In a message on the WWE 2K16 Forum, WWE 2K16’s community manager Vore2K discussed why the Cody Rhodes character will not be in the upcoming WWE 2K16 videogame and why it will only be the Stardust character.

“We requested to have Cody Rhodes in WWE 2K16 but it was not approved by the WWE. Much like the masked wrestlers, the WWE doesn’t like to mix personas of active roster Superstars and Divas. If the alternate persona is from long enough ago then we are sometimes allowed to include the alternate persona, but with recent history that is generally not allowed.”