NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

[infam0us]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

Everyone at Ea should be fired!!!! How can the same ppl that make NHL, and Fifa games (which are by far the best games they put out yr after yr) make a bball game that looks as crappy as Live did....how come they cant make a it look and feel as real as fifa and nhl...i just dont get it.

Different people working on different games.

[yungflo]

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how much do you think live has cost the shareholders and the nba?

[Muzyk23]

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hate that fake, false and typical EA propaganda bull****

own up or shut up

you can't make an nba game. period

[piccolomair]

seriously all the people who rag on 2k13 sucking, just look at this. This isnt like madden where there is a forced situation to produce just one product and you either buy it or miss out on football. 2k13, for whatever realism it lacks, is still the best game on the market, and its not because other companies arent trying...its because they are failing to meet the same level of gameplay that 2k is releasing....

in this statement EA pretty much says that, they had the graphics gonig, they definetly had the edge in online play...but they feel their gameplay is flawed compared to the competetiion...enough so that they dont even want to release their product for the initial discounted $20...

Elite was cancelled for pretty the same reason, it hyped its game, felt it had the graphics going, the online going, felt the gameplay was alright...then 2k11 released its demo near the same time elite did...and wham....elite's gameplay was eclipsed.

To me this is more of an indication to how well 2k13 truly has come out, as opposed to EA sucking. Im fairly sure EA tried, hell they had even tempered everyones expectations before hand. I, as well as many others were still considering to buy live just for the hell of it, so its not like ea wouldnt have made money. But i dont think its a coincidence that they announced their cancellation of live the week the 2k13 demo was released....

Like i said, this isnt like madden where you are forced to pay for a mediocre product because its the only one out there (2k12 i feel was that), 2k13 is exceptional enough that it was able to force live back to its rebuilding stage...and that is a huge compliment to its (2k13) development

[Rain816]

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just give 2k the nba rights...n naybe they will send them free copies or something...

[k3yD]

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Hopefully their license with the NFL will expire soon so 2K can make a proper NFL game!

[Caveman24]

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Everyone happy? Why with 1 game on the market 2k can put out trash and almost make sure you guy it oh wait didn't that happen to Madden?We need competition to keep these devs and company in check other than that will get the same watered down game like that's what happen to Madden and to be honest don't think it can't happen to 2k.I want more than 1 game hell let's get NBA Shootout back out there we need this competition we don't want another monopoly.

[KidHypeTellem]

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Exactly.
Fanboy stuff aside, one must be able to see what a state we're in when several development teams are struggling to put out decent games in their area.

People laughing about this? To me, it is a sad day for sports gamers.

We've now been reduced to ONE NBA game and ZERO College Basketball games. Several years ago we had three NBA games and two NCAA games.

Add in no competition in football and baseball games (hell, 360 users won't even have a baseball game next year) and we are in trouble as sports gamers.

[jbthegreat]

All the blame falls on Hard8Times fellas.

With one upload he demolished EA Basketball.

so sad yet so true lol

[yungflo]

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just give 2k the nba rights...n naybe they will send them free copies or something...

hell no. then they will get lazy. competition is good.

[pslieber]

I'd like to echo the sentiments above: would love to see another college basketball game as some output of all this wasted development time and expense. NCAA 10 was a solid title; a little tweaking and it's fairly ready to go. Heck, make it a download title ($20) to cut on costs, work off whatever they engine in the bag. I doubt the NCAA Basketball license is that costly as there's been no serious bidders in 3+ years.

All mismanagement aside, this is a travesty; NBA Live 10 was so enjoyable. I'm not hating on 2K; I'm excited as hell heck about the physics/defense improvements. But sad, nonetheless.

[piccolomair]

Different people working on different games.

thats not true....its a different engine all together. Fifa and nhl share similar gameplay attributes, and like 2k was able to do with its basketball game, ea was able to set a very very strong backbone to their games early on when the 'new' generation of consoles came out. They then have just been building upon that system of gameplay, similar to how 2k has done with its basketball game.

This is also why 2k's football games are so missed, because they had a far better gameplay system than madden at the time, and they could have built upon that and surpassed madden, while madden had a very arcadish system (same as live).

In fact werent some of the lead designers for fifa and nhl working on elite? Its just a different sport with different rules in terms of physics and gameplay, and they cant create a unique system to build upon.

I thought they had it this time, which is why i was sort of excited about live and downloading the game when it came out. I knew it wouldnt be as good as 2k, but i felt that if they had a decent game (like live 10) they could easily add things and tweak things to the consumers satisfaction and eventually in a few years compete with 2k....but i guess i was wrong

[RandomPerson]

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Everyone happy? Why with 1 game on the market 2k can put out trash and almost make sure you guy it oh wait didn't that happen to Madden?We need competition to keep these devs and company in check other than that will get the same watered down game like that's what happen to Madden and to be honest don't think it can't happen to 2k.I want more than 1 game hell let's get NBA Shootout back out there we need this competition we don't want another monopoly.

2K hasn't had any real competition since the 360 came out. Live has been a train wreck for years now. 2010 might have been an exception.

2K isn't EA. They don't need competition in order to put out a good product.

[SambFTW!]

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maybe...in retrospect...less time on the faces...

[noshun]

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My sig says it all..

“We’re EA Sports, for Christ’s sake.”

As a former engineer on the Live series, I'm sorry for the dev team, I'm sure you guys worked tirelessly on this.

Management - Stop trying to be 2K and stop destroying and rebuilding the engine. Live 10 was a good game (80 metacritic) and it doesn't make sense that the game has been broken for 3 years since.