OS Roundtable: NBA Live's Digital Release a Good Idea?

[ccoaxum]

i didn't really pay any attention to the fact that person was at the gamestop expo because it really say that in the quote and to answer your question no not really because he is just one person and everybody has their own opinion about things. So in other words i rather see screenshots or videos myself, so i can be my own judge..not a huge fan trying to go off of other ppl opinion about things.

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Re: OS Roundtable: NBA Live's Digital Release a Good Idea?

Is releasing a lousy game for $20 digitally a good idea? Hell no.

Is it a better idea than releasing the same lousy game for $60 on a disc? Probably.

No sign is better than a bad sign

and the 30 people ready to sign up to pay for what we've been doing for years for free already leads me to one of two things

They're just telling you that just to get you to DL and wont really care about your feedback regardless

Two they'll use that to suck you in the next go round

Anyway, I dont see why some guys passed up on NBA 09 but are willing to throw this game a bone.

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i didn't really pay any attention to the fact that person was at the gamestop expo because it really say that in the quote and to answer your question no not really because he is just one person and everybody has their own opinion about things. So in other words i rather see screenshots or videos myself, so i can be my own judge..not a huge fan trying to go off of other ppl opinion about things.

Dude this isnt someone from some gamestop expo, this is one of their community guys who visits that place more than anyone you've heard from to this point

[ccoaxum]

well dude like i said that comment was not clear on who the person was or where the heck he saw the game at. An again i rather see the game myself to judge...period don't care who the person is...am i wrong for wanting to see the game myself?

[keator]

A lot of fifa head were excited too, when we first heard Euro2012 was going to be a DLC this year, than the game dropped......

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well dude like i said that comment was not clear on who the person was or where the heck he saw the game at. An again i rather see the game myself to judge...period don't care who the person is...am i wrong for wanting to see the game myself?

Well im clearing it up for you so that you wont be confused because you referenced a place that I did NOT.

I understand you're hopeful and all of that, but I just decided to post in reagards to the person still beating the same pre alpha drum

You can see and judge for yourself all you want. When I posted E LIte footage some people still wanted to see it even though Boozer and Bynum were jumping from the FT line

I feel you and all of that, im not telling you to buy or not, I just know what I will or will not do.

[ccoaxum]

i know you didn't mention man...it wasnt you cause this it was boilerbuzz.. i was responding to what he said to me and he refer to one of your quotes so all i am doing is explaining where i was coming from. Thanks for letting me know more about that quote that you did put tho. By the way i never said rather or not i was hopeful about anything ..i just said i wanted to see it myself, far as the elite thing go hey you did i was on here when you but again everybody got the right to want play the game themeselves so all well just how life is ya know..sometimes you right and then sometimes you wrong.. you win some u lose some...lol hey in EA case they better hope they dont lose anymore smh. N thanks for not telling what to do with my money

[bigdoc85]

A good idea for EA? A good idea for gamers?

It's a great idea for EA. They will make a decent amount on this. A lot of people will shell out $20 just out of curiosity.

As for gamers -- well, we'll see. I'd rather put $60 towards NBA2k13 and really enjoy the game for a long time. But I bet a lot of people will buy both.

I don't know why people keep expecting EA to act in the best interests of gamers. THEY ACT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEIR SHAREHOLDERS! Why is that so hard to comprehend? A lot of gamers act like they are "owed" by EA -- don't get me started on the entitlement mentality -- that's what's wrong with America. If you don't like the game, don't buy it. No where in the Constitution will you find a right to quality games.

[huntt26]

EA should just take this game, put the players in college uniforms and call it March Madness. I'd buy it

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It's a great idea for EA. They will make a decent amount on this. A lot of people will shell out $20 just out of curiosity.

Ill watch youtube and the forums and IF there is a demo(which im hearing is basically the same as the full game with some stuff just locked) and general impressions...im not shelling out money just to see.

As for gamers -- well, we'll see. I'd rather put $60 towards NBA2k13 and really enjoy the game for a long time. But I bet a lot of people will buy both.

That's cool too.., but its sad you'd be getting a better deal with Live 10 and updated rosters.

I don't know why people keep expecting EA to act in the best interests of gamers. THEY ACT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEIR SHAREHOLDERS! Why is that so hard to comprehend? A lot of gamers act like they are "owed" by EA -- don't get me started on the entitlement mentality -- that's what's wrong with America. If you don't like the game, don't buy it. No where in the Constitution will you find a right to quality games.

I have yet to find one post that says THEY OWE ME, and thats whats wrong with posts like these.

We as consumers already showed we wouldnt buy crap on a stick. If im paying my hard earned money, I expect quality... there is no entitlement in that, thats expecting good service, thats what people want. Its too simple yet so not easily understood.

I think you're going way overboard with this as well with the whole rights and consitution stuff, which you're treading close to the political line of the TOS so you need to let that go

[qbdaprizzle]

EA should just take this game, put the players in college uniforms and call it March Madness. I'd buy it

yep same here

[Blak_Baki_Hanma]

Maybe it's just me but EA has yet to acknowledge this game. As far as official news goes, there's an old pic of Kyrie and Rubio, and in late June there was the release of rookie OVR ratings...

That's it.

Then, by way of inadvertent leakage, we happened to see an uninspiring, unverified build of a poorly produced pre-alpha/mid-beta/post-omega/techni-bond/sterling-under-gold/give-it-a-name... and EA basically brushed it off.

So why is the community offering so much webspace to a game publisher that could apparently care less about its latest hoops title (due to release within a month without ANY news of its own existence)?

IS IT THAT BIG A DEAL?

Wow, another scrapped game is hitting the marketplace with absolutely no support from a questionable publisher... and?...
Doesn't this happen alllllllllll the time?

Don't we have real, tangible, genre-advancing games to discuss here?

Live is dead. EA is over it already. Why aren't we?

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yep same here

Problem with that is, the last one they made they abandoned it after they sold it in stores with game killing bugs and a freezing glitch with no support and no answers

Why would you just buy it again on the drop of a dime?

[Dazraz]

Not so much a good idea as it is a necessity. If NBA 2K didn't exist I have no doubt that NBA Live 13 would have been released full price at retail. But up against a far superior game the only way EA could release their basketball game was at a lower price. The decision to make it download only is obviously to reduce the cost of packaging & distribution.

[King_B_Mack]

Re: OS Roundtable: NBA Live's Digital Release a Good Idea?

A good idea for EA? A good idea for gamers?

It's a great idea for EA. They will make a decent amount on this. A lot of people will shell out $20 just out of curiosity.

As for gamers -- well, we'll see. I'd rather put $60 towards NBA2k13 and really enjoy the game for a long time. But I bet a lot of people will buy both.

I don't know why people keep expecting EA to act in the best interests of gamers. THEY ACT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEIR SHAREHOLDERS! Why is that so hard to comprehend? A lot of gamers act like they are "owed" by EA -- don't get me started on the entitlement mentality -- that's what's wrong with America. If you don't like the game, don't buy it. No where in the Constitution will you find a right to quality games.

This post is so full of wrong I don't even have an appropriate gif for it. You know what's in the best interest of EA's shareholders? Selling video games. You know what's in the best interest of selling video games? Not making games so bad they have to be cancelled or put up for digital download cause nobody will pay a full 60 bucks for it. It's not a sense of entitlement that we as consumers expect people that want/need us to give them our money to actually be exchanging with us a quality product. If some of you guys' real, personal lives are run the way your internet personas are in terms of philosophies and the like, I shudder to think of what that life actually looks like now and moving forward.