What's up with Live being off of the EA Earnings Upcoming Releases List?

[RaychelSnr]

I wrote last week about the silence surrounding EA and NBA Live 13.

What was going on? What was the game's status? Why haven't we heard anything?

EA did nothing to help that speculation yesterday when they reported to investors the latest on the company's financial status in their quarterly report. Ominously so, in the company's list of upcoming releases this season NBA Live is nowhere to be found. Is this a sign EA has given up on yet another NBA effort or are they delaying it or choosing not to advertise it at all? It definitely doesn't look good to the casual gamer as this is almost always a bad sign in our industry if a company isn't willing to include an upcoming big release game on their quarterly earnings report.

EA's reasoning for not including Live is simple -- they apparently have yet to officially announce the game so they didn't include it on their quarterly earnings. That's highly interesting considering EA has already put out advertising material for the game already, but we'll let it slide this time.

[THE YAMA]

Wouldn't be surprised to see it canceled.

[22cedric]

No it hasn't been cancelled the game will come out.

[mbergh22]

It might as well be cancelled. If it doesn't release around the same time as NBA 2K13 then it will fail big time.

[riichiieriich]

EA is bungling this so much...if I didn't check this site regularly I never would have known EA was going to release a basketball game. Chances are it's going to suck because any time a company is hush hush about a game, that means they don't feel too great about it. If they felt it was up to snuff they'd be showing it off to anyone and everyone.

[Tomba]

I told EVERYONE. This game is not coming out this year...

[23]

Re: What's up with Live being off of the EA Earnings Upcoming Releases List?

I told EVERYONE. This game is not coming out this year...

Thats not what Hip Hop gamer said

[22cowboys22]

Not suprised,especially after hearing that one of game designers said they only have been working on the game for a year when i thought they said they would be working on it over the next 3yrs(since 2011).That would put them on track for 2014.

[RUFFNREADY]

1. If NBA LIVE is delayed, they are behind the 8ball. 2K will K.O them this year again.
2. If NBA LIVE is cancelled, the dev-team is done and EA may try one other team to develop a game, and EA will probably lose their contract with the NBA!

My question is: why didnt the new dev-team totally start from scratch on the Live13 game, instead of stripping down and rebuilding off of NBA ELITE 11?

cheers

[Jaymistic]

1. If NBA LIVE is delayed, they are behind the 8ball. 2K will K.O them this year again.
2. If NBA LIVE is cancelled, the dev-team is done and EA may try one other team to develop a game, and EA will probably lose their contract with the NBA!

My question is: why didnt the new dev-team totally start from scratch on the Live13 game, instead of stripping down and rebuilding off of NBA ELITE 11?

cheers

1. There is no competition between NBA Live and NBA 2K. There won't be for 3 years at least. NBA Live has already been K.O.'d

2. The Dev Team won't be scrapped because they were just put together in Fall of Last year. They didn't even get a Full Dev Cycle to make this game. I do agree with you that they may lose their contract if the game doesn't come out. I know the NBA's Director in marketing was disappointed in how things shaped up with Elite 11. It wouldn't be smart for the NBA to only have one license, especially when we don't know 2ksports future with majority of their sport games gone.

Answer to your question: If they started from scratch then that would be like taking off another year. The dev team should have been put together right after NBA ELITE 11 was cancelled. A 3 year process should have been in effect, but that's not the case. Because you have something to work with from NBA Elite, you give yourself time and can maybe salvage what's left of a bad game.

[DBMcGee3]

Wow. How embarrassing this must be for those guys. I mean, how do you get this far (twice) and then suddenly realize your game isn't up to snuff? I realize they've been hush about it for the past couple of months, but why show up at E3 at all if the game is a mess? I would rather come out as early as possible to say "hey guys, we're on track to have a great product in 2014" than to spend one minute of my time hyping a game that I know in my heart won't be released at all. Seeing this earnings report is a dagger to my heart, as it represents the first real evidence that Live 13 may not happen. Not bashing 2k, I was just looking forward to the competition, and hopefully for something a bit more new and refreshing. Oh, well, que sera, sera.

[PennyHard]

i'm not sure but nba live is the only EA game that is never in this list.

[23]

Re: What's up with Live being off of the EA Earnings Upcoming Releases List?

i'm not sure but nba live is the only EA game that is never in this list.

...but it was the only one coming off of a cacellation wasnt it?

[kingdevin]

@ 22 Cedric... Why are u so sure that the game will come out?

[mvb34]

Re: What's up with Live being off of the EA Earnings Upcoming Releases List?

Has any of OS writers contacted EA about the status of NBA live?