2K taking too much away from the game??

[Pared]

Re: 2K taking too much away from the game??

What's wrong with a good complaining and whining thread? Why is that forbidden on these forums? We're just evaluating for improvement.

I think he is trying to say that people are on this thread just throwing out complaints and thats it. Having been mainly a lurker of these forums for quite some time I've found that its fine to address issues with suggestions for improvement but not blindly whine.

There ya go.

[VDusen04]

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I just put together a 49 point and 12 rebound performance with Michael Jordan. Post game, as I tried to exit, a screen popped up saying something like, "Saving VC to online" or something of that sort. It stuck on this pop up for around 60 seconds before I was ultimately disconnected from XBox Live. I exited the game anyway and 2K said it was autosaving my user profile. Alas, any record of the game I just played was erased and no virtual currency accumulated.

I find the above example to be another set of reasons as to why required and constant interaction with an online server, alongside the unchangeable auto-save function, can be detrimental to one's gaming experience. I do not favor the direction 2K has headed in this regard.

Further, in the early goings of this release, the fear or knowledge that there's a chance the game I spend an hour of my day playing isn't going to count for anything if my XBox is disconnected at some point (or if 2K glitches) is quickly diminishing my will to play at all.

[BornBetter]

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I just put together a 49 point and 12 rebound performance with Michael Jordan. Post game, as I tried to exit, a screen popped up saying something like, "Saving VC to online" or something of that sort. It stuck on this pop up for around 60 seconds before I was ultimately disconnected from XBox Live. I exited the game anyway and 2K said it was autosaving my user profile. Alas, any record of the game I just played was erased and no virtual currency accumulated.

I find the above example to be another set of reasons as to why required and constant interaction with an online server, alongside the unchangeable auto-save function, can be detrimental to one's gaming experience. I do not favor the direction 2K has headed in this regard.

Totally agree with you. It kills me having to stare at a "Connecting to 2k server" pop-up box every time I do something. StarCraft 2 has a feature now where they stream data in the background. Wish they could do something like this for 2K13.

[kjjnesb]

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Ok for everyone that is complaining about AutoSave try this;

1. Sign into your profile and boot the game.
2. At the Main Menu Disconnect fro Xbox Live.
3. Create your Offline Association. You will get a prompt about it Being Offline. This will make it so you DONT earn VC AT ALL while in this Association.
4. At this point the Auto Save Option is turned OFF in the association. (It cant be turned back on)
5. Also at this point you can sign back into Xbox Live. (This association will forever be an OFFLINE one that WILL NEVER earn you VC)

The only problem with this is you can't use custom roster or custom teams or anything custom you'd have to redo your changes start the Association then save it.

Also when I tried this it told me I couldn't save while not logged in

[Sportsflibs]

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You can get around autosave. Load association - save under a different name. If it autosaves something you don't want you re-load the older save.

[kjjnesb]

Re: 2K taking too much away from the game??

You can get around autosave. Load association - save under a different name. If it autosaves something you don't want you re-load the older save.

Yeah this seems to be the only way till 2k addresses it

[GisherJohn24]

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Easy fix is to just create another assoc. file....

you can't, they removed Export team option from Assocation.

[biggiejerseys]

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I personally think it would be better served if 2K released NBA 2K around the 20th of October every much like how Madden's release date is closer to start of the season. This would help with the rosters and such. I wish with the legend teams we would have had to done something to unlock them, like we had to in 2K11 & 2K12 and not just got them from the start. I'm kind of confused with the virtual currency do we earn it in all game modes? One thing I'd like to see added is something similar to that 'MJ: Creating A Legend' feature that was in 2K11, but you can use any of legends you'd like to. As far as historic teams go, I know there's only a handful of players missing off those teams, but if the said player was a key player, like C-Webb & Eric Snow. it takes away from the legendary team.

I'm a big fan of the My Player/Career mode, so I like the ability to buy Virtual Currency to buy skill points, much like MLB The Show, however I hate that my contract is in VC not real dollars. I'd like to see The Draft Combine and Summer Circuit features make a return to the mode. I'm not a fan of the rookie showcase game, maybe have the option to pick either just the showcase game or use all 3 because I know there will be some people who would just like to play the rookie showcase and then get right into the draft & your career. I'd like to have the ability for my player to get drafted in the 2nd round or go undrafted. I can play like complete sh*t and still get drafted in the late 1st round, c'mon now. Let's say, I'm a rookie (or young player) on a stacked team like San Antonio, Boston, LA, Miami, Dallas, OKC, etc., I should have the ability to request to go to the D-League when I go talk to my GM. And for the love of god make me have to actually earn my minutes, not just given to me. And if I get drafted at #21, don't have the Celtics 21st pick irl on the team, and I'd to see the draft play out differently on the game than it did irl.

I'd also like to see them something similar to the Jordan challenge with a different legend, let's say Allen Iverson. I mean he was NBA 2K's cover athlete for the first 4 installments of the series.

[erickonasis]

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Auto save is by far my most hated feature ever put in NBA2K.

I love it in other games tho. (Non sports)


-Juke

Agreed %1000000.....

[SeaNNyT]

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make enough noise over autosave and not being able to save multiple slider sets and maybe they will add them in with a patch.

[SteelerSpartan]

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Yeah I just cancelled my order

The auto-save garbage would really tick me off

and Im worried the OS community isn't going to be allowed to continue making amazing rosters

Im still highly impressed by the looks of the gameplay and will probably get it down the line.....but Im not paying full price unless some of this stuff gets corrected a bit

[VDusen04]

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Yeah I just cancelled my order

The auto-save garbage would really tick me off

and Im worried the OS community isn't going to be allowed to continue making amazing rosters

Im still highly impressed by the looks of the gameplay and will probably get it down the line.....but Im not paying full price unless some of this stuff gets corrected a bit

If I had any self-discipline when it came to buying this game, I might have been right there with you. For the last few years it seems I've been biding my time after purchase instead of diving right in. Whether that means waiting on roster updates, waiting for user-made roster uploads, the ability to edit legend teams, or waiting for 2K to hopefully address a debilitating bug.

Maybe next year I'll have to experiment waiting for a while before making my purchase. Perhaps at that point everything will be set for me to dive right in.

[SPRINGS03]

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I think he is trying to say that people are on this thread just throwing out complaints and thats it. Having been mainly a lurker of these forums for quite some time I've found that its fine to address issues with suggestions for improvement but not blindly whine.

I dunno man, i've lurked on these forums for a while too. And i gotta say, i've noticed a lot of biased for a lot of people complaining about the games. Often times i've seen complaints about an aspect people don't like get labeled as whining or bitching just because others feel differently.

[SC1211]

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On a broader note, this kind of stuff worries me about the future of the franchise. 2K beat the competition because they were harder working, they weren't lazy, and they built a realistic basketball game with options. Without the competition, I feel like the laziness of no competition is creeping up on them, much like that other Franchise when 2K was the underdog. I really, really hope they patch this SOON.

Tweet them! Let your complaints be heard.

[sportjames23]

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Glad I kept 2K11 and 2K12. Only reason I will keep 2K13 is because MJ and most of the legends from the last two games are there. So far, though, 2K13 hasn't lived up to the standards set by it predecessors.