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

[silverskier]

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

Another revelation! Catch the drift? But in all seriousness, does this apply to online leagues or online games in general? I always thought that 2k was a region free game that allowed you to play anyone no matter their location? In the past we have had European members in our Simsational (SSBA) leagues, who connected with our U.S. members without a probelm. Sigh....the body blows continue to mount. Dem's the breaks I guess.

I believe that in general too. For sure in online leagues.

[morningstar777]

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

Another revelation! Catch the drift? But in all seriousness, does this apply to online leagues or online games in general? I always thought that 2k was a region free game that allowed you to play anyone no matter their location? It's always been EA that made PAL and NTSC specific region games; but not 2k. In the past we have had European members in our Simsational (SSBA) leagues, who connected with our U.S. members without a probelm. Sigh....the body blows continue to mount. Dem's the breaks I guess.

I play FIFA against people from all over the world, you gotta hear some of these british accents, it's great!

[amedawg00]

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

We have to be united and make a communication plan to voice this. I think we should start a mailing list to share ideas and plans to do it.

What do you say, amedawg00?

A mailing list is a great idea! There are tons of well established leagues all across the globe that we can organize into one coherent voice. There are American leagues that have been around for years like SSBA, NES, TNE, SIM CITY, NSBA, FFBA, and XLSL to name a few. There are Spanish leagues like LVNBA; OS member UniversalNoob knows of 3 long running German Leagues; Another OS member Ataman (who repeatedly voiced his frustrations about OLs until that frustration led him to being banned, has run a Turkish league for the past 5 years; Coach2k has been running PS4 leagues. Hell even, OS Mod Pared used to run some of the most engaging and well structured leagues with the now defunct OS Vets League. Another league that fell victim to 2k's neglect of the mode of the years. That league even had the infamous 2k reelmaker MomentousCeltic and former OS staff writer ChaseB as members.

I could go on and on, but it will be our job to reach out to all of these commishioners of leagues to reach a critical mass. If you simply do a search for "Online Leagues" in the last and current gen forums, that alone will be 75%of the work in identifying Online League and Association members of OS to include in a potential mail list as suggested lvnba. I would like to focus on the gaming media outreach; but will assist you in getting the mailing list setup as well. I cannot emphasize how good of an idea this is to show 2k that online league players exist, in the form of a mailing list; it's just the diminished mode has driven most of us to dissallusion and apathy. Let's not just talk about it lvnba, lets put this into action, sooner rather than later. If you are commishioner of an online league, stop lurking and post your GT. Remember, each OL commishioner potentially represents up to 30 members. With that in mind, we could reach a critical mass in no time!

As for the media outreach side of this campaign, below are the twitter handles of sports gaming journalist who have at one time or another opined or discussed 2ks onlines leagues.

Bryan Wiedey, PastaPadre (@PastaPadre)
Steve Noah, OS (@Steve_OS)
Owen Good, Polygon (@OwenGood)
Samit Sarkar, Polygon (@SamitSarkar)
Kat Bailey, US Gamer (@The_Katbot)
Richard Grisham, GamesRadar (@richgrisham)
Daniel Leroux, RealGM (@DannyLeroux)
Brian Mazique, BleacherReports (@BMaziqueFPBR)
Jon Robinson, ESPN (@JRobandSteal)

Most importantly fellas; 2k devs Davez and Leftos have setup a wishlist thread for improvements to Myleague in 2k16. It is imperative that we make it known our desires for Myleague and or MyGM to be brought online in 2k16. Make sure to contribute to the thread linked below. 2k15 maybe a lost cause, but given enough constructive criticism, we have a shot to influence the decision making that will go into 2k16.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...list-2k16.html

I will work on compiling all of the 2k devs twitter handles and OS usernames for more direct communications via PM when I get a chance. Don't lose hope guys. I know ample OL/OA threads have been buried in the ash heap of the OS forums, but this time, it will be different; this time, with organization and determination, we will be heard. Then when 2k16 comes out without any notable changes to the status quo, we can hold our heads up high knowing that we gave it our all and that 2k simply has made a decision to kill off the mode inspite of our efforts.

[lvnba]

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

A mailing list is a great idea!

You have a PM sir (:

[Boilerbuzz]

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

Another revelation! Catch the drift? But in all seriousness, does this apply to online leagues or online games in general? I always thought that 2k was a region free game that allowed you to play anyone no matter their location? It's always been EA that made PAL and NTSC specific region games; but not 2k. In the past we have had European members in our Simsational (SSBA) leagues, who connected with our U.S. members without a probelm. Sigh....the body blows continue to mount. Dem's the breaks I guess.

This isn't a OL thing man.

[amedawg00]

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

This isn't a OL thing man.

That's why I asked silverskier to clarify whether it was OL specific or online in general. Seems to be the latter.

[Kurupt_XxX]

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

That's why I asked silverskier to clarify whether it was OL specific or online in general. Seems to be the latter.

we have couple guys in our lg who can't get games in becasue they are from europe. We tried playing them outside the league as well, (mypark) and it's the same thing. We can't get it to work with them

[amedawg00]

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

we have couple guys in our lg who can't get games in becasue they are from europe. We tried playing them outside the league as well, (mypark) and it's the same thing. We can't get it to work with them

Good info kurupt....I'll update the OP to include this issue in Guardian's boiler plate template of fixes. Quick question, are your league games registering wins and losses aside from the inability to connect across continents?

[thedream2k13]

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

we have couple guys in our lg who can't get games in becasue they are from europe. We tried playing them outside the league as well, (mypark) and it's the same thing. We can't get it to work with them

I read a post on reddit about some guys with the same issue

[swimfunk]

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

Games still not registering, only way is to have loser quit during last seconds of game lol

[amedawg00]

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

Games still not registering, only way is to have loser quit during last seconds of game lol

I doubt it will address our concerns but let's hope within the announced patch that there are stealth fixes for Online Leagues. I know it's wishful thinking but the least we can hope for are the games registering since that seems to be a server side issue that 2k can get a handle on relatively quickly. The (among other things) line is what has me cautiously optimistic.

[amedawg00]

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

Ok so we know games are not registering; fine we will sim the results after games are played to the winner. We know custom rosters are glitching; fine we will use the default roster out of the box. We know we cannot boot or re-invite members; fine we will vet our members and start with a trusted solid core of owners.

But how can we ever start a league to implement these asinine work arounds if members cannot accept lg invites? Invites that need to be to accepted by all members in order to start the league. Anyone else still having this issue of your members not being able to accept league invites? Ughh...for the love of god, someone at 2k; please acknowledge these glitches and let us know if and when they will be addressed in the upcoming patch. What's with the cryptic message in the upcoming patch about "amongst other issues" about anyways. Just be transparent about what exactly will or will not be in the patch. Sheesh!

[swimfunk]

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

Started my real online league and now having issues with people joining the league....

So, this is fun!

[amedawg00]

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

Started my real online league and now having issues with people joining the league....

So, this is fun!

We seem to get stuck around the mid way point of league members being able to accept invites. When about 15 or so members out of a possible 30 have accepted, the rest encounter that screen shot above of failed to accept invite after some time has elapsed. What's your experience been exactly swim or anyone else for that matter. Maybe we can come up with a work around based on others exact experiences with this issue. This is by far the most crippling glitch as it prevents us from even launching the league. I'm thinking that maybe all members should be on the box to accept as soon as the lg is created and the mass invites are sent.

[Guard-ian]

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

Wow! This is unaceptable.... Where is Rob Jones now? I would like to hear him repeating to us that "online leagues are back"...

Just to let you know that we are having the same problem in our 30 users league, some of them can never accept the invite as they keep having that error...

Depressing.