what they wanted and Yukes ran from there.
I want to say AEW has the blame over how it’s been monetized (highly priced packs of solo wrestlers for DLC) and the like (tho I may be wrong), but Yukes absolutely takes most of the blame for the state of the game since day 1. I believe they were also working on at least 1 other game at the same time so not all their resources were going into FF and it’s clear whoever at the company were the ‘wrestling game people’ probably moved on years ago as is typical (see Bioware, Bethesda, Maxis, Rockstar, etc etc etc)
Yes, AEW FF was a huge disappointment if you paid more than $10-$20 for it, but it has good bones and lots of room to grow on. And, let’s be fair here, WCW vs. nWo World Tour was quite similar in terms of bare bones to AEW FF. The team building those games got better with WCW/nWo Revenge, and then even better when the developers moved to the WWF license with WrestleMania 2000 and No Mercy.
But, for the love of all that’s holy, remove the mini-game craziness and put a year into making a create a pro mode that equals the WWE games or even better surpasses it.