I think 2k needs to have a discussion about what kinda game they have. They have a game where people play it really competitively and people don't really adhere to a spirit of the game. Meaning people do things like glitch the game, hunt down bums to pad records and go into the walk on with 5 elite players who have all been running together all year, instead of play team pro am where other elite players roam. You have a community that is downright toxic but, 2k year after year makes no effort to segregate the casuals and the elite. So there is no escape from teams that know they are too good for walk on but run anyway to get easy wins because they are tired of getting their muffin caps pushed back blue in the team pro am.
At some point 2k's lack of matchmaking makes this a bad installment. I cannot give a game a good grade if 80% of the time I play by myself its a horrible experience. Note I said HORRIBLE. It isnt just a minor nuisance. It makes the game unplayable when matched up with 4 other random players and you see the screen before tip off and the other team has matching gamertags and everyone is a 99 overall. THAT SHOULD NOT EVER HAPPEN. This game is too populated with users for it to have to happen.
I didnt buy WWE 2k this year and it looks like NBA 2k is next. 2K continues to push out INCOMPLETE games that give no respect to the casual player. People sit on Twitter and cry about stuff all year and 2K dives into pleasing the Twitter and Youtube crowd and they forget the crowd that just plays casually and would like to jump on and not have to play against 5 99 overalls who each have 2000 games in. That isnt too much too ask. Matchmaking is easy. I am not saying i want easy games but Jesus Christ do 80% of the games I play by myself have to be against overpowered teams? There should be a way to match up with people like me. Off the top of my head a no squad allowed, walk on would fix this issue immediately. Pair that mode with an inability to see your teammates and at the end of the day I wouldnt be mad at that. I dont think many people here would complain about that if it existed. Because if you played it you knew what was up going in. Maybe even lowering XP earnings for having more than 2 people in your squad when you enter the rec is an option to toy with. You cannot continue to allow full squads to enter rec and play against people whove never seen each other before in life. I dont think thats a weird or bad request and I dont think itd even be that hard to put in the game. You get nothing out of entering a game and having the score be 8 to 42 in the 2nd because your team was no match for 5 elite level who just wanted to stroke their egos by playing randoms.
I can play PUBG by myself and have fun most the time, same for Red Dead, same for COD, same for Madden, same for most games. But for some reason 2k thinks its smart not to put a seperations between elites and casuals in the walk on. maybe they can implement a mismatch detection mechanic which activates on immensely mismatched games and allows players of the other team to get 1 game boosts in accordance with how mismatched they are or something. I dont have a perfect answer but 2K could do SOMETHING. And to anyone thats gonna come in here and say either "just never play 2k without people you know" or "just play offline" you can go choke on you lunch. We all paid most likely more than 60$ for this game, it should not only be playable to the % of players who have so much time on their hands they can find 4 other good players to run with them everytime they play. Only peopl ewho have the actual time to wait for that everytime they play are kids and bums without a life. Real casual players probably have a couple hours each day to play and cant waste 45 minutes between games waiting for people to come online.
At some point 2k's lack of matchmaking makes this a bad installment. I cannot give a game a good grade if 80% of the time I play by myself its a horrible experience. Note I said HORRIBLE. It isnt just a minor nuisance. It makes the game unplayable when matched up with 4 other random players and you see the screen before tip off and the other team has matching gamertags and everyone is a 99 overall. THAT SHOULD NOT EVER HAPPEN. This game is too populated with users for it to have to happen.
I didnt buy WWE 2k this year and it looks like NBA 2k is next. 2K continues to push out INCOMPLETE games that give no respect to the casual player. People sit on Twitter and cry about stuff all year and 2K dives into pleasing the Twitter and Youtube crowd and they forget the crowd that just plays casually and would like to jump on and not have to play against 5 99 overalls who each have 2000 games in. That isnt too much too ask. Matchmaking is easy. I am not saying i want easy games but Jesus Christ do 80% of the games I play by myself have to be against overpowered teams? There should be a way to match up with people like me. Off the top of my head a no squad allowed, walk on would fix this issue immediately. Pair that mode with an inability to see your teammates and at the end of the day I wouldnt be mad at that. I dont think many people here would complain about that if it existed. Because if you played it you knew what was up going in. Maybe even lowering XP earnings for having more than 2 people in your squad when you enter the rec is an option to toy with. You cannot continue to allow full squads to enter rec and play against people whove never seen each other before in life. I dont think thats a weird or bad request and I dont think itd even be that hard to put in the game. You get nothing out of entering a game and having the score be 8 to 42 in the 2nd because your team was no match for 5 elite level who just wanted to stroke their egos by playing randoms.
I can play PUBG by myself and have fun most the time, same for Red Dead, same for COD, same for Madden, same for most games. But for some reason 2k thinks its smart not to put a seperations between elites and casuals in the walk on. maybe they can implement a mismatch detection mechanic which activates on immensely mismatched games and allows players of the other team to get 1 game boosts in accordance with how mismatched they are or something. I dont have a perfect answer but 2K could do SOMETHING. And to anyone thats gonna come in here and say either "just never play 2k without people you know" or "just play offline" you can go choke on you lunch. We all paid most likely more than 60$ for this game, it should not only be playable to the % of players who have so much time on their hands they can find 4 other good players to run with them everytime they play. Only peopl ewho have the actual time to wait for that everytime they play are kids and bums without a life. Real casual players probably have a couple hours each day to play and cant waste 45 minutes between games waiting for people to come online.
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