Update: The fun is over guys -- a patch has been issued to WWE 2K20 which addresses the problem that the game was quite literally unplayable for the first day of 2020. The 2K Support Twitter page has issued a statement that asks players to restart the game and download a patch which fixes the issue. We guess the 10 or so people who legitimately want to play WWE 2K20 are happy once more?
Original story: Folks, we've come across some wild and bizarre glitches in our time, but this latest one from the infamous WWE 2K20 might take the cake. After launching in a hilariously broken fashion, the wrestling simulator now refuses to boot any of its modes since the turn of the new year. Yes, WWE 2K20 is unplayable because we've reached the year 2020.
We can't quite believe it ourselves or how something like this even happens in the first place, but there is evidence out there to back up this ludicrous claim. The YouTube video above demonstrates the issue, although be aware of some choice language, while various Reddit threads are searching for fixes. Players can reach the game's main menu, but attempting to advance beyond any of those initial screens results in a complete crash of the title on PlayStation 4.
It is said that you can circumvent the problem by setting the date on your console back by a day, which proves that the game is having issues simply running itself properly when it detects that the world has entered the new decade. How on earth did this happen? We have no idea ourselves, but we're sure developer Visual Concepts will come along somewhat promptly with an emergency fix for the flaw. In the meantime, it's pretty funny at least.
[source youtube.com, via reddit.com]
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First thing, who on earth is still trying to play this trash?
Secondly, can we get this feature built into all terrible games going forward? Let's start with Anthem, Contra and Fallout 76 😉
2K/Take-two: Buy your 2020 game unlock dlc righr now!! (* Please note this game will detonate when Wwe2k21 comes out with enhanced potato ps1/N64 mode exclusively for next gen!)
Amazing. Rightfully cementing its spot as Push Square's GOTY, presumably.
Well, at least this game got the Y2K bug right and refuses to work.
It's like Millennium bug syndrome but 20 years too late
As for who's playing this game, I do know different coworkers who were giving copies to family members for Christmas. Not everyone reads sites like Push Square. I tried to show these 2K20 problems to the couple of people, but it was the game the kid wanted and they were making it happen.
Lol absolutely brilliant!
Maybe this was a piece of deliberate coding from the Visual Concepts staff. “Look, I know it’s trash. You know it’s trash. By New Year’s, the whole world will know it’s trash. So, let’s just put this in there and shut the thing down on January 1st. Save everybody any further misery.”
@Shatter I bet Yukes did it before they left 😂😂😂
"It is said that you can circumvent the problem by setting the date on your console back by a day"
Or you could set the date back twenty years when this game might have been acceptable
I'm now very curious about what the exact technical reason for this issue is.
Hahaha this Game is breaking all kind of bounderies Happy New Year folks.
When the dreaded blue screen appear's he sees red.
Thats awesome
@roe This is what sealed the deal!
As the Rock would say, “Y2K has come back to PlayStation!” Somebody needs to do the People’s elbow on 2ksports!
What a way to kick off the new year with a game that won’t work in 2020.
@Gremio108 Very early entry into Best Comment of 2020.
Ha ha haaaa!
In 1999, I was tasked with checking and, if necessary, recoding my company's entire software library to avoid this kind of thing happening with the dreaded "Millennium Bug", and at the risk of coming sounding smug, not one single issue ensued when the year changed from "99" to "00".
And 2K can't manage it in one game when it changes from 19 to 20? That wouldn't have been an issue in our software even before I checked everything.
@carlos82 agreed. I can't believe people bought this broken mess in the first place. Seriously, I know you can be a super fan, but if I ever come across a game this broken I avoid it completely.
Not sure this actually makes it any worse than it already was.... some may say it’s a patch to stop you wasting any further time on the joint worst game of all time...
Tied with 2k18 on the switch.
That's... one way to encourage moving on to WWE 2K21...😅
Y2K20 bug I am guessing?? 😂
What a disgrace! 2020 is a HUGE year! Not only is it a new decade, but it's WWE representative would be the first 2K WWE game with this decades digits in the title, so to see how bad and glitchy this game turned out to be, I think refunds should be issued out!! New developers are already being sought after for 2k21, I hope?
Decades don't let friends play 2k20.
Considering how bad this game was from the start -
I'm pretty sure that's not a bug, it's a feature.
games as non-service, it's the future of gaming
EA will be kicking themselves that they didn’t think of this with Anthem to put it to bed.
Or maybe they did and no body noticed...
2k don't seem very apologetic
if this was april the 1st it would be a laugh
If the game doesn't work at all, even for a day, that certainly seems like a legitimate reason to be able to return it for a full refund as defective. The fact that they fixed it is admitting that there was a problem, ie the game was broken.
How bad do things have to get before the industry as a whole suffers? Or at least 2K?
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