Some Suggestions that have been going around in my head for a while

[aberams2k9]

I started out playing the demo for WMMA1 just before WMMA2 was released, after playing the demo I was convinced and purchased WMMA2 when it came out, and it was better in every way than the first one except I found out you had less control over management like the ability to negotiate with Sponsors, I found this very disappointing. I dont know why it was taken out, one reviewer of the game said this was better for the game because that way you could focus more on your matchups and less on the smaller bits of management. To me, this is a Hardcore Management game, and it being that, it better let me control every single aspect of it. After playing WMMA2 for months now I've come up with some more suggestions:

-We need to have more control over how our staff is handled, for example, if we Hire Broadcasters, we need to place them in certain positions, such as Commentator, or Color Commentator, or what about Ring Girls, how cool would it be to pick 3 or 4 different ring girls. What about Rind Announcers and what his famous line would be (lets bet ready to rumble!!!)

-Have very simple animated graphics of the fight that's taking place. I dont know if anyones played Fire Pro Wrestling, I thinking maybe something like that. I say keep the commentators and text that are currently in the game and the visuals for that, but in the bottom half of the screen or in just a small box somewhere on the screen that you can maximise, have some graphics of the fight taking place. A lot of these kinds of management games have some kind of graphics. Anyone play "Eastside Hockey Manager?" When you play a game, you have a view of the ice, each player is represented with a dot, and you see the action play out, very simple graphics but brings a whole new lever of realism to the game.

-Why is it that when I'm a mid level international organization in the US, I'm associated with about 8 different PPV's worldwide, I go to Japan to hold a show where I'm a low level national, but the show is still broadcasting on American PPV, my sales for that show's PPV is as if I was low level international worldwide! Where your event takes place should not affect your PPV buys, only tickets sold, and sponsorship.

-What about the option of totally controlling 2 or more organizations? For example, if I'm in my main screen of my WMMA2, I'm currently controlling XCC, and lets say I bought out GAMMA, there should be and option somewhere on the screen that would turn the page over the all of GAMMA's operations. This way you could flip back and forth between GAMMA and XCC. It might take longer to simulate from day to day because you have more emails awaiting to be addressed, but that's ok, I decided to take on control of 2 organizations. Maybe make it possible to use money you have in XCC and bring some of the money into GAMMA, or vise versa. This would be the ultimate farm system that would let us develope our fighters into stars before they hit the big show. How cool would that be?


That's about it for now, there's always lots of ideas going around in my head, for any game I play, but I have to say WMMA2 has brought my imagination to another level, love this game.
Thanks for reading my post.

[Kainlock]

I would love to see a multi player game

[Franchise22]

-Why is it that when I'm a mid level international organization in the US, I'm associated with about 8 different PPV's worldwide, I go to Japan to hold a show where I'm a low level national, but the show is still broadcasting on American PPV, my sales for that show's PPV is as if I was low level international worldwide! Where your event takes place should not affect your PPV buys, only tickets sold, and sponsorship.



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this one has used to bug me, but it adds to the challenge of growing internationally. gameplay over realism in this case wins out. i now find it more enjoysble this way

[curtains]

I'd be strongly in favor of being able to control more than one organization, aka a multiplayer type of option.

I think number one feature in a new version should be to allow you to watch fights from orgs you don't own. It's the only thing that really tilts me about the game.

[AlexB]

...What about Rind Announcers and what his famous line would be (lets bet ready to rumble!!!)...

That would be cool!

"In the red corner we have untrimmed Streaky Bacon, in the blue corner we have unwrapped Wensleydale... Gentlemen, start your scissors!"

[majesty95]

-Why is it that when I'm a mid level international organization in the US, I'm associated with about 8 different PPV's worldwide, I go to Japan to hold a show where I'm a low level national, but the show is still broadcasting on American PPV, my sales for that show's PPV is as if I was low level international worldwide! Where your event takes place should not affect your PPV buys, only tickets sold, and sponsorship.

Its because of the time zone difference. UFC PPV's in London and Germany always draw much less than those in the US. Largely because by the time the normal PPV time arrives the results have already been made known by media outlets like ESPN. Major stars like Anderson Silva have even refused to fight overseas because they know their PPV take is going to be much smaller.

I like your other ideas though. Not sure how much graphics could be added but it would be cool if possible.

[Adam Ryland]

Its because of the time zone difference.

No, it isn't. It's not any reason, because there is no point to respond to, the OP is simply incorrect; you're rated on an area-by-area basis.

[RingofHonorGuard]

If you think an international pay per view is going to sell as well as if it were in say Nevada or California, you're crazy. The fact is this: time difference. If you run a show in Japan at night, it's going to be early morning in the United States. That's why HDnet is often broadcasting DREAM or K-1 at 3-5 AM,, to correspond with what's going on live in Japan.

[RingofHonorGuard]

I started out playing the demo for WMMA1 just before WMMA2 was released, after playing the demo I was convinced and purchased WMMA2 when it came out, and it was better in every way than the first one except I found out you had less control over management like the ability to negotiate with Sponsors, I found this very disappointing. I dont know why it was taken out, one reviewer of the game said this was better for the game because that way you could focus more on your matchups and less on the smaller bits of management. To me, this is a Hardcore Management game, and it being that, it better let me control every single aspect of it. After playing WMMA2 for months now I've come up with some more suggestions:

-We need to have more control over how our staff is handled, for example, if we Hire Broadcasters, we need to place them in certain positions, such as Commentator, or Color Commentator, or what about Ring Girls, how cool would it be to pick 3 or 4 different ring girls. What about Rind Announcers and what his famous line would be (lets bet ready to rumble!!!)

-Have very simple animated graphics of the fight that's taking place. I dont know if anyones played Fire Pro Wrestling, I thinking maybe something like that. I say keep the commentators and text that are currently in the game and the visuals for that, but in the bottom half of the screen or in just a small box somewhere on the screen that you can maximise, have some graphics of the fight taking place. A lot of these kinds of management games have some kind of graphics. Anyone play "Eastside Hockey Manager?" When you play a game, you have a view of the ice, each player is represented with a dot, and you see the action play out, very simple graphics but brings a whole new lever of realism to the game.

-Why is it that when I'm a mid level international organization in the US, I'm associated with about 8 different PPV's worldwide, I go to Japan to hold a show where I'm a low level national, but the show is still broadcasting on American PPV, my sales for that show's PPV is as if I was low level international worldwide! Where your event takes place should not affect your PPV buys, only tickets sold, and sponsorship.

-What about the option of totally controlling 2 or more organizations? For example, if I'm in my main screen of my WMMA2, I'm currently controlling XCC, and lets say I bought out GAMMA, there should be and option somewhere on the screen that would turn the page over the all of GAMMA's operations. This way you could flip back and forth between GAMMA and XCC. It might take longer to simulate from day to day because you have more emails awaiting to be addressed, but that's ok, I decided to take on control of 2 organizations. Maybe make it possible to use money you have in XCC and bring some of the money into GAMMA, or vise versa. This would be the ultimate farm system that would let us develope our fighters into stars before they hit the big show. How cool would that be?


That's about it for now, there's always lots of ideas going around in my head, for any game I play, but I have to say WMMA2 has brought my imagination to another level, love this game.
Thanks for reading my post.

I re-read your ideas again. I think you're missing the point of what this game is about. You aren't the owner of the company, you're just the president. You're the "Dana White" of your company. You have some control, but you don't own the company.

Furthermore, I think the relationship between WEC and UFC serves as the best example... Dana White has nothing to do with WEC, other than promoting it occasionally because the Fertittas own it. Dana doesn't own it, the Fertittas do. Keep that in mind. You are Dana, not the Fertittas. It doesn't make any sense for you to be president of two mixed martial arts companies. One is stressful enough if you start working at it properly, and booking intelligently instead of just throwing matches together. With me, each match is setting up a match down the line somewhere. I rarely book fights just to "see what would happen between so and so".

Also, this is a text simulation... It doesn't need graphics, it's great as it is. If you want a cosmetic MMA game, I suggest UFC Undisputed or take your own advice and play some Fire Pro Wrestling Returns, and build the MMA division out on it.

This is the first game that Ryland's made since his original EWR's that I haven't been able to stop playing. That's saying a lot, because I played the hell out of some TEW but got bored with it after a while... WMMA has yet to put me on the downslope, and it just gets better with each update.

[ACCBiggz]

Dana White has nothing to do with WEC, other than promoting it occasionally because the Fertittas own it. Dana doesn't own it, the Fertittas do.
Dana does indeed own a portion. I believe it's 10% of Zuffa LLC which owns both UFC and WEC. However, your central point remains the same - WEC has a seperate power structure.

[Franchise22]

Its because of the time zone difference. e.

If you think an international pay per view is going to sell as well as if it were in say Nevada or California, you're crazy. The fact is this: time difference. If you run a show in Japan at night, it's going to be early morning in the United States. That's why HDnet is often broadcasting DREAM or K-1 at 3-5 AM,, to correspond with what's going on live in Japan.

No, it isn't. It's not any reason, because there is no point to respond to, the OP is simply incorrect; you're rated on an area-by-area basis.

pump your breaks hoss....time difference has no bearing on rating.

[aberams2k9]

Yeah I guess We're supposed to be like a "Dana White" in this game or in my game "Bob West" haha, but whatever, I still think controlling more than one organization would be pretty cool, might not be totally realistic if we're just the president and have control like the owners but I dont care it still would be awesome to send your struggling fighters to a feeder organization let him be a champ there, and maybe after he becomes champ and defends his belt a few times in the feeder organization then promote him once again.

One thing I love doing in this game is holding tournaments, and I've been having this idea in my head of only promoting my fighters into the XCC if they win a tournament in a feeder organization, that way would ensure that the fighter has battled his way to XCC and deserves to be there. If I could control more than one organization then this would be possible. It's like a test before they enter the big show.

The Graphics thing might be asking for a lot, I dunno, but I thought it would be real cool to see our fighters duke it out in the octagon. It wouldn't even have to be real time, maybe just like a slideshow, like every line of text would be mapped to a certain picture or animation, with each fighter having their own very simple 2D model or sprite or whatever. I'm not a fan of Fire Pro Wrestling, the gameplay is absolutely terrible, but I thought maybe the same kind of graphics would work for this game.

[brashleyholland]

No, it isn't. It's not any reason, because there is no point to respond to, the OP is simply incorrect; you're rated on an area-by-area basis.

So as an example, lets say I'm running an American promotion, with a PPV deal in America. I'm doing about 500,000 buys when I put shows on in my home country.

When I put a show on in Japan, I get 90,000 buys. If the time zone thing isn't a factor in the game (all PPV's seem to just take place on 'X day' meaning time is not factored) why is the number of people buying the PPV in America so much less?

As a real life example, Rich Franklin vs Vitor Belfort would not be a popular fight in Japan, at the gate or on TV (PPV is a reletive non-entity in the Japanese fight game), however, you would expect that PPV to do about 300,000 buys domestically - thats a low estimate, average for the UFC is 350-400k or there abouts.

If you look at PPV's that have occured out of the US timezone PPV buys look more like this: Franklin-Okami = 200,000, Penn-Stevenson = 225,000, Hughes-Alves = 225,000.

Lets be honest, they are pretty weak main events anyway, but still did 200k domestic buys.

So while the UK and Ireland fans were much less than thrilled with the quality of the cards (85 was supposed to be Liddell-Shogun, and we ended up with Hughes-Alves) they still did a good number on PPV. But you're saying time isn't a factor, so we shouldn't even see a reduction based on that.

Why would the anticipation and star power of a card in Japan/UK/wherever have any bearing on its PPV number in the US?

[MatthewTrixie]

I love the idea for a multiplayer. Not to run feeder companies or anything like that, but both me and my wife love this game, and it'd be cool if I was able to run GAMMA and she was able to run XCC, instead of two separate games. She's always talking smack about her being good enough to work herself up from XCC and take my GAMMA company down. It'd be fun to really face her.