Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

[UnbelievablyRAW]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

Lol that bit about how playing MyCareer doesn't involve having to suffer through anything to be enjoyed is gold. As if getting thrown into the NBA as a 62 OVR and having to use a horrible player for hours and hours is fun. I'm never going to buy VC, but I don't see why the "grind" isn't easy to start with and longer in the end. It shouldn't take hours and hours just to get to 75 (which is just a good or above average role player). If it were up to me, everyone would start at a 70 (like it used to be if I remember properly) so that you would immediately be able to be useful on the court and not rely on cheesing to get a high grade in game. People that have lives and can't dedicate hours and hours to the game will almost never reach a high 80 to 90 rating without buying VC so I always end up playing the mode for a week then going back to quick games in MyTeam or PNO

[UnbelievablyRAW]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

“2K how you gonna charge me 10k VC for shoes I made??

Did you hand-stitch those shoes yourself? Will you be playing barefoot without them? Yeah, you don’t really need those then. Keep grinding!

Yeah this is def has to be a parody piece. Lmfao

[Junior Moe]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

You have admitted many times in the past that you don't play modes affected by these issues, and yet you continue to lecture people that do play these modes. Do you ever see any of the mycareer/mypark/pro-am guys in the Myleague or MyGm threads lecturing dudes about what slider sets and rosters they should be using?

I'm not lecturing anyone. I gave my opinion on the article which I found interesting. You're free to have an opinion on myleague. I don't own it.

[Yesh2kdone]

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I'm not lecturing anyone. I gave my opinion on the article which I found interesting. You're free to have an opinion on myleague. I don't own it.

I hope OS gives you the modship that you so clearly crave, but calling out guys for "bitching and moaning every day" before then inferring that we're all babies with victim mentalities (poor us, greedy companies) goes a little beyond giving uneducated opinions on modes you don't play.

[DakkoN]

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There is absolutely ZERO reason that this year's iteration of the game doesn't have a mode that is identical to the mode that the E League qualifiers got to play in 2K18 where you got to pick premade archetype players to play games. Imagine if other games that were trying to build their name up as a serious E League game forced you to pay a $20-$50 entry fee just to be able to be somewhat on the same level as the other ELeague prospects. Imagine if in Call of Duty you had to pay 20 bucks just to be able to use that nice M8A7 that all of the other players are getting to shoot and play with. Or if there wasn't such thing as a private match and they had to grind to max level just to be able to equip all of the guns and perks that everybody else is using. There's literally no other reason except for greed that 2k19 doesnt have a similar private match system with fully unlocked archetypes to play with.

[Junior Moe]

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I hope OS gives you the modship that you so clearly crave, but calling out guys for "bitching and moaning every day" before then inferring that we're all babies with victim mentalities (poor us, greedy companies) goes a little beyond giving uneducated opinions on modes you don't play.

It's funny, the author of this article plays these modes and gave his take on the grind. Another poster posted about how he doesn't mind paying because he doesn't care for the grind and just wants to have fun. Their opinions don't matter though because they aren't complaining, do they? Stop acting like your anti VC/grind take is the only one. It isnt. If I did play these modes and cared enough I'd just buy the dang VC and be done with it. But that's just me...

I actually like to play and enjoy my games. I'm only here to get more enjoyment out the games I play. I'm good on the mod, tip. I know nature of the Internet is to complain and moan. Stop getting so worked up over an opinion. I don't expect nor care to change your or anyone elses mind.

[mcpats]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

You have to literally go into a casino and spin a roulette wheel to get your daily bonus. That right there should tell you something about how this game is targeting it's customers

[RipCityAndy]

VC is garbage and is ruining what is otherwise an excellent series. We as fans need to stand up to 2k and let them know this trend is NOT OK. Other excellent games don't have these predatory microtransactions. Newsflash to the 2k community - you are allowing this happen to yourselves (especially when people write articles titled "How to Embrace the Grind"). 

For the first time in over a decade I didn't buy 2k this year. The only way this will get fixed is if fans stop purchasing it.

[Yesh2kdone]

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It's funny, the author of this article plays these modes and gave his take on the grind. Another poster posted about how he doesn't mind paying because he doesn't care for the grind and just wants to have fun. Their opinions don't matter though because they aren't complaining, do they? Stop acting like your anti VC/grind take is the only one. It isnt. If I did play these modes and cared enough I'd just buy the dang VC and be done with it. But that's just me...

I actually like to play and enjoy my games. I'm only here to get more enjoyment out the games I play. I'm good on the mod, tip. I know nature of the Internet is to complain and moan. Stop getting so worked up over an opinion. I don't expect nor care to change your or anyone elses mind.

If you read the page previous to this one, I actually addressed some of the things he raised in a specific yet non-confrontational manner because he obviously plays/played the modes on which he's pontificating. In that very post, I even credit 2k for increasing the VC you can earn this year.

I'm just baffled as to why you would turn up in threads about things that don't concern you, and your first impulse is to discredit or make sly digs at people that have genuine issues with elements of the game you dont ever have to face? Let me repeat that, you turn up in threads aimed at VC/grind issues and play "devils advocate" constantly in favour of their practices.

Would anyone who doesn't play battlefront defend EA's approach to microtransactions and attack the actual players of the game without actually experiencing what they were talking about? Of course not, and yet here you are...

I can imagine the holy hell that would rain down on the first mypark player to go into the simnation thread and call them bitchers and moaners because a play that the bulls ran once in the 90's isn't in the game.

[ASAP Floppy]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

I hope OS gives you the modship that you so clearly crave, but calling out guys for "bitching and moaning every day" before then inferring that we're all babies with victim mentalities (poor us, greedy companies) goes a little beyond giving uneducated opinions on modes you don't play.

I'd like this 20 times if I could.

[Optimus James]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

Embrace that MyPlayer is 100% pay2play.
Theres nothing really to debate anymore

Ive seen mobile games with more leeway to grind.

[Junior Moe]

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I'm just baffled as to why you would turn up in threads about things that don't concern you, and your first impulse is to discredit or make sly digs at people that have genuine issues with elements of the game you dont ever have to face? Let me repeat that, you turn up in threads aimed at VC/grind issues and play "devils advocate" constantly in favour of their practices.

Would anyone who doesn't play battlefront defend EA's approach to microtransactions and attack the actual players of the game without actually experiencing what they were talking about? Of course not, and yet here you are...

Don't be baffled. This is an open forum and it's how I view micros. It's not a 2K thing. I don't play Battlferont online. But I feel the same way, don't buy. Stop supporting the product. Whether you buy VC or not youre contributing to the VC economy. But thats 2Ks fault, right? I bought Battlefront on sale for the campaign. I posted the same thing in the Spiderman tread when people were making it seem like them announcing DLC before the games release was nefarious. I bought the game for 60$ a month ago. Im ready to drop whatever on the DLC because i think itll be fun. Its just how I feel about micros. I'm sorry I'm not here to pile on and act like I'm somehow being done wrong or that micro transactions are the worst thing ever. If I did, I doubt you'd have an issue with which modes I play. The same way you folks convienently ignore the others who don't share that narrative. But whatever.

[ph33]

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If this guy really cared about "embracing the MyCareer Grind" then he would talk more about how you can embrace the grind. Why bring up the bit about 60k VC skateboard and walking? That's got nothing to do with the grind. There is nothing about this that tries to get people to embrace anything.

All he did was go into old OS threads, and copy/paste the arguments other people have already made, and these other people are the same people who don't play these modes but have all the hot takes in the world.

This was an embarrassing piece of work, period. If anybody actually took this seriously it'd be straight up plagiarism. I'm glad other people brought it up as a parody because that's the only explanation I can have for it being published.

Consumers being anti-consumer is never going to cease being amazing.



Also---"Why does anyone want to be a 99 so quickly?"
Please. Find me a poster here that's ever suggested wanting to be a 99 quickly.
Ah yes, the classic practice of making things up so that you can get more words in.

[Yesh2kdone]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

Don't be baffled. This is an open forum and it's how I view micros. It's not a 2K thing. I don't play Battlferont online. But I feel the same way, don't buy. Stop supporting the product. Whether you buy VC or not youre contributing to the VC economy. But thats 2Ks fault, right? I bought Battlefront on sale for the campaign. I posted the same thing in the Spiderman tread when people were making it seem like them announcing DLC before the games release was nefarious. I bought the game for 60$ a month ago. Im ready to drop whatever on the DLC because i think itll be fun. Its just how I feel about micros. I'm sorry I'm not here to pile on and act like I'm somehow being done wrong or that micro transactions are the worst thing ever. If I did, I doubt you'd have an issue with which modes I play. The same way you folks convienently ignore the others who don't share that narrative. But whatever.

It's not even about microtransactions my dude. I'll repeat that my own post in this thread praises 2k for the amount of VC you can earn this year. Your repeated "don't like it, don't buy it" mantra is equally, if not more, tiresome.

How about my new mantra "don't play it, don't go into every thread this is discussed and call everyone bitches and moaners".

To be fair to everyone else in this thread, I'll make this my last post in your direction in here, unless of course you have something interesting to say about an issue you never ever encounter. Lol, as if.

[ph33]

Re: Learning to Embrace the MyCareer Grind in NBA 2K19

If someone actually enjoys the grind, then I don’t think anyone cares. As far as I know, no one has ever gone after someone for saying they enjoy the grind. (I would also like to hear from the person that likes starting from 60 every year. Do you exist?)

But when your writing’s tone is “You guys are ridiculous for not feeling my way, enjoy the grind and stop whining” then that’s when there are problems.


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