Right now there’s a lot of hype surrounding the upcoming AEW Fight Forever video game, but fans were recently disappointed to find out that former AEW Tag Team Champions FTR will not be part of the game’s roster.
Sports Gamers Online managing director Mike Straw addressed the situation on Twitter and noted that some issues with move set captures and animations caused changes to the launch roster for the game which has affected FTR.
Update re FTR/AEW Fight Forever: One reason I was told was that there were some issues with move set captures and animations. This has caused changes to game's launch roster which includes FTR.
It's not the whole answer, but a logical reason why.#AEWFightForever
— Mike Straw (@MikeStrawMedia) August 29, 2022
During a recent interview with Louis Dangoor of GiveMeSport, FTR talked about being left out of the game and Cash Wheeler noted that they were blindsided by the news at first, but they received a logical answer when they asked about what happened.
“The only real issue is we were kind of blindsided by it. We found out, like not how you would expect. And when you find out something like that, something major, like being taken out of a video game, your mind automatically assumes the worst.So for us, it was like ‘Is this something we need to worry about? Should we read between the lines here? Were we not told for a reason? And now that we are aware and now that we are out, what is that reason? Is it something we should worry about?’
“We got an answer. It made a lot of sense; very logical answer. We said ‘Oh. Ok, cool.’ As long as we don’t have to worry about it, nonissue. That’s what it was. We’ve known about it since, I don’t know how long at this point, but for months. The fact that it came out yesterday? I have no idea why.”
Dax Harwood went on to say that FTR isn’t upset about the situation when he added, “FTR is not upset about being [left out], FTR does not blame anyone from pulling us out of the game. Like Cash said, we heard about this, I want to say, maybe, March. It was before the Briscoes match. We heard about it a long time ago. I had someone, one of the journalists, message me and say ‘Is this true?’ And I didn’t respond to him. The first thing I did was text Cash obviously. I said ‘Have you heard anything about this?’ ‘No let’s text Tony and find out.'”
H/T Wrestling Inc.
