Is there interest for WWE Esports?

i don't mean to burst your bubble at all, but i don't think this is feasible.

wwe 2k is not a fighting game, and thus isn't structured like one. moves have differing reversal windows proportional to their damage allowing for quite cheap movesets, and on a more baseline level a simulation of pro wrestling needs characters of varying strength to reflect the strength their character on tv is presented with, does that make sense? it's kind of the complete inverse of a typical competitive fighting game in that sense -- balance is not the goal, and it is blatantly discouraged by the media it's based on.

you had a good idea in premise -- it superficially LOOKS like a game that'd make for exciting esport play and certainly looks like an attractive prospect given the (hopefully) impending heating up of wrestling in pop culture, but wwe 2k is about as far from suitable as you can get for esports.

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