A member of the WWE 2K25 development team is hoping to incorporate a new feature into the game or a future title after first seeing it included in AEW Fight Forever.
Released in June 2023, AEW Fight Forever was All Elite Wrestling’s first and at this point only release in the video game world. Although the game was met with mixed reviews from fans for its lack of features and limited story mode, developers have taken notice of one element.
While the use of thumbtacks has been very rare on WWE TV, AEW fans have seen the weapon used numerous times in its short history. Also a part of the game, players are able to inflict damage using the tacks, resulting in the opponent being covered in blood.
Speaking with The Pro Wrestling Shoot, 2K25 developer Bryan Williams stated that they have been looking at incorporating thumbtacks into the WWE 2K series, which in itself creates the new challenge of displaying damage on the whole body and not just the head. Williams also added that AEW introducing the weapon first became a point of contention:
“The thumbtacks, we’ve been talking about that for a while now, and I think once we crack that nut, that’s the perfect opportunity to then go into, as you, as you pointed out, getting scarring, bleeding on the back, the chest, the arms, even. I think introducing that as a new weapon. Obviously, just like peanut butter and jelly, it coincides with bleeding on the bodies, as opposed to just the face.
So, it is something that we are hoping to eventually get to sooner rather than later. So, yeah, I would just say, we hear you, and it’s something that we want to do as well, especially just having thumbtacks in the AEW game. I know I worked on it, but it, you know, it sticks in my craw that the AEW game has one over on us when it comes to the thumbtacks. I don’t like that. We’re going to make it right.”
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H/t to Fightful.