2k VP of Marketing Interview...(Video)

[Scottdau]

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Yes we are, that's why can enjoy the game more and the little things like the arena atmosphere, etc. get's us so excited. I'm equally excited about picking up madden next week, flaws and all.

Yep with Madden and Batman. My August will be very busy, plus the show too.

[Eddie1967]

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Yep with Madden and Batman. My August will be very busy, plus the show too.

I forgot about batman. I downloaded the demo tonight but haven't played it yet. That might raise my video game budget. If it's anything like wolverine I will be buying day one.

[Scottdau]

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I forgot about batman. I downloaded the demo tonight but haven't played it yet. That might raise my video game budget. If it's anything like wolverine I will be buying day one.

All I have to say is that game is SICK!

[daflyboys]

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Ok.... I'm out of this most current "love-in". You two should meet up and have a beer.

[Scottdau]

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Ok.... I'm out of this most current "love-in". You two should meet up and have a beer.

WOW you are amazing! All I can say is OS is going down hill. Which is a shame, becasue people actually talked with respect to one and other. Try it you might like it.

[daflyboys]

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WOW you are amazing! All I can say is OS is going down hill. Which is a shame, becasue people actually talked with respect to one and other. Try it you might like it.

Sorry, you pretend to be Mr. Respectful. But the little winky emoticony doesn't always explain away your attitude either. Don't make blanket statements like that and link me to it. I contribute quite a bit to OS. I'm sorry if it doesn't always jive with your world view. We're here to debate, discuss, critique and argue. I didn't say anything disrespectful to you. Don't be so damn sensitive.

Get over yourself. (Try that.)

[Scottdau]

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Sorry, you pretend to be Mr. Respectful. But the little winky emoticony doesn't always explain away your attitude either. Don't make blanket statements like that and link me to it. I contribute quite a bit to OS. I'm sorry if it doesn't always jive with your world view. We're here to debate, discuss, critique and argue. I didn't say anything disrespectful to you. Don't be so damn sensitive.

Get over yourself. (Try that.)

You are right.

[savoie2006]

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I think everyone reads too much into all this marketing crap. Who cares honestly? When the game comes out, play it and judge from there. I don't give a rats what some PR guy says. All I care about is how the game plays when I get my mitts on it.

[RealmK]

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I think everyone reads too much into all this marketing crap. Who cares honestly? When the game comes out, play it and judge from there. I don't give a rats what some PR guy says. All I care about is how the game plays when I get my mitts on it.

If you don't care, then stop making excuses for 2k left and right. The fact is the game may be brillant this year but the way they have gone about marketing the game is downright awful. How anyone can dispute that is beyond me.

[Eddie1967]

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Sorry, you pretend to be Mr. Respectful. But the little winky emoticony doesn't always explain away your attitude either. Don't make blanket statements like that and link me to it. I contribute quite a bit to OS. I'm sorry if it doesn't always jive with your world view. We're here to debate, discuss, critique and argue. I didn't say anything disrespectful to you. Don't be so damn sensitive.

Get over yourself. (Try that.)

All I have to ask is why. What is the purpose of this.

[Eddie1967]

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You are right.

Scott don't bother man. We will continue to engage in an adult conversation about this great game and ignore those who sole purpose is to argue.

[savoie2006]

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If you don't care, then stop making excuses for 2k left and right. The fact is the game may be brillant this year but the way they have gone about marketing the game is downright awful. How anyone can dispute that is beyond me.

I have never made excuses for their marketing woes.

[Eddie1967]

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I think everyone reads too much into all this marketing crap. Who cares honestly? When the game comes out, play it and judge from there. I don't give a rats what some PR guy says. All I care about is how the game plays when I get my mitts on it.

Exactly. I think 2k's marketing is fine, is there room for improvement? Sure, but it's not the doom and gloom others make it out to be IMHO.

[Avizzv92]

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Though you also need to take into account, regardless how good the game is compared to NHL 10 it's never going to sell more with the marketing 2k does...

A lot of those going to buy a hockey game don't go on forums like this for information, or put effort into searching the web for bits and pieces of information. The information they get comes from commercials, trailers, ads, ect... And based on that a whole lot more has been shown about NHL 10 then 2k10 And its common sense the consumer will more likely purchase that which they know more about, the "household" name.

[Flyermania]

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I love it, "the development team is so fanatical about the little things in hockey" One reason 2k has always been head and shoulders above EA IMHO. And he's right about it being a simulation of the sports although I would say it's the best simulation of hockey to date.

People always have a problem when I say that NHL 2K9 was the best simulation of any hockey game I have ever played but it's the truth. Simulation means having all of the little things you would see in an actual game and I think 2K does that very well.

Simulation also means having the gameplay resemble how hockey is actually played. And 2k9 simply did not do that --- so much offensively is generated by dumping the puck and battling along the boards, and 2k9 did not have that aspect at all. Period. You mentioned previously that you don't mess with the sliders much...the out-of-the-box settings on either game are so obnoxiously un-sim it isn't even funny. But ultimately if that's how you like it, that's all that matters.

2k does get a lot of the little things right...arenas are a perfect example. But 2k9's gameplay was far from an accurate representation of real hockey.