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  • kobe2theMAX
    Rookie
    • Oct 2014
    • 281

    #1

    Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

    I’m a longtime park player on the Xbox. I am wondering where is everyone at this year? In 2K19, there is usually always only 3 courts in the park busy. The rest empty. Yet when I go to The Cages, it’s completely crowded. This is where everyone is at, I guess?

    I thought about all of this and believe I may know why everyone only wants to go to The Cages (losses don’t count on your park record). Also, especially because the main park is full of record snobs. If your friends are not online and your record isn’t “godly”, it’s nearly impossible to squad up with other good players. You will have to squad up with very low level players and end up losing a lot.

    The 2K park community is notoriously all about “ godly “ records nowadays. If you’re are even new to the park and still have 0 wins, you can forget about squading up with good players. You’ll just to go on a search to find friends who do not mind playing with new Park players or low tier players.

    Long gone are the good ol fun days when games started quickly... people would hop on any got next circle (2K15- 2k17) and play with anyone else on got next ready to play ball. Nowadays at the park it’s all about people pulling up their players phone spending 20 long minutes checking to see if their invitee (or the person next to them on got next) has some “godly” record.

    I will even admit, I myself use to be a record snob. I spent a lot of time in 2K18 keeping my record great and avoiding negative record players. I have come to realization that being a record snob kills the park. Less and LESS people are playing there … everyone only cares about The Cages since losses cannot affect your record and so many people cannot get into squads with others.

    If people weren't so busy worrying about silly fake records, the park would be BOOMING 24/7. Yet, most park players do not even want to play together because everyone is extremely scared if their record gets messed up. Even those low 60's players now only want to join people with amazing records.

    What ever happened to those days when no one cared about a fake basketball video game record? Records sadly now mean absolutely everything to some people. A friend of mine wouldn't even let me add a 51-60 guy to our squad since he had more losses than wins. Yet, the 51-60 player was extremely smart at basketball after watching him play.

    When will all of this stop? Record snobs are completely killing the park. Sadly, soon we'll only games like The Cages left since everyone is running away from the main Park.
    Last edited by kobe2theMAX; 09-18-2018, 12:19 AM.
  • iLLWiLL9105
    Rookie
    • Sep 2011
    • 187

    #2
    Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

    The reason people are so picky about records is because most of the people with bad records are absolutely HORRIBLE and playing with them makes the games much more frustrating than fun.


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    • CBAT
      Rookie
      • Feb 2007
      • 471

      #3
      Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

      I believe it is because everything is connected this year in the neighborhood. Last year, when you'd go into the park, it was a standalone area that was separate from the neighborhood. This year, it is all connected, so the people roaming outside and going to the stores, barbershop, etc. are part of the Park, therefore they take away from the number of people that would actually be playing the park. This results in less active users playing park at one time.

      The Cages has the same set up as last years park, where it is a standalone area where people are only there to play Cages.

      I like that the neighborhood is all connected, but wish that there were more people in each neighborhood to help with the lack of Park players. But then we could have speed/server issues, so pick your poison.

      Does that make sense?

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      • kobe2theMAX
        Rookie
        • Oct 2014
        • 281

        #4
        Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

        Record Snobs are completely killing the 2K Park.

        I will admit, I myself use to be a record snob. I spent a lot of time in 2K18 keeping my record great and avoiding negative record players. I have come to realization that being a record snob kills the park. Less and LESS people are playing there … everyone only cares about The Cages since losses cannot affect your record and so many people cannot get into squads with others.

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        • kobe2theMAX
          Rookie
          • Oct 2014
          • 281

          #5
          Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

          If people weren't so busy worrying about silly fake records, the park would be BOOMING 24/7. Yet, most park players do not even want to play together because everyone is extremely scared if their record gets messed up. Even those low 60's players only want to join people with amazing records.

          What ever happened to those days when no one care about a fake basketball video game record? Records sadly now mean absolutely everything to some people. A friend of mine wouldn't even let me add a 51-60 player to our squad since he had more losses than wins. Yet, the 51-60 player was extremely smart at basketball after watching him play.

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          • kobe2theMAX
            Rookie
            • Oct 2014
            • 281

            #6
            Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

            Originally posted by Ghostf4cekhila1234
            People who have horrible records are also horrible players nobody wants to play with somebody who is 10-68 they are like that for a reason
            Yet AGAIN ….

            I have given chances to players with records similar to 10 - 68. Guess what? They turned out to be very smart basketball gamers and even went on a few great winning streaks.

            If I could describe the park community nowadays in one word, it'll definitely be: -TOXIC-.

            It's great we get to choose our park teammates (even take a hour on the myplayer cell phone analyzing people's park records), but the current method is quickly killing the Park.
            Last edited by kobe2theMAX; 09-17-2018, 01:21 PM.

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            • SirG
              Rookie
              • Aug 2018
              • 51

              #7
              Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

              Originally posted by kobe2theMAX
              Yet AGAIN ….

              I have given chances to players with records similar to 10 - 68. Guess what? They turned out to be very smart basketball gamers and even went on a few great winning streaks.

              If I could describe the park community nowadays in one word, it'll definitely be: -TOXIC-.

              It's great we get to choose our park teammates (even take a hour on the myplayer cell phone analyzing people's park records), but the current method is quickly killing the Park.
              BS. if he was any good his record wouldn't be 10-68.

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              • kobe2theMAX
                Rookie
                • Oct 2014
                • 281

                #8
                Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

                Originally posted by SirG
                BS. if he was any good his record wouldn't be 10-68.

                You have got to be kidding me (or not?) or new to 2K's park (or you don't play it quite often)?

                You have never ran into players with more losses than wins but YET, still awesome IQ. When paired with the right teammates some have even carried their team to park wins. In 2K18's park (which I've played religiously everyday) I've seen this over and over many times.
                Last edited by kobe2theMAX; 09-17-2018, 01:34 PM.

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                • Goffs
                  New Ork Giants
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 12279

                  #9
                  Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages ...

                  Good maybe 2k will kill the park and create something better than what is now. No strategy just pick and shoot. At least last year there was a bit of strategy. There is absolutely no balance whatsoever this year.

                  I'm going to check out the cages later since I've been ignoring it.

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                  • mepting
                    Rookie
                    • Feb 2012
                    • 22

                    #10
                    Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

                    This is a real problem for me. I used to have a good group of friends that i ran with on 16 and 17. It was a lot of fun. We were always on at the same time and knew each others play style, etc. They have since moved on from 2K. Now I play with randoms. Its taken a lot of the fun out of the mode. Trying to find someone that plays "team ball" and actually plays defense is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

                    So, unfortunately i find myself actually trying to protect my record, because if I dont, it will be that much harder to find good players to play with. A bad cycle of sorts......but lets face it, no one likes to get destroyed every game. It is a video game....and I like to have fun with it. I dont expect to win every game or anything, but 10-68 is not fun to me.

                    Anyone want to run 3's in the park, hit me up, lol
                    http://goo.gl/7ZjQrz

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                    • kobe2theMAX
                      Rookie
                      • Oct 2014
                      • 281

                      #11
                      Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages ...

                      Originally posted by Goffs

                      I'm going to check out the cages later since I've been ignoring it.

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                      Well Goffs, The Cages are quite a BLAST. HOWEVER, guess what? Sadly, most teams are now using The Cages to play regular park games. Many teams you run into, are not even using the trampolines at all but instead are all spamming 3's as if they were at the main regular park courts. One great thing is you can block the 3's by jumping on the trampolines. It's still annoying however to see some teams just playing The Cages for spamming 3's. It makes you wonder, if they have no desire to use the fun trampolines, then why are they at The Cages instead? Wins are not added to your main park record.
                      Last edited by kobe2theMAX; 09-17-2018, 01:56 PM.

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                      • Vroman
                        Pro
                        • Aug 2014
                        • 959

                        #12
                        Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

                        It gonna suck anyway as long as its "got next" instead a proper matchmaking system. I really hate how dumb it is going manually to the court and waiting for the opponents to finish game while there is plenty people around you could play against instantly or if u win the game and waiting ridiculous time for another opponent to come up. Besides players rendered at lower resolution to not lag with crowded park, it'd be much nicer to matchup in private court with full render players , there is no need to see random dudes walking around at all.

                        The trampolines and whatever fantasy elements in basketball is really not for me though, I don't mind street style basketball as long as it remains the classic aspects of basketball and physics.

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                        • Korrupted
                          Pro
                          • Nov 2015
                          • 917

                          #13
                          Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

                          The cages definitely have been effecting Park. Majority of the parks I load into are dead besides the 2's court and maybe 1 3v3 court. I go to the cages and it's booming lol.

                          I agree with others in here. Most Park players are well below average though. No IQ and don't understand how to use their archetype correctly. It's a mess running with randoms. The last 3 2k's I've had over a 90 win %. Trying to do the same thing this year but I'm off to a slow start. Maybe switching systems wasn't a good idea :/

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                          • Ownal0t
                            MVP
                            • Jul 2014
                            • 1244

                            #14
                            Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

                            my record atm is 28-62

                            why?

                            i play with my IRL friends who just want to have fun and dont understand bball or etc.

                            the other thing is, i play with anyone. i used to play comp in games and be a stat nerd. im 27 now, thats no longer fun. while losing to horse**** isnt fun. at least i get to play.

                            of my 62 loses like 10-15 are a direct result of me

                            plus i noticed that when you separate some of these people with godlike records away from their friends who carry them, it ends bad for them.

                            people are so quick to say losing record = bad player. but never think about the reverse effect to that. cause i seen bums with 50-20 records

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                            • ItchyNscratchy
                              Banned
                              • Jan 2018
                              • 305

                              #15
                              Re: Why Is The Park Is So Quiet This Year? Everyone At The Cages.

                              A winning record means alot in park. In 18 i refused to play with anyone that has a record of less then .500 im all about winning games and i dont care if i score 0 points to do it. Theres other ways to contribute to the team other then scoring and a record makes a difference between a garbage player and a player that actually knows how to play the game.

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