NBA 2K14 Features Crew Mode - 3-on-3 or 5-on-5

[MarvinOida]

That's exactly how I feel. Couldn't agree more. I asked LD2k this in another thread on here, but I'll write it again.


IF crew mode is played only on the blacktop, is there any possibility that we can get a DLC at some point that will provide us with Crew in actual arenas with fans, refs, commentary, jerseys instead of street clothes, etc.?

Honestly, I think if we could get that then 90% of us on here complaining would be happy.

5v5 is played in arena. Thing to think about is if you play in street clothes or not. (Highly doubt that)


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[infam0us]

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5v5 is played in arena. Thing to think about is if you play in street clothes or not. (Highly doubt that)


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Theres got to be matching uniforms for crew. I used to hate playing blacktop and your guy has on a black shirt, and then one teammate has white and the other has a random color. And then on the other team you have two black and one white. And it seems like half the people online look like Howard with 30 something different accessories.

[Matayeus]

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Then I say keep on them as constructively as you can till crew heads get what they want. You also have the benefit of a competing product should they have a similar mode. Be vigilant, be organized and be civil.

Make videos, blog posts, illustrating exactly what you want and why. Then either they or their competition will know what to deliver.

Exactly , it's what I've been doing and what I'll continue doing . 2k11 crew was the best time I've had playing a video game and probably the only game (sports game especially) that I've played til the servers were taken down.

Also seeing how good EA's club mode is in both FIFA and NHL , I'd imagine they'd go the same route with live .

2k you've done it before , you can do it again.

[orlandofan123]

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if crew is back than crew is going to have its own section in the main menu. which is where you can edit your logo and stuff. im guessing this is where you can hit up the 5v5 part online. because that 3v3 part in the video looked like the regular ONLINE section of 2k.

[MarvinOida]

Theres got to be matching uniforms for crew. I used to hate playing blacktop and your guy has on a black shirt, and then one teammate has white and the other has a random color. And then on the other team you have two black and one white. And it seems like half the people online look like Howard with 30 something different accessories.

As someone who has played around the rosters I don't think you will play in Street clothes for the simple fact of confusion and it doesn't match the arena look.


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[512fm]

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Can't say I'm really surprised tbh, 2k has done this the last couple of years now. Ronnie 2k goes on twitter and gets everyone hyped for some big announcement, which ends up being really underwhelming. Last year he did it twice with the Dream Team thing and Jay-Z helping them produce the game.

[thedream2k13]

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Yeah. I agree with you, people complaining about the atmosphere. To me, Crew is 5v5, and you beat down on your opponent. You know what would make it better? You start from Street, to the Summer Circuit court to a generic
Basketball arena to NBA-atmosphere. It gives people purpose to play the mode instead of "who's the best"


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people forget the only thing that qualifies the mode as "crew" is the ability to make up teams with your friends and have a ranking system. Everything else is fluff

[mccartney23]

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where did you find that it is played in an arena marvin?

[Dyce]

So in the 2k Current Gen features list it says Crews is 3 on 3 or 5 on 5 and in the video it showed crew was blacktop. then what is the Myplayer blacktop mode it mentions in the returning features are those suppose to be the same things hmm.

[MarvinOida]

where did you find that it is played in an arena marvin?

Twitter. No one looked/listened to those who already mentioned it...


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[the_Big_T_Dog]

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I personally feel that 2k14 will be an embarrassment of a game. First they reveal you can block dunks *cough* which should be in the game anyway *cough* Then they give you the SAME EXACT FEATURE from 2k13 (3 v 3 Blacktop), throw the "Crew" name on it, put out some secret code so everyone will orgasm at the thought of crew being back, and reveal the half-assed version of the game to the world. I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it possibly be to basically implement online team-up with your my players in it? Time and time again, 2k sacrifices a good product and the opinions of their fans to save a few bucks. As usual, nothing but laziness and greed from 2k. I will not purchase nba 2k14 this year. End rant

[MarvinOida]

I personally feel that 2k14 will be an embarrassment of a game. First they reveal you can block dunks *cough* which should be in the game anyway *cough* Then they give you the SAME EXACT FEATURE from 2k13 (3 v 3 Blacktop), throw the "Crew" name on it, put out some secret code so everyone will orgasm at the thought of crew being back, and reveal the half-assed version of the game to the world. I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it possibly be to basically implement online team-up with your my players in it? Time and time again, 2k sacrifices a good product and the opinions of their fans to save a few bucks. As usual, nothing but laziness and greed from 2k. I will not purchase nba 2k14 this year. End rant

Pretty hard, you have 10 different myCareer players info having to be spread to 9 other players over the Internet. And also consider the Internet connection. It's something the average video gamer doesn't understand.

You seem new and do not know how marketing goes.



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[mccartney23]

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Twitter. No one looked/listened to those who already mentioned it...


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where are twitter did you find it? I cant seem to find it

[MarvinOida]

where are twitter did you find it? I cant seem to find it

Ronnie2K or Ld2k or a Team Up member


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[the_Big_T_Dog]

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Wow. That actually makes 2K look quite bad.

Essentially it sounds like 2K wanted them to shill the "return" of "Crew", which was just 3v3 Blacktop with stamina. Then they hastily hacked in 5v5 after Shake and Kspade wouldn't play ball.

Props to those couple of guys, but that doesn't give me a feeling of confidence or trust regarding what 2K was trying to pull on us this year at all.

Now it makes COMPLETE sense why "Crew" was shown running on a small screen in the background while a YouTuber talked it up in the foreground. They didn't really want to show it because they knew it would demo badly and what they had didn't look like Crew at all.

A week of coded hype for this? Yikes.

My theory is this:

2K didn't want to invest too much effort on current-gen 2K14, but wanted to retain its sales numbers since current gen consoles still have a massive install base, and current gen 2K14 will still make up a mass majority of their projected sales.

A full featured Crew would take too much resources from their other next-gen SKU, but a leaderboards Blacktop mode renamed "Crew" would be a huge marketing bullet point for the end-of-life platform, since it's one of the most requested features and they thought they could pass it off as Crew-lite with some minor tweaks. Enlist some Youtube A-listers and the rest is history.

Call me cynical, but this does feel a bit like a cynical money grab.

You are completely right, and it is a money grab. What i'm so mad about is that they played it up as crew so everyone would essentially throw money at them while they're giving us half of what was promised to us. I can guarantee that the code for the crew we know and love is sitting on a hard drive somewhere in 2k and they'll "fix" the 2k14 trash in 2k15 because this console craziness will be over by them. It just feels cheap and like they're playing us as customers.