Steph Curry Will Have an Overall 99 Rating For 30 Hours, Starting May 12 at 6PM ET

[Mauer4MVP]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mbunn1993

This is true beyond belief lol. Everything around you is marketing. From the location of items in a store, to the colors of signs.. (Anyone ever notice the amount of red signs/company logos? Basically every fast food logo has red in it)

Hell, it isn't even just products/companies. Even your favorite athletes are brands now and have been for a while.

[GSW]

Starting to see that people just like to complain for the sake of complaining.

If you don't like taking one of the cover boys and two time MVP someoen who has had one of the greatest seasons we have ever SEEN and doing something FUN in a VIDEO GAME with his character...for 30 hours because he is #30...

What would you suggest Speedy Claxton (Hofstra represent!!) the marketing team do to increase awareness and drive more sales?

I'm interested in your insights on this since you are so vocal about it.

[TalenT]

Quote: Originally Posted by SpeedyClaxton

Main quality of the game should be its gameplay, after all it's the core of all modes. Marketing team surely isn't some evil team but they choose cheap stuff to promote game rather than to focus on core gameplay. It's like promoting car with faulty engine but hey buy it anyway it have top notch 20'' rims..lol come on...don't make me laugh

I'm gonna have to agree w/ Speedy on this one. There was a time where the company relied solely on being a better sim game. Gameplay was KING. Now, IMO, it seems as though they have the market sewed up and they're trying to think of more ways to get into more people's pockets...which is all fine with me but don't claim sim anymore. This move is laughable to me. A temporary boost? C'mon son!

[KingTocco]

Quote: Originally Posted by GSW

Starting to see that people just like to complain for the sake of complaining. If you don't like taking one of the cover boys and two time MVP someoen who has had one of the greatest seasons we have ever SEEN and doing something FUN in a VIDEO GAME with his character...for 30 hours because he is #30... What would you suggest Speedy Claxton (Hofstra represent!!) the marketing team do to increase awareness and drive more sales? I'm interested in your insights on this since you are so vocal about it.

I agree with this, I would also add that while some of the people on here like to complain just to complain, others also like to defend/argue just to defend/argue.

The event is more than half over at this point, it was a thing they did to honor their cover boy for an amazing season and unanimous MVP, and to do something fun. They made him a 99 which is honestly not even that big of a deal, he was already a 97.

It's kind of gimmicky and was somewhat unexpected, but now that it's here I think it's kind of fun and cool. Some of you reading into it like "oh this doesn't make them sim anymore" are just thinking about it way too much.

This game still has a lot of "sim" elements and a lot of other more casual elements as well. Just wanted to add my two cents, it's been painful reading this stuff. Maybe let it go and just enjoy what's in front of you.

[HowDareI]

Quote: Originally Posted by KingTocco

I mean...he only had a historic season with the first ever unanimous MVP win in NBA History...he also led his team to the greatest single season record in NBA History. Also, it says they will raise his overall rating to a 99 (not all his ratings) which he is almost at anyway so I'm not really sure why people are freaking out about how amazing he will be. I don't really get the point of this move but to question him deserving it is just silly.

I mean....it was a joke....kinda just sarcasm but my point still remains.

Go boost some other players too. Honestly maybe Curry plays more like he does irl now, so maybe if they boost other people's ratings they'll do things more like themselves as well.

I was never a fan of the ratings system this year since I felt it limited players' abilities...maybe this'll open some eyes.

[SpeedyClaxton]

Quote: Originally Posted by GSW

Starting to see that people just like to complain for the sake of complaining. If you don't like taking one of the cover boys and two time MVP someoen who has had one of the greatest seasons we have ever SEEN and doing something FUN in a VIDEO GAME with his character...for 30 hours because he is #30... What would you suggest Speedy Claxton (Hofstra represent!!) the marketing team do to increase awareness and drive more sales? I'm interested in your insights on this since you are so vocal about it.

First of all i am very happy that i live in this era to witness such season, as much as i was happy when i witnessed 81 pts from Kobe. Yes i talked about this maketing thing in this thread because it's so gimmicky, cheap, corny..call it however you want. 2K represent game as pure sim but can you tell me how much sim 2K16 really is ? Is it at least 50% sim ? As long time 2K fan i am aware that much more effort gameplay wise was put into last gen titles, agree with me or not it was like that.

I enjoy sim basketball that's why i played 2K all these years first and foremost. 2K was always miles ahead in front of Live regarding gameplay quality but in recent years that quality dropped my dude, because it lacks competition. Just like Curry is unanimous MVP this season, 2K is anonimous simulation basketball for years now regarding of gameplay/bugs/flaws. I have feeling they are not interested anymore in making super quality sim basketball anymore because they are nr.1, so obviously main goal now is to use things like this one to boost sales even more, one last time this year.

Devs started to cater to every little complain, especially from casual folks that aren't interested in realism. You think casual average Joe notices how flawed is transition defense ? To him is just important to chuck some treys, win some games online, pimp out myplayer to 99 and that's it.

Bottom line: If you're making some product that was praised for it's quality for years and you end up without real competition, you will over time focus on quantity not quality anymore.

[jeebs9]

Is this over yet?

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[GSW]

Quote: Originally Posted by SpeedyClaxton

First of all i am very happy that i live in this era to witness such season, as much as i was happy when i witnessed 81 pts from Kobe. Yes i talked about this maketing thing in this thread because it's so gimmicky, cheap, corny..call it however you want. 2K represent game as pure sim but can you tell me how much sim 2K16 really is ? Is it at least 50% sim ? As long time 2K fan i am aware that much more effort gameplay wise was put into last gen titles, agree with me or not it was like that. I enjoy sim basketball that's why i played 2K all these years first and foremost. 2K was always miles ahead in front of Live regarding gameplay quality but in recent years that quality dropped my dude, because it lacks competition. Just like Curry is unanimous MVP this season, 2K is anonimous simulation basketball for years now regarding of gameplay/bugs/flaws. I have feeling they are not interested anymore in making super quality sim basketball anymore because they are nr.1, so obviously main goal now is to use things like this one to boost sales even more, one last time this year. Devs started to cater to every little complain, especially from casual folks that aren't interested in realism. You think casual average Joe notices how flawed is transition defense ? To him is just important to chuck some treys, win some games online, pimp out myplayer to 99 and that's it. Bottom line: If you're making some product that was praised for it's quality for years and you end up without real competition, you will over time focus on quantity not quality anymore.

You didn't answer my question about marketing. Instead you chose to rant about how "not sim" the game is. That's ok.

I'm going to bow out from the conversation now. But I will say, we have community members who work for 2k now whose entire goal is to make the game "Sim". Hold on...I said game. I am repeating this because through all this talk about sim...we forget sometimes we are playing a GAME. So boosting someone who is having a supernatural season for 30 freakin hours is not really that big of a deal.

There has NEVER and will NEVER be a 100% sim game, though this game does a FANTASTIC job and continues to do so year after year of moving towards that direction.

What is "SIM"????...SIMULATION...Simulating real life...let's see. Authentic player likeness, shoes, dribble styles, Tendencies, plays, shooting forms, etc etc...if that's not moving in the direction of SIMULATING REAL LIFE...then I really don't know what is.

In fact, if you don't think that is SIMULATING REAL LIFE...then you should probably just play a different game my man.