NBA 2K12 Legends Not Available Online

[xMoJox]

Dear 2k/Take Two Management -

There's this term going around called "The Cloud." It's this great concept of about putting pretty much everything on the internet. I mean everything. Music, documents, photos, software, even games (multiplayer games at that). It's the hottest term in the industry and even stock investors are buying up Cloud based companies. It's safe to say that sooner or later, everything is going to be based off of internet. Look at Steam, it is an entire library of games I can play through my internet connection, some even multiplayer.

No matter how much you fight it, Online is going to be the wave of the future. Internet connections are going to replace telephone lines, and eventually everyone except farmers are going to be on high speed connections.

So do all your paying customers a favor and get on board. Let's be honest, I'm still going to buy your game because of the hard work you put into other areas (and you're also the only game in town - literally). But even though EA is way behind you all right now for Basketball games, we can all hear their footsteps in the distance. And the one area in which they've always had you beat is devoting resources to their online components. I hope for your sake you get on board - but right now your opponent is on the ground and you all are basically standing over him leaving your groin wide open.

That is all.

From what I've seen so far from 2K's "Servers", I wouldn't be surprised if the servers didn't work up to par until 2K14!

[Jakeness23]

I play almost exclusively OFFLINE, I like doing Association and My Player, so I don't really care about this. Online is okay, but I'll leave my online playing to Battlefield and COD.

[NotoriousD]

This is BULL. They could of made it where we can use them unranked games. No excuse 2K.

Son of a mother duck.

[thugnificant]

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16 days till release, 2k make it happen for unranked games!!!!

[thugnificant]

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proly cuz only three or four teams whould be almost unstopabble and whould be used ALL THE TIME 87 lakers 86 celtics 90-98 bulls and either the rockets or magic

not every player on the teams is rated high, people think just because they are "historic" teams they are unstoppable. I dont think luc longley will be rated 90 anytime soon

[Gramps91]

I play almost exclusively OFFLINE, I like doing Association and My Player, so I don't really care about this. Online is okay, but I'll leave my online playing to Battlefield and COD.

Exactly how I feel. cept I don't play online at all. lol

[jfsolo]

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Look unless your a developer, then you don't know the actual reason to why the classic teams won't be available online. To many people on this site tend to think they know it all, must most of the time are dead wrong. Let's stop crying and let the Dev's give us the reason for this issue.

Wont make a difference.

If was explained why the new Cavs court wasnt in the game last year (until the patch) and people acted like the devs were liars. There isnt really a answer they can give to stop people from being ridiculous.

(though I do feel you guys dissapointment, I would like the classic teams online)

24th is correct. For a certain segment of folks here, if they want X in the game, then it is automatically in their minds something that is easy to implement. If it isn't done, then the developers are lazy, dumb, holding back for next year, or biased against those gamers.

Also the whole "Online is the future, Offline is obsolete" argument may be true... in 5 or 10 years, maybe. Even here, on a online message board, online has been crushed by offline in every poll we've ever had. Even when everything is server/cloud based I still believe that most people are going to choose to play by themselves. We have a lot of good guys here, but IMO, a large percentage of people who are drawn to online play are straight up Delta Bravos.

[Flips House]

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For all of you who say this is fine because you don't play online anyhow....

How would you feel if they came out and said Legend Teams would ONLY be available ONLINE. Wouldn't you feel a little disappointed that after being hyped up for all these great teams, that these teams won't be available in any mode you have any interest in? This is the way a lot of people feel...or at least me.

[2slik]

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I hope this isn't a omen that online has been completely neglected.

[tos violator]

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The PR department is ruining 2k. Every time I see a new article or video from 2ksports, I see another person with a title like "Marketing Director" or "Social Media Director," and every one of them makes the game worse for their dedicated fan base (not necessarily the casual gamer).

You can say all you want about people being armchair developers, but the fact of the matter is 2k is to blame for this miscue. The problem from the start was promising a "greatest mode" to us through their PR department. Unfortunately, after figuring out that they didn't have the time nor resources to figure out how to make this happen, they just put 2 teams from each year and matched them up with each other. This is NOT a mode! All this does is make us go through a tediously boring and easy mode to unlock the teams. And there aren't even individual achievements within the mode.

Then, the PR team thought of another brilliant idea - making the 02 Kings and 91 Warriors preorder only. When this news broke, I immediately knew the classic rosters weren't going to be available online (okay, 99% sure) because of peoples' classic teams not matching up. And what for? To try to appeal to a few more casual gamers through marketing.

The "15 legends" gimmick is another part of the marketing disaster that is 2ksports. To say that Malone and Stockton are legends, but not Shaq, Duncan, Robinson, Kobe is completely arbitrary and borderline embarrassing. A more logical way to implement the classic teams would be just to make them available out of the box (and online). This disaster started with the PR department (Ronnie2k, etc.).

Get rid of the gimmicks, get rid of the PR department, and dedicate the resources instead to making the game functional and the online play more stable.

This whole fiasco was predictable from the start if you followed Ronnie2k on twitter.

I'll gladly play NBA Jam for $15 this year.

[jfsolo]

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I'll gladly play NBA Jam for $15 this year.

You're going to punish yourself, twice.

[Gramps91]

For all of you who say this is fine because you don't play online anyhow....

How would you feel if they came out and said Legend Teams would ONLY be available ONLINE. Wouldn't you feel a little disappointed that after being hyped up for all these great teams, that these teams won't be available in any mode you have any interest in? This is the way a lot of people feel...or at least me.

You do have a point. If that were to happen I would be a little disappointed. But i'd still have association and my player so it wouldn't be a total deal breaker.

[coolcras7]

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For all of you who say this is fine because you don't play online anyhow....

How would you feel if they came out and said Legend Teams would ONLY be available ONLINE. Wouldn't you feel a little disappointed that after being hyped up for all these great teams, that these teams won't be available in any mode you have any interest in? This is the way a lot of people feel...or at least me.

that would plane be stupid, since 2k knows not everyone who plays their game has access to online, the game and all games are first and foremost made to be played offline.

[bigball12]

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So...you're going to get it later...just not at release day? Or you're not going to get it period?

Some of the reactions...man. People act like 2K puts out hot-mess like NCAA 12 which has both offline and online problems. All you have to do is look at the alternative of what we could be dealing with...SMH.

I will get it once the lockout ends. the only way I will get it on release, s if the demo blows me away, or the Magic Johnson cover will be a limited run near release time.

[coolcras7]

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I will get it once the lockout ends. the only way I will get it on release, s if the demo blows me away, or the Magic Johnson cover will be a limited run near release time.

The Magic Johnson cover is a limited release so is Bird, Jordan will be the only one produced after.