Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

[Jhawkfootball06]

The Jordan Rec Center in NBA 2K15 was the most social and fun experience I've ever had in a sports game. I've put roughly 1200 hours into that game. It's literally all my friends and I played. With the removal of it last year, we all tended to play less and less. I'm talking about people who were still playing 2K15 in June/July, some 10 months after the game has been released as it was just a fun experience, now play the game little.

Last year, they tried to replace it with Walk-On Pro-AM. But there was just literally no point in playing that, as you earned no rep. The whole rep grind was just limited to MyPARK, which got old fast. Now this year they added rep, but it just still doesn't have that same feel. Not to mention the issues that are plaguing it that deter people from continuing to play it.

• People getting disconnected early.
• People leaving in general.
• People getting disconnected right as the game ends, giving them a L.

I know many complained about the wait times for the Rec Center for the Got Next spots, but I would take that experience 100x over what currently Walk-On Pro-AM is giving. Even if the issues get sorted out for Walk-on Pro-AM, the social experience of the Rec Center is just not there.




Here is a representation of what currently happens in Walk-On Pro-AM.

Load NBA 2K17.
***Loading Screen***
Go to MyCareer
***Loading Screen***
Joins friend's park from MyCareer
***Loading Screen***
Get into a squad of let's say 3-4 people.
Go to Walk-On Pro-AM Entrance
***Loading Screen***
"Oh crap, only three of our four guys made it. But the game hasn't started so let's quit out"
***Loading Screen***
Okay, back into MyCareer. "Hey join my MyCourt, we can just load into it from there instead of joining from MyPark"
***Loading Screen***
Okay, we got our 3-4 guys. Let's start up Walk-On Pro-AM.
***Loading Screen***
(Many times, people will experience another mishap but I will not) Okay we are in here, all of our guys made it. Game is about to start up. Yes, the game finally started!
***Loading Screen***

GAME

We won, great. "Do you want to play again? Y/N. Yes! I want to grind out that rep"
***Loading Screen***
"Shoot I just got a disconnection error."
***Loading Screen back to Main Menu***
Main Menu, go back into MyCareer. Tell other friends to quit out of their game (hopefully it didn't start).
***Loading Screen***
Join friend's MyCourt to retry.
***Loading Screen***
Get to friend's MyCourt, hope to god this doesn't happen again. Okay, let's start up Walk-On Pro-AM.
***Loading Screen***



How in the world is this a better system than having five people on Got Next spots that can play continuously with eachother without going into Loading Screen after Loading Screen after Loading Screen to achieve basically the same thing? Yeah there are waiting times with Got Next, but it was a far more enjoyable experience than what Walk-On Pro-AM represents.

[de5m0n]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

Unless you had a squad of 5 it was next to impossible to get in a game in rec. Not sure what was so special about it? 30 minute wait times and not even guaranteed to start a game after.

They just need to put strict penalties for all the scrubs that leave before half time.

[Breakstarter]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

Got next is terrible
Wait times to play are horrendous.
If you waited a half hour to play a 5vs 5, then the winning team would walk off, you just wasted your time.
The loading time to get into the rec center was eye gouging.
There was that glitch where if too many people loaded up in one received it would move soooooooo sloooooowwwww.
Once you turned I to a legend 3, you could kick anyone off their spot regardless of how long those people had been waiting in line to get next.
There is no commentary in JRC...it's a cemetery.
Getting to L3 or Legend1 (2k17) takes too long especially if you have a life and a career.
There's got to be more incentive to playing in a JRC then just to play.
No custom Jerseys or courts for the winning team.

And this is the mode you want back?

[EveretteWarren]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

I agree. Rec was 10x more fun than walk on.

[redsfan4life]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

Rec Center was awful. Why would anyone want that back?

[fdghmu]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

Got next is terrible
Wait times to play are horrendous.
If you waited a half hour to play a 5vs 5, then the winning team would walk off, you just wasted your time.
The loading time to get into the rec center was eye gouging.
There was that glitch where if too many people loaded up in one received it would move soooooooo sloooooowwwww.
Once you turned I to a legend 3, you could kick anyone off their spot regardless of how long those people had been waiting in line to get next.
There is no commentary in JRC...it's a cemetery.
Getting to L3 or Legend1 (2k17) takes too long especially if you have a life and a career.
There's got to be more incentive to playing in a JRC then just to play.
No custom Jerseys or courts for the winning team.

And this is the mode you want back?

As opposed to what we have now?

THE REC WORKED.

Winners getting to stay on.

Being able to go to chinese servers for set-ups.

Rep works and is the best for legend?

Yes.

Yes I would DIE for the rec.

[Vroman]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

They could just add more 4v4 courts on parks and extend game to like 1st scoring 40pts instead 21. Got Next never worked better than matchmaking for 5v5 games, just people nostalgic and forgotten the drawback.

[fdghmu]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

They could just add more 4v4 courts on parks and extend game to like 1st scoring 40pts instead 21. Got Next never worked better than matchmaking for 5v5 games, just people nostalgic and forgotten the drawback.

I can't play pro-am. (it's broken)

I can't play set-up games without gaming the ranked system. (even if it did work)

4v4 should be in every park, and it should be incentivized so that people want to play it.

[Jhawkfootball06]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

YOU may not have liked the Rec Center, but there are plenty of people out there who enjoyed it.

Just because YOU did not enjoy it doesn't mean others didn't. People out there who loved the Rec and played it every single day in 2K15 have been looking for an alternative, something with a similar experience.

Walk-On Pro-AM was supposed to be that, but with all it's problems and lacking the social experience the Rec Center brought, it's simply not a substitute.

I would pay DLC for them just to bring the JRC back. There was no other experience like it. There's not an alternative, that's the point.

[Vroman]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

I can't play pro-am. (it's broken)

I can't play set-up games without gaming the ranked system. (even if it did work)

4v4 should be in every park, and it should be incentivized so that people want to play it.

I hear you about pro am glitches , but also i used to have "got next" spots bugging out and near impossible for all 5 guys to step in many times. I'm assuming pro am gonna get fixed because 2k16 pro am worked out much better than rec center.

[fdghmu]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

I hear you about pro am glitches , but also i used to have "got next" spots bugging out and near impossible for all 5 guys to step in many times. I'm assuming pro am gonna get fixed because 2k16 pro am worked out much better than rec center.

after two months it worked, yeah.

[Jhawkfootball06]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

Got next is terrible
Wait times to play are horrendous.
If you waited a half hour to play a 5vs 5, then the winning team would walk off, you just wasted your time.
The loading time to get into the rec center was eye gouging.
There was that glitch where if too many people loaded up in one received it would move soooooooo sloooooowwwww.
Once you turned I to a legend 3, you could kick anyone off their spot regardless of how long those people had been waiting in line to get next.
There is no commentary in JRC...it's a cemetery.
Getting to L3 or Legend1 (2k17) takes too long especially if you have a life and a career.
There's got to be more incentive to playing in a JRC then just to play.
No custom Jerseys or courts for the winning team.

And this is the mode you want back?

So many things wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. Literally everything you said relates to MyPARK as well.

1. Loading Times were similar to joining MyPark, as the amount of people that could be in one arena or park was the same.
2. Wait times for Got Next sometimes were long, but worth it. People didn't quit out, and you had an incentive to play and win the game to keep control of the court.
3. Winning team walks off? Well that could happen in MyPark too. As you have complained how long the wait times are, those spots should instantly get filled right?
4. Regarding Legend 3 and kicking people off their spot? Also was in MyPark, and no longer in the game. Don't know why you are correlating that to the Rec Center... if they simply brought the Rec Center back that would not bring back kicking people off the spot...
5. No commentary? There is no commentary in MyPark or Pro-AM soooooo.....
6. Getting to Legend status has nothing to do with how a game mode functions. It's all about the grind and the grind itself is fun, especially so in the Rec Center. In MyPark it gets far too boring.
7. Incentive? The whole incentive for MyPark/Rec is grinding out games to get rep. MyPark gets boring, and stale. Grinding out rep in JRC was far much enjoyable.

[ph33]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

People who did not enjoy the Rec Center please refrain from posting. You are derailing the thread from the real topic. I've been on this site for awhile and people on here have turned this NBA 2K forum into cancer.

"People who don't agree with me, don't post"

Then why did you make a thread in a discussion forum?

The Rec center waiting times and no guarantee of a game is enough to never want it back. it isn't a more social experience in any way. go to the park and find buddies to squad up with if you want, exact same thing. you are absolutely joking if you think wait times are comparable.

[Jhawkfootball06]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

"People who don't agree with me, don't post"

Then why did you make a thread in a discussion forum?

The Rec center waiting times and no guarantee of a game is enough to never want it back. it isn't a more social experience in any way. go to the park and find buddies to squad up with if you want, exact same thing. you are absolutely joking if you think wait times are comparable.

So you're telling me right now if they were to bring it back that nobody would play it?

Dude, you don't have to play it. It is fine. But there are people out there that want it back. It's an absolute improvement over Walk-On Pro-AM right now. Again, you don't have to play it.

[ph33]

Re: Walk-On Pro-AM Has Been A Disaster For Two Years - Bring Back The Rec Center

Are you kidding me? So you're telling me right now if they were to bring it back that nobody would play it?

Dude, you don't have to play it. It is fine.

Yes, I would bet the vast majority of people do not want to sit in a rec center waiting up to 30 minutes for a game to start, for a game that may never start because a player or two on the opposing team left and then the remaining spots take forever to fill for a variety of reasons. And the Rec Center was equally as buggy.

I should have stopped at "waiting up to 30 minutes", 10 minutes of waiting itself is terrible, but you seem convinced that's fine so have a blast.

The state of the game is awful, but I am not going to pretend like 2k15 was better.