Quitting MTO - too frustrating experience

[Offballer4life]

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My GF and I dont live together yet. But when I go to her house for the weekend, her 3 kids and I play PS4 the whole time. GF loves it LOL. She even bought me a $50 VC card on early release night. <3

[kabamaru]

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30 as well, my wife hates this 2nd job. Always play too much 2k.

Yeah, my wife has issues with 2k too. This is partially one of the reasons I am quitting. I get frustrated at the gameand some times I can be heard screaming on my PS4. Not very good picture for the kid as well.

Back to beach buggy racing with the kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fWyICTw2A

haha

[kabamaru]

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My GF and I dont live together yet. But when I go to her house for the weekend, her 3 kids and I play PS4 the whole time. GF loves it LOL. She even bought me a $50 VC card on early release night. <3

Brother, you will realize later what a big YET this is, in the wives behaviour towards 2k

[phriscaul]

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Yeah, my wife has issues with 2k too. This is partially one of the reasons I am quitting. I get frustrated at the gameand some times I can be heard screaming on my PS4. Not very good picture for the kid as well.

Back to beach buggy racing with the kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60fWyICTw2A

haha

yeah. i hear ya. if they fixed the rubber-banding THAT WE ALL KNOW IS IN THE GAME there would be far less frustration. yesterday i played a guy with Steph, Jordan, Kobe, and Iverson FA cards. the rest of his team was trash and u can tell he was trash at MyTeam but they coddled him to death. he was making contested falling jumpers with steph and jordan all game. i was missing wide open, not a man within feet of me, jumpers. with lou and harden. pissed me off. His Silver Jahlil Okafor, outplayed my Ruby Davis. And i mean really outplayed him too. Putback dunks, offensive rebounds.....i was so pissed. it doesnt happen a **** ton, but when it does, it makes you question the coding of the game. at no point should a dude that has never touched myteam, be in a close match with me and have silver players out performing a significantly better card. thankfully i ended up winning by 20. they are trying to coddle to keep guys playing...but the offshoot of that is guys spend less on bigger cards because we know that you put in momentum to keep games close smh.

last year i used to ****ing get so upset bc of their trash momentum and i'd yell at the TV. wifey did NOT like that lol.

[xav777]

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30 as well, my wife hates this 2nd job. Always play too much 2k.

In my 30s as well. My girlfriend says the same thing when she see me starting to play 2k. She's like "getting ready to start your night shift are you". Or I wish you would show me as much attention as 2k. The funny thing is she plays as much Candy Crush or mobile games as I play 2k.

[kabamaru]

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In my 30s as well. My girlfriend says the same thing when she see me starting to play 2k. She's like "getting ready to start your night shift are you". Or I wish you would show me as much attention as 2k. The funny thing is she plays as much Candy Crush or mobile games as I play 2k.

Or just checking instagram...

It seems there are many 30+ yo guys, so it is easier to understand the frustration.

[phriscaul]

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In my 30s as well. My girlfriend says the same thing when she see me starting to play 2k. She's like "getting ready to start your night shift are you". Or I wish you would show me as much attention as 2k. The funny thing is she plays as much Candy Crush or mobile games as I play 2k.

my girl was the same way. she learned to deal with it.



bc i tell her that she's on her phone probably more than im on 2K. i win.

[justlaze]

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I honestly hate it when gf is around and I'm focused winning an MTO. I came to the conclusion to play other games when she's home so I don't get too pi$$ed when the distractions hit me[emoji23] nothing is as serious as MTO

[sk8board]

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see i think this is the sentiment echoed by a lot of the community.

get rid of momentum. get rid of expensive prices for packs. i called this mode a money grab on day 1 cus i saw what they were doing. like they really put up boxes and packs that can only be bought with VC? that means you are seriously making this pay to play. that **** is ridiculous. we dont want to have to spend money. we want to spend money if we feel its worth it. i've already decided that im about fed up with 2k after the ban so after this year, im probably done. my team is going the wrong direction.

This mindset is incorrect. I recall playing the AH on PC in earlier 2ks and having over 8 million MT when Onyx Wade dropped (one of the first to do it when it was unheard of, I was literally dominating the market before one even existed). A handful of people had 2-3 million MT. The truth is I was wasting my time. Instead of spending my free time enjoying the game, I was grinding. It was fun making all that MT, but I got bored and I moved away from it.

The sad thing is you think you are winning when you don't spend VC by spending hours every week or even every day grinding the AH. That means you don't value your time. Even at minimum wage you are spending 10-20x more than what you would had you just dropped the $20-$50. Now some people are crazy and they spend their life savings on 2k. Those people are excluded. But to get these crazy, all diamond teams this early, chances are that person lives in the AH, gets owned on-line, then goes back and plays the AH.

Honestly, you guys create the market for 2k by raising and setting the prices on everything to the max what someone can afford to pay so that it's hard to use the AH without buying VC. For the people who don't play the AH, we gotta pay $ to play. You're essentially a tool in their marketing ploy. They are using you and they are paying you in cigarettes.

[Bi00]

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Honestly, you guys create the market for 2k by raising and setting the prices on everything to the max what someone can afford to pay so that it's hard to use the AH without buying VC. For the people who don't play the AH, we gotta pay $ to play. You're essentially a tool in their marketing ploy. They are using you and they are paying you in cigarettes.

Supply and demand 101. There is no "max", there is just supply and demand.

It's natural to be burned out on a game if you play it too much. At some point, you just have to step away.

[sk8board]

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Supply and demand 101. There is no "max", there is just supply and demand.

I am talking to the die hards who play MyTeam and live in the AH. I can't believe people sit there for hours searching auctions for "snipes" and repeatedly spam searches for snipes 3-4x every hour.

I admit to doing it before, but I don't understand how people continue to do it every year when they know there is another 2k right around the corner. It's just not worth it.

I spend some time in the AH here and there, but nothing serious.

[jyoung]

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I feel like the reward cards you get from simply playing the game are better this year than ever before. But the time and skill required to unlock anything more than the one amethyst and one diamond player that you get from completing domination is pretty insane. And you will need a lot more firepower than that one amethyst/diamond duo to win consistently in the higher seeds of MTO.

It's what, around 400 wins to unlock blacktop's diamond reward player? At a time of 10 minutes per game, you'd need to play 66 hours without losing a single match to get to that point. And you are guaranteed nothing else but that one diamond from blacktop, even if your win/loss record is incredibly good, because all of its other card rewards rely on random dice rolls.

MyTeam Online also has very nice rewards this year, but the ratings and badges disparity between the diamond cards that people with lots of MT are unlocking from historic collections and the cards that any normal person can afford is huge right now, making it very difficult to obtain those MTO rewards.

At the moment, there is a larger ratings/badges gap between the pay-to-win teams and the play-to-win teams than there has ever been in MyTeam. The only things that could change this situation is if the price of ruby cards falls significantly, allowing more people to complete historic collections, or if 2K continues to put out challenges with good MT payouts like last week's Curry challenge. Both options would get people unlocking more historic diamond cards and fielding more competitive lineups for MTO.

[Infreno]

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I spend some time in the AH here and there, but nothing serious.

I'm at 350k MT right now with occasional AH use. Like inbetween every domination/MTO/blacktop game when it's within 2-3 minutes of the refresh. I'm doing it every year and I'm having fun doing it actually. Some people are so frustrated playing this game, it's amazing. I'm 30+ too and I don't have the competitive drive you guys have, apparently.

[Bi00]

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You can't have it both ways. There will be players in this game that have played 400+ hours already and those who are barely scratching 20. The question is how do you manage the team difference between those who play the game religiously vs those who are casually going through the content.

MTO already has team overall and league matchmaking. And the reward cards are already placed behind huge time sink walls. I feel like the complaints are missing the bigger picture, it is already time consuming to obtain much of the content in this game. The opposite of this year was last year in 2k16 where great cards were available on day 1 and were better than most of the rewards in every mode. People were complaining then about the lack of good reward content and the similarity of every team composition.

This year you can build a great team without committing time on the AH and just playing the different modes. That in itself is a huge improvement from previous years.

[roboas]

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One of the things that made 2k13 MT so good was that the players felt like they had individual personalities. You knew that Dominique Wilkins and Sean Kemp were gonna run and dunk it, and it was up to you on D to stop it. Likewise, Dell Curry and John Starks were OP 3 point shooters. Jordan and Magic could hit a 3 every once in a while if open, but they stood close to their ratings and abilities. But you knew what players were / weren't capable of, and you tailored you defense to stop it, otherwise you got blown out by 30.

What rubberbanding has done is inflated / deflated the ratings and abilities of players in-game to the point where they don't retain their personalities anymore. Case in point: I passed to an cutting Ray Allen (he was open at the 3 point line, didn't want him to cut), and he was driving straight toward a well positioned Ben Wallace. I have acrobat on my Ray Allen so I went right on the right stick hoping to be bailed out by a layup animation or draw a foul. What ended up happening was a tomahawk poster of Big Ben ala Kemp / Lister. I was down by 9 points at the time, so this seemed completely normal.