WWE 2K23 Servers Officially Go Down Forever As Of Today

Today is a big day for the WWE, as Raw officially moves to Netflix with tonight's show from Los Angeles. It also marks an end of an era for WWE 2K23. As of now, 2K Games has taken down the game's servers permanently.

2K Games said it was giving WWE 2K23 its "final takedown" last September. The game and its DLC was removed from PlayStation and Xbox's digital storefronts at the beginning of November. Now that the servers are also down, WWE 2K23 will no longer have any online functions, including player-to-player matches or even the Community Creations that allowed fan-made characters to be downloaded.

However, WWE 2K23 will still be available to play offline for anyone who purchased it prior to its removal. This game's fate foreshadows what will eventually befall its successor, WWE 2K24. That game reintroduced the special referee mode and featured 40 Years of WrestleMania, which allowed players to recreate several famous matches from "the showcase of the immortals."

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