Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

[thedream2k13]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Thanks for stopping by Czar. I am enjoying the gameplay and playcalling in this years game thanks in no small part to your tireless efforts. I know you are not involved in the creation or production of this mode but it would be of immense help if you can relay the communities concerns about this mode to the powers that be. Again, the game is amazing. I even called in sick to work this morning to play it all day without distractions, with the woman being at work herself..lol

You bum !!! Stop practicing!!!!!

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

You never played 2k11? When a player dropped or was booted, that team just had no user, and you had to wait for someone to fill the team before you could play against that team or trade or do anything. it would just be left as an "open" team.

Seems like you really had no involvement in any real online leagues before.

So I was to assume a broken feature of a mode from 4 years ago worked the same way? OK, if you say so. I thought I was pretty clear that I have not played this mode for years...

[ChillRobP]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

So I was to assume a broken feature of a mode from 4 years ago worked the same way? OK, if you say so. I thought I was pretty clear that I have not played this mode for years...

Nah, you weren't clear enough.

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Nah, you weren't clear enough.

Fair enough. I can take the heat when I deserve it.

[LD2k]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

With that being said: LD2K should be involved with this type of thread - its his job to make sure that major concerns are conveyed to those on your team who need to be made aware of the issues posted in this constructive thread.

I'm here and already taking feedback.

Two things.

1. I was told CPU controlled teams were in (as Rob previously mentioned on the podcast). For that, I apologize.

2. I promise I'm taking the feedback to the dev. team. I think we all want to see Online Leagues get to a point where people want it.

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Two things.

1. I was told CPU controlled teams were in (as Rob previously mentioned on the podcast). For that, I apologize.

2. I promise I'm taking the feedback to the dev. team. I think we all want to see Online Leagues get to a point where people want it.

Thanks LD2K. You have no idea how calming those two simple things you just said in your post is for this community. Just to know that the devs will be informed and that concerns are being relayed are enough for me, as the gameplay, graphics, mechanics are unrivaled in this series. Getting online leagues on par with the other ********* modes will make this long time customer a happy camper. Cheers for stopping by and acknowledging us.

[vannwolfhawk]

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I see this get posted from time to time and I feel it is misleading in the sense that there are not any Dev's who work on those two things to my knowledge who post regularly on OS. There never have been AFAIK.

I know your pissed and want answers but If I/we who post here don't have any / didn't make any decisions regarding this mode, it's not productive to come in here and post. IMHO YMMV etc.

Czar, can you pass this thread along to the powers to be? Let ld2k aware of this and let him pass along as well. We need to get the guys who work on this area to see what it is we want and need. They need to get a pulse on the community. I have no idea how you can be a game dev and not be a part of forums like this that talk religiously about the mode that you work on all year long. If that was me I'd be on every forum there was and be googling s@*t and hitting up top online league commissioners like coach2k and asking their opinions. But that's me...

Hopefully this can get in the right hands.

[swimfunk]

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It really does feel like the online league community was pushed aside again. Personally I've put in many hours trying to get the voices heard. I've spent tweets, forums posts, 2K chats to try and get answers. Last year I asked Ronnie2K about the issues with online leagues and was told "we are very much apart of the future". This is a lie after seeing the limitations surrounding this mode in person.

The only info we got in the coming weeks was a couple of tweets from ld2K about the online leagues. No blog, no bringing in a team member who is actually playing in online leagues. I've offered my website as a chance for the 2K marketing team to actually address the situation. All requests were ignored and probably laughed at behind closed doors.

Will online leagues work? Maybe... Will it take a lot of user trust and work ....absolutely!! In 2015 it shouldn't take this much commish effort to run a well ran league. These problems are mostly with a small test league. I expect several big issues to arise once a league full of users starts playing games.

In short I really wanted to stop spending my time on this mode trying to get it right but yet here I am again asking the same questions and getting the same answers. "Gathering feedback for devs". An abililty to boot/replace is crucial in any league and really shows how little time was placed on this mode all year.

In the end,I gave 2K14 a pass since I understand they were trying to push a brand new next gen product out there. It's 2K15 and still the same issues. Now we get to see all the RT's from mypark and myleague players how they love the game.

[robbysteinz]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Thanks for acknowledging but why do leagues regress every year? How can we not BOOT someone? That makes a league basically unplayable from the start.

[swimfunk]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Two things.

1. I was told CPU controlled teams were in (as Rob previously mentioned on the podcast). For that, I apologize.

2. I promise I'm taking the feedback to the dev. team. I think we all want to see Online Leagues get to a point where people want it.

Rinse, wash, repeat....

Is this for 2K16?

[vannwolfhawk]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

No cpu teams are allowed. If you create a 2 person league with a 82 game schedule, you and your friend are scheduled to play 82 home and away games against each other and only each other...lol. Rob Jones clearly misspoke during the press row podcast when he said CPU teams would be allowed in OL this year. He was also misleading when he said that robust customization were in leagues this year. Now lets just hope his assertion that two of their best engineers being charged with improving online stability will hold up during release week as we get ready for our online league pre season.

Wow! That's bad! So if we lose a guy (assuming he go's willingly) that team does nothing til we refill them? Can we sim game at least and give them a win or loss until we find a replacement? And can we get those 2 best engineers who we're working on online stability put on the 2k16 online league team stat? Lol

[vannwolfhawk]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

I'm here and already taking feedback.

Two things.

1. I was told CPU controlled teams were in (as Rob previously mentioned on the podcast). For that, I apologize.

2. I promise I'm taking the feedback to the dev. team. I think we all want to see Online Leagues get to a point where people want it.

Yes! Thank you!

[Kurupt_XxX]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

I'm here and already taking feedback.

Two things.

1. I was told CPU controlled teams were in (as Rob previously mentioned on the podcast). For that, I apologize.

2. I promise I'm taking the feedback to the dev. team. I think we all want to see Online Leagues get to a point where people want it.

If anything all we want is the ability to boot people and set our rotations. If possible sliders too. other stuff can wait.

[robbysteinz]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

The hard truth is that you guys tell us you're feeding the development team with our feedback but the leagues get worse every year!

We started off with one and done leagues with a GREAT operating website. Then you guys took away that awesome website for no reason and gave us that broken 2k website which no one used. Then you added offseason in 2k12 except everyone's salaries turned to $0 and playoffs would randomly lock and freeze and be unplayable. 2k13 is the same thing,same contract problems, and when you got to the free agency the game would just fast forward simulate the entire thing lolol. 2k14 went back to 2k11 due to next gen which I understand. And now next gen 2k15 we have NOTHiNG?! I don't get it and we never get answers. We've been tweeting,emailing,facebooking, everything to you guys for years and your false promises are really wearing thin on this community. If nba live has a working online association mode I am OUT. I can see it from miles away that next years promotion will be that myleague is now online compatible. And then it have glitches,contracts will break,and will be unplayable after season 1. Then 2k17 will be the promise where you guys say it is all fixed. Too predictable and the hard truth.

[amedawg00]

Re: Online leagues 2k15, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Wow! That's bad! So if we lose a guy (assuming he go's willingly) that team does nothing til we refill them? Can we sim game at least and give them a win or loss until we find a replacement? And can we get those 2 best engineers who we're working on online stability put on the 2k16 online league team stat? Lol

Presumably you can sim the game between a user and a cpu team because when you click on the scheduled game between the two, it give you the option to simulate. The simulate feature is not functioning at the moment. See the screen shot below for reference. Also, there is no option to give a win or loss when you click on the scheduled game. Morever, because I have been unable to test the reset feature, which so far is no where to be seen given the lack of a game played, it would be really annoying to not be able to reset simmed games between users or a user and a cpu team. Stay tuned until I get a human player to join the lg to play a gm and see if we can reset. Unless LD2k wants to save us all the headache and acknowledge whether resets are in or not.