We don't want DRM in this game

[highzman28]

I tried to make a thread but it wouldn't work...

Here’s how you can save a Roster to your Hard Drive on PS4…

If you’re like me and have poor internet connection this has been a life saver for playing quick games with my friends rather than waiting 8mins for rosters to download.

Step 1: Start the game as usual (connected to the internet)

Step 2: Go to the edit/create a roster area, and upload whatever roster you want to. (The 2k14 official, your own, or someone else’s)

Step 3: Once the roster is loaded up etc, press the PS button on the controller. Go to the network settings and turn off the Internet (mine is connected over wifi) basically uncheck the box.

Step 4: Return to NBA 2k14, if you’ve done everything correctly you should still be in the create a roster section but you’ll be disabled from the internet and you’ll still be able to edit the roster you just uploaded if you want to.

Step 5: Now simply hit the circle button to exit out of the roster creation area. It will appear like nothing at all happen but trust me somehow that roster gets saved to the PS4 HD. (When you’re connected to the internet it makes you save by typing a file name that doesn’t happen when you disconnected)

Final Step: Go to play a game (in the team selection area) Hit the triangle button and you will see the rosters switch from “2k14 Roster” to “Custom”

That Custom roster will be the roster you upload at the beginning of this process…You can only access roster when you’re not connected the internet but as I stated earlier it’s worth it when you’re playing with friends in quick games.

You can redo this process whenever you want or need to update your roster

Hopefully it works for anyone who wants to try.

As far as I know you can only have 1 saved and you can also do the same thing for edited draft classes.

*I also do something like this with MyGm to play with custom rosters and also have the file saved off line. When starting a MyGm uploading the roster you want, disconnect the internet before you select a team continue as normal and the file will be accessible regardless if you have the internet connection or not.

[Heroesandvillains]

Quote: Originally Posted by Heroesandvillains

Pared I agree that this is an exploit that needed attention (based on Ronnie's explanation, this is my first year with the game) but come on man?! Was this DRM business the only way to circumvent the exploit? As a result: 1. Loads of people can't play their Careers/Franchises when the servers are down. Get home from work and want to play a little MyGM? Server down. Nope, hope you own another game! 2. No HDD saves. 3. No adjusting GAME MINUTES in offline MyCareer. 4. Corrupted saves thanks to the mandatory server/cloud storage. 5. No ability to edit and save rosters. And tell me, what happens to someone's MyGM when 2K stops supporting 14's servers? As of now, it appears their save files will be gone forever. I get that exploits were a problem but talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...again-smh.html

This is all anybody really needs to know.

It's undeniably unfair to the consumer.

This is not what we want. If given the choice pre release, I think the amount not in favor would have been overwhelming.

[23]

I think this was far from an oversight that it wasn't mentioned in all of the marketing hype or lack thereof.

Honestly there was just no reason to go this route.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by 23

Honestly this isn't the way. It just makes more sense to ban them from your server than to implement something punishing like this to all not involved in ab n incident that took place years ago. You can't run your product off of that. Galaxy Note 2

Quote: Originally Posted by The 24th Letter

I would like to know how much damage this was really doing though....outside of obvious MyPlayer exploitation.... I would bet my paycheck that devs actually loved seeing what the community could do....all politics though... Dem suits.

Quote: Originally Posted by Heroesandvillains

Pared I agree that this is an exploit that needed attention (based on Ronnie's explanation, this is my first year with the game) but come on man?! Was this DRM business the only way to circumvent the exploit? As a result: 1. Loads of people can't play their Careers/Franchises when the servers are down. Get home from work and want to play a little MyGM? Server down. Nope, hope you own another game! 2. No HDD saves. 3. No adjusting GAME MINUTES in offline MyCareer. 4. Corrupted saves thanks to the mandatory server/cloud storage. 5. No ability to edit and save rosters. And tell me, what happens to someone's MyGM when 2K stops supporting 14's servers? As of now, it appears their save files will be gone forever. I get that exploits were a problem but talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.

The guys running modded xbox' and uploading ruined roster files caused the setup you have today.

I agree you can police... but then you have to PAY someone to police it.

Right or wrong - the point is this is a result of the community going too far. My solution doesn't matter if the servers are up or down - just give the gamer a choice.

[ChrisHansen59]

I used to have so much faith in 2K to listen to the fans but these past couple years make me wary of trusting them in terms of changing what we provide feedback on.

[daam81]

Quote: Originally Posted by KyotoCarl

The people who lose when it comes to always online DRM are the legitimate purchaser of the game. We are the ones who have to suffer because of this. 2K14 is one of the best examples of how always online DRM hurts the consumer (tied with Sim City). What happens in 5 years when their servers are removed? We will have a game, that we legitimatly paid for, that is unplayable. One of the big things the Xbox One was faulted for, before the changed their policy, was that it had to always be online. Sony made a big deal about how we would be able to play offline. 2K took it upon themselves to make sure they made a game that counterfeited that. Like you said; why can't we same to our HDD? Why is that being kept on servers when I want to play a game with my own modified roster? I have a friend with whom I play a modified roster in quick games. We spent hours editing teams and suddenly the file was corrupt and we couldn't load it. We get to play once a month but that day was ruined because of the always online idiocy.

5 years? Try 1 year..2K will stop 2K14 support when 2K15 comes out..

[2kfanatic]

This thread must not die.

[Melbournelad]

60 likes on one post! This has to be some sort of 2k sub-forum record. But it goes to show how much all of us disagree with DRM. Hopefully someone at 2k sees this thread.