Re: The Tough Road of Being a Sports Developer, Featuring Mike Wang
 

Their contract with the NBA states that they have to release a game every year.

Re: The Tough Road of Being a Sports Developer, Featuring Mike Wang
 

I definitely feel you on your emotions in this one, but I've always kind of wondered if transparency is as simple and easy as we wish it were. I have to think some companies may have official approaches of how to handle dysfunctional portions of their products, right? As in, maybe 2K wants to avoid or limit how many times they come out and say, "Hey, sorry, that part's broken this year" or "Yeah, totally didn't have enough time, hopefully next year we'll have it done."

Again, I totally agree that it'd be nice to hear or know more about the process and why things are or are not addressed. Sometimes it honestly feels like 2K is blatantly ignoring something when in reality perhaps there's an unusually complicated solution they can't quite put their finger on yet. So as much as I'd like more communication, I kind of temper those emotions in conjunction with my uncertainty of the process.

Re: The Tough Road of Being a Sports Developer, Featuring Mike Wang
 

But wouldn't hearing 2K say this be better than hearing nothing?

Jones and Wang's group don't do franchise mode. So why assume the groups work the same way and also assume nothing's been done with franchise. It is like you guys want to convince yourself to complain about something. Don't you get tired of operating on ignorance?

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Re: The Tough Road of Being a Sports Developer, Featuring Mike Wang
 

This should be required reading for everyone that complains the games aren't perfect. I work in web development and our programmers ought to just have cots by their desks sometimes they work so much. Life ain't what it seems...

VC doesn't carry enough staff for some reason or another. Must be hard to get in. Once you're in, people seem to stay there. But that would be a good idea.

Do agree.

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Re: The Tough Road of Being a Sports Developer, Featuring Mike Wang
 

For you and me personally? Yes. But maybe as a company, they've decided to go in a direction that won't leave them openly admitting their shortcomings for every part of their product. We would like the honesty of, "Sorry, we just dropped the ball on that one, Kyle Singler's face is pretty jacked up" but I feel as though a company would not support such admissions, as honest and forthright as they may be, on a regular basis. I think they'd likely prefer uncertainty and rumors of lackluster aspects, as opposed to flat out telling their potential consumers about every single pock.

Re: The Tough Road of Being a Sports Developer, Featuring Mike Wang
 

Wait, wait...you mean there are more than one person other than Wang and Jones working on the game?!

Jeez it must get annoying for those guys.....Mike is pretty much the gameplay guru and I remember when he posted here and a Crewbie came in complaining about the lack of crew in game....now we are going to hear it from ASSociation guys....smh....

How about we wait about association news before saying they did nothing and if it remains the same THEN complain ffs....