NBA 2K15 Online League Details

[amedawg00]

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How many people were in your 3 leagues? And how did you all go about managing draft and free agency outside of the league?

Wake up...Online Association was a good idea first, but was crap in how it was implemented... If you cannot pass on offseason, do it outside of the game. In the 3 leagues I am playing in, we do that for years now. Even with the Online Association ingame, we managed our teams outside of the game (including rookie draft, free agency, trades,...) and opened a new OA each season with a fantasy draft, to get our teams right. That's even easier right now with the ability to use custom rosters.

Id also like for you to explain this a bit more in depth. Our league intends to use the custom roster feature at some point to emulate an OA. Would love to hear how you managed FAs outside of the league. Ty.

[Kurupt_XxX]

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Id also like for you to explain this a bit more in depth. Our league intends to use the custom roster feature at some point to emulate an OA. Would love to hear how you managed FAs outside of the league. Ty.

SIm a full season of offline OA. Then see which players leave in free agency and such. Which retire. etc etc. Then the teams with the caproom, give them an order to pick in based on activity, or whatever you please. And go from there. Adding the players onto the teams through custom rosters. Download draft classes and adjust accordingly to your league. Progress players that way too.

[MeloNYK7]

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EVERY year online league players are ignored. Offline has My GM. Why can't we just get a decent ONline league (that works) with fantasy drafts, customization, manager power and whoa actually save coaching settings,playbooks and ability to practice them? But they will not respond to this trend with reasons. Just the positive ones, got it. Another year, i would be a fool to be surprised.

[HowDareI]

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I used to be into online leagues, and imo fantasy drafts are important because it helps balance the league. Yes, I can win games with my Sixers but if someone's just as good as me and has the Spurs I have no chance unless I play a perfect game...and most likely cheese a little, which I don't wanna do.

I was excited when they said the leagues would be back, now not so much...I wouldn't mind using real teams if there was a draft and we could get some good players...me and my friends would play a few years of it then. But as it stands now it seems like a pointless mode I'll just skip over honestly.

[aboogie1993]

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welp cant say im happy

[Guard-ian]

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Why it is so difficult (for 2k devs) to understand that we just want the options we already had back in 2K9?

How it is possible that, 6 years later, we are like this? In my book this is a disrespect to the long-term customers...

No sliders, no fantasy draft and no custom playbooks (to name just some of the expected features) is a big deal for many people who has been purchasing this game year in and year out just to play their favorite game mode: Online League/Association.

VC never ceases to amaze...

Cheers! ;-)

[Boilerbuzz]

NBA 2K15 Online League Details

Why it is so difficult (for 2k devs) to understand that we just want the options we already had back in 2K9?

How it is possible that, 6 years later, we are like this? In my book this is a disrespect to the long-term customers...

No sliders, no fantasy draft and no custom playbooks (to name just some of the expected features) is a big deal for many people who has been purchasing this game year in and year out just to play their favorite game mode: Online League/Association.

VC never ceases to amaze...

Cheers! ;-)

Why do people think that every missing feature is a sign of disrespect or laziness instead of a decision to prioritize other features and bug fixes? People never cease to amaze me.

That's not to say they don't make decisions that I consider bad. I do NOT like the direction MyCareer has been going. Hate it. But I would put money that the motivation for those decisions are to satisfy a larger portion of the fans and NOT to piss of fans. We need to get over ourselves and realize that sometimes, we get screwed because we are the minority. Or our opinions don't match theirs about what's most important for the time being. We can voice our dissatisfaction, but to continue to attribute those decisions to malice and disrespect is childish.

[NDAlum]

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I'm disappointed in the online league feature list. It sucks to admit but I think boiler is right in his assumption that people who want online leagues are in the minority. In Madden you have a huge deal of interest in online leagues because it is a full functioning franchise mode and football is more of a team concept. Nobody can make their own character and play both sides of the football and really dominate the action.

In basketball it seems to be wildly popular to create a fantasy version of yourself and compete in the online world. In basketball a single player can absolutely take over a game and they never have to leave the court. It seems as though this popularity has led to resources being poured into their role playing mode. If I'm 2K I do the same thing. Cater to the masses, get sales, get VC revenue, and do what I can for the other consumers to not alienate them too much.

[Boilerbuzz]

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I'm disappointed in the online league feature list. It sucks to admit but I think boiler is right in his assumption that people who want online leagues are in the minority. In Madden you have a huge deal of interest in online leagues because it is a full functioning franchise mode and football is more of a team concept. Nobody can make their own character and play both sides of the football and really dominate the action.

In basketball it seems to be wildly popular to create a fantasy version of yourself and compete in the online world. In basketball a single player can absolutely take over a game and they never have to leave the court. It seems as though this popularity has led to resources being poured into their role playing mode. If I'm 2K I do the same thing. Cater to the masses, get sales, get VC revenue, and do what I can for the other consumers to not alienate them too much.

It's the sad fact of life folks. You have to make business decisions and the trade offs will disappoint people. But you have to ride with it and hope to address those trade offs as soon as you can.

[silverskier]

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I'm disappointed in the online league feature list. It sucks to admit but I think boiler is right in his assumption that people who want online leagues are in the minority. In Madden you have a huge deal of interest in online leagues because it is a full functioning franchise mode and football is more of a team concept. Nobody can make their own character and play both sides of the football and really dominate the action.

In basketball it seems to be wildly popular to create a fantasy version of yourself and compete in the online world. In basketball a single player can absolutely take over a game and they never have to leave the court. It seems as though this popularity has led to resources being poured into their role playing mode. If I'm 2K I do the same thing. Cater to the masses, get sales, get VC revenue, and do what I can for the other consumers to not alienate them too much.

In basketball team play wins championships as in any other team sports. There are superstars, but only the marketing let you believe that they can win games alone. That being said, I agree with you that a company is going to invest in the modes that sell more games, and of course if you can catter the casual masses you are going to get the cash that you want.
The beauty of online leagues is that the better you play as a team, the more wins you are going to get, as in real life. So I can get why the mode isn't treated as well as the other online modes.

[jk31]

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Id also like for you to explain this a bit more in depth. Our league intends to use the custom roster feature at some point to emulate an OA. Would love to hear how you managed FAs outside of the league. Ty.

We meet in an IRC channel. Then theres a bidding on each player (always one player at a time). The highest contract proposal will get the player.

[Guard-ian]

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Why do people think that every missing feature is a sign of disrespect or laziness instead of a decision to prioritize other features and bug fixes? People never cease to amaze me.

Because I am a long time customer and I felt disrespected, to be honest with you, I don't mind whether I am a minority or not, even though I know many people like me...

I can say that, when last year (pre 2k14 next-gen) I read we were gonna have online leagues, I thought we (at least) would had the same options we already had in 2k11... but I could not be more wrong... I bought a new system (Xbox One) to play 2k14 online leagues and I could not play the first one up to now... and not only me but all the communities I know (more that 200 people counting Xbox and Sony systems) they thought exactly the same... it was simply impossible to organize anything with quality in that borebones game mode...

So my friend, don't tell me how I have to feel because that is my call and not yours...

Besides, I work in the software industry, not videogames but enterprise resource management software, and the first thing we as a team think when we are planning upgrades to new releases, is to make sure that (with each feature), our customers (whether they are thousands or a few of them) are going to have, as a minimum, what they already had before, you see what I mean?

Cheers! ;-)

[lvnba]

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I guess we will not know until the game is released if the sliders are customizable or not.

[Norris_Cole]

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Because I am a long time customer and I felt disrespected, to be honest with you, I don't mind whether I am a minority or not, even though I know many people like me...

I can say that, when last year (pre 2k14 next-gen) I read we were gonna have online leagues, I thought we (at least) would had the same options we already had in 2k11... but I could not be more wrong... I bought a new system (Xbox One) to play 2k14 online leagues and I could not play the first one up to now... and not only me but all the communities I know (more that 200 people counting Xbox and Sony systems) they thought exactly the same... it was simply impossible to organize anything with quality in that borebones game mode...

So my friend, don't tell me how I have to feel because that is my call and not yours...

Besides, I work in the software industry, not videogames but enterprise resource management software, and the first thing we as a team think when we are planning upgrades to new releases, is to make sure that (with each feature), our customers (whether they are thousands or a few of them) are going to have, as a minimum, what they already had before, you see what I mean?

Cheers! ;-)

Well said, people who blindly defends 2k no matter what even with the obviously atrocious decisions they make some times and that left the mode basically unplayable for many also amazes me...

Nobody can defend what they have done last year with the online leagues, it just has no name

[Guard-ian]

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I guess we will not know until the game is released if the sliders are customizable or not.

I am afraid we already know the response… I’ve been over here (tbh, as a lurker most of the time) long enough to realize that, as @vannwolfhawk suggested at the beginning of this thread, when the devs/producers avoid a question or don't talk about it, then 99’9% of the times it is not in the game…

He even asked directly to @Leftos a simple Yes/No regarding Sliders and custom Playbooks, and (as far as I know) we have no answer just yet, so yes, you have the right to be hopeful… but you better know the history too…

I don’t know how we can talk about SIM in an online league without the ability to customize our sliders (just to avoid cheese and look for realistic 12 mins/Q stats) or save our playbooks (only to do what a real NBA coach does)…

Cheers! ;-)