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Alright Team WWF I'm formally requesting a team meeting to iron out the details of current and future storylines. Lets try and meet up around 1 PM Central.
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 RINGSIDEREVIEWS posted:Hello dear reader welcome to the Ringside Reviews the one stop place for LIVE~! First impression reviews among other things. Today I’ll be running down WWF’s go-home superstars. The ad in the papers said that today’s show will feature THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR~ and I’m a big fan of his work so this will be a fantastic show. GenericMartini fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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IcePhoenix posted:Just out of curiosity, from a game perspective how much damage are they doing to him? I mean to begin with he wasn't really ever pulling that good of ratings so I can't really tell exactly how far if at all he dropped. Though I'd say he probably lost like 3 points of popularity based on our recent treatment of him, but he may have had not much to lose to begin with.
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CaptainYesterday posted:We aren't interesting in giving Steve Lombardi the world title, thank you very much. pfft Homophobes
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Jan 21, 2014 06:33
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Evil Badman posted:You have 80 tag teams, and failed to pull the trigger on Austin 3:16 winning KOTR, but made MITB and A bit of insider talk. First we only had like 2 Tag Teams that were active to start with, we only gained tag teams when we tried mixing two workers together to see if they worked with the best outcome with only one of them being a viable tag team(The Wild Sparks have chemistry). Since we were all decided on booking Owen strongly we felt it was more important to give Owen the rub then Austin who is not at the level that he is in real life.(Which I mean c'mon if we just booked all of what the WWF did where's the fun in that.) So instead of just having Austin meddling around in dumb midcard feuds with Savio Vega we decided to let him lead the Tag division, where hopefully he and Hunter can liven up until the other tag teams become more sustainable. We also made MITB not because it worked in the future, but because it was an interesting twist that some felt would succeed. We took a risk and introduced a concept that might not have gone over to the audience we were selling to but some felt it was good enough to move forward with. MITB may have not gone over to many but it was introduced and we tried to sell something that might've been a little risque but hell we tried. Edit: Also regarding the pushing people too fast part that IS are biggest problem, but we are trying to tone it down. GenericMartini fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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The USWA story from how I remembered went as follows: We never wanted the USWA agreement, it was never something we wanted. We got Rocky through the talent trade thing or whatever(Many of us didn't know this at the time), and when we figured out that we had a working agreement with USWA we wanted to just get rid of(since we didn't know at the time Rocky was from said working agreement) by the time JoeRules had implemented the weird talent taking we had already agreed to cut ties with USWA, purely because it was limiting our ability to take workers that we desperately needed(Like WCW had already hired like half of the current day workforce we we're pretty desperate) and at the time we had agreed we'd get Rocky back after the agreement split. Unfortunately the timing was horrendous and we lost him(Not a big loss to be honest since he's about as bad as Edge), I think the misconception comes from the fact that we tried to take Jarrett at the same time, which wasn't the sole purpose of cutting ties with USWA. I think if we had known about Rocky's commitment prior to the revamped game I'm sure we would've totally gotten him on a written contract, because even if we did keep the agreement with USWA it wouldn't have mattered as Rocky could've totally signed with WCW since he was never on a written contract with WWF the same would've happened Edit: I'd like to talk about the Edge situation if you don't mind GenericMartini fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Mar 6, 2014 |
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Mar 6, 2014 22:09
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Sorry IBE and AO, I'd like to field the Edge story though if I'm missing any info please tell me. I've got to say if there was one big mistake I wish we could have avoided it would've been Edge. The whole Edge debacle showed everything wrong with Team WWF at that point. We originally picked up Edge as a way to tag block Christian while also picking up a decent worker. Though there was a lot of parallels for where we wanted Edge. I had originally booked Edge as a sort of lower midcard heel who'd job to some of the faces while putting on a good matches, then suddenly the idea of a super Edge push had been conceived. It had resulted from somebody editing a pre-show to have Edge, who was originally booked to lose to Mero, to have Edge go bat-poo poo insane and lose the match via DQ then proceed to interrupt the second pre-show match and attack both workers in that match. Though this wasn't the worst course of action it was a sign of things to come since some of the writers were polarized what to do with Edge. When discussing ideas for how an Edge push would work several had suggested he'd be a maniac based on destroying the WWF or just a crazy person who was out for bloodlust. We wanted Edge to get over quick and fast so we had penciled to beat several of the WWF talent and also to be head to head with Rocky and Jericho in who we wanted to be pushed in the future. We wanted Edge in big future segments and I believe somebody wanted him in the main event of wrestlemania with in the next two years. Once again none of this was bad except that we never really gave him a plan he was just there and we wanted him to be psychotic but we didn't know how to make that interesting without going the Loose Cannon route(We did actually have one plan where Edge would team with Brian Pillman which was scrapped when we figured out that Pillman was injured and he'd be unavailable for angles), but we didn't want to take away Pillman's gimmick. We tested the waters of the gimmick and Edge during a KOTR match, what Edge did wasn't really too good but it was against The Rock so we couldn't hold too much against him. So us in our infinite wisdom decided to go down the route we knew worked in the past in sticking him with a mentor and slowly building his momentum till and then integrating him into the upper midcard of the roster and this is where things start to get foggy. To get Edge to the psycho heel most of us had agreed upon we wanted to pick someone who could bring up his segments while we tried to slowly build up Edge, that person was Jake Roberts. We wanted to turn Roberts so he could corrupt Edge into turning into the mentally disturbed individual of our liking and even referencing several of Jake's other promos and utilizing I Before E's great writing of mentally ill characters(seriously read any of his take on Mankind it's pretty drat good) The bad starts appearing when we had accidentally debuted Edge on that one pre-show and he debuted as heel(My original idea of the heel jobber was what hosed Edge here) and we wanted Edge to be contorted into a heel not just be a heel and then suddenly become crazy. Since none of us knew he was heel we wanted to fix it(Some people had figured out Edge being heel when we tested the waters of Jake Managing Edge which went badly because Jake was still face), but once again we didn't really talk to one another and we had several ideas. One of which was to have a Edge/Jake feud and then Jake turn heel and they become a tag team, but for some reason we stuck with the idea of Jake turning on Edge and as such we turned Edge face. Too bad not many of the people knew about the turn and the people who did know about the turn didn't know there was a penalty for turns that happen too fast after another. Edge was already having very bad segments(He was the first guy to have a F rated segment and that's saying ALOT considering we had Charlie Haas wrestling), but many remained hopeful of Edge and we thought we could gain his momentum back by giving booking him decently. By booking him decently we mean shoving him in the main event of superstars and it backfiring on us because he was used way too much. After that disaster we still thought he could be salvaged with the Jake tag team, it was producing D rated matches which was worst than Tom Pritchard/Chris Candido and I after that we just cut our losses and made Edge a tag team wrestler. Edge could have been something he totally could have. We just had way too many writers with way too many different ideas that Edge ended up dead in the water. Edge was definitely a learning experience I just wish it had been with a different worker than somebody we had massive plans for. Edge's tale is one of misinformation and miscommunication and embodies all of Team WWF's early failures One particular thing I'd like to leave this story on is that I would like to take blame for Edge not being as good as he should've been. I wanted Edge in a Scott Taylor type jobber spot and I never really discussed it with much of the group and as such the chain of events started. I think Team WWF has learned tremendously over the time we've spent playing the game though they do have their little spurts like overbooking a few shows they've still managed to improve ten fold over what we once were.
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WWF is doing a real good job. It's so good I almost feel like I was the one holding them back.
GenericMartini fucked around with this message at 02:32 on May 21, 2014 |
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