Re: KOTAKU : NBA 2K18 is Riddled With Microtransactions
I don't care about it because they won't change. Don't you get it? Sales would have to plummet to 1 or 2 mio at most to make them completely abandon VC and that will never ever happen. Never. So what I'm proposing is to free the base game and the competitive gaming from VC and keep it strictly in the sort of online GTA experience of the park were you can throw down dunks with fire and dance around and all that nonsense. So people who like to play competitve basketball get a totally improved ProAM mode that is actually much more suited to the E-League style that 2k wants to do because it would really be about skill and tactics instead of money. They don't lose out on the VC business because people can still play in the Park and spend tons of money there but normal players can still grind for VC if they want to participate and not pay. The career will get freed of all that bs and all that corny stuff because it doesn't need to be cool and hip anymore it just needs to be engaging.
Nobody loses and everybody wins in this model. Don't like the pay2win of the park? Play ProAM with friends or people you meet online and go at it with players that are on the same level and maybe get good enough to start playing in tournaments. Don't like being forced to be online constantly? Play MyGM and MyLeague and MyCareer and just go nuts with your own customizations and what not. Want to keep making money on VC? Well the park is still there and everything is monetized, every single thing.
How exactly are you missing out? You can still play 2 on 2 or 3 on 3 on your own court in ProAM when you do team scrimmages and you can invite other teams to do friendly 1 on 1 , 2 on 2, 3 on 3 or play a proper ranked game with them.
I could make the same argument the other way around. You don't like to pay or grind so you want us to suffer with you, even though we might not want to play Park. But since both of them are connected and you don't want to suffer alone, we will never be free of VC. However it is a workable solution because a lot of Park players don't want to play MyCareer at all. They hate it with a vengeance and want it gone from their experience completely. ProAM players don't want to play with or against people who do not play sound basketball, steal spammers, showboaters and people who lack any kind of basketball IQ. MyCareer players don't want to be online all the time, don't want to have the customization limited artificially and Franchise players do not want VC to introdude on their game mode. So seperate them clearly and do it like GTA. The single player offline mode is free, the online part is but it's pay2win and the E-League part is free but requires proper skills just as in many shooters.
I don't care about it because they won't change. Don't you get it? Sales would have to plummet to 1 or 2 mio at most to make them completely abandon VC and that will never ever happen. Never. So what I'm proposing is to free the base game and the competitive gaming from VC and keep it strictly in the sort of online GTA experience of the park were you can throw down dunks with fire and dance around and all that nonsense. So people who like to play competitve basketball get a totally improved ProAM mode that is actually much more suited to the E-League style that 2k wants to do because it would really be about skill and tactics instead of money. They don't lose out on the VC business because people can still play in the Park and spend tons of money there but normal players can still grind for VC if they want to participate and not pay. The career will get freed of all that bs and all that corny stuff because it doesn't need to be cool and hip anymore it just needs to be engaging.
Nobody loses and everybody wins in this model. Don't like the pay2win of the park? Play ProAM with friends or people you meet online and go at it with players that are on the same level and maybe get good enough to start playing in tournaments. Don't like being forced to be online constantly? Play MyGM and MyLeague and MyCareer and just go nuts with your own customizations and what not. Want to keep making money on VC? Well the park is still there and everything is monetized, every single thing.
How exactly are you missing out? You can still play 2 on 2 or 3 on 3 on your own court in ProAM when you do team scrimmages and you can invite other teams to do friendly 1 on 1 , 2 on 2, 3 on 3 or play a proper ranked game with them.
I could make the same argument the other way around. You don't like to pay or grind so you want us to suffer with you, even though we might not want to play Park. But since both of them are connected and you don't want to suffer alone, we will never be free of VC. However it is a workable solution because a lot of Park players don't want to play MyCareer at all. They hate it with a vengeance and want it gone from their experience completely. ProAM players don't want to play with or against people who do not play sound basketball, steal spammers, showboaters and people who lack any kind of basketball IQ. MyCareer players don't want to be online all the time, don't want to have the customization limited artificially and Franchise players do not want VC to introdude on their game mode. So seperate them clearly and do it like GTA. The single player offline mode is free, the online part is but it's pay2win and the E-League part is free but requires proper skills just as in many shooters.
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