NBA Live 08 Interview at IGN

[aholbert32]

Re: NBA Live 08 Interview at IGN

How could you guys not be excited about this game? They're focusing on 5 vs 5 basketball. That's 5 guys on one team and 5 on the other. With 5 vs 5 basketball we'll see 10 guys playing 5 vs 5 against each other in a 5 vs 5 competition. When playing 5 vs 5, there's a sim experience that anything less than 5 vs 5 could provide. Guys, come on, the focus is 5 vs 5, and if that doesn't get you pumped, then I don't know what else could. I can't wait to play online when the primary 5 vs 5 focus shifts down to 1 vs 5.

LOL

[luv_mist]

Re: NBA Live 08 Interview at IGN

Man, that article was one of the best I've seen in a while. It got me all engulfed into what their vision is for this title. I think it'll be pretty decent on the real. However, they're still a few years behind in gameplay. Of course, you know that if that game has a decent showing compared to 06 and 07, people will be hanging on the EA vines. Not really that much of a fan since 04, but I can really hope that they get their heads on right and spend money to make those moves.

I like the fact that they are working on the A.I. to make the ball handler and other players more aware of the situation. That's one thing that EA does have, that randomness of gameplay. At least it was that way for their games on the PS2 & XBOX when I played them. I wonder what the showdown is going to look like this year.......

[noshun]

Re: NBA Live 08 Interview at IGN

How could you guys not be excited about this game? They're focusing on 5 vs 5 basketball. That's 5 guys on one team and 5 on the other. With 5 vs 5 basketball we'll see 10 guys playing 5 vs 5 against each other in a 5 vs 5 competition. When playing 5 vs 5, there's a sim experience that anything less than 5 vs 5 could provide. Guys, come on, the focus is 5 vs 5, and if that doesn't get you pumped, then I don't know what else could. I can't wait to play online when the primary 5 vs 5 focus shifts down to 1 vs 5.

Oh Snap! LOL... Being that i have business cards from the actual producers of Live, (the animators and programmers themselves, along with the CCO David Gardner's contacts, Im goign to put the excepts from the emails replies I recieved from them.

My 1st email went to tech support, so I emailed again. I cant disclose their personal email addresses, so please dont PM me about getting them.
This is from Oct 06,

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Dear Rick,

I have received your email from Mr. Gardner concerning NBA Live 2007. It is always a pleasure to assist our customers in any way that we can. I am sorry to hear that you are disappointed and unhappy overall with the game. I understand that you may consider this email to be a standard response to your concerns and it is my hope that you consider it to be otherwise. Although I am unable to fully address your concerns about, or affect the programming of the game, I can at least relay your issues to our technical support department, who do have contact with the production department and report all issues from our customers to them. Without these notifications, the producers are often unaware that these issues exist. We encourage all customers who have issues with the game to contact our technical support department through our technical support website at http://support.ea.com/ or by calling the technical support department at (650) 628-4322 (M-F 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, PST (Holidays excepted)). If you would like to receive technical assistance to see if the issues you are experiencing can be corrected or addressed, please reply to this email that you would like to do so and it will be sent along.
....If you would like to exchange your game for a sealed copy that can be returned to the place of purchase for a refund. Please send in the entire game along with a photocopy of the receipt dated within the 90-day warranty period, a short letter explaining the reason for the return, your email address, a phone number where you can be reached, and your return address information to the address below.

Send it to:

Electronic Arts Customer Warranty
209 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood City CA, 94065

I hope this has been helpful. I apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced.

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2nd email This is from Jon Long @ EA

Greetings,

My name is Jon Long and I'm the one of the Community Managers here at Electronic Arts. I've been in communication with a couple other NBA LIVE fan sites around some addressed concerns around the game and after being forwarded an e-mail you had sent to some of the team members, I wanted an opportunity to open a dialogue with you as well.

It wasn't stated what version of the game you play on, but we recently made a post on the official site last week that we'll be working on a patch that will address some of the issues raised around the PC version of the game. I don't have any additional info around what this patch will address specifically at this time as the team is in research mode, but once I do have more info around this, I'm happy to share it.

At any rate, I did want to at least reach out and let you know that we are listening to player concerns and are working to address them. My contact info is below so please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any additional comments/questions.

Best,

Jon

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Im waiting on a reply on how they feel they can get the trust of fans back, so Ill post excerpts from that email as well.

[brahmagoul]

Re: NBA Live 08 Interview at IGN

If I can control every team in season/dynasty mode, I will buy this game.