Possible EA CBB return?

[MoreThanAGamer]

Here's the latest.

https://www.operationsports.com/coll...-for-licenses/

Two major gaming companies fighting to see who can microtransaction customers to death through another lackluster sports simulation that will be released half-baked and "fixed" through patch updates all year until the cycle repeats the next year. Can't wait.

[TarHeelPhenom]

So 2k wants to use college basketball in a mode in order to continue to fleece us huh. No thanks! I wouldn’t even play it.

[Nfumass]

Sounds like 2k is trying to screw EA and grab schools individually to probably make a dlc tournament mode and not a whole game. I want a whole game this is a garbage move by 2k

[illwill10]

Yeah, I'm not interested in a MyTeam College mode from 2k. But, I'm not sure how worthwhile an exclusive is for a college game when EA has clearly shown they aren't committing to an annual release. Especially when they were willing to drop the exclusive NFL license

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[illwill10]

https://x.com/On3sports/status/1963583440659308616?t=sYKzt-J0U4ppwYGH_BG4gg&s=19

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[Omega79]

https://x.com/On3sports/status/19635...YGH_BG4gg&s=19



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And 2K messes it up for everyone. They admitted their mode was going to be a Bare Bones DLC for MyPlayer/MyTeam (No Dynasty Mode, Nothing more than the 64 teams that make the tournament, if that.) They'll do that, it won't sell and they'll proclaim "there's no market for College Basketball" and it'll go away for 15-20 more years. I knew when the bidding war started it was just one trying to stymie the other. 2K has no plans on creating a college game as a whole.

[illwill10]

In a way, I wasn't as high on an EA CBB game just because EA would need to create a Basketball engine from scratch in 3 years along with a full fledged game. I felt 2k was better suited because they could follow the EA CFB route of working off the Madden engine. But, if 2k is going to do this, I would hope it is a full fledged game not a DLC for MyTeam.

I would actually want EA to get back into the NBA Live market. Develop a basketball engine for a NBA game, then a couple yesrs later, go after a CBB game

[pietasterp]

And 2K messes it up for everyone. They admitted their mode was going to be a Bare Bones DLC for MyPlayer/MyTeam (No Dynasty Mode, Nothing more than the 64 teams that make the tournament, if that.) They'll do that, it won't sell and they'll proclaim "there's no market for College Basketball" and it'll go away for 15-20 more years. I knew when the bidding war started it was just one trying to stymie the other. 2K has no plans on creating a college game as a whole.

I'll bet this is correct - it seems pretty clear 2K does not want to make a full standalone college hoops game, otherwise they'd have just come out and said that they intend to do so (vs the slippery vague language about being involved with college basketball). Their proposal during the bidding process pretty much laid out their plans, and now that there's no competition, it seems they will proceed with that plan unfettered.

Of course any add-on, half-baked college 'features' in the NBA2K product will not do well. That's like releasing a 12-team college playoff DLC for 'Madden' and then when it inevitably failed to set the world on fire, claiming that that is somehow 'evidence' that there is no market for a college football game.

I miss the days of arguing about the quality of these games, rather than the business dealings surrounding them...