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

[Neoda2khead]

Give it up, Live is a wrap....

Agreed !!!

[Boilerbuzz]

I feel like now everyone is just accepting it like no that's EA problem they get very cocky like Madden they got the NFL license and till this day people are saying they will rather play 2k5 it took Madden how long to get simple stuff in the game they doing the same thing with Live now everyone all like OMG great its cheap like Really*Miz voice* we should be expecting excellence from EA but we always let them off the hook we dealt with Madden crap we had no other alternative then I had to deal with 2k horrible servers guys spin dunking and I can't get a good ranked match without going up against the Heat or Thunder why are we just accepting this we should want more from EA

Boy that was hard to read, but I agree. It's that double standard.

[Boilerbuzz]

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.

So you won't use testimonials. You won't even use your own opinion based on the "early" build you've seen. So what WOULD you use? Ricky Rubio's endorsement and hype from EA marketing? It seems some folks, not saying you, only want to ignore the bad and take the good as gospel. And for the record, my post wasn't aimed directly at you.

[Boilerbuzz]

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.

I'm sure some people here will be able to disagree with you.

[bounty_this]

For me, i look at the "pre alpha" build of nba Live 13 and compare it to NBA 2k13. It absolutely disgusts me to think about how good NFL 2k13 would look and play in comparison to Madden. EA and Tiburon develop garbage aimed towards teenage gamers who dont care for realism. I hope Live sucks b*lls and dies just to ensure that EA will NEVER get a hold of a monopolized NBA license.

[jwtucker710]

Disappointed that EA is going in this direction. You hyped it up six months ago and now we get a lame DDL version. Where's the passion, the creativity? But hey, from what I've seen from 2K13 so far, looks damn impressive.

[Rick_Tha_Rula87]

I Loved NBA Live 10 that was a great step in the right direction. They should've built upon Live 10

[CUTigersorDIE]

I was in Gamestop today to talk to my homie that works there, I looked through their Video Game release date book and it has 'NBA Live '13" coming out in January for $59.99!! Dont know how accurate that is tho!!

[Behindshadows]

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I like all the negativity over this game and I won't say it's not deserving. Because I agree with a few others, that EA got it right with Live 10. Only to let someone with a great vision and effort slip away from their hands. (M. Wang)

But for guys to say things as in give up and R.I.P Live series, is just crucial.

Now let me show you how what you say is hypocritical:

1. When EA bought the NFL license you ripped them about not having competition and said they would get better if they had it. M13 Proved that wrong, they got better with efforts and time.

2. When EA bought the NCAA License, you said it would get better with competition. NCAA Series overall proved everyone wrong, because 2k's NCAA Football outing was bad and really bad.

3. When 2k bought the MLB License you said it would be better because VC was running the project. (Wrong and Triple wrong) When Kush had them they were great (MLB 2k7) MVP was dead and still modded on PC, and MLB The Show wiped the floor with MLB 2k series. (The MLB 2005 Japanese Baseball game looks amazing)

4. Now you saying that Live should die, yet if anything they should be competitive, release something for crying out loud. But more than enough, release a demo first.

No Demo and a lot of people will pass on that fact, because they are 33 days away from releasing it and so far we have yet to get a final build or even a final beta build.

I don't want Live series to just completely go away, I want it too improve and get back to Live 10 status with a overdose of steroids and HGH!!!! Get it done...

Competition is good, but if one product is crap and the other is rice pudding...(Bad and nasty analogy) then it doesn't deserve to be left without criticism.

Live 13 better come with it and I mean come with it....

[chandlerbang]

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I was in Gamestop today to talk to my homie that works there, I looked through their Video Game release date book and it has 'NBA Live '13" coming out in January for $59.99!! Dont know how accurate that is tho!!

yep gamestop updated their site with this:

http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/nba-live-13/99327

it can now be preordered in stores also from what i was told by a employee over teh phone. Guess this DLC crap is false thats why EA isnt commenting on it

[Subversion]

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Live 13 better come with it and I mean come with it....

Dude, come with what? I mean seriously. Can you please just look at the evidence before you, and use that as your determining factor. Not your hopes and dreams, we all have those, but hard evidence.

Despite the great critical reception of Live 10', the producers decided to change the name and foundation in 11'. What happened? Not enough time, bad and sloppy code, epic failure. Now, after two development cycles have passed, we are left with the remnants of....well nothing, it's just the Live 10' code butchered. Kind of like Elite 11' was.

Here's my question to believers like you, what are you holding onto? The corporation has given up on this product, why haven't you?

[chandlerbang]

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yep gamestop updated their site with this:

http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/nba-live-13/99327

it can now be preordered in stores also from what i was told by a employee over teh phone. Guess this DLC crap is false thats why EA isnt commenting on it

[Behindshadows]

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Dude, come with what? I mean seriously. Can you please just look at the evidence before you, and use that as your determining factor. Not your hopes and dreams, we all have those, but hard evidence.

Despite the great critical reception of Live 10', the producers decided to change the name and foundation in 11'. What happened? Not enough time, bad and sloppy code, epic failure. Now, after two development cycles have passed, we are left with the remnants of....well nothing, it's just the Live 10' code butchered. Kind of like Elite 11' was.

Here's my question to believers like you, what are you holding onto? The corporation has given up on this product, why haven't you?

First of all you don't know me enough to call me a believer or go into this EA rage. If you followed any of my post, I've been ripping EA a new a..hole over the past few months.

Secondly why don't you do your research before trying to go into this rant about Elite 11 and all that crap. Yeah I know about Jesus Bynum and I know how about that hideous video (So called Alpha video)

I also know about the EA Fanboy Hiphopgamer hyping this game up!!!!

My point of my previous post was for people who were saying they need to die and quit all together isn't fair to us. That was my point, because those same people wanted competition when 2k5 died, should want the same thing for Live as well.

I am not blind to how terrible this game is as far as we know that is, I'm also not stupid to the fact that it most likely won't even hold a candle to the competition.

But they should release something no matter what and start new next year and stop trying to build off Elite 11, that game is absolute trash and always will be.

So know your facts before trying to sound bandwagon anti-EA bashing me!!! Because I'm a gamer and I'm also a 2kbasketball gamer, I guess my avatar and signature wasn't that obvious!!!

But as a gamer, I've loved the Live series up to 10 and I don't want to see the series completely die because I like having options and differences between both titles...

Like I said they need to really come with something that makes this game stand out and I mean stand out in a positive light.............Because right now all the news and so far is 100% negative.

[BOSsTOwN]

I think they should focus on giving us another good nba street game

[Subversion]

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Like I said they need to really come with something that makes this game stand out and I mean stand out in a positive light.............Because right now all the news and so far is 100% negative.

They had that chance at E3. I was at their private booth viewing. It was 100% apparent that they had scrubs on the development team. By scrubs, I mean people with no game development knowledge. The demo they showed was horrendous. They kept talking about new technologies in the game, but on-screen none of that was apparent. So after the viewing everyone was dumbstruck, like... are they serious? Are they delusional?

NBA Live is now an artifact in the history books. We can save time and energy and close this book up. I don't have to guess whether or not something positive will come out about NBA Live 13', I have already seen footage, I've seen the lack of community involvement, I've seen who the developers are and their knowledge base. I can safely come to the conclusion that there will be NOTHING positive about NBA Live 13'.

Mark my words.