NBA 2K18 - Officially The Lowest Rated Edition In A Decade (Professional)

[MegaJohn]

Quote: Originally Posted by heelphreak

Tha.Pink.Pantha, i feel your frustration despite being insulated from the vc madness. I too fear for the future of gaming. In fact i'm convinced that gaming is headed down a very dark path with microtransactions. No you are not crazy to think that 2k has crossed a line. They absolutely have, and sadly another publisher will go even further soon enough. Hell it'll probably be take two interactive themselves with red dead redemption 2 if someone else hasn't already before then.

Yea this game has been the biggest slap in the face, and I dont know how its gonna turn around for gaming as a whole. I get it that game development has gotten expensive, but making up for that with this kind of greed is corssing the line. I think that the Rolling Stone Article outting Activision for basing multiplayer match making on matching players who dont have supply drop weapons with players that do, to intice the have nots into purchasing Supply Drops in order to compete might be the first big move into pealing back the curtain and bringing change to some of these Microtransaction systems. Unfortunately that only applies to games with the Loot Box system, and not to a game like NBA 2K. Basically the only way to fix the apparent greed of 2K is for the game to either adjust the payouts and prices accordingly, or go 100% Free 2 Play, which we all know is not going to happen

[heelphreak]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mauer4MVP

Honestly pretty dumb reason imo. Maybe it's just because I haven't even been close to touching VC. Sent from my HTC Desire 626 using Operation Sports mobile app

It's valuable to step back and look at the situation with a wider lens. I have no desire to touch vc either. I don't play any modes where it's necessary. But it's not just about me and you.

The VC scourge is real. Microtransactions are killing gaming at large. There's really no denying it. I'd argue that people like you and me are affected by it right now in ways that aren't obvious and that it's only a matter of time before it impacts us directly.

Check this article out. This is the future we're going to be subjected to unless something changes. That something will have to be consumers(gamers) putting their foots down. Part of that is bad reviews. Publishers hate bad reviews. Bad reviews and decreasing sales are what could turn them back from this collision course with madness.

http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/f...action-w508742

[ksuttonjr76]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoLeafClover

The fact that you choose to blissfully ignore those issues that are, factually, in the game doesn't make the fact that they exist untrue. You said the game's issues "don't affect the game modes you play"; I simply pointed out a few global issues that happen in every game mode off the top of my head. If you're having fun then that's great, I have fun quite a bit in NBA2K18 too; that doesn't mean I am going to just ignore all of the obvious flaws. That's like getting a disease and pretending it doesn't exist, which just leads to the disease getting worse over time...

I'm not choosing to "blissfully" ignore anything. My gaming style doesn't present these "problems" in any consistent manner, and definitely not enough for me to call the game "broken". That's like playing COD online, falling through the map, then calling the game "broke and unplayable" although I played 20 matches before where I DIDN'T fall through the map. That's where I'm at with NBA 2K17. I might have one game where something was off, but best believe that I enjoyed playing the previous 3-5 games.

The lag/framerate problem that I'm experiencing might be unique to my
ISP, since no one else seems to have my described the problem. When I play online, I know there will be a random moment where the game will slow down for me for about 3-7 seconds (which seems like forever), then the game will play fine for the rest of the match. I haven't lost any games, because of it, but I have had moments where I gave up an uncontested shot or turned the ball over due to my man running out of bounds.

[ksuttonjr76]

Quote: Originally Posted by MegaJohn

Yea this game has been the biggest slap in the face, and I dont know how its gonna turn around for gaming as a whole. I get it that game development has gotten expensive, but making up for that with this kind of greed is corssing the line. I think that the Rolling Stone Article outting Activision for basing multiplayer match making on matching players who dont have supply drop weapons with players that do, to intice the have nots into purchasing Supply Drops in order to compete might be the first big move into pealing back the curtain and bringing change to some of these Microtransaction systems. Unfortunately that only applies to games with the Loot Box system, and not to a game like NBA 2K. Basically the only way to fix the apparent greed of 2K is for the game to either adjust the payouts and prices accordingly, or go 100% Free 2 Play, which we all know is not going to happen

That really happened in COD? Wow...do you have a link to the article?

EDIT: Never mind, lol. I replied first, then noticed that you posted the link further down. Thanks!

[heelphreak]

To be fair that didn't happen in COD. Yet. They've just applied for a patent at this juncture. Obviously they intend to do it and certainly will so long as they think they'll get away with it. Rest assured that all large publishers are trying to cook up something similar for their titles. It's going to be up to us to put our foot down.

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[ILLSmak]

The reason digital currency is wack is because it makes the game about money. It makes the time you spend in game about money (as in, it puts a dollar value on it), and at that point, how can you truly enjoy the game?

If it takes you 200 games to earn 200k vc, and 1 hour to finish each game... and that amount of VC is worth 50 bucks, then that means you're making, what... like 25 cents an hour worth of currency. That's just depressing. It's like sweat shop labor, and if you don't think about things that way, you should. Because you NEED VC in order to progress. There comes a point where you won't anymore, but in the beginning, you do.

It should be illegal really. I don't support lawsuits against game companies and all that, but I really think there should be some legislation to limit this. It's not about being rich or not because most people can afford 20 bucks or 50 bucks, but it's a game that is set up to farm money from people. That's not capitalism, that's exploitation. At some point, someone has to set a limit on it.

If they decided that the minimum had to be 1 dollar per hour of playing, then that would change everything dramatically. Imagine getting 4x vc, I don't think anyone would be upset at that. It'd still take a long time to max your dude.

Also I think that all people who review games should have to say they received 200k vc 'free' because in a way they are reviewing the 150 dollar version of the game not the regular one.

-Smak

[Gosens6]

Quote: Originally Posted by chanedw

I am mainly a MyCareer player in previous years. The way that MyCareer mode is implemented to work with VC only had me stopped enjoying this game. Then they went on to fxxk up the MyLeague mode as well, scripting it with the BS story...

That’s MyGM.. not MyLeauge

Two vastly different modes


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[BA2929]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoLeafClover

You don't care about random framerate drops? You don't care about defensive settings not saving? You don't care about players dropping passes and stumbling out of bounds from 2 feet away? You don't care about guards teleporting over groups of 4 defenders to snag excessive amounts of offensive rebounds? You don't care about Shaq, Andre Roberson etc. being viable 3 point threats? There's much more than just the microtransactions that have made people critical of this game. Movement is better than it's ever been, but I wouldn't say "gameplay" as a whole is as flawless as many people are making out.

Not all of us need a 100% perfect game to enjoy it and I don't think anyone has called it "flawless". At least not that I've seen. The things you listed just aren't that big a deal to many of us and honestly, the only one I've even experienced in 75+ hours of offline-only play is the defensive settings not saving.

Quote: Originally Posted by ksuttonjr76

Another bad game design idea...who wants to play MyLeague as a story mode?

I know it's been covered by others in here, but I want to reiterate this because just one post of misinformation can snowball:

MyLeague does NOT have a story mode. That's MyGM.