Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacement)

[JUSTlFIED]

I just dont understand it at this point, and Im talking solo matchmaking, not having to squad up first which defeats the purpose.

Yea I know more info is coming, but they already announce the "3v3 multiplayer experience" is "exclusive to The W".

The infrastructure is there with The Rec, and Events like Rush, Formula 2K and now The W.

If its for Ads then courts, backboards and billboards can display their partners' logos.

If it because people want to avoid "toxic and braindead" players. Make it a no rep awarded option or better yet using the average teammate grade to build teams.

I truly don't understand, its a million ways to monetize it if that is ultimately the only reason its not an option.

[Thrustie]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

Yeah I would agree. The Got Next system blows unless you have endless amounts of time at your disposal.


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[cleavey1985]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

Agreed. I don’t have time to wait around on that stupid blue circle. It takes forever. Why can’t I just get into a park game auto created quickly. The new stuff presented today for the city looks fun. But love there to be an option just to play now and it auto matches you.

[JUSTlFIED]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

Agreed. I don’t have time to wait around on that stupid blue circle. It takes forever. Why can’t I just get into a park game auto created quickly. The new stuff presented today for the city looks fun. But love there to be an option just to play now and it auto matches you.

Yep new stuff looks cool, but after 2 months it will become stale.

Focusing too much on the flare than the gameplay loop in my opinion. I get on to play the game, not run around the environment.

Hopefully the events that do have matchmaking last at least 24hours and not 4-6 hours or whatever they have been so far

[zhouprodigy92]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

Agreed. I don’t have time to wait around on that stupid blue circle. It takes forever. Why can’t I just get into a park game auto created quickly. The new stuff presented today for the city looks fun. But love there to be an option just to play now and it auto matches you.

The worst part about waiting on the circles is that you can't do literally anything else. You can go into the menus and edit your badges. You can't increase your ratings. You can press up and check the scores for each court.

But for the life of me, I do not understand why 2K actually thinks that people want to watch someone else play from the worst POV in the game, rather than playing the game themselves. I can't even see the game, because me and my squad are standing in the way, so I need to turn the camera and basically watch everything from the worst sideline angle I've ever seen.

Remove this system, and just go back to menu-based matchmaking. Or hey, leave both in, and give people the option to spectate games, if they so choose.

[TheFgGoatLikesHawks]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

The worst part about waiting on the circles is that you can't do literally anything else. You can go into the menus and edit your badges. You can't increase your ratings. You can press up and check the scores for each court.

But for the life of me, I do not understand why 2K actually thinks that people want to watch someone else play from the worst POV in the game, rather than playing the game themselves. I can't even see the game, because me and my squad are standing in the way, so I need to turn the camera and basically watch everything from the worst sideline angle I've ever seen.

Remove this system, and just go back to menu-based matchmaking. Or hey, leave both in, and give people the option to spectate games, if they so choose.

Yeah would be cool to have an option to do anything in the game while waiting on the spot and have an auto-save when the game starts. I hardly play park though, this is why I play mostly Rec or sometimes Pro-Am.

[YungGun]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

There's 3v3 pro am available if you want matchmaking.

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[JUSTlFIED]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

There's 3v3 pro am available if you want matchmaking.

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I addressed that in the first sentence

[ILLSmak]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

because virtual worlds drive sales of virtual currencies. It's just that simple. That was the end game we didn't see when park came out. How short sighted of us.



I mean, who are you gonna show your shirtless body to? 5 other dudes? Nah you wanna walk around and show everyone, show em your little icon for being a legend, spam your legend emotes. Show your rating.



I think that garage hoop thing might end up helping this, even tho it's the opposite of what you want. I also really don't know why 2k allows you to see build/stats/record... that's nobody's biz and if you are good or if you are trash you will build your rep BY PEOPLE KNOWING YOUR NAME. Height, weight, and position should be all they show and yknow it's not like they don't have extra swaggy items you can buy... or can add more, to show your guy 'made it.' Like watches or mascot suits, whatever, certain shoes.



The fact that people mill around the park (they didn't used to when it dropped) is always enraging to me. PLAY THE GAME. Plus people quitting out might be an issue w/ random matches. I feel like the got next thing could still work if they changed it around a little.



But it'd be cool to have a building where you'd go in and it'd just queue you up for some totally random stuff. Some of us just wanna ball. That's what I'd tell people about L*ve... people were like GAM SUX, but I was like yea well I can get like 2-3x as many games easy.



-Smak

[The 24th Letter]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

Not holding my breath on them changing the Park infrastructure.

I'm hoping the Gatorade Center "rental" is a version of matchmaking though.

If not I'll be in Pro Am/Rec the majority of the time again

[ksuttonjr76]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

Not holding my breath on them changing the Park infrastructure.

I'm hoping the Gatorade Center "rental" is a version of matchmaking though.

If not I'll be in Pro Am/Rec the majority of the time again

I agree. I have hated the "Got Next" concept, since Day 1, and it's the main reason why I don't play park. More than likely, I'll probably be playing mostly REC and maybe PNO if anything has changed with the mode.

[Quentin32]

Re: Why does 2K avoid Park/Neighborhood/City matchmaking as an option (not a replacem

I think playing with randoms would kill the mode. I can see quitting left and right. With The Who next I can see how good someone is before I decide to play. But with all that said they could have courts dedicated to matchmaking