NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

[MarvinOida]

Probably instead of rebuilding, take the Live 10 Engine and Improve on that. Rebuilding is possibly worse then using the Elite engine.... USE THE Live 10 Engine!! Closest thing to NBA 2K13 from EA... (Since it was Mike Wang-produced.)

[deacon21206]

All the articled need to say was " 2K13 demo Dropped and we realized that we had no chance so we cancelled this years game " that's what really happened.

[DatboyJ23]

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The real crime here is that they hold ESPN's rights and they haven't managed to put out a game in years.

[alexthegreat]

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Not surprised one bit. Atleast now there wont be anymore false hope spreading around.

[TheAlmighty]

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They should relinquish their ESPN rights, they clearly don't deserve them.

[aholbert32]

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So many fanboys in this thread. How is this a good thing like alot of you are making it out to be ? Your laughing like this is ok. This is bad for the consumer we now have less options. And please stop with this EA monopolized the NFL license thing, the NFL has gone exclusive in pretty much everything they do now. That was their doing. And how you forget 2K went exclusive on the 360 for baseball games and that game was utter trash and is now finished. I love 2K just as much as the next person but im really disappointed to hear this news.

I'm laughing because its "chickens coming home to roost" with EA. Since Live 06, they got away with selling a subpar game (with the exception of 10) and sold a ton of games until consumers had enough and bought the other game. EA's failure doesnt stop another company from potentially creating a game to compete with 2k and it doesnt stop EA from trying to create a game that will compete with 2k.

I find it funny watching a billion dollar corporation **** the bed the past 3 yrs.

[sword1986]

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kinda like the Chicago Cubs and the goat curse

EA NBA Live has been casted a Mike Wang curse

[DJ]

This is sad.

However, I was worried about this game several months ago when the developers talked about how they had spent all that time going through Elite's coding and were still operating under a 1-year development cycle.

As a sports gamer I want multiple choices for every sport I play but going forward, it really doesn't look like that is going to happen. It's either play Game A or nothing.

[yungflo]

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kinda like the Chicago Cubs and the goat curse

EA NBA Live has been casted a Mike Wang curse

I was going to say something along those lines.

He(wang) is not 2k, but in a way, dude sorta is...2k9 and 2k10 weren't horrible but they weren't 2k games...ya know? They didn't feel authentic as 11-13 do.

[Bulls321974]

They should relinquish their ESPN rights, they clearly don't deserve them.

ESPN should void the contract with EA as soon as possible (of course talking about the basketball series). I'm sure they will do this sooner or later...

[yungflo]

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ESPN should void the contract with EA as soon as possible (of course talking about the basketball series). I'm sure they will do this sooner or later...

Pretty sure ESPN does not care as long they keep paying them. This is ESPN. Quality doesn't mean anything to them. The bottomline does.

[aholbert32]

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ESPN should void the contract with EA as soon as possible. I'm sure they will do this sooner or later...

Why would they do that? ESPN is affiliated with the two highest selling sports games, Madden and Fifa. That would be dumb on ESPN's part.

[yungflo]

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Why would they do that? ESPN is affiliated with the two highest selling sports games, Madden and Fifa. That would be dumb on ESPN's part.

Oh yeah, forgot they were in fifa also..

[deacon21206]

LMAO. Can't say that I'm surprised. I don't know what I'm gonna do now though. For the past two years I've had the hardest time controlling my player in NBA 2K. It's like the controller has no sensitivity and all of my movements are clunky. I tried to buy another controller to fix the problem, but it didn't do anything. I'm not sure what the issue is because I never had problems in any of the other games. I almost think something is up with my Xbox, but I've bought so many of them that I don't want to shell out for another one. NBA 2K is the only game I have that gives me problems.

Live looked like it sucked, but I was thinking about breaking down and getting it if I had to. I guess I'm just out of luck with NBA games for a while.

You never played another game when the controls weren't perfect.
I would love to know which games you play and if you ever played online.

[Bulls321974]

Pretty sure ESPN does not care as long they keep paying them. This is ESPN. Quality doesn't mean anything to them. The bottomline does.

They could offer the whole thing to 2K. More sold copies, more money...