Nikki Bella UNHAPPY With WWE 2K25! Farewell Tour DLC Details & More!
Today we’re talking about 2K25 and their shutdown day. Nikki Bella’s got comments about well how she looks in the game and a little bit more to talk about the farewell tour pack that’s coming out. We’re talking about all of this and more today on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Assemble. My name is Matt. Good to see you. Good to have you. Let’s talk about 2K shutting down. No, not officially shutting down like it’s all over and it’s never coming back ever again. Although somebody out there’s probably like, “Yay!” But that’s not the case. We’re talking about when the server shutdown actually occurs, but this kind of blends into a little bit more and talking about the Switch release that we did have and how a every year they do these shutdowns. Now, last year, I will say this ahead, last year they shut down 2K, I believe in the server shut down in January for the previous year’s game, excuse me. And I think when they did that, that let left a lot of people very angry because they were still playing the game from the previous year. Some people just are like, “Oh yeah, I just play last year’s game cuz then I get a year ahead kind of deal and they’re more casual with it.” Yeah, I I think that they they made it a lot earlier in previous years and then that rubbed people the wrong way that were still playing the game. So, it’s not the case this year. Looking at Game Rant, they just had an article go up about this and giving people the heads up of when the 2K online servers will shut down. So, they’re actually changing it quite a bit. According to this article, anyways, it says that it’s been revealed that the rest of the game will go offline starting March 14th, 2027. So 2K25 has got another 2 years of life in it before the servers get shut down. Shutdown date is two full years from 2K25’s launch, which was on March 14th, 2025. Players now have under a year and a half to rack up 2K25 trophies, etc. This is drastically different than what they’ve done before, keeping the game servers online. What do you think? Do you care? Do you need the servers to be online that long? Are you moving on to the next game? I’m moving on to the next game always. The article continued to say that when it comes to 2K23 and 2K24, they were getting mildly longer leases on life around 22 months from the respective release dates. They also talk about how like PGA Tour is also getting extensions for their lifespan. This could also do with the fact that 2K25 released on the Switch uh in the summertime and because of that, they might want to be giving that game a little bit longer life. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a 2K game on the Nintendo platform. So, they could be and likely would put the next year’s game on the Switch 2. So, I think it’s a good move. It keeps the game alive longer versus, like we said, them shutting them down like kind of instantly. The next bit of news though is talking about Nikki Bella. But before we do that, I do have to thank today’s sponsor. It’s football season. You know what that means? You got to go out there and you got to place some bets on a couple of your favorite teams. The Bucks, the Packers, the Seahawks, whatever your fancy is. I probably names that you don’t like, but regardless, it’s a good time to have a little bit of fun. Place some bets with my bookie. I do personally go and place some bets with a couple of buddies whenever there’s baseball, playoffs, hockey, football. I’ll partake a little bit myself. My bookie makes it super easy to get into all the action, whether it is going to be the NFL, college football, and more. All the spreads, player props, and in-game lines you want. And if you want up to $500 completely covered, My Bookie will do that. 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My previous video, and I’ll link it in the description, as well as probably just throw to it at the very end of the video, it talks about the steps you need to do in order to get Nikki Bella and Goldberg. It long and short of it is it costs VC. It’s going to cost you about $20 US or 2728 Canadian if you are looking to get that pack with the two of them in there. They are made made available through the island event only. You don’t have to do anything in there. You simply have to just go to them in the island in the hall of fame. Talk to them. You can get prompted to buy the DLC pack, go through some text, and it’s done in 2 minutes. So, you actually don’t have to do any matches. If you want to get Goldberg and I Bella and they’re on your list, you can totally do that. I also talk about ways that you may have some VC, extra VC lying around there. So, anyways, that’s in the other video, but Nikki Bella made some comments because she got added to 2K25 and she ain’t happy about it. I’ll tell you that much. It is silly. And it was on the podcast with her and Bri. And Bri Bella bluntly described the in-game character as quote super ugly with a quote weirdo ass haircut. They were talking about in the clip for their podcast. It’s like they gave you a bob. Is that a bob? It I don’t know. It’s like a little bit of a mid bob, like midlevel haircut thing. It’s not good. Mostly the body and the face. The face is also got some problems. Nikki identified the hairstyle as one from a past WWE appearance, but agreed with her sister’s overall assessment of the digital rendering. Quote, “They did the bob from when was the Rumble we did when the boys were babies, 2021, right?” Nikki said before noting, “Girl, the whole thing’s terrible.” Yeah, it’s not good. You couldn’t like Nikki’s on TV right now. I know that you can’t just jump in a plane and go to the arena and then scan one person and you also have them ready to go in the game like from previous years, right? From 2K23, I believe when she was in, you’re just going to rip from that. I get it. But you couldn’t like just even use even if you can’t rescan her. You wouldn’t just do like the longer she’s had the longer hair for a long time now. you wouldn’t just slap on a longer hair thing to the style to to make it look a little bit more up-to-date and modern. It’s always pulled from a previous generation. I I think that that’s a problem and maybe it would kind of compensate for the face. The face also the face capture, it’s just not a good one. Here’s what’s going to be funny is that next year’s game they hear this backlash from the wrestler themselves and I can almost guarantee you they’re going to be all over Nikki Bella. And I guarantee you that when you get marketing and commercials for 2K26, dude, she’s going to be like in the promo material and the advertising and they’re going to make a highlight of like, look at her face. That’s good, right? Like, it’s just how it goes. It’s going to be funny. But anyways, yeah, uh, terrible model. And, um, I’m happy for people that like to have Nikki Ballet back in their video game. The news doesn’t stop there, ladies and gentlemen. Na na. We also got to talk about this farewell tour edition. There’s a lot to unpack here that I’m very tickled by. And I got to give a shout out to Witty the G and also what’s the status obviously in the community because they are the ones that are going through and they’re digging up all this good stuff. So Witty did find recently some articles of clothing that were in the game. The Farewell Tour edition though is a late edition of the game where they re-release it around in the previous years. We’ll talk about it, but they around the October season and they just give you a fresh edition. and they’ve added a little bit of DLC, but every year when they’ve done this, they’ve added a little bit more. We had the Bad Bunny edition that came out and then we’ve had the Wyatt edition and now we’re getting a farewell tour edition tying into John Cena’s retirement tour, which I think is a very smart move. Also, you’ve already done the John Cena edition of the game. We’ve had in previous years where we went through all of his highlighted matches, so we know we’re not going to get like a Cena showcase next year to tie in retirement. We’ve already done that, but it’s nice that they are adding this farewell tour in the game. Now, with that, they outline and Witty the G outlines the superstars that are supposed to be in this pack to be able to get. Again, this will be additional cost to everybody probably in the N. See, if Nikki and Goldberg were 20 bucks, this Farewell Tour Edition DLC, I’m going to guess it’s $30 $40 cuz it’s just going to be that way. This edition is supposed to come with our Truth Ron Cena. So, from Saturday night’s main event where you had Ron Cena in the red, Ron Cena, John Cena get up going up against Cena, you’re probably going to be getting that one. You’re getting John Cena Wrestlemania 41, which will be nice because you will get heal John Cena with the heelrons and the motion. That would be nice. You’re also going to get John Cena 2003, which is a nice little throwback. And Brock Lesnar. Whitty does say that the content is based on data found in the game files and could change. So, could be adjusted, could change, but Witty did some digging and it does very much confirm from patch 1.25, Brock Lesnar is going to be added in because you can see Brock Lesnar’s 2025 t-shirt is added in and 2025 cowboy hat has been added in with the patch. It’s in the men and women’s sections of Create a Superstar that you can add this in there. So, we’re getting Brock Lesnar back in the video game. A late edition. If you are a fan of Brock, I think it’s great that they are putting him back in there. there. I know there’s always controversy and there’s there’s even more controversy regards to just the Brock Lesnar wrestle Palooa match that we all experienced together. That was something. But we are going to get Brock this year, which would pretty much guarantee us that we’re going to get Brock next year. Maybe even Goldberg too and Nikki Bella. Who knows? But with Brock, it’s a nice addition to be able to round out the roster. It is late in the year, but it does tie in with the farewell tour. And the positive thing I’ll say is I I think it’s good on 2K to be adding in somebody like Brock this late and not saving it for DLC next year. I wish they would really take a step further and give us I I’ve said this in other videos with that with the DLC packs. Doing something like this. Give me extra arenas. Do custom belts. Something else. Do me give me a showcase. Create you know that for the last year it’s been John Cena’s farewell show like tour. Give us like a little mini showcase of John Cena. I know we’ve had the John Cena showcase mode in the previous year, but give us other matches that were not covered. Give us Brock and Cena again. Like do something that you could tie it in and give us a 2-hour showcase of John Cena. Some other matches that you didn’t use previously. I think that would be a lot of fun for people. If you can’t do that, I would have loved for them to pull some retro arenas from maybe some of John Cena’s best matches when we had the John Cena showcase. Maybe pull some just pull some arenas from there and just add them into this if you have them made available. I know we’ve got creation suite. That’s great and we can recreate most of these things. But if there’s Wrestlemania arenas that John Cena had Wrestlemania matches and they were in the 2K showcase the other year, throw those in there. Throw in more ECW. Throw in more for fans to be able to really beef this thing up. Especially if the price tag for just this farewell tour edition is going to be like I don’t even know like the game itself will be listed at full price to get the DLC on its own. It’s probably going to be $30 $40. So it scares me a little bit here. So buyer beware. But I will say when will this come out? We don’t know officially yet when it will release ladies and gentlemen. But I have a theory because I looked at the previous years 2K23. We got the Bad Bunny edition. That sucked. Now, that sucked because well, you’re getting Bad Bunny and he wasn’t an updated version of Bad Bunny. If I recall, it was like all the same and you got a My Faction card and VC and it cost I want to say it cost 12 bucks at the time and pricing is different nowadays, ladies and gentlemen, but that came out October 23rd. You had the wide edition for 2K 24 that came out October 16th. The Attitude Era pack, I will say, that we just had came out September 17th. And the final DLC is the Saturday night’s main event pack that’s coming out November 12th. And I’ll talk about that in a second, but you have a gap in the calendar year for releasing content. October is where they’re going to release this. It’s a matter of when. I think you’re probably going to get it around the 15th, the 16th. Uh, keep it in line with the previous ones they’ve released cuz then it gives you a balance of like the Attitude Era pack just came out. about 20 30 days from then you release the farewell tour edition and then in November again less than 30 days you’re going to give everybody the final DLC. So when you’ve done all of that and you added the Goldberg Nikki Bella pack in there too right around at the same time as the DLC for Attitude Era. So you’ve added a lot more content. Then we get to November and it’s over. So I’m going to guess it’s right around that October 16th period that we’re going to get this farewell edition. The Saturday Night’s Main Event pack has given you Jesse Ventura, Mr. Wonderful Paul Ordorf, Tito Santana, Junkyard Dog, and Sid Justice. Excited for Sid. That is the final pack again coming out November 12th, 2025. And then we roll right in to 2K26. If you want to talk more 2K and that video about Goldberg, Nikki Bella, and the DLC review, click this video right here. Subscribe to the channel if you can. I’d love your support. Have a great day. See you.
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