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  • zello144
    MVP
    • Jul 2013
    • 2183

    #1

    The problem with the MyCareer draft

    I have a problem with the whole MyCareer draft process it just doesn't seem very realistic.

    We don't really have a draft combine sure you could say that the college games kinda count but it's college the NBA is a different animal. Even if you have a good college career or a decent one the NBA combine can either improve your draft stock or harm it.


    I'd like to see Mock Drafts during college so we can get a clearer picture of where we're projected to go.



    We don't even meet with teams before the draft like in previous years for pre draft interviews. After you finish the college games it just skips straight into the draft it really takes away from the immersion and experience of the journey of getting into the NBA.

    Teams meet with players before the draft interview them or invite them over for a workout to see if they really fit their team. In 2k it feels like the teams that draft you don't really take anything into consideration they probably threw a bunch of names at a wall and picked you at random it becomes frustrating when they already have a better player at your position and draft you it really takes the fun out of it.

    Then we're forced to be a 1st round draft pick no matter how hard you try since 2k12 we've been forced to be a 1st rounder (except for 2k15 where we were forced to go undrafted the point still stands though.) One of the things I liked about 2k11 was that I could have fallen down into the 2nd round really making every MyPlayer's experience unique. It wouldn't hurt either to go undrafted.

    Then the actual draft doesn't really feel like one we don't really get to walk across the stage and shake the commissioners hand. I know we can't really have commentary during the draft and I'm fine with it but can you show a short Pre draft show with Ernie, Kenny, and Shaq?

    Then after we get picked have them do a breakdown and analysis

    What I want to see is everything here from the start til the end of this video
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    MLB the Show does it where the announcers give their predictions and analysis about your player when you get drafted even if it is short.

    Again don't give us commentary during the draft just a preshow and then an analysis if our player gets picked.

    The Draft process in NBA 2k's MyCareer has been ignored and I think it's harming the mode. That's even if we have a draft in 2k18 they made you a streetballer that somehow makes the NBA. I really hope they take a more realistic approach in 2k19.

    What do you think?
    Last edited by zello144; 08-06-2018, 11:37 PM.
  • zello144
    MVP
    • Jul 2013
    • 2183

    #2
    Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

    Bump thoughts anyone?

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    • itsmb8
      MVP
      • May 2011
      • 3361

      #3
      Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

      The analysis part could definitely be added, even the highlights part because 2K has the rights to all college teams that could be featured in your players highlight videos. Even the background overlay, like instead of Kentucky for the Jamal Murray example, it could be Arizona or whoever for your MyPlayer, because 2K has the rights. Everything mentioned here could be attained because 2K either has the rights to do so or has already done it in the past.
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      • zello144
        MVP
        • Jul 2013
        • 2183

        #4
        Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

        Originally posted by itsmb8
        The analysis part could definitely be added, even the highlights part because 2K has the rights to all college teams that could be featured in your players highlight videos. Even the background overlay, like instead of Kentucky for the Jamal Murray example, it could be Arizona or whoever for your MyPlayer, because 2K has the rights. Everything mentioned here could be attained because 2K either has the rights to do so or has already done it in the past.
        Yeah 2k's done things like it in the past and they could easily implement it now if they wanted to.

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        Replace rookie showcase with NBA Draft in that vid and that would make a great intro for the Draft
        Last edited by zello144; 08-06-2018, 11:26 PM.

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        • Hustle Westbrook
          MVP
          • Jan 2015
          • 3113

          #5
          Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

          The actually had pre-draft interviews in last-gen but for whatever reason took them out.
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          • zello144
            MVP
            • Jul 2013
            • 2183

            #6
            Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

            Originally posted by Hustle Westbrook
            The actually had pre-draft interviews in last-gen but for whatever reason took them out.
            They were in 2k14 this gen but after that they decided to take them out.

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            They are definitely missed I liked them they really helped me end up on a good basketball situation I could live with, just the other day I created a PG thought I played well in college and I ended up getting drafted to the Celtics. The thing is the Celtics already have a couple PGs on their roster and Isaiah Thomas, not to mention that the story has Justice and Denver also playing Point Guard so I didn't really see my player fitting in there at all. If 2k17 had Pre-Draft interviews I could have pulled a Kobe or Lonzo Ball and told teams like the Celtics not to draft me.

            I really wasn't happy playing on the Celtics I seriously simmed the entire Season and choked in the playoffs just to get off that team.
            Last edited by zello144; 08-06-2018, 11:27 PM.

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            • EZMADDEN
              MVP
              • Aug 2013
              • 1194

              #7
              Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

              My Career mode just isn't realistic as a whole. I really wish it was, but I feel like cutscenes are the reason behind this. I feel like if they were to scrap cutscenes and use that game space on better gameplay we would have a much better game. I also wish that they would go back to the way 2K11 was with the draft combine and summer league, realistic! They also need regression because every my player stays at the max overalls their entire career. I personally don't play My Career anymore because of this. I just stick to player locking in My League which is everything you could ever ask for in a career mode.
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              • de5m0n
                Banned
                • Oct 2015
                • 996

                #8
                Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                I fouled out out of every college game and they still drafted me in the first round.

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                • VAWereWolf65
                  MVP
                  • Jul 2016
                  • 1734

                  #9
                  Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                  I don't understand why 2k actually REMOVES detail from their games

                  Who the hell does that?
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                  • Yesh2kdone
                    Banned
                    • Feb 2015
                    • 1412

                    #10
                    Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                    The problem was in the older times, people would only really create 1 player because grinding those points took forever, these days it's much easier to have numerous players. Even just the limited current college experience is annoying after the first run through, especially as it's meaningless within the mode. Maybe a 3 option system career start could work?

                    1) full draft experience
                    2) random draw with equal odds of finishing 1-60
                    3) use a previous draft position

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                    • ph33
                      MVP
                      • Oct 2014
                      • 3261

                      #11
                      Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                      Honestly I couldn't care less about the draft and all that. I guess if it's an offline myCareer mode I totally understand. But I'm never in this to play offline, and I speak for many others, let us get to playing games as quick as possible. Don't want to sit around for a few hours for that.

                      So really they should separate the modes. Like many of us have been saying for months.

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                      • theEDGE5
                        Rookie
                        • Oct 2008
                        • 132

                        #12
                        Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                        Originally posted by ph33
                        Honestly I couldn't care less about the draft and all that. I guess if it's an offline myCareer mode I totally understand. But I'm never in this to play offline, and I speak for many others, let us get to playing games as quick as possible. Don't want to sit around for a few hours for that.

                        So really they should separate the modes. Like many of us have been saying for months.
                        Absolutely, because I'm all about offline, never even played online once and have no interest in it. It's the offline stuff that interests me and especially the authenticity etc. when it comes to MyCareer.

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                        • HowDareI
                          MVP
                          • Jan 2012
                          • 1900

                          #13
                          Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                          Yea, 2K: Stop removing features you've already had.

                          Also, make the game more user-friendly.

                          Let us skip cutscenes or even all of college.

                          Some people have multiple careers. I see college is just a time-waster. I get minimal VC, and it's not like I get drafted to a team I want so why does matter if I'm 1 or 30?

                          Also, it would be cool to have a feature like NBA Live used to have where you can start a GM and redo the previous years' draft.

                          We should have that option. Maybe I don't wanna get drafted 1 and still have Simmons be with the team.
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                          • itsmb8
                            MVP
                            • May 2011
                            • 3361

                            #14
                            Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                            Originally posted by HowDareI
                            Yea, 2K: Stop removing features you've already had.

                            Also, make the game more user-friendly.

                            Let us skip cutscenes or even all of college.

                            Some people have multiple careers. I see college is just a time-waster. I get minimal VC, and it's not like I get drafted to a team I want so why does matter if I'm 1 or 30?

                            Also, it would be cool to have a feature like NBA Live used to have where you can start a GM and redo the previous years' draft.

                            We should have that option. Maybe I don't wanna get drafted 1 and still have Simmons be with the team.
                            You mean have simmons be with another team? But yeah i agree with basically everything in this thread. It just wont happen because 2k isnt concerned with this. They removed it all as soon as MyPark was released. And MyCareer isnt even that, its MyPark against CPU opponents in a season format. They just havent figured out MyPark should be its own mode and be seperate from everything else.

                            Basically, remove MyPark from MyCareer and make them seperate, and get rid of the narrative story created by some celeb each year, NOBODY likes it. Do that and they either make MyCareer a multiyear player lock thing, in which case people will just do that in MyLeague and not even bother at all with it while complaining relentlessly in packs to 2k, or 2k gives us an actual realistic MyCareer centered around the NBA and not some made up character going on double-dates and getting haircuts with Michael B. Jordan, im sorry, JUSTICE YOUNG. Dont get me wrong, i like all the cutscenes about endorsements and the rookie hazing and training and doing things with other players, but the Orange Juice thing and stuff like that is taking it WAY TOO FAR.
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                            • theEDGE5
                              Rookie
                              • Oct 2008
                              • 132

                              #15
                              Re: The problem with the MyCareer draft

                              Yeah this years was better than that spike lee nonsense in 2K16 but it's still absolutely stupid. If I get drafted by the lakers I don't want D'Angelo Russell benched to make way for some stupid character...

                              They need to find a better balance between the role playing stuff and dumb narratives that makes everyones career identical. They should have more simple cut scenes with other NBA players.

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