Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

[Iasounis]

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Reading through this thread was/is an eye opener for me.

Why?

As a mainly ProAm player, who played on PC and offline for many years before jumping into online for 2k17, I always wondered why 2k had such a difficult time balancing the gameplay to make most happy.

This thread gave me my answer...

There are at least two very different groups that play this game online via MyPlayer (not too mention the MyTeam and PNOs). In the past, they would've been referred to as ProAm and Park/Playground, but now the Cages represent a new or transformed group. As a player in the ProAm group, I have little interest in playing SlamBall; as do those that I play with as I've not heard any mention of 'running Cage' by them. The fact that so many have left the somewhat arcadey Playground in favour of the very arcadey Cages made me realize that many 2k gamers are very in favour of a game mode more similar to NBA Jam than sim basketball.

What this means is that when 2k asks for opinions here and more so on Twitter, without contextualizing what game style each respondent is particular too, they're getting feedback from a very differing opinions, and making changes for all at the same time.

Not sure how 2k could/should remedy this, but the point here is that, 'there are major differences in what players want in their gaming experience with some preferring a 'sim experience', while others want something closer to NBA Jam'.

Therefore, on many gameplay issues, it may just be better for the two groups to agree-to-disagree, rather than go back and forth arguing from opposite POVs.

[Loot23]

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I was wondering why the parks were so dead as well. I found out last night that if you go through the subway to go to another park, it will put you in a park that is more filled than the original one. I went through several times last night and it worked like a charm.

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I was wondering why the parks were so dead as well. I found out last night that if you go through the subway to go to another park, it will put you in a park that is more filled than the original one. I went through several times last night and it worked like a charm.

Is the subway free this time? I thought the subway was just to take you across the map.

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[Iasounis]

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The parks are dead because people constantly complained about how the neighborhood was too spaced out last year. Now 2K has placed everything in the neighborhood together which is just chaos. You have a small amount of people playing while everybody else is running around to buy shoes, tattoos, haircuts and/or clothes.

Let's also not forget the random events they host throughout the day. I was in a park yesterday and it was filled with people trying to play.... until they announced the dodge ball competition. I kid you not when I say the hooping area was cleared out as everybody tried to make their way to the dodge ball competition.

Also add in the fact that you have a nice amount of brown shirts/badges running around as well. I personally won't give a brown badge player the time of day unless it's a center since centers are hard to come by. In my eyes you shouldn't be at the park if you're a short brown badge player.

Again, as I mentioned above, there is a group of players who like these 'non-sim-basketball' modes or games. Not complaining, just pointing out facts.

[Loot23]

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Is the subway free this time? I thought the subway was just to take you across the map.

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I always thought the subway was free. And it just takes you into another lobby. Usually with more people actually playing at the park. Usually when I first log in, they put me in a lobby where only 2 of the courts are being used. Go through the subway, and wala... Most if not all the courts are being used. At least that's what happened last night.

[ksuttonjr76]

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I have to ask now.

Is Dodgeball and Slamball REALLY that popular? I thought people may try it out for the first week then move back to the JRC/Park respectively, but you all describing the games like they have staying power.

[dsj914]

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I have to ask now.



Is Dodgeball and Slamball REALLY that popular? I thought people may try it out for the first week then move back to the JRC/Park respectively, but you all describing the games like they have staying power.

Lol no one plays dodgeball for fun, they play it for the VC. And they hide for 8 minutes and make the game take forever...


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[ph33]

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I *did*'participate in trivia yesterday

That was kinda fun


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[Bandeazyy]

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Where all complaining about the samething why don't we make a os park group to ball with eachother i don't understand we don't have to deal with them

I tried that but the thread disappeared through all the whiney threads. If you guys are interested though look up os nba 2k19 park/proam community on ps4

[Bandeazyy]

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I always thought the subway was free. And it just takes you into another lobby. Usually with more people actually playing at the park. Usually when I first log in, they put me in a lobby where only 2 of the courts are being used. Go through the subway, and wala... Most if not all the courts are being used. At least that's what happened last night.

Its funny how most people had no idea about the subway lol. My buddies were complaining the other day about how they had to lose their streaks since all the parks were empty. 2k should do better to explain these things